I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 506: 317-318: Times have changed! (4000 words)
"Therefore, at the time of the pre-development of this car, I would like to say that at the very beginning of the development, I will give you some pre-coordination projects of this ADS intelligent driving system. Please cooperate with my work."

Andrew Ng said this calmly.

"I named this project the Gaolingtang PLUS project."

“In the development of this product, I decided that Hillhouse AI’s opinions would be placed at the core.”

Gao Huaijun then added.

Wang Fengying didn't react when she heard what Andrew Ng said.

After all, the positioning of Hillhouse's artificial intelligence within Hillhouse is quite impressive now.

Basically, it can be said that he is second only to one person and above everyone else.

Not to mention the money wasted, this group of PhDs are so capable. In addition to each professional group, there is a special project team within Hillhouse Vehicle to conduct professional experimental docking with them.

Basically, it can be said that I am afraid it will break if I hold it in my hands.

But now, when she heard Gao Huaijun say: Hillhouse's opinions on artificial intelligence will be placed at the core position.

When this sentence.

Still very surprised.

This means that this product.

Hillhouse's artificial intelligence, which is similar to the TIER 1 level, is now directly superior to Hillhouse's vehicles. Party B instantly becomes Party A and becomes TIER 0, which is unprecedented among all companies!

Good guy!
Really good guy!

Of course, she didn't know that in later generations there was a model called Ask the World.

This model was invented by the question world.

Gao Huaijun also had a sudden idea and wanted to try out the completely different thinking of the second party.

Gaoling Artificial Intelligence has never led a project, but he wants to take a look at this company.
Prepare a product that does not require high cost control for this experiment.

If it was a car model like Hillhouse Xingyao, this experiment would probably have failed.

But now we are going with Hillhouse Capital, and there is a fixed cost framework. A few tens of thousands more or less in cost is not a big problem!
All are within range.

"I think everyone has their own opinions on this model. If you have any questions, come and talk to me directly. Mr. Wu will continue." Gao Huaijun didn't wait for the important people to react and directly blocked their words.

After hearing what Gao Huaijun said, Andrew Ng was somewhat surprised.

Not all leaders want to take control of a project.

Andrew Ng is such a scholar-leader in the traditional sense.

He is able to sit in the position of head of artificial intelligence at Hillhouse, and has nearly 3000 PhDs working for him. Now he has the resources and the manpower. The team he leads has already written more than ten articles in the two top international journals NS.

It can be said that it would be easy for the current Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence team to set up a heavyweight AI research institute.

It can be said that Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence is truly at the top level in the field of artificial intelligence.

In a few years, it is not impossible for Andrew Ng, as a leader, to win a Nobel Prize in Physics!
After all, AI is now a major subject. Driven by Hillhouse, it has become the most important and hottest subject in the world, without a doubt!

The desire for fame, wealth and power was aroused.

The money is really not enough!
In the past, he had thought about working at Hillhouse for a while and then returning to the United States to become a big shot in the field of AI.

But now he would never do that even if he was beaten to death!
How much money is given to the top AI laboratory in the beautiful country?
At most one or two hundred million!
How can it be compared with Hillhouse’s huge resources?

but.

Even with such a team, Andrew Ng found it difficult to manage.

Although there are only about 2000 people here.

But they are all intellectuals after all.

Most of them are PhDs!
The arrogance in his bones is much more serious than that of ordinary people.

Now if you ask him to take charge of the Hillhouse Tang project, he doesn't really want to do it.

After all, Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team's annual R&D expenses are calculated in the tens of billions!
It doesn't matter what little money you have!
However, Gao Huaijun personally gave the order, and it was for the most important unmanned driving application, so Andrew Ng had no choice but to agree.

no way.

The commercial use of this product is so critical!

This is related to Hillhouse’s mid-term summary of the artificial intelligence team in the next stage.

It doesn’t matter whether there is money or not, but if Hillhouse stops investing heavily, this team will collapse!

"Okay, Mr. Gao, I'll do my best." Seeing that the executives of the week were silent, Andrew Ng whispered aside.

"What do you mean by trying your best? It's a must!"

