Future Super Intelligent System

A week later, Pichai boarded a plane to Huaxia Hangzhou. It was obviously Liu Fan who asked him out, but let him fly over. Pichai resisted a little at first, and even felt that it was Liu Fan who was trying to show him off.

But Liu Fan gave him a reasonable explanation: America is too unsafe.

Pichai thought about it, and it seemed that it was not very safe.

After meeting, the two chattered about business for a while, and the atmosphere at the beginning was quite harmonious.

It wasn't until Liu Fan started to cut into the topic that the atmosphere gradually changed, "Mr. Pichai, this time Huawei has released the latest autonomous system. What do you think?"

"I can't comment now." Pichai said with a smile, "The mobile phone system needs a long-term market test. I believe that only time can answer this question."

"But at least the intuitive feelings of consumers can be used as a reference." Liu Fan shook the red wine glass, "Although Huawei mate RD has only been sold for less than a week, the hands-on experience of consumers and evaluation agencies Mr. Pichai should You've seen it too."

"Of course, I have seen a lot of related reports. But I still think so, time, Huawei's system still needs a long time to prove itself."

"So how much time does Mr. Pichai plan to give Google to respond?" Seeing that Pichai avoided the most important issues on the first question, trying to suppress his aura and want to gain more initiative, Liu Fan naturally also stepped up. Putting pressure on the other party, business negotiations, is a matter of seeing who can better handle the pain points of the other party.

Liu Fan’s question got to Pichai’s heart. For Pichai, one of the questions he has been thinking about these days is how much time Google has to turn around. Google is facing a crisis now, but it is still too early to collapse. After all, Google has accumulated so many years, but Google must improve later.

However, Pichai managed to control his emotions well in front of Liu Fan, "Mr. Liu Fan seems to have a wrong understanding of us. The Android system has a strong market and customer base. I am so proud that Huawei can develop its own system." Happy, but I don't think Huawei's system will be a concern for us, at least not for now."

Liu Fan took a sip of the red wine, put the glass gently on the table, and suddenly sighed, "Mr. Pichai, when you chose to cooperate with Apple and Qualcomm, you should have never imagined the current situation at all, right? I lost for a while on mobile phone AI chips, but there is still a market for traditional chips, so life is not bad.

Apple relies on the IOS system and the hardware strength accumulated over the years. Although the sales of mobile terminals have dropped significantly, it will not hurt the core of the company. But what about your Google? I haven't had time to make achievements in the hardware market, and the software market is in crisis. I don't know what plans you two allies have? "

What Liu Fan poked at this time was another pain point of Google, that is, when Google is now facing this kind of predicament, companies like Apple and Qualcomm, even if they had a deep friendship or in-depth cooperation before, did not Who will come to pull Google, and even Pichai can perceive that a bunch of people are waiting to share the behemoth of Google.

This is the ruthlessness of the capital world.

Seeing that Pichai remained silent, Liu Fan continued to add another size, "Your stocks seem to have changed a bit recently."

Pichai's eyes flashed, and finally he couldn't help but asked directly, "What is the reason why Mr. Liu Fan came to me this time?"

Liu Fan leaned forward, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "You are looking for a home for DeepMind recently, sell us Wood Dragon Technology."

Pichai frowned slightly. He thought about many reasons why Liu Fan came to him, but he really didn’t expect him to buy DeepMind. Pichai’s first reaction was difficult to accept this matter. Now Wood Dragon Technology is recognized The world's No. 1 AI company, although DeepMind lost to Mulong Technology,

But compared with other AI companies, it still has a great advantage and is in the second position in the world.

If DeepMind is sold to Wood Dragon Technology, who can compete with Wood Dragon Technology in the future under this combination?

"Mr. Liu Fan may be a step late. We have basically negotiated the DeepMind deal now." Pichai politely refused.

"As long as you don't sign a contract, there's room for it." Liu Fan smiled, "Actually, no matter who you sell DeepMind to, it will mean the same to Google in terms of artificial intelligence. What you bring should be the most important thing to you, presumably Google is not yet short of money."

