Chapter 405: Staying Up All Night (4405)

"What Mr. Ma just said about Momen is a long-term plan, but the Qianxun outage is an imminent one. My view is simple: find the problem and fix it."

After saying that, Fang Yu nodded and sat down.

Everyone at the scene was silent, and the expressions on the faces of many big shots were quite interesting, especially those who liked to talk about things from a high vantage point and make things vague.

In the Internet of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the lower and middle levels like to talk about "grasps", "empowerment", and "granularity", while the big guys like to talk about "philosophy", "evolution", and "technique and momentum".

From top to bottom, basically no one speaks human language.

When people reach a certain level, they always think that their success is because they understand the nature and development laws of things better than others, and that their thoughts are deeper than others.

They like to package some seemingly plausible laws they have found into so-called "essence", "laws", "philosophy", "core", "time and space", "thinking and behavior", "destiny and future" and other nonsense that sounds very reasonable.

As a delivery man, you talk about the reallocation of time and space every day. If you listen carefully, you will find that it is about how to improve the efficiency of deliverymen in taking orders and take more orders per unit time.

Why don't you just talk about optimizing the order-taking and routing algorithms? Why do you have to bring up time and space? It sounds high-sounding, but every time you bring it up you just lower the price by a few cents, and it gets worse day by day. In the end, you might even have to lose money.

It is conceivable how harsh Fang Yu's words sounded to some people.

That’s right, when it comes to group buying, I’m talking about you.

After hearing Fang Yu's words, Wang Xing looked unhappy but did not react much.

In the world of martial arts, strength is king.

If it was Youzi Technology three months ago, even if it had already produced a large model of the orange, it would not be enough in front of these bigwigs. Maybe the identity of Chen Shian's grandson would not be as useful.

But now...

Anyone who runs slowly might die at the hands of this loser!

This loser has no respect for his age, he's just shooting around with his RPG!

A month or two ago, the views of Internet giants and technology enthusiasts on Youzi Technology were completely different. Not to mention polarization, the differences were huge.

At that time, technology enthusiasts had two words to describe Youzi Technology: Blow it up!

The leader of the times, the most important invention in human history, the light of Great Zhou technology, the company that truly changed the world, the destroyer of human civilization, the Skynet company that must be strangled in advance, Shinra...

The Internet giants, on the other hand, are more likely to wait and see.

In their view, although Youzi Technology has led the development of the field of artificial intelligence, the company's own business logic is very unclear.

In terms of commercial value alone, it may be far inferior to Toutiao and group buying, which focus on business model innovation.

It’s not that they underestimate artificial intelligence, but that their existing successful experiences make them subconsciously more accepting of innovation in business models.

Dazhou Internet has always focused on business model innovation, and for technological innovation, it has been more adhering to the "latecomer" concept. After foreign giants have blazed a trail, Dazhou's Internet companies have followed suit and dominated this track.

From the early Web 2.0 to cloud computing, to the later big data and mobile Internet, from blockchain to edge computing... Da Zhou's Internet companies were all latecomers in almost all technological innovations, and none of them were developed by these big companies themselves.

Among the early Internet entrepreneurs of the Zhou Dynasty, except Robert Lee, there were basically no researchers. They could only be considered as having some professional experience. They always believed that technology was for the service of applications, and those who engaged in technology were inherently not as high-ranking as those who engaged in management and business.

Even Robert Lee, a real researcher, once said, "Technology that cannot serve applications is not good technology."

But the problem is that many technologies that have had a profound impact on the world initially had no commercial prospects, let alone any use.

For example, sixty years ago, Frank Rosenblatt proposed the earliest basic neural network architecture "perceptron", and Geoffrey Hinton developed the backpropagation algorithm thirty years ago. Both were useless at first, but today, decades later, they have become one of the most basic core algorithms of artificial intelligence.

Only investing in technologies that can currently be seen as practical, not engaging in technological innovation, and only engaging in model innovation is a common problem among major Internet companies.

Many people believe that this is because the cost of technological innovation is high and the cost of model innovation is low, and Dazhou enterprises are not as rich as Maiguo enterprises, so they cannot do it for the time being.

Is this really the case?

The cost of technological innovation may not be very high, and the cost of model innovation may not be very low.

When the earliest portal websites became popular, everyone started to build portals. Then when social networks became popular, everyone started to build social networks. When online shopping became popular, everyone started to build online shopping. When group buying became popular, everyone started to build group buying. When small shops became popular, everyone started to build small shops.