"This time, Hillhouse is not only going to produce a qualified work, but also a great work!"

“I need to use this great work to get Hillhouse Vehicles listed and surpass the imagination of all investors!”

"Are you done? Keep going."

Gao Huaijun immediately retorted bluntly.

"Yes!" Andrew Ng quickly calmed himself and continued, "Urban intelligent driving is the biggest selling point of Hillhouse's ADS intelligent driving system."

Hearing these words, the executives present couldn't help but be excited.

Intelligent driving in urban areas is the biggest difficulty for all unmanned driving systems.

Because the traffic environment in urban areas is more uncontrollable than that on highways!
A person suddenly jumping out on the road, a car suddenly driving out from a blind spot, or even an electric bike driving around randomly, can all be fatal injuries!
This requires very high-density algorithms for control.

Other car manufacturers are also developing so-called "intelligent driving", but this is still at the stage of relying on maps, which is completely unfeasible because their algorithms are completely assisted driving and are incompetent without high-precision maps.

Think about it, if a pedestrian suddenly runs out, what’s the use of your so-called “intelligent driving” relying on maps?

Hillhouse also tried high-precision maps at the beginning, and it used its own map, Hillhouse Map, and initially applied it to products such as Hillhouse Tang and Hillhouse Han.

How to play Hillhouse map now?
Hillhouse Map is an infrastructure, or you can say a platform, so Hillhouse Map is now directly open and charges the B-side (companies that need it), including logistics, food delivery, taxi-hailing, etc.

These industries cannot do without maps, but it is impossible for them to invest huge amounts of money to build one themselves, so they pay money to Hillhouse.

Users who use navigation every day also know that each of us is a collector for Gaoling. If you go to a newly opened road or path, there will be a record, and Gaoling's collectors will come to confirm it. If you report a newly closed road, Gaoling will confirm it based on the data of other users.

At the same time, Hillhouse’s own collectors are “patrolling” everywhere every day, collecting more accurate road data as well as data on nearby buildings, shops, facilities, etc.

Current car dealers, including Hillhouse itself, rely on maps themselves.

A flat map is just a route map. Intelligent driving requires a high-precision map. For example, it can tell you how many lanes a road has, in which direction each lane goes, where are the zebra crossings, where are the solid lines, and whether the intersection has changed from three to four. All of these need to be collected manually and must be accurate to the meter level.

The cameras and algorithms of these automakers respond to surrounding objects rather than identifying roads.

So you will see that these car dealers' intelligent driving is limited to highways and expressways, because Hillhouse has already collected high-precision maps of highways and expressways.

Now, Hillhouse Maps can use GPS to accurately display which lane you are in. The algorithm only needs to keep the lane centered and identify surrounding vehicles.

So you can use the data of Hillhouse Maps just by paying the money.

The "opening of the city" depends on the car dealers themselves to collect information bit by bit, so these car dealers are very slow in "opening the city". The key is that the so-called "opening of the city" only refers to the main roads in the urban area, not all of them.

Hillhouse has tried it itself, and after collecting data for 9000 kilometers, it still cannot cover all the main roads in Shanghai, not to mention the countless small roads.

If other car manufacturers rely on high-precision maps, they will always remain at L2.

Therefore, other car manufacturers can only rely on high-precision radar and algorithms to get rid of maps.

After all, marked roads are no match for high-precision map intelligent driving

No matter how powerful the algorithms for identifying vehicles and objects and responding to them are, without high-precision maps they are useless and become mere assisted driving.

The cost of collecting high-precision maps is enormous, and key city roads change every day.

In a country like China, a city changes drastically after three years. How do you deal with that?

So now Hillhouse’s intelligent driving team is different from all other car manufacturers, with vision + laser + millimeter wave + algorithm.

Hillhouse’s current ADS intelligent driving system is a complex new algorithm structure.

Its algorithm is very advanced in this era, and a bunch of mathematicians are not trained in vain.

This is not something that can be achieved simply by relying on Gao Huaijun's golden finger.

What Andrew Ng said now actually sounded half-understood even by Gao Huaijun himself.

