Vicky (pseudonym) is a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge, majoring in digital humanities. She studied film production in her earlier years. "Watching everyone around me catching the AI wave, I felt extremely anxious."
On one hand, ultra-high-quality AIGC videos were appearing on every major platform. On the other, surrounded by the prestige of a top university, her classmates were transitioning to AI-related fields one after another. Vicky started trying to get involved.
But problems came before opportunities. The AI trend had already become universal consensus. "Everyone hopes to take off in this boom, a grand scene comparable to the mobile internet craze. But AI has already passed the chaotic period where everyone could jump in and make quick gains." She realized she'd missed the first entry window — the early days when AIGC tool barriers were high and people sold courses to followers.
Looking for a proper full-time job brought another difficulty: as a postgraduate student in the UK, handling location and time constraints was hard. "Finding a remote internship to do trivial tasks is not what I want at all. After careful consideration, I finally decided to start my own business."
Success in entrepreneurship wasn't the top priority. The key was to enter the AI circle through the experience — meeting peers and investors.
Her first idea was a productivity software, easy to get started and playing to her design strengths. "But after the rise of vibe coding, the threshold for this kind of small tools became too low. It's impossible to reach the financing stage, and it would easily end up as a project that only posts content on social media."
She changed direction and settled on an English learning project — a software-hardware integrated English education product for children under 12, with a hardware device that looks like a toy handle, combining storylines in the software for interactive challenges.
There are four people on the core team, plus a few remote programmers hired from China. The University of Cambridge gave her a useful stepping stone. After posting about her project on social media, she received many replies from writers in Chinese entrepreneurship communities and media outlets — several even recommended investor contacts and innovative business model ideas.
For Vicky, the journey from anxiety to action has been its own reward. She may not have the traditional CS background of her AI-focused classmates, but she's building something that leverages her humanities and design perspective — proving that the AI era creates space not just for engineers, but for people who understand human beings.