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At this moment, Fang Hong did not hesitate to show off, because it indeed exceeded his expectations, and exceeded them by a large margin.

This kind of chat room in a three-dimensional scene can be said to bring people far away from each other further closer to each other, with a sense of distance, participation, and a greatly upgraded sense of immersion in the experience.

Fang Hong asked: "Is this the only scenario in this kind of chat room at present?"

Lou Gaoyuan replied: "There are already more than a dozen scenes, including indoor and outdoor scenes, including space backgrounds, etc., and more scenes will be developed later."

After speaking, Lou Gaoyuan immediately changed a scene. This time it took about nine seconds to load. When the new chat room scene appeared, several people present were slightly surprised. Among them, Hou Junda, who was in charge of Yixing Video, subconsciously Exclaimed: “Fuck——!”

Hou Junda, who was startled, immediately complained: "I said, Lao Gao, can you say hello in advance so that I can be mentally prepared?"

The new scene switched to a panoramic outer space background. Everyone was sitting on a single lazy sofa, suspended in space. Fang Hong looked around the scene. Under his feet was the deep starry sky. No wonder. Hou Jundahui was startled by the suddenness.

At this moment, they seemed to be suspended in space, and they were high in the Earth's orbit, with the Earth on their side, and they could see it slowly rotating with the naked eye. At this time, an artificial satellite appeared along the orbit next to them. Weaving through the background gradually fade away.

Fang Hong repeatedly praised: "Well, it's very good, it has a bit of a partial virtual world flavor."

At this time, Chen Yu said: "The development and operating costs are very high. These immersive scenes are all made with real money, and they are only single local scenes. This is the limit of what can be done at present. A true virtual world , the existing computing resources simply cannot support it.”

Lou Gaoyuan agreed: "Chen Yu is right, the cost is very high, and the operating cost has also soared."

Chen Yu also continued: "The daily operating cost of my second-generation large model is now more than 2 million yuan. This is a rigid expenditure. The daily operating cost of the third-generation large model has soared to 10 times. This is just playing with words. Generative, to fifth-generation large-model video generative, the daily operating costs will definitely soar to 200 million or even 300 million.”

You know, this is the operating cost for a day, not a month, let alone a year. If the daily operating cost of the fifth-generation model is calculated as 300 million, the operating cost alone will be more than 100 billion in a year.

At this time, Qin Feng said: "A major pain point now is the serious shortage of computing resources."

Chen Yu nodded and said: "Yes, the further development of artificial intelligence now includes the establishment of the virtual world industry chain. The main threshold is the lack of computing resources. More powerful computing chips are needed, especially the impact of virtual world operations on computing power. The demand is so terrifying that it is simply a computing power black hole.”

"Although our current scene is amazing in the contemporary world, strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a virtual world in the true sense. It must be preceded by the word 'pseudo', which is just a pseudo-virtual world. To achieve a true virtual world Immersive experience is not only a technological breakthrough in brain-computer terminals, but also a huge demand for computing power. It is enough to increase the computing power resources by 10 million times based on the current computing resources. "

After a moment of pause, Chen Yu added: "In general, under the current computing architecture, the huge computing power required to achieve the ideal state is almost unobtainable."

Finally, Fang Hong said: "That is to say, such a huge demand for computing power can only be solved by breakthroughs in the underlying technology of quantum computers, right?"

Chen Yu nodded: "It can be said that the existing computing system is almost overwhelmed in terms of energy consumption and efficiency in the face of huge computing power requirements. Without breakthroughs in underlying technology, silicon-based chips and von Neumann architecture It is basically the ceiling of artificial intelligence, and the power consumption is also particularly terrible, which is equivalent to using a horse to pull a high-speed rail carriage.”

Obviously, Chen Yu’s view is very clear. Real virtual worlds and strong artificial intelligence, or general artificial intelligence, still require breakthroughs in underlying technology. Classic computers under the von Neumann architecture have limited computing power and are not suitable for The consumption of energy and electricity is also exaggerated.

The underlying technological breakthrough he mentioned is quantum computers, and Matrix Quantum is also pursuing the quantum computer track. This company's R\u0026D investment last year was second only to Xingyu Technology, which is also an exaggerated investment scale.

At the end, Fang Hong said calmly: "It's too far away to talk about virtual worlds, strong artificial intelligence, and quantum computers now. I have confidence in you, but it's unlikely that there will be any big breakthroughs in a short time. I know this." You know better."

Everyone nodded.

Fang Hong continued: "Don't be in a hurry, take your time, just study quantum computing and strong artificial intelligence slowly. Now being able to enter a 'pseudo-virtual world' is also a huge leap. It is still ahead of the world in the next level." Others. The key is to prove whether the current path is feasible. What is the biggest gain now?"

"It was Chen Yu who proved that this path is feasible. For us, the rest is an engineering problem. We are still not leading the world in terms of overall computing power base, but Matrix Quantum has also been in the past few years. Don’t stand still. Although the computing power chip is not leading the world, it is still useful. If the computing power performance is not enough, then we can make up for it in large quantities.”

"We Chinese people have a very powerful characteristic. Industrialization and engineering are our absolute strengths. No one on the surface of Blue Star can match us. After all, computing power chips are also infrastructure. We are responsible for infrastructure construction. Under the current technical structure, it is not just a set of industrial processes such as building production lines, exploding production capacity, manufacturing more chips, building computing boards, building servers, and building a computing power center.”

"As long as the road proves feasible, industrialization and engineering of old magnesium are definitely no match for us. Treat it as an engineering construction problem, that is, whoever smashes the most 'reinforced concrete' will win. Responsible The problem is simple and straightforward. Let’s use our infrastructure madness to build data centers and computing power centers. If one computing power center and data center are not enough, then we need two, three, five, ten, or a hundred. What does it mean to be vigorous? Flying Brick, that’s it!”

"In addition to computing power, chips and memory, electricity is also a big problem. Lao Mei cannot handle the electricity cost of such a massive server cluster, and the cost is higher than ours. They cannot afford such expenses, in terms of power generation. We have an absolute advantage in terms of electricity bills. Regarding electricity, we can do what Lao Mei can do for one dollar with 50 cents.”

"Of course, what I said is based on the existing chips and von Neumann architecture computing system. It can only be regarded as a transitional solution, not the final solution. The final solution still depends on Chen Yu's quantum computer research When will the team light up this technology tree and Qin Feng’s brain-computer virtual world, we won’t be able to use such high-end technology yet.”

As soon as everyone heard what Big BOSS said, they basically understood what he meant. Even if we want to build a pseudo-virtual world, we must also build a pseudo-virtual world. This can be regarded as a link between the past and the future.

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