➀ A seasoned AI chip salesperson, Junjie, decides to leave the industry due to repeated failures in selling AI chips, attributing the challenges to NVIDIA's dominant ecosystem and inferior performance of domestic chips. ➁ Another AI chip salesperson, Shuhao, transitions from a research role, believing in the potential of AI and hoping to gain more control over his career. ➂ Many in the AI chip industry face despair, confusion, and numbness, but some remain hopeful, striving to build a domestic AI chip ecosystem despite the difficulties.