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

Chapter 541 387-388: New moves! (4000 words)
On this day, Gao Huaijun stood in the president's office of the Hillhouse headquarters building, looking at the sunset outside the window, and seemed unable to make up his mind.

Hillhouse is gradually developing a global presence in China and the world, with more than ten R&D centers in China alone.

The core purpose is to recruit top students from major 211 and 985 universities in science and engineering to maintain fresh blood for the company's high innovation capabilities.

However, even so, Hillhouse still has an office building cluster of more than ten office buildings in Xicheng, located on the shore of Lihu Lake, forming a de facto Xicheng CBD!

Originally, this area was planned to be a comfortable high-end residential area. However, due to the strong entry of Hillhouse Capital's headquarters, Xicheng also took the opportunity to change the regulations of the surrounding land. At the same time, it also built a dozen 5A grade A office buildings to accommodate Hillhouse Capital. In addition to more than square meters of commercial facilities, the prosperity here is no less than a small area on Huaihai Road in Shanghai!
This is the strength of a world-class leading technology company.

Generally speaking, a company cannot influence the structure of a city.

You are forced to accept what the city has arranged for you.

So at a time like 2018, when the real estate industry was booming, many real estate companies rushed to Shanghai for financing.

For what?
Isn’t it because it’s easy to make connections and raise funds in Shanghai?

After all, Moscow is the financial center of China.

Many regional real estate companies, no matter where they started, will set up an East China headquarters, a Yangtze River Delta headquarters, or even a national headquarters as soon as they arrive in Shanghai, and their value and status will immediately change.

By around 2018, there were more than 30 real estate companies, large and small, within a half-hour drive from Shanghai’s Hongqiao area.

Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Sichuan, all types of real estate companies you can think of are pouring into this golden land.

Nicknamed: Real Estate Companies Street.

Due to frequent overtime work in the real estate circle, there are often "nightclubs (there are always meetings at night)", so the business on the third floor of the nearby bath center is extremely prosperous after twelve o'clock.

Near Hillhouse’s headquarters, there are more than ten buildings and tens of thousands of employees alone.

An ecosystem similar to that of Dahongqiao has naturally formed near Hillhouse’s headquarters.

And at this time.

When Gao Huaijun saw a small boat drifting on the surface of Li Lake, he took a deep breath, then called Feng Xiaochen and told him, "Ask Hillhouse Vehicle and Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence Department to come to the president's office. Let's have a meeting!"

"Got it, Mr. Gao!" A flash of surprise passed through Feng Xiaochen's mind, and then he answered crisply.

Now Gao Huaijun is increasingly taking the initiative to request meetings.

Basically, the people below are all in charge of their own affairs.

If you have a company with hundreds of thousands of employees but don't have a management system or a set of internal management methods, then you are basically just a makeshift team.

For example, a certain Dong in later generations was a mess, with a group of Yomiuri gathered together and all kinds of inefficiencies.

The top leaders are like a group of lizard people, completely unaware of the normal operating logic of human society.

Otherwise it would not be enough to explain why so many decisions full of errors and omissions were made, which makes people sigh: the world is a big makeshift team.

Hillhouse’s internal elimination system for all employees allocates indicators to each department.

When things went wrong, no one in the company would produce data based on the worse situation. They only dared to produce data based on various angles of winning, because in statistical journalism, as long as you are willing, you can always find various growths to support all the stable and positive data of the company.

The data workers directly rule the company and create false data to confuse decision makers, which Gao Huaijun will not allow!

Now is the time for self-layoffs, and each department is seizing the time to eliminate employees who cannot keep up with the pace due to inability or other reasons.

no way.

Self-commitment changed the entire ecology of Hillhouse.

Unless the situation gets worse, you naturally shouldn't spend money lavishly.

Hillhouse's salaries are very competitive in the entire market.

This also means that the cost is extremely high!
If it is not possible to maximize a person's efficiency, there will inevitably be a large group of people like Mr. JD who just live a lazy life.

The number of female employees at Hillhouse is now slowly declining.

Compared to this time a year ago, it has dropped by about 10%!

