Chapter 192: Funny Acquisition Invitation (First Update)
The mysterious chess player Orange on the chess course!
In the information age, within a few hours of Gu Jie saying it, almost all ordinary people who follow the Go circle knew this name.
And more people who don’t follow Go but care about Da Zhou winning the championship also saw this news.
Since its creation, Yicheng's server has finally faced its first stress test.
Many people, including those from the media, Go circles, onlookers, and even the animation circles, are downloading Yicheng just to see who this Orange is.
I have to say that the interface of Yicheng is really ugly. It's already 2022, and we can still see WinXP-style software.
There aren't many people named Orange on Yicheng. Although Gu Jie didn't specify which Orange it was, the real person was soon found.
"13 wins and 1 loss, that should be it! Add a friend, add a friend!"
Whether it is the media, chess friends who are just watching the fun, or even some professional chess players, they all started paying attention to this chess player named Orange on the Internet.
This chess player seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. He has never been online since he won two games against Gu Jie.
Who is Orange?
After all, Gu Jie had just turned eighteen and successfully won his second world championship. Within two days, he was excited again. He interacted intensively with netizens on Weibo, ate melons with them, and made public the chess records of the three games he played with Ju Zi.
The layman watches the excitement, the expert watches the details, the onlookers just sigh that there are masters among the people, but it is different for professional chess players. These three games, especially the last two, are undoubtedly two huge bombs for them!
The first and last two games must not have been played by one person!
This has become a common understanding in the Go community.
Although there are some similarities in the styles of chess in subtle details, the last two games are almost subversive in terms of chess strength and the creation and reconstruction of fixed patterns!
No matter who sent Orange an invitation to a game or a private message, they received no response.
The main reason is that the people at Youzi Technology no longer have time to gossip online. They have to continuously enrich the functions of the Orange Big Model every day. These days, they are using ImageNet to train the image recognition and visual systems of the Orange Big Model.
This work is particularly detailed and requires constant adjustment of parameters and supervision of learning results.
The Orange Big Model itself already has natural language processing capabilities, decision-making capabilities, and cross-domain learning capabilities.
After strengthening the image recognition and vision systems, the prototype of an AGI is officially complete. Once it is open to various industries, each industry only needs to add the modules it needs to use it within its own industry.
For example, autonomous driving technology is currently very popular. If car companies use the Orange big model to build their own unmanned driving system, they only need to add the corresponding modules of sensor fusion, control system and positioning system interface to the model before they can use it.
Or some larger car companies can also give the model a skin, add a self-developed interface or something, and enrich some other functions. Large refrigerators and large color TVs can all be controlled by AI, which is just a matter of working out a few more programmers.
Or in the field of medical health, X-ray, CT, MRI and other equipment are combined with AI. The image analysis is completed at the same time as the film comes out. The accuracy of the results can exceed 90% of doctors. It automatically summarizes the patient's medical history and gives recommended treatment plans.
For example, in the field of education, online education platforms can even customize reinforcement plans based on each student’s learning data, provide intelligent answers to questions, and plan the most appropriate learning path.
In agriculture, drones’ automatic monitoring, combined with automatic irrigation and pest and disease detection, optimizes the use of fertilizers and pesticides, which not only improves food safety but also reduces losses and increases planting efficiency.
As for the Industrialization 4.0 of manufacturing, it has become a cliché.
Once AI is widely used in various industries, with sufficient computing resources, high-quality data will continuously feed back to AI, further enhancing its capabilities and improving its real-time and robustness (Note 1).
Therefore, these days, the researchers of Youzi Technology have been working almost non-stop, which made Fang Yu a little scared. He hoped that there would be no more sudden deaths, so he quickly refined a batch of zero-ring potions for these people - Dream Sleeping Dew, to improve their sleep quality.
