i have a wasteland world

Chapter 128 Life Company
Nolan Biology confirmed the next development plan, and Ye Mian felt a lot of pressure.

It is also a big challenge for her to invest billions of dollars for several years or more.

"If we want to achieve cornering overtaking, it is best to acquire an artificial intelligence laboratory."

"Mergers and acquisitions?"

"Yes, if we start from zero, it will not only waste time, but also invest a lot of money." Ye Mian's tone was affirmative,
Chen Xiao thought for a while.

His initial plan was to pull out a shelf temporarily, and when the artificial intelligence of "Wasteland World" was copied to the earth, all problems would be solved.

But Ye Mian's words made him realize that he should not be reckless.

It is unrealistic for a laboratory that has only been established for less than a year to make a major breakthrough.

In particular, it is unclear what the intelligence of "Wasteland" is.

According to Morey, intelligent assistants need to be cultivated,
And Monica acts more like a human being than a Superman.

This made him wonder, would the artificial intelligence extracted from "Wasteland World" really be what he wanted?

In this case, it is necessary to acquire an artificial intelligence company.

Not only is it a cover-up, but also the previous accumulation of the other party is also a large amount of wealth.

"What is the current situation in the field of artificial intelligence?"

Ye Mian: "I did a preliminary screening. There are 1013 companies that directly research artificial intelligence, 568 companies in the field of extended reality, and 545 companies in robotics."

Chen Xiao said with emotion, "So many companies are concentrated in the field of artificial intelligence, and the competition is quite fierce."

Ye Mian nodded: "In the segmented industry of artificial intelligence, for example, there are 1265 companies engaged in machine learning, which is more than artificial intelligence companies. There are 527 companies engaged in natural language processing, 248 companies engaged in computer vision, and 164 companies engaged in algorithms. There are 67 companies in China, and [-] companies in speech recognition.”

This is Ye Mian.

Although she has doubts about investing in huge artificial intelligence experiments,
But the preparation work, one must not be missing.

Chen Xiao: "We set our goal on companies that have been established for more than ten years. They can last for such a long time, at least they have a certain amount of accumulation."

Ye Mian clicked a few times on the keyboard and screened out the targets, "Two domestic companies and five foreign companies can be used as candidates."

Chen Xiao walked behind her and glanced at it, "There is no need for domestic ones. We mainly focus on foreign countries, which can be considered as a credit to the country."

Ye Mian is not surprised either, the situation is more complicated for domestic establishments that have been established for more than ten years.

Begin to introduce the situation of the three laboratories,
"Landing, established in 2011, the founder is Bengio (Bengio), a former associate professor of computer science at Stanford University..."

After hearing her finish, Chen Xiao pondered for a while, "Try not to choose an American company."

Ye Mian froze for a moment.

Chen Xiao: "Choose some European countries."

Even if the artificial intelligence of "Wasteland World" can't sweep the world as he wished,

The technology is certainly much better than the real world.

In this case, the acquisition of an old and beautiful company immediately made a breakthrough.

With the opponent's rogue character, I'm afraid there will be waves.

Ye Mian tapped the keyboard again.

From Chen Xiao's angle, he could just see her raised curve.

This girl is getting more and more charming.

Since she promised to "not touch her" last time, she also acted casually in front of him.

Chen Xiao recalled, in his impression, Ye Mian had never worn clothes that were too thin or sheer.

Now I can see the shoulder straps.

It really is "don't treat leaders as hooligans".

"Okay, Life company, established in 2008, the founder Yann Le, who was in charge of the artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT, the company focuses on the research of convolutional neural networks..."

Chen Xiao learned about convolutional neural networks through reading and learning.

A combination of computer science, biology, and mathematics.

A branch of the field of computer artificial intelligence.

Facebook uses convolutional neural networks for automatic tagging algorithms, Google uses it for image search, Amazon uses it for product recommendations, Pinterest uses it for personalized homepage push, and Instagram uses it for search architecture.

Ye Mian continued: "Life made its mark in the 2015 ImageNet Challenge (an annual Olympic competition similar to computer vision), and received $3000 million in venture capital that year."

Chen Xiao: "What's the current valuation?"

Ye Mian: "The latest financing is in 19, 2000 million US dollars, and the valuation should be around 2 million US dollars."

Chen Xiao: "The price is a bit high."

One billion is not a small sum.

Ye Mian: "Except for the price, everything else is more suitable. The company is in Linz, Austria."

Chen Xiao thought for a while, "Then contact the other party first to see the situation."

Ye Mian: "I saw a Chinese-like name in the latest list of shareholders. I should contact the other party first. The teacher has been a visiting scholar in Austria before, so he should be able to help."

Chen Xiao nodded.

Ye Mian started to take action here. Before he found out the identity of the Chinese, Life Company had already responded.

For the merger intention, Life Company did not refuse, and directly offered a price of [-] million US dollars.

Apparently there was a research problem.

Chen Xiao asked Ye Mian to start building a team.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions are not a simple matter, involving laws, finances, customs, culture...

complicated and cumbersome,
It is almost impossible to implement without professional participation.

