Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 404: Repeated Experiments and Consortium Model

On this day, most places in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park were no different from usual, but the more than ten-story "Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute" building was a little different from usual.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, some staff members in the building suddenly discovered that the external network connection was unavailable, and they couldn't even make phone calls. Only a few confidential contact methods in the company's internal communication software were still available.

Then when some employees wanted to go out, they found that there were security personnel guarding the doors of each project group, and allowing all personnel to enter and exit.

When asked what happened, the security guards said they didn't know.

In fact, let alone these ordinary security personnel, even the security supervisor who was responsible for leading the team to block the building did not know what had happened.

He was just following orders and implementing the highest level of leak prevention measures.

Only Yu Tai and the seven people in the project team and Zhao Chenggong, the director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials who arrived later, knew what exactly happened.

So, now everyone else in the building is confused, but everyone here is a scientific researcher, and most of them have a certain understanding.

As soon as you look at the situation, you can basically guess either who leaked the information or some crisis has occurred.

However, judging from the expressions of these security personnel and the movements nearby, it doesn't seem like there is any danger caused by any experiment, so it is most likely related to a leak.

Many people speculated whether there was a spy or information was leaked.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. The security department of Zhiyun Group will report some leaks at regular intervals and show them to the personnel of various R&D departments and business departments with confidentiality requirements, repeatedly emphasizing the confidentiality system.

After all, as the world's largest high-tech group, Zhiyun Group is the target of various commercial spies.

For example, information such as the development progress, appearance, and new technologies used in the new S series mobile phones are all very valuable. The information collection departments of peer companies such as Fruit and Sixin are happy to spend a high price to acquire this information, and then make some R&D and marketing adjustments based on this information.

However, when it comes to some underlying technology fields, such as semiconductor manufacturing technology, chip design technology, especially server GPU, airborne computing chip technology, and more importantly, artificial intelligence technology, etc., these are all very critical technologies that a large number of high-tech companies outside dream of obtaining.

Especially the underlying artificial intelligence technology. In the black market channels outside, some people often offer high rewards for Zhiyun Group's underlying artificial intelligence algorithms, and the asking prices are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

It’s just that those commercial spies have no access to Zhiyun Group’s core artificial intelligence algorithms.

Because Zhiyun Group has a very high level of confidentiality for its artificial intelligence technology, the confidentiality level of its core R&D department, the 'Zhiyun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute', is the highest level. The separate building is empty outside, and there are people patrolling the perimeter 7 hours a day. At the same time, the network in the building is directly isolated and not connected to the outside network at all.

All personnel who can enter the building to work need to undergo a strict double review... Zhiyun Group's security department will review it first, and then the relevant agencies will review it again to ensure that there are no problems before they can enter the building to work.

Other confidentiality measures are also in place.

For example, the few dozen top experts who are involved in the core algorithm projects are accompanied and protected by security personnel 7 hours a day, 24 days a week, and live directly next to the group headquarters in a villa area built by the group. In fact, they do not leave the group headquarters on weekdays.

In recent years, Zhiyun Group has purchased a piece of land nearby to build a residential community for senior management and core engineers. It mainly consists of some high-end residences such as townhouses and single-family villas, all of which are provided free of charge to senior management and core scientists working at the group headquarters.

Professor Lin Anton, who personally designed the underlying core algorithm of artificial intelligence, will take a bulletproof car when he wants to go to the supermarket for a stroll. After he gets off the car, there will be at least a dozen security personnel accompanying him. The security personnel will carry guns and bulletproof briefcases.

Their security level is not comparable to that of super-rich people, senior officials, celebrities and the like... The security personnel of the latter are just ordinary paid bodyguards, whose role is to show off and prevent ordinary people from getting close and causing trouble.

Professor Lin Andong's security personnel's task is to prevent enemy personnel from assassinating Professor Lin Andong.

The nature is different!
Fortunately, both Lin Anton and several other core scientists in Zhiyun Group know that what they are researching will arouse jealousy and hatred outside and pose a great risk to their lives, so they usually do not go out, and if they occasionally go out, they will follow the advice of the security department.

Protecting talents and information is an important task for Zhiyun Group’s security department, and it is a very arduous task.

It’s actually okay in China, but if it’s abroad, Zhiyun Group’s security department will often encounter various emergencies.

