The only time he met Luo Zhenghai was on Luo Xiyun's birthday last year. At that time, Luo Zhenghai turned hostile to him and drove him away.

For him, this incident happened decades ago, but he still remembers it in his heart.

This wasn't some deep hatred, but he just felt a little unhappy. He couldn't think straight unless he found an opportunity to take revenge.

Anyway, Luo Zhenghai would never give him a good face, so there was no need for him to please him.

Of course, for Xiyun's sake, he would not really do anything detrimental to the Tianluo Group. At most, he would just embarrass Luo Zhenghai and vent his anger.

After Chen Xu got in the car, he said, "Let's go to the data center."

Secretary Jin said, "Mr. Liu from Xuling Company called just now and said he wanted to talk to you about something."

"Then let's go first." Chen Xu said.

It is said that plans are not as fast as changes. When he opened the noodle shop, he wanted to treat it as an early career. Who would have thought that the next dream would bring such great benefits.

After the virtual dream device opened the playback function, he had the capital to enter the IT industry. The noodle shop became a bit tasteless to him.

The situation is similar now. He has been in the star game for more than 30 years. He has mastered countless advanced technologies, and making money has become easy for him. Now he prefers to occupy the upstream of the industrial chain, open laboratories, invent, write papers, and rely on patents to make all the mid- and downstream manufacturers call him daddy.

The advantage of this is that he doesn't need to hire too many employees, let alone worry about management issues. A laboratory can only employ dozens of people at most. He can be a hands-off manager. He only needs to arrange the topics and directions, let professionals do the experiments, and when the results come out, the patent is his, and the paper can be written by others...

It’s so cool.

Managing a large company is by no means an easy task. The larger the company, the more work it has to handle every day. It is no exaggeration to say that the CEO of a large company has a lot of things to do every day.

Chen Xu doesn't want to spend all his time on such trivial matters.

Xuling Company is in a similar situation. Its previous plan was to use input method as a breakthrough point, then divert to translation software, and then move on to the field of artificial intelligence when the time is right.

Don’t underestimate voice input. In an era when humans and machines are increasingly intertwined, its application will become extremely widespread. Before the advent of brain wave recognition technology, voice was the most convenient way to input commands.

This technology is not very difficult, but it is not easy at all. Many companies have developed voice input methods with a recognition rate of more than 90%, but they are limited to daily language. Once it comes to slightly complex sentences, the recognition rate becomes terrible.

This is the most difficult part. Because there are too many homophones and homophones in Chinese, and there are countless dialects across the country, many people do not speak standard Mandarin, with light or heavy accents, which makes recognition even more difficult.

At least for now, this problem is basically unsolvable. Chen Xu does have a solution, but the cost is too high and it is not cost-effective. No matter how high the market share of the input method is, it is not easy to realize it.

If Xuling Company wants to make money, it has to find a way to improve the translation software.

Chen Xu is too lazy to think about it now. He would be happy to see Liu Shanshan succeed in building this company, but it doesn’t matter if she fails.

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Half an hour later, Chen Xu arrived at Xuling Company. He hadn't been here for a while and found that the entire company had changed. The area had doubled and it had been renovated.

Then he remembered that Liu Shanshan had reported to him before.

Today's Xuling Company is no longer the same as it used to be. The Blue and Green factories plus Xiaomai, three of the four major domestic mobile phone giants, have their input methods built into them. Quietly, their market share has reached the top of the industry.

After Chen Xu arrived at the company, someone led him into Liu Shanshan's office.

"What are you busy with?"

After Chen Xu entered the room, he saw her leaning over the table, writing something with a pen, and asked casually.

When Liu Shanshan looked up and saw him, she complained half-seriously, "Boss, you're finally here. Now, it's hard for me to even see you."

Chen Xu smiled and said, "I'm here now. Tell me, what problem did you encounter?"

Liu Shanshan came over with a document and said, "I have developed a promotion plan and hope to get your approval."

Chen Xu took it and started reading. He wanted to be a hands-off boss, but Liu Shanshan asked him about it, so he couldn't just ignore it.

At present, input methods do not need to invest too much resources to promote. This plan is obviously prepared for translation software.

He took a quick look at it and immediately understood why she was looking for him. The whole plan could be summed up in two words: spending money.

Yang Jinxia invested 100 million yuan in the beginning, and after a few months, part of it had been spent, and the bulk of it was used to rent servers. The high recognition rate of voice input was achieved by using server resources. And translation software requires more servers to support it.

Chen Xu's decision to build the country's largest data center was not a whim. The artificial intelligence developed in the future will be inseparable from the support of the data center.

Now, in order to promote the translation software, Liu Shanshan first advertises on major short video platforms to increase public awareness. The second is to cooperate with major travel agencies, targeting people traveling abroad. The third is to promote it in various schools, targeting students. There are even plans to cooperate with major airports and immigration offices...

Once these plans are implemented, the funds left in the company's account will not be enough to last for a few days.

No wonder Liu Shanshan didn't dare to act on her own and instead came to ask for his opinion.

If she acted first and asked for permission later, although Chen Xu would pay the money to allow the plan to go ahead, he would definitely kick her out afterwards.

Even if he didn't care about the affairs, he would not allow his subordinates to be so bold and presumptuous.

He asked directly, "Have you thought about how to make a profit?"

Liu Shanshan said, "Open the professional paid version."

This answer was the same as what Chen Xu had thought before, except that he had no idea whether he could make back the money he invested.

“How much investment is expected to be required for this plan?”

Liu Shanshan said happily, "One hundred million."

"After half a year, I want to see enough results."

(End of this chapter)