As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 84 Acquisition
Zheng Li has always been interested in Bluestar's semiconductor technology.

Magic civilization develops a completely different technical route from Blue Star in terms of information and communication equipment.

The mages discovered that the DNA chain of carbon-based life is a perfect information carrier, and on this basis, they developed the biological computer defined by Blue Star.

After Zheng Li came to Blue Star, he found that the two technical routes have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The biological computer route is easier to develop artificial intelligence, and the computing function is more powerful than silicon-based chips.

But Bluestar's computers were easier to mass-produce, and even the simplest models could serve as productivity tools.

Unlike the mage civilization, the mage tower has a central biological computer, which only provides entertainment functions to citizens under the jurisdiction of the mage tower through transmission.

It's a bit similar to the concept of cloud computers. The mages allocate part of the computing power of the biological cloud for the entertainment of the common people, and the common people only have information and communication equipment.

"Cheng Gang, try talking to SecondMind in England, let's try to acquire them."

After Kechuang Biology completed its IPO to raise funds, Zheng Li and Cheng Gang had a teleconference, and he gave instructions.

Cheng Gang was a little dazed: "secondmind? I'm sorry Mr. Zheng, I've never heard of this company."

Zheng Lixiang thought for a while: "You need to understand first, and then implement it. The reason why you are looking for SecondMind is because I am personally optimistic about their technical route. I think their technical route in the field of autonomous driving is correct."

"secondmind is an AI chip company, mainly in the field of autonomous driving."

"My vision for the future of brain-computer connection is that our main expansion of brain-computer connection in the past two years is in the field of mobile phones and auxiliary medical care."

"These two are enough with conventional MSC chips."

"After laying a solid foundation, we will consider making applications with deeper technical content, such as autonomous driving."

"In the future, brain-computer connection driving will play an insurance role, and automatic driving will be the main driving method. We will combine brain-computer connection and automatic driving."

"secondmind is a great company."

After Cheng Gang finished the remote video conference with Zheng Li, he asked the secretary to report the company's information to him.

"Secondmind? England's AI chip company, Goose Factory also participated in the B round of financing the year before last?"

"Goose Factory's tentacles are too wide, and a little-known company like SecondMind also invested in Goose Factory."

There are many AI chip companies in England, the two most famous of which are OneTrust and Graphcore.

Among them, OneTrust has just been led by Softbank this year in its C round of financing, with a financing scale of 5.1 million yuan.

OneTrust's client base exceeds [-] institutions.

Another AI chip company called Graphcore has been cooperating with Ali and Qiandu, and is a long-term partner of domestic public cloud manufacturers.

As for secondmind, compared with the above two companies, there is no bright spot, and it is far behind. Cheng Gang doesn't quite understand Zheng Li's considerations.

OneTrust may be more expensive, but secondmind won't be any cheaper.

Secondmind's B-round financing in 19 years, the valuation after financing is [-] million meters.

Today it is much cheaper than OneTrust, but it is estimated to cost three to four billion yuan.

Cheng Gang felt that it would be better to buy a leading company. Buying secondmind is expensive and has no special bright spots.

Cheng Gang directly called the person in charge of the Goose Factory's strategic investment department.

The other party took the lead: "Why does Mr. Cheng call me when you have time? Your scientific and technological innovation has been very prosperous recently, and the market value will soon exceed one trillion."

At present, there are only eight companies with a stock market value exceeding one trillion yuan.

"As the strategic investment department of Goose Factory, what we regret the most is that we didn't invest in Kechuang Bio. Back then, Shunwei Capital invested 5000 million yuan and took [-]% of the shares."

When you are proud, you have to be humble: "Compared with Goose Factory, Kechuang Biology is just a baby in its infancy, and he still has a long way to go."

"There is no other way for Mr. Zheng to find Shunwei Capital. Who told Mr. Zheng that he was not a student of Pengcheng University back then. If Mr. Zheng was a student of Pengcheng University back then, he would definitely have found Brother Ma."

The story of Shunwei Capital’s investment in Biotech has become a legend in the investment circle after Biotech went public. Investors are saying that they want to see more alumni’s projects, maybe they will be the next Biotech.

And it is very easy to attract investment for entrepreneurial projects with sufficient technological content and patents such as university professors and doctors.

In the past, it may depend on the universality of your patent and the advantages compared with the products on the market now.

The person in charge of the strategic investment department of Goose Factory complained: "We have seen many projects of the founders of Ph.D. recently, and none of them can make my eyes shine like endorphins."

"Back then, I heard that Zheng Li talked to Mr. Lei directly. Mr. Lei is indeed courageous, and he doesn't even bat an eyelid for 5000 million yuan."

Cheng Gang didn't want to gossip endlessly, he interrupted: "Kechuang Bio must have a dedicated investment department if it wants to grow in the future, and we must learn from Goose Factory's rich experience in the field of strategic investment."

"Follow-up, if the goose factory has a good project, the family can come to us at any time if they can't eat it."

Zheng Li is not very keen on setting up a dedicated investment department.

Right now, there are too few people who have mastered magic coins, and there are only two people with magic brains, and his plan has not yet been implemented.

So he devoted part of his mind to scientific innovation and biology. Enterprises with a market value of trillions can leverage a lot of social resources.

Zheng ideally wanted to try to see if his vision of AI silicon-based chips was correct.

Cheng Gang continued: "We want to know more about the company SecondMind. I learned that you also participated in the B-round investment of SecondMind."

"So I want to ask more specific information about this company."

The person in charge of the Goose Factory's investment department didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Kechuang Biology's strength lies in research and development, and they are completely new recruits in the investment field.

Not to mention Kechuang Biology, even Cheng Gang and Shunwei Capital, where he worked before, are not in the eyes of Goose Factory.

The capital controlled by Goose Factory is much stronger than that of Lei Jun's Shunwei Capital.

"secondmind? I seem to have a little impression, but we usually look at too many projects. This company should not be listed yet. We invested in the previous rounds."

"Let me check the computer." After speaking, Pilipala looked for it in the investment project management system on the computer.

"This company is an AI chip company in England. It belongs to a company specializing in autonomous driving. It has already burned [-] million yuan."

"Not long ago, we signed an agreement with Mazda to authorize the active learning platform to Mazda."

The function of the active learning platform authorized by secondmind to Mazda is not automatic driving, but to optimize the ECU of Mazda engine through deep learning algorithm.

Secondmind Active Learning for Powertrain can help automakers reduce engine calibration time by 50 percent and reduce data acquisition and processing costs.

"How should I put it? If you plan to invest, you can try to invest a little bit. I personally think that this company still has potential."

"But in the long run, there are too many competitors, and it is difficult to get enough data just by cooperation."

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　　Let me tell you that everyone thinks the recent plots are flat, because I want to write a little closer to the real technology research and development, so these plots must be relatively flat, not too exciting.

　　The magic side will be written immediately later, the number of magic coin winners will increase, and the technical routes of various countries will diverge. I will try my best to write more exciting~
　　
　
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