In this regard, someone from the government also came to Hillhouse, hoping that Hillhouse could give an explanation.

But is Hillhouse Capital something that you local departments can point fingers at?

Do you think you are qualified to give guidance to Hillhouse?

Ning Yuan simply tried to smooth things over and sent him away.

When the senior executives of Hillhouse Automotive and Hillhouse AI arrived, Gao Huaijun got straight to the point and said, "Dear colleagues, I called you here today to discuss the future strategic planning of Hillhouse Automotive!"

Gao Huaijun looked around at the executives around him.

There was excitement on their faces.

Hillhouse Technology is in big trouble now, so it is natural that it will have to rely on Hillhouse vehicles to generate profits in the future.

However, during this period, Gao Huaijun has been making frequent investments in Hillhouse Technology and has also established a new track, Hillhouse Robotics.

They are also very anxious now.

But there's no point in worrying!

Hillhouse Technology must and will stop the bleeding.

Otherwise, Hillhouse Vehicles, a heavy industry company, will definitely not be able to survive.

Hillhouse Technology's annual profit margin of more than 20% is not something that Hillhouse Vehicle can directly match.

but.

What kind of product does Gao Huaijun want them to make?

Now Hillhouse’s product line covers everything from A0-class hatchbacks to top-level SUVs and off-road vehicles.

Basically, from sedans to SUVs, we have everything you want, and each one is top-notch in China!

In China, it is a miracle for an electronic technology company to achieve this.

Now Hillhouse Automotive has completely revolutionized the Chinese automobile market from top to bottom.

However, precisely because Hillhouse's products are so diverse and diversified, how to better improve them has become a big problem.

Currently, the people at Hillhouse Capital are unable to produce disruptive products and can only iterate slowly.

There is no way. In the history of the automobile world, over the past 100 years, its development has actually been very slow.

It can be said that before the emergence of smart cars, the gap between cars in 2010 and cars in 1940 was actually not that big.

It is still the traditional three major parts of a car, with a cover on top of four wheels.

It was only after Hillhouse Capital came into being that the electronic technology was introduced into the automotive industry, and a series of products were developed. "I hope..."

“Starting the city experiment business of driverless taxis!”

Gao Huaijun did not play it safe and said it directly.

What?

Urban experimental business of driverless taxis!

The executives present at the scene showed expressions of horror on their faces!
Although they knew that Gao Huaijun asked them to come here to come up with some new ideas.

but. . .

This is such a fresh idea!

What is the concept of urban experimental business of driverless taxis?

This is completely different from the high-end unmanned driving that Hillhouse aspires to achieve.

Hillhouse Yangwang is a standard L3 level autonomous driving system, but it is used as L2.999 level.

In the driving seat that Hillhouse looks up to, there will be a driver.

This also effectively avoids the occurrence of some extreme situations.

It also allows Hillhouse to reap the benefits of L3 autonomous driving, a top black technology, without worrying about any legal risks.

Now, Gao Huaijun is preparing to directly engage in urban experimental business of L4 or even L5 level driverless taxis.

Is Hillhouse ready?
Is Hillhouse ready for artificial intelligence?
Having said that, all of them didn't dare to speak, and looked at Hillhouse's head of artificial intelligence, Andrew Ng, who was standing nearby!
Andrew Ng touched his nose and gave a helpless smile.

He actually knew Gao Huaijun's intentions and purposes very clearly.

Hillhouse is in danger now and has been laid off by Xida, so it is necessary to increase the bargaining chips for the company.

In fact, for a company like Hillhouse, Gao Huaijun is not the only one facing trouble now.

Gao Huaijun needs to transfer the pressure upwards and transfer the cold air to upwards!
For some actions, personal planning by the superiors is much more effective and efficient than Gao Huaijun's efforts to seek change!

On the Hillhouse Technology side, Gao Huaijun, as the corporate planner and chess player, has already taken the initiative, with the goal of producing cutting-edge chips!
However, this is not enough!

Because it will take more than a few months to develop advanced chips.

This time is definitely measured in years!

During this long waiting period, Gao Huaijun naturally hopes to increase his chips in other places.