Every big company has lost a lot of money on so-called model innovation, and the losses may even be tens of billions.

This cost is much higher than technological innovation.

However, due to the influence of the capital market, entrepreneurs in Da Zhou basically assume that the business model is the most important strategic direction of the enterprise. This iron rule has been successfully applied in the Internet industry for more than ten years and has long been deeply rooted in the bones of Da Zhou Internet entrepreneurs.

Especially for the older generation of entrepreneurs, when they started their businesses, the Great Zhou was not only impoverished but also in a state of disrepair.

At that time, everyone had never seen money. When they saw the investment banking elites dressed in suits, they felt inferior to them and were filled with longing and awe.

Most of the first batch of Internet entrepreneurs in Da Zhou did not have technological dreams, but only pure dreams of wealth.

If the free email business fails, then try search; if search fails, then try e-commerce; if e-commerce fails, then try social networking; if social networking fails again, then try O2O; if O2O fails, then try making cars...

When asked what kind of career they want to pursue, they say they want to change the world, but what they actually want is endless wealth.

Many people think that they are worshipping foreigners, but in fact, they are not worshipping foreigners, but worshipping money. It just happens that when they started their business, all the rich people were foreigners.

In their opinion, Youzi Technology has not yet found its own monetization model, and it is difficult to find one.

It is impossible for Youzi Technology to become a giant by operating only through subscription and B2B business models, and it is likely to become the next Linux in the end.

As for big models, anyone can make them. Since this path has been explored, big companies like us will eventually overtake others in the field of AI with our capital and scale advantages.

It is possible that before long, Youzi Technology will be acquired by some large company at a price of 15 to 20 billion US dollars.

But the rapid rise of Ysou shocked almost all the bigwigs, including Wang Xing.

This is a completely one-sided crushing.

Relying on its generation-leading technology, Youzi Technology is crushing the entire search industry!

Only then did they realize that Youzi Technology didn't need to look for a newer or more unique business model.

Just follow the path they have explored, use AI to empower their products, catch up quickly, then run over their bodies and continue to move forward at a rapid pace.

It’s just like the tomb robbers in the movie who accidentally triggered a giant stone mechanism. They were running in front, and a stone ball weighing dozens of tons was rolling behind them. If they ran slower, they would be crushed to death!

If they wore all white, they might even be able to print a straight white arrow on the ground.

If they turned around, they might turn left.

Fortunately, Youzi Technology chose the search track.

Although almost every industry leader did not say it out loud, they were actually feeling relieved in their hearts. They all increased their R&D budgets for the year and devoted all their efforts to developing their own large models to avoid becoming the next Qianxun.

Although they believe that Youzi Technology has limited resources and cannot divide its forces, it would be good enough if it could take over the entire search track, but who knows which other startups in the industry will use AI innovatively to subvert their market?

Investment in AI must be increased!

They themselves did not realize that psychologically, they had already regarded Youzi Technology as an opponent who was on the same level as them and could be looked at on equal footing.

Therefore, even if Wang Xing and Ma Yun found Fang Yu's words offensive, they could only pretend not to hear them.

"Youzi Technology's opinions are very pertinent. We have taken note of them. Mr. Fang, do you have anything else to add?"

Wang Fujun smiled and nodded to Fang Yu. His smile was like a spring breeze, like a gentle spring rain, like a silent moistening of the earth, and like a guest at home.

Fang Yu shook his head and sat back in his seat.

Qiu Hongyi felt very uncomfortable.

I just said that 720 has the ability to quickly resolve Qianxun’s safety issues, why didn’t I see you smiling so brightly?

Wait, couldn’t it have been decided long ago?

The more Qiu Hongyi thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

He was all too familiar with this kind of differential treatment.

He had been made to feel at home many times before.

But, are you too confident?

Whoever can quickly resolve the Qianxun fault problem will win the bid?

Just because you created an AI, you think you are the best in the world?

Do you really think I don't understand big models? Big models and network security and code review are completely different fields, right?

This is like a student who won the first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition, and then went to participate in the Physics Olympiad without any training, thinking that he could also win the first prize.

It's simply arrogant!

It's not just Qiu Hongyi who holds this view; other bigwigs also feel this way to a greater or lesser extent.

Even without looking at other people's expressions, Fang Yu could guess what they were thinking.

Arrogance? Physics Olympiad?

Haha, I am the one who set the questions! Are you stupid?

Seeing that no one else had any other suggestions, a few old men whispered to each other, announced the contact persons and contact information of each department, and then declared the meeting over.

