Chapter 175 Crazy Grapefruit Technology (Part 2)
On December 30, 3061, at 9:50 pm California time, a seemingly inconspicuous three-story red building in Mountain View, Santa Clara, in the Bay Area was still brightly lit.
A thin-looking man in his thirties wearing a blue plaid shirt was concentrating on looking at the computer screen on the left, and the codes he kept typing out were displayed on the computer screen on the right.
Almost all the buildings visible to the naked eye in this area belong to Google.
This seemingly inconspicuous building is the new department that Google just established more than four years ago - Google Brain.
A few months ago, Google just acquired DeepMind, the super genius Demis Hassabis, who was admitted to Oxford at the age of 15 and independently developed the hit game "Park Simulator" at the age of 17. This has brought some pressure to Google's brain team.
Especially in the past month or two, David from DeepMind seems to have made a very big breakthrough in the Monte Carlo tree algorithm.
Google has given them a lot of resources, which puts pressure on Google's brain as Google's own son.
Fortunately, DeepMind and Google Brain conduct research at two different levels. DeepMind focuses on applications, while Google Brain focuses on basic research. The two sides collaborate more than compete.
"Jeff, Jeff! Professors Fang, Yu, and Jorz from Youzi Technology published another paper on arXiv, "Long-Range Dependencies in Sequences via Self-Attention." This is amazing! This is already the third blockbuster paper this month!"
A thin and small Asian man ran to the workstation of Jeff Dean, who was wearing a blue plaid shirt, holding a pad and handed it to him in English with a slight accent and a little excitement.
"Oh my god! I can't find out who this Professor Yoelz is. And as for Fang Yu, the information I can find shows that he's actually a finance student at Da Zhou National University, not a computer science or math student. This is crazy!"
"You should definitely read this paper 'Based on Self-Attention'. It almost overlaps with the direction that Lucas's team is working on. But it's clear that Youzi Technology is already ahead of us."
"Please stop for a moment and read this article. This paper can save us at least six months. What are you...Oh my God, what is this?"
The thin Asian man glanced at Jeff Dean's computer screen and was stunned.
Jeff Dean had a wry smile on his face: "Li, maybe they are not only ahead of Lucas' team's 'addition' research."
"Is this a training frame?" The thin Asian man put his hand on Jeff Dean's mouse rudely and started scrolling up and down.
“Yes, they call it yuzu 0.1. I just tested it and it’s at least 30 times more efficient than our TensorFlow 0.5.”
"Version 0.1 of the framework actually has a library? And 12 tools have been released?" The Asian man surnamed Li was dumbfounded.
"Have you asked Wu? What did he say?" Jeff Dean pinched the bridge of his nose. He has always been very calm, rarely frustrated and rarely loses his temper, but today, he felt deeply frustrated for the first time.
The man surnamed Li looked away from the computer screen and shook his head. "I've asked, but Wu has never heard of this company. He's also trying to find someone to inquire about its details. The company's registered address is at the National University in Da Zhou. He said computer science isn't a very strong subject at the National University in Da Zhou."
The Wu they are referring to is Andrew Ng, the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who co-founded Google Brain with Jeff Dean more than four years ago.
The thin Asian man named Li is Li Yueguo, another founder of Google Brain, and Andrew Ng is his doctoral supervisor.
Including Li Yueguo, nearly half of Google Brain's core technical team are students of Ende Wu.
It can be said that without Andrew Ng, there would be no Google Brain today.
And Andrew Ng also came to Da Zhou last year and joined Qianxun, becoming Qianxun's chief scientist and taking full responsibility for Qianxun's AI research. In just over a year, Qianxun's development and research in many key AI fields have surpassed Google.
In fact, before 3061, the development of artificial intelligence in Da Zhou even surpassed that of Mai Kingdom in many aspects.
In terms of the number of journal articles mentioning "deep learning" and "deep neural networks", Da Zhou had surpassed Maiguo in 3059, and the quality of the articles was not bad either.
This is also why Wu Ende chose to go to Qianxun. On the one hand, Qianxun was very sincere and Robert invited him personally; on the other hand, it was also because Da Zhou itself had shown talent potential in this regard.
"This training structure is much better than Qianxun's paddle. Wu should be very interested in it." Jeff Dean smiled.
"It seems that besides Qianxun, we may have another competitor." Li Yueguo nodded in agreement. Suddenly, he thought of something and turned to look at Jeff Dean. "Should we acquire this company now? You can ask Selina."
Jeff Dean threw up his hands helplessly. "We can't decide which company to acquire, but a few hours ago I sent an inquiry email to this company, asking if they'd be willing to be acquired by Google."
Li Yueguo perked up: "Any reply?"
Jeff Dean clicked on Gmail: "See for yourself."
Li Yueguo leaned over. Jeff Dean had written several thousand words of technical discussions and acquisition invitations below, but the other party's response was just one word.
No.
There is not even a signature.
"Forget it, Wu will have a bigger headache than us. Oh, and we can use this grapefruit architecture to test NMT training..."
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Andrew Ng did have some minor headaches, but they were not caused by Yuzu Technology, but by internal issues.
After joining Qianxun last year, he did have a honeymoon period, had very pleasant communications with his superiors, and made a lot of groundbreaking work.
But as time went on, he realized that he had been simplifying some things.
Who would have thought that the boss of this company really doesn’t always have the final say?
Fortunately, the team is very hardworking. After optimizing Paddle, they have now developed DeepBench. It is estimated that in one or two years at most, Qianxun's entire AI business model will be mature.
Deepbench is a platform for evaluating the deep learning performance of hardware platforms. In layman's terms, it is Master Lu used to evaluate the deep learning performance of hardware.
Moreover, he just married a beautiful wife last year, and his relationship is at its best now.
Therefore, Wu Ende was in a pretty good mood.
Until he saw the Yuzu Framework 0.1 released by Yuzu Technology on GitHub.
The framework uses the Apache 2.0 license, which means it is open source, but not completely free software.
What surprised him secretly was that the performance of this framework was extremely strong. It was not only more powerful than Qianxun's Paddle, but also much stronger than Google's TensorFlow0.5.
If the powerful performance could be considered as a lucky blunder for this small company, then the fact that Youzi Technology is constantly improving its platform ecosystem has made him completely uneasy.
In just one week, Youzi Technology has uploaded 12 sample codes, models and libraries of various sizes. Each one is very practical and closely integrated with the Youzi framework.
Moreover, in addition to Youzi Technology, there are now other developers uploading sample codes and enriching libraries.
This framework was just released a day ago, right?
Wu Ende frowned and sent a message to his boss: Robert, I hope to acquire a company, Youzi Technology, and here is the company's information.
Although Qianxun has many problems, Wu Ende still trusts Robert.
The day after he joined Qianxun, he asked Qianxun to purchase a thousand GPUs. Within 24 hours, these GPUs appeared in his laboratory.
But if it is Google, after submitting the application for approval, it may take weeks or even months before he can apply for the corresponding computing resources in the cloud.
"Ding." The message on the phone flashed.
"Okay, I'll discuss it with Melissa."
(End of this chapter)
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