The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 435 Baidu CEO Li’s Plan
Facing Mr. Lei's question, Luo Ming pondered for a long time and said, "Mr. Lei, I think we are businessmen. We only need to be responsible to consumers. We just need to protect the interests of consumers to the greatest extent possible. Ethics and the like have nothing to do with us."

“Who should be held responsible? The programmers who wrote the self-driving technology?”

"Mr. Lei, you are joking. What does it have to do with programmers just typing code?"

After hearing this, Mr. Lei understood. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Luo to give such an answer."

“Is there anything wrong with this answer? We are not the makers of industry rules, let alone philosophers. We cannot influence the formulation of product safety standards by the higher-ups, nor can we influence the discussion of this issue by all sectors of society.

We just need to do our best and protect our users, that's enough, as for the rest, let those who need to worry about it worry about it."

Mr. Lei laughed. Luo Ming's solution was really simple and crude. He just passed the blame to others without thinking twice. It was not the car manufacturer's problem, nor the programmer's problem. Then it was obvious whose problem it was.

To be honest, Mr. Lei, who has been in the business world for many years, has also thought of these things. Mr. Lei did not go to Luo Ming to hear this from him. He really wanted to get an answer from Luo Ming that was not so commercial.

Because this issue not only involves DaMi's subsequent car manufacturing, but also involves the smart home field that DaMi plans to invest in before manufacturing cars.

What makes smart homes smart? AI!
The problems mentioned above regarding AI will still exist.

If Luo Ming could come up with a less commercial solution, and if this solution could satisfy Mr. Lei, Mr. Lei would really like to try it as Luo Ming said.

As a result, the answer given by Luo Ming now was no different from what he had figured out himself.

In that case, there was no need to ask any more questions. Mr. Lei changed the subject and said, "Mr. Luo, I heard that your company is planning to develop 3A games?"

"That's the idea."

"Why do you suddenly want to make a 3A game?" Mr. Lei asked with interest.

"Keep away from the sharp edge!"

"Avoid the sharp edge? The Blazing Light Game is now gaining momentum, who else do we need to avoid?"

"The penguin will have big moves this year and next year." Luo Ming brought out the penguin again.

You can't really tell Mr. Lei about your company's business intentions, right?
President Lei was stunned when he heard this, then he smiled: "It seems that President Luo has a close relationship with Penguin! He can even get this kind of news."

"Our two companies have always been partners!"

"Is this also the reason why President Luo asked Penguin to invest in Kuaishu?"

"Hey! Mr. Lei, you misunderstood. Penguin's investment has nothing to do with me. It was decided by Rongmu. You also know that Rongmu makes many decisions about the company's operations. I focus most of my energy on technology."

After listening to Luo Ming's words, Mr. Lei did not comment. After not seeing him for a while, he found that Luo Ming now spoke more smoothly, completely different from the last time they met.

Now that Luo Ming said he would focus on technology, Mr. Lei was somewhat skeptical.

But then again, there is no conflict of interest between Dami and Zhuoguang Technology. He was just asking casually, and the information he asked about was semi-public, which anyone with some information channels would know.

Luo Ming naturally knew this, so Luo Minglei was not on guard at all. When he encountered questions he didn't want to answer, he would find excuses to skip them.

The two of them had a pretty enjoyable chat.

"It's getting late. Mr. Luo, I think it's my turn to be interviewed. I'll go over first." Mr. Lei said after looking at his watch.

"Okay, Mr. Lei, take care."

After watching Mr. Lei leave, Luo Ming looked down at the time and found that it was already past 11 o'clock.

At this time, Lin Shuwen had already returned.

"How do you feel?" Luo Ming asked Lin Shuwen.

“Generally, I find that the larger Internet companies seem to look down on me.

Of course, they didn't show this emotion directly on their faces; at least they looked polite, but their disdain could be felt in their words.

Smaller Internet companies are trying to curry favor with me, hoping that I can put in a good word for them in front of you and Rong Mu so that we can work together."

Luo Ming smiled and said, "Those large Internet companies probably think that you are just lucky to become a major shareholder of Zhuoguang Technology, so they invested in Zhuoguang Technology when it needed it the most."

"That should be the case! This feeling is really unpleasant!" Lin Shuwen said with a pout.

Anyone who is looked down upon would feel uncomfortable. Luo Ming whispered a few words to comfort Lin Shuwen.

At this time Rong Mu also came back.

"Luo Ming, the organizer asked us to go out for dinner together later." Rong Mu would not call Luo Ming by his nickname in such occasions.

"I see."

At noon, Luo Ming and the other two were invited to a large private room, which was filled with people from large Internet companies sitting in the first two rows. The other people in the room were obviously familiar with each other, chatting in groups of two or three.

