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In 2008, the economic crisis is breaking out.

It's time for a big move.

Zhou Buqi's strategy on Twitter has completed the third change.

For the first time, when I first became a shareholder, I tried my best to help, and even sent Liu Qing to balance the relationship between the founder and the management, so that the smoky atmosphere of the company could be improved, and the hippie CEO could restrain himself.

This is the friendliest period.

In the second stage, since the second half of last year, the attitude towards Twitter has changed. Twitter has money in its B round of financing and is going to expand overseas markets, which is not in line with Ziweixing's plan.

This coincides with Ziweixing's strategy.

Zhou Buqi entrusted Liu Qing to silently drag her back and try her best to delay Twitter's overseas development plan. The result is that Twitter went to Europe instead of Asia.

The third stage is now.

There is no need to hide and tuck it away, it's time to point the needle at the wheat awn!

Twitter should be firmly limited to the US market, and overseas markets must be conquered by YikYak. It was launched in Japan in February, Weibo was launched in China in March, and YikYik will enter the European market in June and July.

At this stage, conflicts are very serious.

Maybe there will be a hand-to-hand fight in the boardroom.

Liu Qing will definitely die.

She got married last year and became pregnant. Her husband is from China and she wants to raise a baby. After giving birth, I also intend to return to China to develop, so as to avoid the feeling of disharmony between the couple who live apart in the two places.

This requires that there must be a heavyweight in Ziweixing's global market.

Lu Qi is an important candidate.

He is one of the highest-ranking Chinese in Silicon Valley IT companies.

Lu Qi is Shen Xiangyang's fellow apprentice and has a very good relationship. In his previous life, Shen Xiangyang worked at Microsoft, and he was the one who suggested Ballmer. After the failed acquisition of Yahoo, he recruited Lu Qi to become Microsoft's senior vice president.

The next day, Zhou Buqi signed the CEO document, promoting Zhang Hongguang, the executive vice president of Ziweixing Research Institute, and Xu Ming, the vice president, to M6 at the same time, in order to maintain the balance between the engineering institute and the research institute.

The position of deputy dean belongs to the management post of technical research.

It is different from Yang Zhenkun's high-level technical post.

No matter how high-level Yang Zhenkun is, he can't be a CTO, he can't manage a business, he is a pure scientist; the vice president of the research institute and the engineering institute can become a candidate for the future CTO, and he can also be transferred to work in another business group. President or Vice President.

As soon as the promotion order came down, Shen Xiangyang came to report with a rosy face.

Zhou Buqi thought that there was something about Lu Qi.

"How is it possible?" Shen Xiangyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "This matter cannot be rushed. It depends on the mergers and acquisitions of Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as the pressure from the board of directors on the management under the economic crisis and the stock price collapse. Wait for a few months. What I said It’s another thing that you must be paying attention to.”

"What's up?"

"A mission you assigned to me last year."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi was a little embarrassed, forgot so early.

Shen Xiangyang said: "There are a lot of pornographic pictures on the Internet, almost every forum has them, and there needs to be a manual review team. You ask the research institute to make an algorithm that can automatically identify pornographic pictures."

Zhou Buqi immediately remembered, "Yes! You also said that you want to set up a special post for the Yellow Appreciation Master, saying that women are more suitable than men."

Shen Xiangyang laughed.

Boss Zhou's focus has always been so different.

"The role of the yellow appraiser is to review some overly complicated yellow pictures and then cultivate the algorithm model. This is a relatively deep level, which has not been studied yet. My team has developed a general yellow picture recognition Algorithms can identify more than 95% of yellow pictures. As long as they are not hidden too deeply, they can be found out.”

In the field of computer vision recognition, Shen Xiangyang is definitely one of the best scientists in the world.

When he was studying for a Ph.D., his advisor was the famous Professor Roger Reddy. This old man of Indian origin specializes in speech recognition. Shen Xiangyang did not take the usual path, and started the research on visual recognition under pressure, and achieved great success.

Even after ten years, many basic theories in the field of computer vision recognition were developed during Dr. Shen Xiangyang's time.

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, "So fast? Made it?"

Shen Xiangyang smiled and said: "The recognition rate is 95%, and the correct rate is also around 97%. I thought I could further optimize it and increase the correct rate to at least 99.9%. But something happened right now, and I think you need it very much. A 97% correct rate is enough. Why not market it.”

"well!"

Zhou Buqi was very excited and praised twice.