This zero-ring potion uses phoenix crown leaves, lavender, honey, lily, and poria as the main ingredients, violet sugar as a medicine guide, and moonstone as a catalyst. If used 30 minutes before bedtime, it can improve the user's sleep quality by 40%.
Phoenix crown leaf is a medicinal herb that Fang Yu found in Lu Sen. At that time, he collected some medicinal herbs that were not available on Blue Star from various villages and towns, and now he is using them.
Like Wangshu's Tears and Lieyang Essence Liquid, this 0-ring potion is not a true magic potion, so it can be diluted or divided for use.
The reason why these potions are 0-ring is not entirely because their effects are relatively poor, but because the pharmaceutical principles are fundamentally different from those of potions after the Great Arcana Era. Therefore, they cannot be classified using the 1-9 ring standards of the Great Arcana Era.
The potions of the Greater Arcane Age, since they were already guided by arcane theory, essentially used medicinal herbs as carriers of spells, sealing spells of levels 0-9 within the corresponding potions.
It sounds a bit similar to the scrolls currently used in the main plane, but the difference is that 1-5 level potions do not require mental and magical guidance, and there is no level limit for extraordinary people.
The highest level of potions is only 5th level.
As for 0-ring potions, most of them are potion formulas from thousands of years ago in the Great Arcane Age. The theories used are relatively primitive, still relying on the simple combination of magic and medicinal materials for composite effects or the magic of the medicinal materials themselves.
Therefore, it is difficult to make a very powerful potion with 0-ring potions. Even if it is possible, the raw materials used are much more expensive than potions with similar functions.
Moreover, the more powerful the medicine, the greater the side effects.
For example, there is also a healing potion in the 0-ring potion, called the Fountain of Recovery, which has a similar effect to the 1-ring healing potion, but the main ingredients of this potion require "Red Blood Root" and "Manganin's Newborn Vine".
The red blood root is fine, although it is rare and expensive, but at least it can be bought. However, the newborn vine of Manganin only grows in the Manganin forest. Not only is the output scarce, but it is also very difficult to preserve.
Furthermore, while the Fountain of Rejuvenation can indeed heal injuries, its use can cause fluctuations in the Magic Web's affinity, with a high probability of deteriorating. Of course, there's a one-in-a-thousand chance of it becoming stronger, but that probability is incredibly low.
Therefore, among the 0-ring potions, the ones that are truly practical are these basic potions that are not that powerful.
It has few side effects, a wide range of usage conditions, and can be diluted and mass-produced to make money, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
Perhaps because of this, these potions were not eliminated by the Age of the Great Arcane. In the era when Yuzu was still conscious, these potions were still very popular.
It’s no wonder that the office workers who drank the Dream Dew slept soundly until dawn. The quality of their sleep every night was as if they were back in the womb. After waking up, they were radiant and energetic, and could devote more energy to their work.
However, the amount of tea and coffee consumed in the tea room should still be the same. After all, drinking these things is mainly a habit.
"Hey, Lu Si, are you done talking to that woman?" Hua Zecheng called out to Lu Si who was about to leave the tea room after getting a cup of coffee.
Lu Si nodded: "We're done talking."
Hua Zecheng took a sip of hot chocolate and asked, "What do you think?"
Lu Si wondered: "What do I think?"
Hua Zecheng chuckled, "A signing bonus of 100,000 yuan and an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, aren't you tempted? Youzi Technology is good in every way, except for the money. Isn't Qianxun's salary twice as much as you have now?"
Lu Si resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "Teacher Hua, are you kidding me? Isn't Ali's 2.6 million plus equity incentives more tempting than Qianxun's? Why didn't you go there in the first place? Why did you come to Youzi Technology instead?"
"Besides, the orange model is now practical, and all it needs is a chance to be unveiled. Don't say Chihiro is just joking. Even if the offer is high, who would jump ship at this time?"
Hua Zecheng laughed out loud. The two of them were talking about poaching by other companies, but they didn't avoid others at all.
