The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 436 Cooperation and Box Office

"Mr. Li, excuse me for asking, do you need our big data algorithm to update your own AI?" Luo Ming asked tentatively.

Mr. Li smiled and said, "Yes, but not entirely. Our company wants to acquire some of your big data algorithm-related technologies."

After hearing what Mr. Li said, Luo Ming was a little surprised. To be honest, he didn't expect that Mr. Li actually wanted to directly purchase the big data algorithm of Zhuoguang Technology.

"Well, Mr. Li, our company has no intention of selling its big data algorithm-related technologies."

"Mr. Luo, please don't rush to refuse. As far as I know, your company's big data algorithm has been updated to the fourth generation. Our company does not need your company's latest big data algorithm. The third generation technology is enough."

As far as Mr. Li knows, Zhuoguang Technology's third-generation big data algorithm technology was still in use a few months ago.

According to the information obtained by Mr. Li, the best big data algorithms used by major companies are basically equivalent to Zhuoguang's second-generation big data algorithms. Zhuoguang is now using the fourth-generation algorithm. If Zhuoguang can obtain Zhuoguang Technology's third-generation big data algorithm, it will be able to crush the big data algorithms of major companies.

With this technology, Baidu is able to cope with most of the competition it currently faces from its peers.

But what Mr. Li didn't know was that Zhuoguang's big data algorithm has not been updated to the fourth generation so far, but the fifth generation. However, the fifth generation technology is a technology reserve and will definitely not be used directly. It will not be used until the sixth generation technology is successfully developed, and then the fifth generation will be used.

Mr. Li wants the third-generation big data algorithm, which will indeed have little impact on Zhuoguang Technology.

But Luo Ming always felt uncomfortable selling the technology directly.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, our company is very interested in AI technology. Your company has always been in the leading position in this area. Let's not talk about technology acquisition, let's just exchange technology!"

Mr. Li thought about it and felt that it was not a bad idea to exchange AI for big data algorithms. He nodded and said, "Alright! We can have long-term exchanges and learning on these two technologies, and we can all make progress together."

"Then it's settled."

After Luo Ming chatted with General Manager Li for a while, they officially took their seats. During this time, many bosses came over to greet Luo Ming and his friends and exchanged contact information.

The Internet conference lasted for two days. Luo Ming chatted with many bigwigs in the industry. Many of these seniors were interested in the big data algorithms of Zhuoguang Technology, but Luo Ming just laughed it off.

"It's finally over!" After the closing ceremony, Lin Shuwen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I don't want to participate in this kind of activity anymore."

"Me too!" said Luo Ming, who also felt physically and mentally exhausted.

Rong Mu didn't say anything. He had completely different feelings from Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen. He felt that he had gained a lot from this Internet conference.

The three of them returned to the company from Wuzhen. It was already March 3th, and "Charlotte's Troubles" would be released tomorrow.

It is worth mentioning that the superiors did ask "Charlotte's Troubles" whether to extend the key.

But Chen Junmiao refused, mainly because Penguin Video offered too much. They spent 1 million to buy the exclusive broadcasting rights of "Charlotte's Troubles" and also gave a 50% share of the broadcast revenue.

Chen Junmiao estimated that even if the key was extended for one month, he would only make an extra 1 million yuan, so it would be better to just sell it to Penguin Video.

In the end, the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" reached 15 billion, much higher than what Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen had expected.

The reason why the box office saw such a big increase in the second half of the month was because the song "Yi Jian Mei" inexplicably became popular abroad.

The story began two weeks ago. Polaris' major shareholder Helen Kaitis is Finnish.

When she returned to her hometown last week, her brother came to the airport to pick her up. After getting in the car at the airport, Helen Katis was chatting with her brother about family matters. But when the song in the car automatically started playing the next song, Helen Katis was startled and almost jumped up.

"Oh my god, this is not "Yi Jian Mei"!" Helen Katis couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Helen, do you know this song too?" Helen Katis's brother asked with a smile.

Helen Katis nodded subconsciously, then she looked at her brother with a puzzled look.

That’s right! This is his brother! His brother rarely listens to music, let alone Chinese songs.

But Helen Katis saw that her brother was very calm, and thought that she was overthinking it. It was a song! It was normal for some listeners from other countries. Helen Katis was the kind of person who would listen to anything as long as the melody was good, regardless of whether she could understand it or not.

However, as the lyrics began to be sung, Helen Katis felt something was wrong, because she found that her brother looked particularly sad, and the song seemed to have touched his depression.

Now Helen Katis couldn't hold it anymore. Wasn't this song supposed to be a funny interlude?