"Then what can Mr. Liu Fan bring us?"

Liu Fanmi squinted: "AI + virtual reality."

"Mr. Liu Fan has a big appetite, and he wants DeepMind and our virtual reality technology?" Pichai smiled deliberately.

"Mr. Pichai's words are not quite right. Our Wood Dragon Technology is the most likely company to push virtual reality technology to the next era with AI technology. I have come here to give you such a big gift from Google. Why not Are we greedy? If Mr. Pichai wants to understand it this way, I am really sorry, maybe I am reckless, then I will go to Facebook."

There is a crack in Pichai's inner defense. If it loses AI, the system, search and maps, unmanned driving, and now virtual reality, Google will really suffer.

Pichai fell into a long-term entanglement, and Liu Fan put further pressure on Pichai after the meal. He took Pichai to visit the technology of Wood Dragon Technology. After shopping for an afternoon, Pichai Chai was extremely shaken in his heart.

In fact, in the shopping mall, it is normal for companies to compete with each other and surpass each other. For a company of Google's size, if it is surpassed in some aspects, it is enough to increase investment to catch up, and even if it does not catch up, it will It's okay, because in such a big market in the world, no one can eat all the market. Sometimes the technology is a little behind, and we can make up for it in other ways. Even if it is a favor, the business can still be done.

However, such a market balance requires several major prerequisites. The first is that no company has an absolute technological lead, the second is product balance, and the third is resource stability.

To give a simple example, if Huawei's mobile phone system is better than Apple's, the screen and body are better than Apple's, the chips are better than Apple's, the applications are more than Apple's, and the price is cheaper than Apple's, how many people will buy it? What about apples?

After visiting Wood Dragon Technology, Pichai couldn't help but find that he had a strange premonition. He felt that Wood Dragon Technology had surpassed the entire market by more than one generation, so if Wood Dragon Technology brought this technology to cooperate with its competitors , Can Google withstand the pressure of competition from all directions?

And Wood Dragon Technology has always had a big killer, that is the price, their things are better than others, but the price is always cheaper than others! Although Wood Dragon Technology has taken many lawsuits because of this matter, but this kind of lawsuit should be fought slowly, and the result may not be achieved in ten years.

After two days of continuous negotiations, Pichai and the shareholders finally made up their minds. Google decided to sell DeepMind to Mulong Technology, and at the same time reached an in-depth cooperation with Mulong Technology in AI + virtual reality.

But on the surface it is a cooperation, but Pichai is very helpless in cooperation. In the cooperation, Google not only provides technology, but also provides the market and data, but Mulong Technology only needs to provide technology, and everyone's technical core is Without sharing, Google appears to be very passive in the entire cooperation.

The only thing Pichai finally won was the cooperation of Wood Dragon Technology's technology in more Google products. For Google, they are now nothing more than using Wood Dragon Technology's technology to stabilize their own market. Slowly and secretly increase the development of artificial intelligence.

For Liu Fan, he wants Google's virtual reality this time because the virtual reality of Wood Dragon Technology has reached the time to enter the market, but the technology is not yet mature, and Liu Fan dare not directly use it for education. It needs to be commercially tested and improved for a period of time. And Liu Fan needs data.

But in the process, he encountered market problems, and Google can just help him solve the problem. Coupled with Google's current situation, he can maximize his advantages in negotiations with Google. If you go to Facebook to talk, you won't get so many benefits.

As for Liu Fan's acquisition of DeepMind, there are other uses.

When signing the cooperation agreement, Pichai forced a smile, and it was difficult to conceal the depression in his heart.

Liu Fan looked at Pichai's expression and couldn't help but said, "Our Wood Dragon Technology has at least always guaranteed basic fairness and justice. If Mr. Pichai still feels aggrieved at this moment, you can imagine that our Huaxia has recently In the unfair market for a few years, how much aggrieved due to backward technology..."