Before the meeting, the bosses of more than a dozen leading companies in Dazhou Internet were chatting and laughing, regardless of whether they knew each other or not.

After the meeting, the people were still the same, but they no longer joked with each other. At most, two or three familiar people gathered together to discuss in a low voice. Those who did not socialize much in normal times greeted the few acquaintances and then turned and left.

Everyone is analyzing who has the best chance of taking over Qianxun in the end, and what kind of changes will be brought to the Da Zhou Internet industry after taking over Qianxun.

The bosses who wanted to sign up immediately sent the above requirements back to the company, and the confidants of each company took the lead in preparing this prequalification document worth at least tens of billions of dollars.

One can imagine how many cattle and horses have to stay up all night tonight.

Fang Yu also had to stay up all night, a real all night.

Kevin Stone's experiment finally received internal approval from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and today he can finally use ETPD to conduct his fourth experiment.

Thanks to his genius-like IQ crushing performance last time, Fang Yu finally got the opportunity to actually operate ETPD in this experiment instead of staring motionlessly at the computer monitor outside the shielded room.

"Hey! Gis, you're finally here. You're the only one missing. We'll definitely succeed this time!"

"Eh? Why are you carrying a crystal ball?"

The red-haired Kevin Stone and Zhou Yi Ma Wei were sorting out various complicated equipment and circuits that they couldn't name, looking at the door of the laboratory eagerly. Finally, at 9:30 in the morning, they saw Fang Yu yawning and walking into the door, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a crystal ball in the other.

"Do you want to tell your fortune whether this experiment will be successful?" Fang Yu put the pomelo on the instrument table next to the wall of ETPD.

A divination tool? Kevin Stone blinked, quite tempted.

He has done this experiment three times and failed three times.

The closest they came to success was the last time, but turbulence problems caused uneven plasma density, which led to failure again.

Although we added a turbulence suppressor this time according to Gis's suggestion, whether it will be successful still depends on God's will.

"You can also tell fortunes? How do you tell fortunes?" Kevin Stone put down the Langmuir probe in his hand and stood up, feeling a little tempted and a little worried.

What if the divination shows a bad result?

Fang Yu's face was full of seriousness: "Just stare at the ball, stare closely, and then silently recite your questions in your mind, and it will give you the answers."

Is it so magical?

Kevin Stone licked his lips, picked up a small stool with trepidation, sat on it, and stared closely at the crystal ball on the instrument table.

This crystal ball is so clean! Did Keese just hold it with his hands? There aren't even any fingerprints on it. Do all divination tools have anti-fingerprint coatings these days?

"You have to concentrate, otherwise the divination results will be inaccurate."

Just as he was daydreaming, Kevin Stone heard Fang Yu's reminder and quickly let out an "oh". He widened his eyes and stared at the crystal ball motionlessly, muttering in his heart, "Will this experiment succeed? Will this experiment succeed? Will this experiment succeed?"

"Okay, let's begin. Repeat the divination in your mind without blinking... Illumis videntia arcana, revelare veritas occultam, duc me per obscura fata!"

A complex and incomprehensible spell came out of Fang Yu's mouth. With every word Fang Yu said, Kevin Stone felt that the atmosphere in the laboratory became more solemn.

What's going on? Why is this crystal ball glowing?

Kevin Stone discovered that there were actually some starlights in the crystal ball, and these starlights were getting brighter and brighter. He couldn't help but widen his eyes, becoming more and more nervous, and kept repeating his questions in his mind.

Just when he was most focused.

“Here’s Johnny!”

"ah!!!"

Kevin Stone was so scared that he sat down on the ground, and on the crystal ball, there clearly appeared a man with his head stuck into the crack of the door, a ferocious smile on his face, and a fire axe in his hand.

"Dry!"

"Damn it, Gis! Where did you get this damn ball? It scared me to death! Is this a player? Where does the sound come from?"

“Hahahahahahaha.”

Fang Yu, Ma Wei and another white boy in Kevin Stone's group, Caleb Monroe, all laughed so hard that they fell over.

"Ouch, who hit me?"

Kevin Stone, who was sitting on the ground, felt someone slap him in the face before he could stand up. It was quite painful.

Obviously no one did it, who did it?

Kevin Stone touched his face and suddenly felt a little creepy.

The image on Yuzu's body went out and turned back into an ordinary crystal ball.

You are the player! Your whole family is the player!

For insulting the great Professor Jorz, I only gave you a slap in the face, which is a light punishment!

(End of this chapter)