When the merger and acquisition was going on in an orderly manner, Chen Xiao received a call from Cheng Ziyun, inviting him to meet and have a chat.

Chen Xiao was puzzled, but the superficial work still had to be done.

According to the destination provided by the other party, I came to a club.

Cheng Ziyun was already waiting at the door.

Chen Xiao wondered, when did this guy become so polite?
"Is this the first time Mr. Chen has come here?"

Chen Xiao nodded: "I passed by here before, and I really didn't know that such a treasure was hidden."

Cheng Ziyun smiled, a bit proud, "The environment here is good, you can come here often when you are free."

After saying a few words, Chen Xiao stopped going around in circles, and asked directly, "If you have anything to do, you can just call me on the phone, and it doesn't take such a big fanfare."

Cheng Ziyun solved the mystery, "My elder brother wants to see you, but he doesn't know you well, so let me come forward."

"President Cheng Zirui?"

"Yes."

Chen Xiao thought for a while, the two really had nothing to do with each other.
When they arrived at the room, a more mature man who looked a lot like Cheng Ziyun stood at the door.

It was Cheng Zirui.

After a brief greeting, Cheng Zirui smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, I heard that you are going to buy Life Company?"

Chen Xiao realized instantly, "Are you the founder Cheng?"

Cheng Zirui smiled, "I was studying in Austria in 08, and I met Yann Le. He was raising funds at the time. I thought his project was good, so I invested a sum of money. Time flies, and it has been ten years in a blink of an eye."

Chen Xiao couldn't help but praise, "Mr. Cheng's vision is admirable. He made such a decision ten years ago. With your leadership, the Chengji Group will definitely go to a higher level."

Cheng Zirui smiled, "I'm just relying on the shadow of my ancestors. I can't compare to Brother Chen's self-made. Everyone says that you are the leader of the younger generation in Shanghai, and you are absolutely worthy of your name."

The two flattered each other a few words,

Cheng Zirui: "Brother Chen is invited to come here today. First, we need to get to know each other. We are all of the same age, so we need to get closer in the future. Ziyun was ignorant at the beginning, and he poached Professor Liu. I'll make amends here."

Chen Xiao smiled, "Business competition depends on each person's means. I have no complaints against Young Master Yun."

Cheng Ziyun's face was uncertain.

For the sake of face, he did not reveal the truth to his family.

Everyone thought that he was playing pretty well by pulling his salary from the bottom of the pot.

Cheng Zirui: "Don't mention the past. In order to make up for Brother Chen, I will try my best to persuade Yann Le to sell the company. I invested in a big data medical company in China, and I can sell it as a package. .”

Chen Xiao smiled, "I would like to thank Mr. Cheng first."

He also planned to acquire a small artificial intelligence company in China and connect with Life.

After all, the cooldown period of "Wasteland World" has reached the second half of the year.

The acquisition of Life Company took less than three months.

Such a long gap in the middle cannot be ignored.

More than one billion yuan has been invested, not to mention any revolutionary results, at least not to be wasted.

Cheng Zirui's proposal was exactly what he wanted.

After talking about the business, Chen Xiao was about to say goodbye and leave.

Cheng Zirui pulled him, "Brother Chen is looking down on me, why don't you stay for dinner, Ayun, have you made arrangements?"

Cheng Ziyun nodded: "The guests are all waiting."

Cheng Zirui led the way, "Let's go, we won't go home today if we don't get drunk."

With such enthusiasm, Chen Xiao could only let him go.

When we got to the room, we found that a table of people had been waiting.

Except for two men, all of them are beautiful women.

Chen Xiao suddenly discovered that two of them turned out to be well-known actresses in the country, An Qi and Jiang Yiying.

After the introduction, there are also the host of the TV station, the top female Internet celebrity...

Only people who have never seen it can see the profound heritage of the Cheng family,
Some people cannot be invited with money.

Perhaps in terms of size, he is not much different from the Cheng family.

But in terms of connections, it is far behind.

Tonight's party was obviously of an escort nature, but the female stars, hostesses, female Internet celebrities... all had smiles like flowers, and there was no discomfort at all.

Power is obsessive.

Chen Xiao naturally wouldn't show timidity on such an occasion.

Talk and laugh with everyone,
Show the side of a humble gentleman.

Cheng Zirui smiled and said, "Everyone, don't look at Mr. Chen as young. He is a new generation legend in Shanghai."

An Qi joked, "Mr. Cheng, tell us quickly."

As an actress who has grown from a wild model to a first-line actress, An Qi's emotional intelligence is definitely top-notch.

Cheng Ziyun took the words, "Mr. Chen, you may not have heard of it, but I'm going to talk about the recent popular wines that you must have heard of or even drank."

Jiang Yiying blinked and asked, "What wine?"

She is also dressed up tonight.

Dress collocation, very generous and confident.

Wearing a bright red suspender dress, revealing the skin of her shoulders and neck, her temperament is more outstanding, full of infinite style.

Compete with Angie.

Although the female Internet celebrity and the host are good-looking, they may be comparable to the two.

But the aura was tightly suppressed.

(End of this chapter)