Global monopoly of technology

Speeding up the shooting of the sequel of "Big Hero Hero 6", Luo Sheng made the arrangements clearly when he called Zhang Bowen.

In order to quickly prepare for the shooting and grab time, Bluestar Pictures provided a production budget of US$490 million for the "Big Hero 6" sequel, which is almost three times the production cost of the previous film of US$165 million.

According to the practice of triple box office return of the movie, theoretically "Big Hero 6" can only return to the box office if the box office reaches 1.47 billion U.S. dollars. At present, "Frozen", which has the world's largest box office revenue of animated movies, is only 1.276 billion. The US dollar has not broken this record since it was released in 2013.

Obviously, the producer has never thought of relying on this movie to make money at the box office. It is more about positioning the new products of the Côte d'Azur. This kind of thing can only be done by Luo Sheng.

But this is a super good project for the director. Many works have to be compromised for the sake of business. The sequel still chooses to be directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams of the previous film. The producer did not set a business for them. Profit indicators.

The requirements are simple: influence, quality, and topical interest.

The global box office of the sequel is considered a big success as long as it reaches $1 billion.

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During this period, Luo Sheng's main focus was on the Blue Coast Company.

Coming to the company early this morning, Luo Sheng participated in the internal executive meeting hosted by Yao Jianhong.

In the conference room, Yao Jianhong spoke in an orderly manner: "From 2013 to the present, the company has made great progress and achieved record highs in the past five years. This is worthy of recognition and indelible."

After that, Yao Jianhong turned his head: "But it is also undeniable that we could have done better and our performance could be higher. What is the reason? The old United States involved a lot of energy to deal with, even though On the whole, we have won, but we have indeed been slowed down by the company’s development speed. This is nothing we can do. However, with the rapid development of science and technology, we have to run slowly.

At the moment, Luo Sheng is sitting in the position of chief as an audience, and basically does not speak. The meeting is also led by Yao Jianhong. He is basically no longer in the company. The name of CEO is more of a name, while Yao Jianhong, the executive vice president, is Has been doing the job of CEO.

Lao Yao went on to say: "We have fallen behind in the smart home industry. It is not that the technology is backward. The technology still maintains a certain advantage, but lags behind the competitors in building an ecosystem. From the 51st CES exhibition in January this year It will be seen that the major giants are fighting each other in the smart home field, and they are struggling to build their own ecosystem when we are entangled by the old beauty and have no time for him to take care of it."

CES is the abbreviation of the International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, which is known as "the vane of current hot technology development trends".

Looking at the information in his hand, Yao Jianhong said: "In the past year or two, the global technology community has set off a new wave of development of AI technology, whether it is the major technology giants we are familiar with, or start-up companies from all over the world. , Are racing to tap the application potential of this technology in various fields."

"In particular, the AI ​​voice assistant is the most eye-catching, and it has been a hot project in the past year. It is no exaggeration to say that the intelligent voice assistant has once again rejuvenated the smart home with unprecedented vitality."

The company that pioneered AI voice assistants and brought them to the public’s horizons was when the Azure Coast released the third generation of Azure smartphones in 2009, it also launched the intelligent voice assistant "Xiaolan", making voice assistants enter the technology circle. Sight.

Five years later, in 2014, Amazon launched the smart speaker Echo, which made the smart speaker a hot physical carrier for voice assistants. During this time, the Blue Coast and Bluestar Technology were both troublesome at the same time. It's troublesome, the main energy is going to line up with Lao Mei.

Other competitors took the opportunity to grow wildly.

Nowadays, stimulated by the high profits of Echo, the world’s major technology giants have begun to vie for pursuit, such as the domestic "Tmall Elf" and "Xiaoai Classmates". The booming development of voice assistants has also made smart homes become Hot areas of the technology circle.

On the contrary, the Riviera, which pioneered the trend and mastered the most advanced AI technology, is quite "cold." Xiaolan's applications are currently limited to Azure mobile phones and ieP educational tablets. Over the years, it has been iteratively optimized, but it has not been broadened. Application scenarios.

The Côte d’Azur is stopping, and other international friends are taking the opportunity to catch up with their lives. They also know that the Côte d’Azur has always been alone in AI technology, so the major technology giants have turned to accelerating the construction of their own ecosystems. Intensify efforts to iterate technology to shorten the gap with the Côte d'Azur in the field of AI technology as much as possible.

Yao Jianhong, who attended the meeting, said again: "At present, players with a cooperative and ecological R&D pattern in the field of intelligent voice assistants are nothing more than a few old friends. Internationally, Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Google Assistant, Samsung’s Bixby and Apple’s Siri, The domestic ones are Xiao Mi’s Xiao Ai."

"From the perspective of the current industry ecological pattern, except for our Xiaolan who is in the'on-hook' state, each company is desperately using various methods to attract third-party smart home companies to join their own ecosystem. Xiaolan of the Côte d’Azur has brought the smart voice assistant industry to the fore, but it is Amazon that sees the voice assistant successfully introducing smart home products."

After speaking, Yao Jianhong listed a group of information reports on the status quo of the industry and put them on the big screen in the conference room. Luo Sheng and other attendees also looked at it.

"Since Amazon first launched the Echo, a smart speaker based on the voice assistant Alexa, in late 2014, the popularity of smart speakers has remained high and continues to increase. This is the market data I have compiled. Advantageous Amazon has sold at least 20 million Echo series smart speakers. Is this still worth it?"

Seeing this tens of millions of sales, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile dumbly at Yao Jianhong's unhappy expression.

It's no wonder that Old Yao couldn't bear it and said that the Côte d'Azur must run into the field of smart home.

Amazon's Echo has reached tens of millions of sales, and it has been able to build a mature ecosystem. Not only does it make a lot of money, but it also makes Yao realize that it may threaten the Côte d'Azur, although the threat is not big.

But we must pay attention to it. When the opponent really takes off and forms a general trend, it will be difficult to deal with. Kodak was so brilliant that it was finally killed by digital technology.

Luo Sheng did not show dissatisfaction just because the company was pulled down in a certain field. The company's development is actually quite good. The so-called Baimi finally has negligence. Moreover, this is not the management's negligence, but the response to the old beauty. The suppression was the first priority.

Now that it was finally relieved, Yao Jianhong immediately ran into the arena, not easy.

The Côte d’Azur is indeed a big business. It is an unimaginable super giant and a super business technology empire, but at the same time it has "made enemies" many. The well-known technology giants in Silicon Valley, as long as the number is numbered, which one is not and Is there any direct or indirect competition in the Côte d'Azur?

Competitive relations, litigation disputes, and cooperation at the same time, it is simply a pot of porridge.

It won't be long before he will get involved with Lao Huang. Luo Sheng will never doubt that the Blue Coast will definitely fight Nvidia in the future.

As for the smart home section, although it is lagging behind in the construction of the ecosystem, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry. The Dabai robot can help the Azure Coast fight a beautiful turnaround and announce what is the return of the king.

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