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Zhou Buqi has no interest in the automobile industry. After all, he is not a professional investor.

For Shen Nanpeng, he has no restrictions on investment. He will participate in any direction that is promising and profitable. Just participating is not enough. As an investor of this level, he will also work hard to provide necessary social resources and industry contacts to help the company develop.

Zhou Buqi is different.

He only does things that interest him.

For investment, the purpose is more of capital return. Just like Tesla, he has never provided any help to Tesla's development, how to build cars, how to open factories, how to formulate management systems, how to develop electronic control systems, how to develop autonomous driving technology, etc.

He almost never asks about Tesla's internal affairs.

He has only one purpose, which is to reap huge returns on investment when Tesla grows in the future. Zhou Buqi specializes in technology, but Zhou Buqi is too far away from the automobile industry. It can be said that he knows nothing about it. It is really difficult for him to participate.

Like a drone.

He doesn't understand drones, so he has never cared about Bajixing Technology. He is completely free-range. If it is done, everyone will be happy; if it is not done, it will not be done.

Shen Nanpeng has a different idea. He believes that in the "Internet + automobile" industry, Ziweixing, as the leading Internet giant in China, has no reason not to participate.

Zhou Buqi said: "Artificial intelligence is the direction that Ziweixing is most concerned about in the field of scientific research. Autonomous driving is a branch of artificial intelligence. Of course Ziweixing will participate. However, not now."

Shen Nanpeng seemed a little anxious, "Google has been doing this for several years."

"Google?" Zhou Buqi didn't care, "What's wrong with Google? Google doesn't mean it's all right. Last year, Larry Page asked me to experience their self-driving cars. I said at the time that Google is He had nowhere to spend his money. I criticized him because he was incompetent as the CEO of Google."

Shen Nanpeng was stunned and speechless.

Depend on!

How do you say this?

The key is not to say that he is arrogant. Boss Zhou seems to be fully qualified. He has a good relationship with Larry Page, which seems to be the consensus in the industry.

Zhou Buqi said: "Autonomous driving is a branch of artificial intelligence. The current artificial intelligence has not even determined the most basic technical direction. Whether it is Tesla or Google, the set of autonomous driving they are developing now, There’s no chance of it. In a few years, I’ll have to give it all up and start over again. I’m telling you about technology, do you understand?”

Shen Napeng was a little embarrassed, "I know a little bit."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "As long as you understand, if you want to drive autonomously, you must first find the right direction. If you can't even find the right direction, wouldn't it mean that the harder you work, the more you will go astray? First determine the technical route of artificial intelligence, and then Follow this idea to do autonomous driving.”

Shen Nanpeng asked tentatively: "Ziweixing has in-depth research?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "In the past few years, the artificial intelligence industry has developed very fast, but it has always been dominated by artificial intelligence and supplemented by intelligence. It uses machines to realize human thinking. But true artificial intelligence must It is based on intelligence, partially or even completely abandoning human thinking, and using machine thinking to do machine things. Ziweixing has an AI project that plays Go, you know, right?"

"Yeah, Rokid-go."

"Yes, this product uses the latest cutting-edge AI technology of machine deep learning, which completely breaks the conceptual understanding of artificial intelligence in the past. When this product is officially announced this summer, it is estimated that the entire artificial intelligence industry will have a Shocked.”

"What about autonomous driving?"

Shen Nanpeng is not interested in playing Go. What he is most concerned about now is the automobile industry.

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "Old Shen, what's wrong with you? Are you eyeing the automobile industry?"

Shen Nanpeng shook his head, "We are not focusing on the automobile industry, but on the new energy automobile industry. Under the current global theme of the Internet and environmental protection, new energy vehicles that are connected to the Internet will be the next mainstay of the automobile industry. Trend. Just like smartphones changed traditional mobile phones.”

Zhou Buqi said "hmm" and agreed with this judgment, "It will be a big trend."