Scientific research cannot be done without development.

Scientific and technological achievements must be tested in the market.

This small project of Ziweixing Research Institute seems to be a success! Chances are you're going to make a fortune!

The automatic algorithm recognition of yellow pictures can eliminate the need for manual review.

AI can be used instead of manual labor, so there is no need to pay wages, benefits, five social insurances and one housing fund, which can greatly save expenses.

What's more, Shen Xiangyang was right, something happened recently.

The photo door is on fire.

People all over the country know that the entertainment industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan is so chaotic! It turns out that the glamorous and high-ranking female stars are the same when they take off their clothes. You also have to scratch your head to make a pose, and you also have to kneel in the female posture.

In the past few years, there will be various incidents, and some large-scale pictures will always be uploaded.

But this time was different, too many goddess-level stars were involved, and the popularity was unprecedented.

The national regulatory authorities have laid a heavy hand. Instead of calling to notify, they directly issued a red-headed document with a seal, requiring Internet companies in all places to purify the Internet market and provide young people with a healthy and green growth environment.

If you don't do well, you will be fined, or even shut down.

However, on many websites with a lot of traffic, tens of thousands of posts are sent out in a short period of time, how many picture reviewers do they need? It can be reviewed during the day, but what should I do in the early morning?

This is the most annoying thing in the circle recently.

Even the school forums exploded.

The private photos of actresses are posted round after round by college students, and they are deleted again and again, often making them very irritable.

This is just great.

AI is here!

This can not only solve Ziweixing's plight, but also help colleagues solve their current troubles.

Zhou Buqi was very excited and asked, "How far can other people's yellow picture recognition programs do?"

Shen Xiangyang said confidently: "Even Google and Microsoft will not surpass us. In the domestic and even Asian markets, our image recognition program can represent the highest level of artificial intelligence."

Image recognition is not easy, even harder than speech recognition.

Many pictures are too complex.

Once the accuracy rate is not high, accidents will happen. If a user posts a little yellow duck, or a picture of a bra, or a selfie, it may be judged as pornographic and cannot be posted.

This affects the user experience too much and will be scolded by users.

Therefore, the yellow image recognition algorithm has been around for many years, but it has not been widely accepted by Internet companies because of its low accuracy rate.

A very important part of the reason is that Silicon Valley has not studied deeply in this field. The United States doesn't care about a harmonious society, so the yellow pictures are the yellow pictures, just post them casually. There are pornographic pictures everywhere on Facebook and MySpace, maybe they can still attract traffic.

If Silicon Valley does not do it, the technology in this field will not be updated and will not be used in China.

Fortunately, there is Shen Xiangyang.

"Okay, old Shen, you are helping colleagues solve an urgent need." Zhou Buqi was very happy, and tentatively asked, "Well... I think so, transfer this program to the Engineering Institute, and the Engineering Institute will coordinate and outsource it to the outside world. What do you think about the sales and after-sales of services.”

Shen Xiangyang nodded, "It should. It's okay, I'll communicate with the research institute."

Zhou Buqi was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's really going to be sold at a good price, and I will send you a big red envelope."

Shen Xiangyang said: "Not only in China, but also in Korea and Japan. Especially in Japan, they also have stricter laws and regulations, and you must have a code. Japan's Internet technology is much worse than that in China, um, at least compared to ours. MSI is much worse. It is necessary to establish such a sales system in Japan, or directly entrust Yahoo Japan to sell as an agent.”

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "Okay, let's discuss it later."

Many Internet companies are successful in the model, have no technology, and when they encounter a little complicated technical problem, they have to find foreign aid. For example, the current Ali is backed by the technical support of Microsoft and Oracle.

Zhou Buqi is also actively seeking to become Ali's largest technical backstage.

The Japanese website is not as good as Ali, and it is very rough. It's a bit like the domestic banking system. Simple technical issues are handled by ourselves, and slightly more complicated ones are outsourced.

It is indeed necessary to develop.

Zhou Buqi called Cheng Binghao over and discussed the matter.

Cheng Binghao shook his head and said, "I just came back from Japan the day before yesterday, and I inspected it, but I still can't work there as an engineering institute. Those Japanese people are too boring, they can't finish a little shit, and the girls are squawking. And you don't know , the after-sales service over there can be called abnormal. Big companies like Sony and Panasonic are still doing after-sales maintenance for old equipment from 20 or 30 years ago. Aftermarket department for used equipment.”