"I can't leave. Besides, there's a confidentiality clause in the contract we signed that requires me not to disclose the technical secrets of my previous company after I change jobs. I'll be punished by lightning if I breach the contract, hahahaha."
Hua Zecheng found it funny when he thought about this breach of contract liability, and it became even funnier when he thought about his meeting with Qianxun, the so-called senior strategic investment manager, in the morning.
"I just think this Chihiro woman is here to make fun of me. She's so arrogant. She keeps saying things like, 'If you don't come now, you might never have the chance to come again.' She's also called some kind of senior strategic investment manager, hahaha. I don't understand what Chihiro is thinking. Letting someone who's in investment be a headhunter?"
Hua Zecheng found it unbelievable. Before looking for him, didn't this woman ask about his status in the underworld and market conditions?
Last year, Ali's "Doctor" Huang Jian called him personally and wanted him to be the technical director of Ali Cloud's big data department. He refused the offer of a base salary of 2.6 million plus equity incentives.
Later, ByteDance offered him better treatment. If he had not joined Youzi Technology, he would probably have gone to ByteDance to work on algorithms.
"I heard that it was because Mr. Fang rejected Qianxun's acquisition." Lu Si took a sip of coffee, feeling relaxed, and chatted about gossip for the first time.
"Acquisition?" Hua Zecheng had never heard of it before, and suddenly became excited. "What price did Qianxun offer?"
"It seems to be 40 million?" Lu Si thought about it.
"Mai Yuan?"
"No, Great Zhou currency."
When Hua Zecheng heard this, he almost spit out a mouthful of chocolate.
"Is Qianxun crazy? Forty million? The amount of money invested in Yuzi Technology now is more than that, right? Who told you that? It's impossible."
Lu Si shook his head. "Yesterday at noon, I went to have lunch with Shu Yao, and the boss happened to be there talking about this. I overheard a little bit, and he didn't tell me not to tell anyone, so it should be okay to tell others."
It’s okay, what the hell could happen? If you tell it to others, it can just be told as a joke.
"Qianxun, this is a joke, but I think the company will have to seek external investment soon. The computing power is almost full now. I heard that another 300 M60s will be delivered tomorrow, which is over 20 million. Without external investment, I don't think it will be able to survive."
Hua Zecheng was a little worried.
He was not worried about not getting his salary, but was worried that his boss was too young and would not be able to seize the financing opportunity and would eventually die before dawn.
Hua Zecheng had previously started a business with some friends and had several financing experiences. He knew that financing was also a science.
If the timing of financing is right and the right investors are chosen, the company can immediately enter the fast lane.
If you don't raise funds when you should, or raise funds when you don't need them, the latter is not a big deal, at most you may lose control after the company grows bigger, but if it is the former, you may not even have the chance to grow bigger.
In his opinion, Qianxun may not be a good partner, at least not now, but other companies can definitely give it a try.
For example, Tencent, Google, and ByteDance are also developing well now and can also be considered.
Only by introducing the angel round first can we have money to burn and gain widespread support and recognition from the market.
Moreover, the Orange Model has just defeated Gu Jie.
What great timing this is.
By promoting this incident, Youzi Technology will become a leader in the AI industry.
By then, the angel round valuation will be at least more than 200 million US dollars.
Of course, this is because Youzi Technology is in Da Zhou. If it were in Miami, the valuation would be at least 500 million, or even higher.
What on earth is this small business owner thinking? Why hasn't he spread the word about the big orange model yet?
Note 1: Robustness refers to the ability of a system to maintain its performance and stability in the face of uncertainty, noise, and abnormal conditions. This means that the system can operate reliably under different operating conditions.
Take autonomous driving as an example. When faced with pedestrians who do not obey traffic rules, this places relatively high demands on the robustness of the system.
Another example is financial analysis software. Whether AI can still make reasonable market forecasts after a black swan event occurs is also robustness.
(End of this chapter)
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