A few years ago, when Gu Zhiming, the group's senior vice president in charge of supply chain business, encountered a crisis in Europe, it was the group's security department that forced its way through and escorted Gu Zhiming to the airport amid a hail of bullets from a group of European and American consortium thugs, and then the plane took off and left.

Outsiders generally don't know about this kind of thing, but it has actually happened quite a few times.

Yang Pinglin was previously involved in a sex scandal in Europe and was forced to transfer back to the headquarters. Later, he was sent to work in South America by Xu Shenxue. As the president of Zhiyun Group's South American region, Yang Pinglin's work in South America seems to be going smoothly in the past year, and there has been little news coverage from the outside world.

But in fact, his security team has already blocked five frame-ups for him, including an assassination attempt disguised as a car accident.

It is actually very risky for Zhiyun Group's senior management to work overseas, especially in the fiercely competitive South America and Europe... If the security team relaxes a little, you may see news in mainstream media around the world about the company's senior management at the level of group vice president or executive president being prosecuted by judicial institutions in various countries.

Sex scandals, tax evasion, violence, and all that kind of shit.

What's worse, you never know when you might run into a car accident, a fire in your hotel or home, or any other kind of accident.

You asked why the security department of Zhiyun Group knew all this so well, because the security department of Zhiyun Group also used this method to deal with the core members of the competing consortium...

In this kind of situation, you do it on the first day and I do it on the fifteenth day... There is nothing to complain or blame, because in this competitive world, there is only winning and losing, not good or bad.

In fact, the competition between enterprises is not that fierce and is basically limited to the conventional legal scope.

But Zhiyun Group is not an ordinary enterprise. Many people abroad believe that Zhiyun Group is a consortium in disguise.

They believe that Zhiyun Group and other companies under Xu Shenxue's name have business scope covering electronic information industry, semiconductor industry, automobile industry, Internet and software industry, banking, insurance, chemical industry, mining, energy, machinery, construction and real estate, aerospace and aviation, satellite services and space station services, satellite Internet business and many other fields.

Zhiyun Group has three banks under its umbrella, one in China, one in ASEAN, and one in Europe.

Four Stars... I'm not just talking about Four Star Electronics, but the entire Four Star Group. Compared with the many companies under Xu Shenxue with Zhiyun Group as the core, they can only look up to it! Such a company, you tell me it's not a consortium?

What is the consortium?
However, in order to avoid suspicion, Xu Shenxue cooperated with funds or companies through official channels... He only needed controlling rights to ensure the operating rights of the company and the quota for scientific research system, and he didn't care much about other aspects.

He has too much money, and to a person like him, money is really just a series of numbers!
This is also the reason why Xu Shenxue introduced a large number of funds from official channels when he previously re-listed Zhiyun Group on the Hong Kong stock market and is now planning the subsequent listing of Weiku Electronics and Hailan Automobile... Anyway, strategic investment must be introduced, and it doesn't matter who gets the benefit. It is better to give it to official funds and realize the goal of taking from the people and using it for the people.

To this day, in fact, in many of the companies under Xu Shenxue, Xu Shenxue himself is the largest shareholder, and the second largest shareholders are basically investment institutions or companies with official backgrounds!
Over the years, the national team's investment institutions have also received generous returns from the development of various companies under Xu Shenxue's name.

As for other capitalists at home and abroad who want to share the profits...get out of the way, Xu Shenxue is too lazy to pay attention to them.

This can be seen in the recruitment of strategic investors for Weiku Electronics' IPO... Among the more than ten strategic investors recruited, except for the binding investments of a few cooperative enterprises, the rest are all funds from special institutions, and there is no private capital at all.

Anyway, this kind of pre-IPO strategic investment is just giving money away. Instead of giving it to others, it is better to give it directly to the national treasury!

Therefore, although Xu Shenxue does not have a good reputation abroad, many people slander him as a crazy scientist who will destroy humanity sooner or later, or engage in forced labor, or the descendant of capitalists, etc. Although there are many people who like Xu Shenxue overseas, there are also many people who hate him or even fear him.

However, Xu Shenxue still has a very good reputation in China.

Xu Shenxue, who has a good reputation, has not unified all the companies under his control and integrated them into a group company... This is too scary. Not to mention outsiders, sometimes Xu Shenxue himself is a little scared when he looks at so many companies under his control.