Zhou Buqi frowned, "What do you think?"

Cheng Binghao said: "It's enough to set up a sales system in Japan. Be strong, only sell products, and don't accept demand orders. Communicating with those people is a waste of time and energy, and the cost of uncertainty is too high."

In China, the high-end outsourcing of engineering institutes is acceptable.

For example, if Dangdang has any needs, it can be put forward to the Academy of Engineering. After the Academy of Engineering evaluates, it thinks it can be done, and it will help to do it for a fee. Available on Japanese sites not required and do not accept orders for their needs.

The Academy of Engineering has researched a good algorithm and program, and just sell it directly. Love to buy, buy, not to buy.

Cheng Binghao said: "The positioning of the Engineering Institute can't be biased, and Ziweixing itself should be the main one. Essentially, this is an internal department of the nature of a middle office, mainly serving our own business. Outsourcing services can do the best and earn money. Some profits. It doesn’t matter if you can’t do it.”

Zhou Buqi felt that he was very calm and not overwhelmed by money, and praised him: "Yes, it should! By the way, I heard that there is another project exploded at the Engineering Institute recently?"

Cheng Binghao smiled proudly: "Yes, it's also good luck. The one is about database reading. The price is 5 million, and more than 50 orders have been sold in half a month. Well, the marketing department has also contributed a lot."

"The KPI set for the Academy of Engineering this year is a 35% increase in revenue. Can it be achieved?"

"it should be OK."

"The research institute has developed an artificial intelligence-oriented yellow image recognition algorithm. I told Lao Shen, transfer to the engineering institute, and you can operate it. This product can easily sell one or two hundred orders."

Cheng Binghao's eyes lit up, "It's done? I paid attention to this project in December. Old Shen is fine! Last year our outsourcing revenue was 650 million. If we had this yellow image recognition algorithm, it would take less than half a year. This year's KPI would be Achieved."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and snorted, "What are you thinking? It's just for you to operate. Only 20% of the income of this project will be included in the KPI of the Engineering Institute."

...

Although it is an economic crisis, although it is snowing in the south.

But for Ziweixing, there is a lot of good news.

Entering February, the rough financial reports of various departments for the previous month have been released one after another.

The highest growth rate is the SP business.

Revenue soared from 30 million to 88 million!

The biggest contribution, of course, is Helo's SMS service.

According to China Mobile, in the past January, Penguin was still the largest customer of Montnets, with a revenue of 91 million, 3 million more than Ziweixing.

It's only 3 million!

Cheng Zhenping, the president of the SP business, seemed to be a different person. He put on brand-new leather shoes and a brand-new suit. Those who didn't know thought he was the groom's official today.

When reporting to Zhou Buqi and He Yang, he vowed that in this February, Ziweixing will definitely surpass Penguin and become the largest customer of China Mobile!

Penguin's SP business mainly relies on QQ, SMS service income and value-added payment income.

Ziweixing is different.

In February, Secret Circle and Toutiao officially joined China Mobile and China Unicom's Monternet services. In just a few days, more than 1.9 million mobile users and 400,000 China Unicom users have signed up for the monthly subscription service of Secret Circle, which costs 5 yuan per month.

After opening a monthly subscription, the user will receive a completely real secret every day, with a scale of 3-4 text messages. These stories are all anonymous, and it is very likely that they happened to someone close to them.

The thrill of voyeurism makes this business far more popular than headlines.

In addition, in April, China Mobile and China Unicom will launch paid reading platforms on mobile phones, mainly for the literature business under Ziweixing.

This part is also regarded as SP income.

Therefore, Cheng Zhenping was full of confidence.

He said that in February, SP revenue will exceed 120 million. After the literature business is launched, the monthly income of the SP business has remained stable at more than 150 million.

Would be twice the size of a penguin.

At that time, Ziwei Xing will become the number one financial backer of China Mobile, and cannot be easily manipulated.

At this time, Zhou Buqi's cell phone vibrated and received a text message.

It's Teacher Han Yan again.

During this time, the two often texted and chatted, a bit like a young couple in love.

"I just had my period, and it's five or six days late. It looks like it's about taking medicine. Don't worry. I won't take medicine next time."

Seeing this text message, Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief.

He waved his hands and let He Yang and Cheng Zhenping leave.

Then text back to teacher Han Yan: "Next time I won't take pills, it will hurt my body, and I will change to a way of supplementing."