At least when she was watching "Charlotte's Troubles", she couldn't help laughing every time this song sounded.

Helen Katis hesitated for a moment and did not ask her brother directly. Instead, she listened to the song, imagined the classic scenes in the movie, and watched her brother's sad face. When the song reached its climax, Helen Katis almost said, "Yuan Hua, don't call me anymore. I'm afraid Charlotte will misunderstand."

But her brother's brows furrowed even more tightly.

Helen Katis felt something was wrong, so she took out her cell phone and logged onto YouTube to see what the song was about.

You won’t know until you see it. It’s really shocking. On the trending list of YouTube Finland, “A Cut Plum” is ranked second? Helen Katis was completely stunned.

What surprised Helen Katis even more was that "Yi Jian Mei" was in the top five of the trend charts not only in Finland but also in several neighboring countries.

Helen Katis had never heard of any Chinese song that could top the charts in many Nordic countries in such a strong manner.

"Could it be that Zhuoguang Entertainment wants to expand overseas markets, so it spends money to get on the charts?" Helen Katis thought to herself.

So Helen Katis sent a message to her secretary, asking her to check whether Zhuoguang Technology had given "Yi Jian Mei" a ranking.

The secretary responded very quickly, and of course the answer was no.

With zero publicity, zero promotion, and zero chart ranking, it’s a purely Chinese song, but it managed to make it to the top three in many countries!
Helen Katis felt that her brain was not enough.

It was only then that Helen Katis realized that the fact that she heard this song in her brother's car was not a low-probability event, but because this song was really popular in Finland.

All this seemed incredible to Helen Katis.

Helen Katis's intuition told her that she must find out the cause and effect! Find out why this song became so popular overseas, maybe there will be some business opportunities!

Helen Katis felt quite tired after getting off the plane, but now she instantly became energetic.

After returning home, Helen Katis called her secretary and worked with her to investigate for several hours, finally figuring out the reasons and consequences of the popularity of "Yi Jian Mei".

It turned out that it was a funny-looking internet celebrity from Northern Europe who was standing in the snow and sang in broken Chinese: "Snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is howling." The guy was even singing out of tune.

But it was his look, coupled with the weird change of tone, that made the song instantly become even funnier and more brainwashing.

At first, netizens naturally had no idea what he was humming, they just thought it was stupid.

Then, many people became curious about this song, so they searched for it and found this song "Yi Jian Mei".

After understanding the meaning of the lyrics through translation, we were all amazed!

This is actually normal. When translated into Chinese, it sounds like poetry to many foreigners, let alone the lyrics of a song.

In addition, foreigners who don’t understand Chinese don’t actually understand the artistic conception of the song. So, they think they understand it, but in fact they don’t understand it completely. They just think that the melody and lyrics of the song combined sound very sad.

This is why Helen Katis's brother looked so worried just now.

As for why this song was first popular in Northern Europe, the reason is actually very simple, because it snows all the time here, which instantly increases the sense of immersion.

In addition, the decadent culture in Northern Europe is quite popular, so it naturally became popular.

But this song actually has nothing to do with depression.

Helen Katis was speechless after learning the truth.

She searched for "Yi Jian Mei" on YouTube and suddenly many videos popped up. The people in the videos were wearing masks of pain, extremely depressed, and singing: "Snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is howling."

Helen Katis smiled, because when she heard this song in China, she would only think of Yuan Hualai.

After watching several videos on YouTube, Helen Katis slammed the table and decided not to remake "Charlotte's Troubles" directly. She wanted to try introducing "Charlotte's Troubles" first. Just for the popular song "Yi Jian Mei", Helen Katis thought it was worth a try.

If the response is average, there's still time to invest in a remake. If the response is good, you can make a small profit.

Thinking of this, Helen Katis gave her secretary a day to prepare the relevant plan. One day later, she and Luo Mingti would introduce "Charlotte's Troubles" and buy the relevant copyrights of "Yi Jian Mei" by the way.

When Luo Ming learned that Helen Katis was going to introduce "Charlotte's Troubles", he naturally would not refuse, and the relevant copyrights of "Yi Jian Mei" were also sold to the other party.

As a result, Helen Katis gave Luo Ming a surprise. As of the day when "Charlotte's Troubles" was taken off the screen in China, "Charlotte's Troubles" had been released overseas for a total of 7 days, and the box office reached more than 2000 million US dollars, which is almost 1.5 million Chinese yuan. The original box office of 13.5 billion yuan has become 15 billion yuan.

(End of this chapter)