Too deep!
The content is really deep!

Once the meeting starts, every moment it feels like a doctoral academic seminar!
Hillhouse Intelligent Driving directly identifies the road and everything around it. Its ability to identify and respond to surrounding objects alone is currently much higher than that of other automakers. Moreover, its intelligent driving does not rely on maps. Maps are only used for selecting driving routes.

As a result, Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team found that this seemingly cost-saving path was completely unfeasible, and the lidars on the market were too expensive, so Hillhouse stepped up its own research and development and used its own radar to lower the price of lidar. After all, lidar is too expensive, costing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars each, which is simply like stealing money.

Moreover, Hillhouse's current algorithm direction is to identify everything, so developing a radar and snatching Hikvision's job at the same time is really a very easy thing to do.

Andrew Ng knew that today's meeting was important.

In order to implement the core strategy of 'ALL IN AI'.

He needs to take out the core knowledge he has and convince these executives who are proficient in machinery and vehicles of some key points.

Let them know.

Times have really changed!

The emergence of artificial intelligence can definitely be said to be an era-changing event!

However, even so, the senior executives below only understood half of what was said.

I understand every word.

But when they were connected together, it was really a bit confusing.

They were all in a state of confusion.

When did Hillhouse's artificial intelligence become so awesome?

However, although Andrew Ng tried his best to make the language more concise and easier to understand.

However, some professional terms involved should be explained as detailed as possible.

"The hardware level of this ADS intelligent driving system is compared with our own Gaoling Xingyao ADS 1.0 version. It has three more laser radars, and the computing power chip has been upgraded from MDC410 (96tops) to MDC510 (150tops). The number of other millimeter-wave radars, ultrasonic radars, and cameras has also increased to a certain extent. Although the cost has increased, it will not be particularly high."

"MDC510 is the highest-level computing chip that Hillhouse has produced. This product can run 3A masterpieces on the market in minutes. Its computing power is very high because it is dense computing power, which can be approximated as sparse computing power of x2=192tops, while NVIDIA OrinX chip is sparse 254tops, and the difference between the two is not much. Now many manufacturers provide intelligent driving at the level of OrinX. The purchase price of a single OrinX should be 2700 yuan, while Hillhouse's 192-line laser radar costs at least 3000 yuan. So in terms of intelligent driving costs, our product costs will be slightly higher."

"Basically, our AI team has calculated that the purchase price of our intelligent driving system should be 3 yuan, which is reflected in the price of the car between 4 and 6 yuan. I wonder if there is any problem with this cost structure?"

At the end of his speech, Andrew Ng took a sip of water and then looked at the Hillhouse Vehicle executives who were standing aside and Gao Huaijun who seemed to be thinking about something.

To be honest, he didn't know why Gao Huaijun was so obsessed with his own MDC510 computing chip.

Obviously, Nvidia OrinX chips can reach a high level of 254tops, and their prices are also cheap!

Just don’t use it!

After Andrew Ng finished speaking, all the senior executives of Hillhouse Capital who were present stood up and applauded Ng.

This product development capability, as well as ideas and concepts.

It really opened the eyes of these country bumpkins!
Impressed!

I’m really convinced!
Gao Huaijun nodded and looked at Wang Fengying beside him, "Boss Wang, please summarize!"

Wang Fengying said quickly, "Thank you Mr. Wu for such a wonderful speech! I don't have much to say here, just one sentence: Gaoling Tang project team of Gaoling Vehicle will cooperate with the work of Gaoling artificial intelligence team without any obstacles, starting from me."

Gao Huaijun smiled with satisfaction.

This cooperation is unprecedented between TIER 0 and Party A.

Moreover, the corresponding products are the implementation and execution of the most powerful driverless technology in the world.

Starting from this product, Hillhouse Vehicles will completely transform into an AI+ company, which will be a huge test for Hillhouse Vehicles.

Under such circumstances, Gao Huaijun naturally needed to directly open up the joints between the upper and lower parts.

"Hahaha! I feel at ease when Mr. Wang does the job." Gao Huaijun laughed heartily.

(End of this chapter)