Reborn with Consumption System

No matter how awesome Han Lie is, he doesn’t have the ability to incorporate the impacts of news into the entire system.

The only thing that can achieve this is the professional financial AI tool iterated by OpenAI. By 2025, it still won’t be particularly mature, but it already shows signs of sweeping the financial markets.

Once AI undergoes another wave of evolution, it will surely be invincible in the financial markets, summoning wind and rain at will.

It doesn’t have any of the various weaknesses of humans, being rational, ultimate, and pure.

The only thing that can compete with it is an AI of the same level.

The international financial market includes the stock market, forex, gold, oil, commodities, derivatives, and more. How immense is such a market?

Whoever first masters the super financial AI will be the next world richest person, and it’s the kind of overwhelming richest person.

However, according to Han Lie’s guess, if super financial AI truly appears, the bigger possibility is that sovereign nations will revert to financial islands, implementing tighter and more strict regulatory interventions.

It’s still uncertain how this will exactly develop.

Nonetheless, having control of an AI company with enough potential in advance is the key to the next generation of competition.

In the original history, the country lagged behind, OpenAI was just the most powerful and famous large language model, and slightly inferior models did not come from within the country.

When expanded to the company level, over sixty percent of the world’s top AI companies are in Silicon Valley, twenty percent domestically, and the remainder split across the world.

Domestically, it’s the biggest AI application market, but not a technological frontier.

Back when Han Lie was reborn, domestic capital was throwing money at AI companies like crazy.

How crazy did it get?

A fairly experienced but not exceptionally skilled algorithm engineer originally had a salary of about 2 million annually; if they casually joined a startup, they could at least get a 5-million salary plus 10 million in equity options.

Because most startups weren’t really expecting to achieve anything, but with massive subsidies and crazy investors, as long as they could recruit enough talent, they could tell a good story.

With a story, there’s enough money to burn. What if they really make a name for themselves?

Yes, they only cared about the quantity of talent, not the quality.

Because there weren’t many top-quality AI talents domestically at all...

And both investors and state subsidies knew this but still had to invest in every company, holding their noses, just in case—

ChatGPT drove the domestic market mad at that time, no exaggeration.

It was just like when America forced the USSR into the "Star Wars" program, knowing it was a trap, but still had to step in and grit their teeth to push forward.

They had already fallen behind, there was no way around it, but no one could afford the cost of being too far behind.

So the investment and financing circles were very anxious, and the middle and lower levels had big opinions about Jack Ma and others.

The common view was: "When Jack Ma worked on cloud computing, he was indeed daring and pioneering, but unfortunately, he later focused too much on reputation, wealth, and family. The AI research institute was handled superficially, with all his energy going into Hupan University and Ant Financial’s wealth transfer.

As a result, see, they’ve fallen behind again?

Alas, Alibaba isn’t doing it, Tencent is slow to catch up, whatever Baidu does fails, which big company domestically can get it moving?!"

Back then, Han Lie felt like it was none of his business, so he chimed in with a couple of comments and moved on.

But now, he’s grown a desire to dive in and stir things up.

At the last student gathering, he warmly and cordially chatted with those algorithm prodigies, not because he was idle.

Of course, the current ByteDance isn’t enough to support his dreams.

But, even if he has to start from scratch, Han Lie wants to give it a shot.

First step, expand the quantitative department of the company, support them for ten years at a loss, and grind out a prototype of a financial AI!

Second step, start making preliminary contacts now, and as soon as the bull market ends, invest heavily in AI companies!

The plan in his mind is extremely clear, Han Lie smiled broadly and started digging a new pit.

"Yu, come, I’ll allocate an additional fifty million for you to personally run through it!"

Yu Ping’an, fascinated by quantification itself, spent an entire day without moving from the spot.

After finishing, he was extremely excited.

"Mr. Han, truly awesome! These predictive logic algorithms are simply incredible!"

Han Lie raised an eyebrow: "How about it? Leading domestically, not boasting, right?"

"No, no!"

Even the naive son of a landlord couldn’t pick a fault, and even took the initiative to add, "Not just domestically! Quantitatively speaking, there’s nothing more impressive than this in Europe either!"

Even though today there were only buy operations and no sell operations, as a genuine expert in the field, Yu Ping’an could really see its potential.

"Awesome," I can’t help but want to say it more than once!

Thus, Han Lie’s expression shifted, revealing his true intentions.

"Yu, to be honest, I didn’t think I could make it this good. I won’t renege on what I promised you, but looking at the current situation, our chips are not quite equal..."

Yu Ping’an, in a good mood, thought for a moment and quickly nodded in agreement.

"Indeed, that broke company ByteDance is no match for the value of Mr. Han’s quant strategy... Alright, however, you want me to compensate, I’ll do my best!"

Hey, look at that, isn’t this yet another round of win-win?

Han Lie gave a brilliant smile, exuding full amiability, as he raised his arm to put around Yu Ping’an’s shoulders.

Good brother, don’t worry, I definitely won’t screw you over!