Reborn multinational giant

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The audience took a breath.

100 billion! This handwriting is too big!

So far, I have not heard of any Internet company that dares to invest a huge sum of 100 billion yuan in a project, not to mention that many people in the industry and experts agree that the business model is vague and difficult to realize artificial intelligence and material. In emerging fields such as networking, even the Google X Lab, which has been blown up by the outside world, its R&D funding is far inferior.

"Before I heard that Huizhong is rich and self-willed, and it feels a bit exaggerated, but now I understand that Huizhong is more than rich and self-willed, it is the N-th power of self-willedness!" An audience member exclaimed.

Generally, listed companies are limited by performance pressure and financial report pressure after listing, and they are afraid to invest. For example, some projects that are not profitable for five years, ten years, or even three years are not daring to invest at all.

But here at Huizhong, performance pressure, no, stock price, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, Fang Zhe has absolute controlling rights in Huizhong. Fang Zhe’s wealth is more than the sum of the wealth of the last few on the rich list. You love stocks. Buy or not, you don't buy, the whole world does not know how many people are queuing to buy!

The developers at the scene sighed. As expected, although Huizhong was listed, Huizhong is still the Huizhong, the willful Huizhong who spends money, and the Huizhong whose employees and shareholders, Fangzhe, the helm with absolute trust.

Amidst the mixed opinions of the audience, Fang Zhe began to explain the specific arrangements for the use of the 100 billion yuan.

First, Huizhong will establish four world-leading future research institutes in four cities, including Silicon Valley in the United States, Tokyo in Japan, Yanjing in China, and London in the United Kingdom, to attract top scientific and technological talents in several fields such as global AI and virtual reality.

Due to its short time since its establishment, Huizhong has a long way to go in terms of technology accumulation and technical background from the established world giants such as Google, Microsoft and IBM.

Many people say that Huizhong’s success is a standard Chinese-style success. This kind of success is only based on the application of technology, not on the root technological breakthrough or leap.

The Americans invented the Internet, Microsoft founded and popularized computer operating systems, Google invented search engines and Android, and Apple launched the iPhone, creating the era of smart phones. The success of Chinese Internet companies and mobile phone companies is nothing more than copytochina.

Google to Baidu, eBay to Taobao, icq to qq, Apple to every Chinese smartphone, even the so-called search for opportunities by many Chinese entrepreneurs in the early years was to keep an eye on the United States and Silicon Valley and "move" what they invented. Come to China.

On the face of it, Huizhong’s WeChat and gaming businesses are infinitely prosperous, with more than one billion users worldwide, and even in a winner-takes-all situation, there is nowhere to be found in the competition.

However, if Huizhong falls tomorrow, I am afraid that overnight, there will be tens of thousands of "WeChat" around the world, because from a technical point of view, WeChat is just an ordinary communication application. Anyone who has studied software development for several years Of programmers, with the next amount of effort, they can do a lot of work.

The success of WeChat and the barriers to competition are based on Fang Zhe’s foresight and the foresight of the first-mover advantage and the continuous iteration and rich business advantages in the later period. In other words, the core advantage of WeChat’s ability to take the whole world and not fail is Because it is like a big tree, it has rooted countless small branches and vines into all fields of the world.

WeChat's official account is associated with millions of media and self-media around the world. WeChat Pay's wallet contains the money of hundreds of millions of people around the world. WeChat's daily news and communications are related to the online life and entertainment communication of more than one billion people worldwide.

Staying vigilant, WeChat and Huizhong are now in full swing, but it does not mean that there is no potential development crisis. Fang Zhe can’t forget his past life. Because of the sweater war between China and the United States, companies such as Huawei, ZTE, and DJI have come to the United States. Companies such as Apple, Google, FedEx, and Micron are all caught in the middle and are affected to varying degrees.

Although multinational corporations are powerful, they are still somewhat inadequate in the face of the state machinery of major powers. Only by continuously strengthening themselves and accumulating their own technical background and confidence can they better face and overcome various potential crises.

If the four future research institutes distributed around the world are to attract the world's top scientific and technological talents, and to absorb them to overcome the problems at the top of the technology pyramid, then the second point announced by Fang Zhe is related to many on-site Ordinary developers are concerned with the complex and huge variety of detailed and detailed technologies at the bottom of the pyramid.

"The second point is that we will establish an AI open platform and database open to all developers around the world, and gradually establish a standard AI learning system and technical system.

Nowadays, there are many Internet companies, scientific research institutions, universities and various organizations all over the world that are researching AI and other technologies. Each has its own research direction and research focus, which can be said to be complicated and chaotic, and most of the situations Below, these companies only announced simple product application solutions or directly open sourced some of the research successes.

I don’t deny that these behaviors have contributed to the development of the entire AI industry, but in my opinion, there is still a big gap between these things and technical achievements and many ordinary developers, and these gaps It is also one of the reasons why AI has always stayed in scientific research laboratories and has not spread to millions of ordinary developers around the world like programming languages ​​and other things.

What are these barriers?It is a set of standard learning system and technology system. An ordinary person who wants to become a programming developer can learn computer principles and basic programming language knowledge in the university, and then gradually become a programming developer, even if he is Outside the society, various programming learning websites and training courses can also help him quickly master and learn programming techniques.

But what about an AI developer?Not to mention ordinary people, even many of the developers present here have a feeling that they have nowhere to learn, and can't find methods and ways.

The biggest advantage of the Internet is that it saves all kinds of information and provides us with huge information and knowledge bases. The biggest disadvantage of the Internet is that its information is too complicated and chaotic. You can ask Baidu or Google how to learn AI , They will give you thousands of answers, but Dudu will not give you a standard answer.

Baidu tells you to read this introductory book, and Google tells you to read the introductory book. After reading the introductory book, you are at a loss as to what to do next. In this way, our entire learning process has become fragmented. Patching things together wastes a lot of energy and wears out the enthusiasm for learning.

Therefore, the AI ​​open platform we are going to build now is not like other companies and institutions, throwing a bunch of product SDKs or open source achievements up to ignore, but to build a set of learning system and technical system starting from 0, any one Ordinary developers can position themselves on this platform, find their own learning direction and learning route, and continuously improve themselves and make contributions.

The reason why each of us can master language, basic literary, mathematics and science is because educators have formulated a unified set of learning standards for us from elementary school to university.

Before the advent of Baidu Baike and Wikipedia, there were tens of thousands of answers for a word or a person’s information profile on the Internet, and they set the standards for this information, so that we can quickly understand this information, so , The formulation of standards is crucial.

In the future, we will work with dozens of IT companies and hundreds of top universities around the world, experts, and people from all walks of life to gradually build a set of basic disciplines ranging from AI technology to IT technology, as well as language, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Standard knowledge system and learning system in various industries and fields.

In our vision, the construction of this system will establish a set of standards for the entire human civilization knowledge system. Anyone can quickly and clearly position himself in this set of standards and find a way to improve and learn from himself. You can learn from the knowledge of firewood, rice, oil and salt to spacecraft.

We estimate that the establishment of this set of standards will increase the development speed of the entire human civilization several times more!

If a "person" can learn the complete knowledge system, then it will master the entire human civilization!"