Shen Napeng further said: "This is also the current national policy guiding the automobile industry. Since 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission has issued the "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan", which clarified the goals and policy support measures for the development of new energy vehicles. In the past This year, the annual domestic production of new energy vehicles has reached 100,000 units."

"Well……"

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

Although he doesn't know much about the automobile industry, he still has some basic understanding of cars. The so-called new energy vehicles in China are all gasoline-electric hybrids.

In the name of trams, it gets the green card of new energy, and then focuses on the industrial manufacturing of oil trucks.

In fact, it is not just domestic. Most traditional car companies are making such attempts. One of the important reasons is that production is simple and traditional fuel vehicle technology can be smoothly applied to new energy vehicles. Continue to use the oil control system of the entire car body in the past, without having to develop an electronic control system.

The general technical logic is that the systems connected to the Internet are all user-oriented interface systems and are not real-time systems. For example, Microsoft's Windows system, Google's Android system, Apple's iOS system, etc., are user-friendly and easy to use because they actually go through a series of transmissions from the underlying hardware to the top-level interface.

And this kind of progressive signal transmission layer by layer will inevitably have delays.

Very inappropriate for a car.

If you step on the brakes, but there is a delay... this is very dangerous.

Therefore, the vehicle control systems used in traditional fuel vehicles are all embedded and real-time systems. However, the interactivity of this type of system is very poor and it is not user-friendly.

Just like the Linux system, this is real-time. This system is very convenient, smooth and fast to use, and is much more comfortable than Windows.

However, the human-computer interaction is terrible.

Although the Windows system has poor real-time performance, it is easy to use and interacts well. The threshold for users to use it is very low, so that it can better connect with the Internet.

The technical problem to be solved by "Internet + Automobile" is to first combine the friendliness of human-computer interaction with the real-time nature of embedded technology.

In 2014, Tesla disclosed some patents on electronic control systems, gave some directional thinking, and solved many troubling problems. This can be regarded as stimulating the pure electric vehicle industry. Various companies producing pure electric vehicles Businesses sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Zhou Buqi knew these things, but he had little interest in the automobile industry.

The main reason is that the level is not enough.

He only knows a little bit about it, and it’s really hard to give random directions.

This is not the same as making a mobile phone.

If the mobile phone is not made well, the worst case scenario is that it will break, which is nothing more than being scolded by consumers; if the car is not made well, and there is an accident on the road, it is a waste of human life.

Shen Napeng is an investor and has another way of thinking. He said: "In order to promote the development of the new energy vehicle industry, our country has provided financial subsidies, exemption from purchase tax and other measures. Moreover, there was a new resolution at the beginning of the year. ."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi was not very interested.

Shen Nanpeng said: "The National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Promotion Plan for the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles", which clearly stated that by 2015, the annual sales volume of new energy vehicles will reach the goal of more than 500,000 units. The government also continues to increase its investment in new energy vehicles. We will provide more policy support and further improve policies such as fiscal subsidies and exemption from purchase tax. This is a dual trend of the market and policy."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Indeed, in the past, the country did not keep up with the fuel vehicles and developed very backward. But in the field of new energy vehicles, the country can start at the same time as the overseas automobile manufacturers. The automobile industry is the largest industry. , any major economic country must be a major automobile manufacturing country. The launch of this plan now will have great guiding significance."

Shen Nanpeng said with a smile: "So it's still the same, you won't get involved?"

"Autonomous driving?" Zhou Buqi glanced at him and shook his head, "Ziweixing will definitely do autonomous driving, but this is too far away. For the new energy automobile industry, the current task is to find ways to build cars. Build good cars! Instead of using the technology of fuel vehicles to make new energy vehicles and then cheating on subsidies."

Shen Nanpeng said: "We must not only look forward to the future, but also pay attention to the present. Autonomous driving is the future, and automobile manufacturing is the present. Today's new energy vehicles have one of the most difficult problems that is difficult to overcome."

"oh?"

"Battery."

"Huh?"

This time, Zhou Buqi became interested.