It’s not that he is worried about anything bad happening to him. Anyway, he has no intention of dying on Earth... He is actually worried that these companies centered around the expanded Zhiyun Group will become too big to be controlled, and thus shake the foundation of the country.

It is said that South Korea has four stars... Now the companies under his control are not much different from the four stars in South Korea. Considering the nature of the industry and the future, the influence is even greater.

This is also the reason why he has been selling shares of some subsidiaries to special funds in recent years and indirectly giving money to the national treasury. In fact, he also hopes to control the asset scale of the companies under his control.

It’s just that… the businesses under his control expanded too quickly, with companies popping up one after another and new businesses succeeding one after another!
Now the speed at which he sends money to the national treasury cannot keep up with the speed at which he makes money!

But it doesn't matter. He is already preparing to push his subsidiaries to be listed in the country one after another and speed up the process of sending money to the national treasury.

At the same time, we are also preparing to promote Zhiyun Group to issue part of its shares in the A-shares market in the Mainland and implement a parallel model of Hong Kong and A-shares.

The money earned by these companies under Xu Shenxue should return to the hands of domestic people... Only in this way can a positive economic cycle be achieved.

So, in fact, Xu Shenxue can use the consortium model to participate in international competition, but he cannot take all the money earned by using the consortium model. He must at least take out a large part of it...

Because, that is the hard-earned money of 1.4 billion people!

Xu Shenxue saw this very clearly and did the same.

Of course, in order to avoid superficial troubles, Xu Shenxue still dispersed his companies, making them seem to be scattered all over the place.

Because some companies are non-listed companies and have cross-holdings through offshore companies, ordinary people don’t even know that these companies are Xu Shenxue’s companies.

However, although this seems scattered, in fact, the many subsidiaries and businesses of the three major systems of Xiannvshan Holdings, Liuhe Holdings, and Zhiyun Group can still be connected in series, and then form a unified direction of progress under the leadership of Xu Shenxue.

So if you say that the series of Xu's enterprises with Zhiyun Group as the core are not a consortium, the heads of the consortium families in Europe, America, India, Japan, South Korea and other countries will laugh their heads off...

And the competition between the consortiums... it's bloody!
It is far more brutal than the commercial competition between ordinary enterprises, and each company does not care too much about whether it is legal or not when doing things.

In other words, the law is just a tool used by the consortium.

The different nature and more special circumstances lead to the fact that the security department of Zhiyun Group is very different from the security department of ordinary enterprises.

This difference is mainly reflected in professionalism... Zhiyun Group's security department generally does not recruit from the society, but directly recruits retired personnel or professionals from law enforcement agencies and secret agencies.

This is similar to the internal investigation and anti-corruption agency of Zhiyun Group, which does not recruit from the public but only recruits senior investigators from specific law enforcement agencies.

Zhiyun Group likes to find senior investigators in the law enforcement system to conduct various internal investigations... These recruited personnel have very high salaries, hundreds of thousands of annual salaries are common, and there are also many with annual salaries of millions.

They are professionals in investigating such matters.

The same is true for the security department. After all, the security department of an ordinary company is just responsible for guarding the gate, maintaining order, driving a car for the boss, etc.

However, the security department of Zhiyun Group does very professional things such as protecting VIPs, protecting information, collecting information, and countering opponents, and its business scope covers the world.

Of course, the overall intensity of the business carried out by Zhiyun Group's own security department is relatively light. If it is a medium to high intensity task, such as armed escort, throwing rockets at others, and shooting at the opponent's armed personnel with machine guns, these are generally within the business scope of Galaxy Security.

Although the mission of Zhiyun Security Department is of relatively low intensity, its professionalism is not low at all. Protecting information from being leaked is not an easy job.

Especially for a target like Zhiyun Group, which is being watched by a large number of commercial intelligence agencies or individuals, any slight incident will attract a large group of commercial spies.

Today, the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park was suddenly blocked. This abnormal situation naturally attracted the attention of some interested people.

But these have nothing to do with Yu Taihe and his team. Yu Taihe is now leading people in the laboratory to conduct reproduction experiments on MMK34 materials.

The repeated experiment lasted for about six or seven hours. It was not until the evening that Yu Taihe walked out of the laboratory and said to Zhao Chenggong, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute: "The repeated experiment was successful. Report it to the headquarters technical committee. This matter is no longer something you and I can handle!"

(End of this chapter)