Therefore, his second-hand layout is the embodied robot of Hillhouse Capital BU, as well as the research and development and improvement of the multimodal unified model with the embodied robot as the core.

As the head of Hillhouse's artificial intelligence, he is well aware of this major plan.

Many people now think that Hillhouse is just playing tricks, but it knows clearly that this is a product that can change the times and it is the core vehicle for changing lives in the future!
It is a groundbreaking terminal product at the automotive and mobile phone level!

Originally, he thought that Gao Huaijun's plan had ended here.

After all, owning either of these two magical tools, high-end chips and high-end embodied robots, will give one a leading position in China's technology industry and will make one a leader in China's cutting-edge technology!
For a young man in his thirties to have planned everything to this point is already a miracle!

However, who would have thought that Gao Huaijun would take another risky move. He wanted to go one step further in the development of driverless cars!
Originally, it would take at least five years for L3 to evolve to L4 or even L5.

These are not technical issues; more importantly, they are legal and moral tests.

If your driverless car gets into a few traffic accidents, your business and this product will be ruined!

Andrew Ng himself disagrees with Gao Huaijun's risky move.

Hillhouse Ask the World has been running for less than a year, and the big data stored in the servers placed in the deep mountains and forests of Guizhou by Hillhouse's Artificial Intelligence BU has not yet been fully processed. The large-scale model processing of some complex extreme accidents has not yet completed the processing of all extreme situations.

This kind of thing needs to wait, that is, we need to wait for the transportation tracks of a large number of delivery vehicles to be developed, and then we can carry out the urban experimental business of driverless taxis, and it will be a sure thing!

But he also knew that the time would never be ripe!
Hillhouse Capital is one step ahead in autonomous driving, but that doesn’t mean other competitors will turn a blind eye and let you take small steps at your leisure.

They will definitely invest resources to overtake others!
Therefore, Gao Huaijun, who is ahead in this step, must want to stay ahead step by step.

Now even if it's a risk, he feels it's worth it.

The right time, right place and right people forced him to do this.

What's more, according to the data from the past six months, Hillhouse Capital has no major problems!

More importantly, the market size of online ride-hailing and taxis is exactly the imagination space for driverless cars.

Hillhouse Capital has internally estimated that the biggest advantage of driverless cars compared to online ride-hailing services and taxis is the savings in labor costs.

A driverless taxi only needs to be equipped with one remote safety officer to monitor and operate multiple vehicles.

If you are an ordinary driver and you earn 6000 yuan a month, you will complain that you are not making any money.

But if a self-driving car can earn 2000 yuan a month, the profit is very lucrative.

If we add the incremental growth of driverless trucks, the value of driverless cars can be said to be unbeatable!

It’s a sure thing that we can create another trillion-level increase!

"Let me tell you, adaptability to special scenarios is still the core difficulty of our L4 level autonomous driving system."

"Although driverless technology performs well on open roads, its navigation and positioning capabilities may be limited in complex or poor signal environments such as residential areas and basements. For example, the GPS signal in an underground garage is weak, which may result in the inability to accurately locate the vehicle. To solve this problem, we also need to continuously optimize the algorithm, improve the processing of related large models and enhance the vehicle's ability to adapt to complex environments. At the same time, we also need to explore ways to cooperate with property management to establish dedicated channels or guidance mechanisms, etc."

“For example, by adding more sensors and improving map data to improve the vehicle’s perception and navigation capabilities in complex environments.”

Andrew Ng spoke.

"The key is to improve the scanning accuracy of LiDAR, focusing on image-free intelligent driving."

"Although the cost of intelligent driving with pictures is much lower, this is not our development direction."

“The only way to solve this problem once and for all is to reduce the cost of LiDAR!”

"It's even OK for us not to make money from LiDAR. We at Hillhouse don't lack that much money."

Gao Huaijun listened to what Andrew Ng said and added randomly.

Mapless intelligent driving is a detour taken in the last era and is highly uncontrollable.

The most important thing is to use GPS signal.

This thing was not launched by Hillhouse, so it is completely out of our control.

Therefore, Gao Huaijun decided that he must go all the way to the end!

(End of this chapter)