As Zhuoguang Technology is a new first-tier Internet company, Luo Ming does not know most people here.

Rong Mu did not feel unfamiliar and took the initiative to start chatting with these bigwigs in the Internet industry.

"You are Mr. Luo Ming, right?" A man's voice sounded behind Luo Ming.

Upon hearing this, Luo Ming quickly turned around and found that the person greeting him was Mr. Li from Baidu.

"It's me, hello, Mr. Li."

Mr. Li nodded and said with a smile: "Mr. Luo, we are actually from the same hometown!"

"Mr. Li is also from Shanxi?" Luo Ming said with a surprised expression.

Rong Mu told him that topics like this that can bring both parties closer should be prolonged as much as possible, and it was appropriate to act stupid at this time.

“Yes, I’m from Yangquan.”

"That's such a coincidence."

The relationship between fellow villagers is neither distant nor close, but it is perfect for two strangers to start a topic.

Mr. Li and Luo Ming started the conversation by talking about their hometown, and soon they returned to the Internet industry.

"Mr. Luo, I heard that your company's big data algorithm is very mature. Our company is currently working on AI business, and there may be opportunities for cooperation between the two sides."

As soon as Luo Ming heard it, he knew that Mr. Li was talking about Baidu's AI voice assistant Xiaodu.

In a sense, Baidu is now standing at a crossroads in history. If it takes a wrong step, it will be hard to say whether it can maintain its position as one of the top three giants, let alone maintain its basic base.

Baidu has already been on the decline in the food delivery market due to a wrong decision. The traffic of Baidu Tieba has been slowly surpassed by Weibo. Even Baidu's most core business, the search engine, is threatened.

As the head of Baidu, Mr. Li certainly knows the troubles Baidu is facing now. In the field of mobile Internet, Baidu no longer has any products that can dominate an era.

Faced with this situation, Baidu has actually been innovating during this period, and AI voice assistant is one of its main research directions.

If AI technology wants to advance, it must rely on the support of big data algorithms.

Baidu's big data algorithm is relatively backward. Not to mention that Baidu has previously promoted some of its own apps with all its strength, but the effect is not good, and it seems that only a small number of novice users are guided to download them.

After several meetings, Baidu's senior management attributed the failure of the promotion mainly to the poor big data algorithms they mastered.

Therefore, Baidu's senior management has always wanted to purchase their big data algorithms from Zhuoguang. They think that with the push of big data algorithms, Tieba will be able to surpass Weibo again, and food delivery may even be able to revive.

The information flow below the Baidu APP search box can also increase daily active users and surpass other similar mobile search apps more quickly.

It is already March 2015, and not only major universities, but many companies have begun to do the most basic big data distribution.

It is no longer a secret how Zhuoguang’s connotation-filled jokes are accurately pushed to users.

In fact, it stands to reason that as long as they recruit some talents in this area and give Baidu some time, they will be able to master similar technologies.

However, what the Internet industry lacks most is time. The research on big data algorithms outside is progressing, and Zhuoguang is also progressing.

Moreover, big data algorithms are different from general technologies. The more traffic they are exposed to, the more accurate they are. Zhuoguang started much faster than other companies, so it must have a lot of relevant data on hand.

More importantly, Zhuoguang also established his own data processing center in Shanxi, and is said to have spent a huge amount of money to purchase servers and supercomputers.

Just think about it and you will know that Zhuoguang’s servers and supercomputers are definitely for big data algorithms and cloud computing services to better apply big data.

So Baidu thought that instead of purchasing those immature big data algorithms on the market, it would be better to come directly to Zhuoguang. It just so happened that Zhuoguang invited Zhuoguang Technology to participate in this Internet conference.

Baidu's senior management felt that this could be used as an opportunity to allow Mr. Li to have a direct conversation with the president of Zhuoguang Technology.

We reached a cooperation with Zhuoguang so that we could purchase some market-leading big data algorithm technologies from them.

The bosses of the two companies negotiated directly. Without discussing the details, at least they could quickly determine the direction of strategic cooperation.
Later on, the negotiation team can also sort out the details based on the results of the talks between the bosses of both sides, which will be much faster.

Luo Ming didn't know that Mr. Li wanted to directly purchase the technology related to big data algorithms. He thought that Mr. Li wanted to use the big data algorithm of Zhuoguang Technology to update and iterate their company's Xiaodu.

Luo Ming is still very interested in Baidu's AI technology. Baidu has always been in a leading position in China's AI technology in listening, reading and writing.

The senior sister Lin Shuwen that Luo Ming had kept behind was also to reserve the company's AI technology.

If he could reach a cooperation with Baidu and obtain their relevant technical reserves in AI, Luo Ming would definitely be very willing.

(End of this chapter)