Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 451 Korean Talk Show
Zhiyun Group's market value reached 2 trillion US dollars, and the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Xu Shenxue's net worth exceeded 1 trillion US dollars. These two pieces of news were quickly spread on the Internet and quickly became headlines in news media around the world.

Along with these two pieces of news, there are also a lot of intense discussions about the high-tech companies under Xu Shenxue. In addition to the discussions about these companies, other high-tech companies in China will also be mentioned... China's high-tech companies are not just those under Xu Shenxue's name, there are actually many other high-tech companies.

For example, China Star Technology and BOE, which make screens.

BYD also makes electric cars.

Huawei makes communication base station equipment and smart terminals, and also has excellent chip design capabilities.

Even Xiaomi and OV, which are in the design and assembly business, are actually pretty good high-tech companies... Don't think that design integration isn't high-tech, they also have their own unique technologies, just not that many.

There are also a large number of Internet companies led by the four major domestic Internet companies, which are showing a flourishing trend and continue to promote the development of domestic mobile Internet.

Then there are the various traditional fields of mechanical equipment, which have also developed rapidly in the past decade. Many categories of mechanical equipment have successively entered the high-end market, not only filling the gaps in the domestic market, but also starting a large-scale counterattack in overseas markets.

For example, the fields of power generation, power grid equipment, port equipment, shipbuilding, etc. have developed quite well...it's just that ordinary people generally don't pay much attention to them.

People are most concerned about high-tech companies such as Zhiyun Group and Hailan Automobile, which have very obvious black technology attributes.

Then when discussing these companies, many ordinary people in overseas regions will have a question: Why can China cultivate these world-class high-tech companies, but we can't?

There are many talk shows in neighboring South Korea, and recently there have been very intensive discussions on Xu Shenxue and the companies affiliated with his name.

The invited guests are some

High-tech practitioners or professionals in the economic field are trying to learn from these professionals why China can give birth to a high-tech enterprise like Zhiyun Group? Why can it develop so rapidly in the fields of semiconductors, smart electric vehicles, and artificial intelligence?
A professor from Seoul University expressed his view: "The birth of new technologies is never a single one, nor is it accidental, but is built on a huge variety of solid foundations!"

"We all know that Zhiyun Group is currently the world's leading artificial intelligence company. According to industry insiders, the underlying core algorithm of Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence technology is at least one generation ahead of Google's artificial intelligence technology!"

“Not a year, but a generation!”

"In fact, even this is a very optimistic statement, because the only objects that people can analyze and compare are GTAI2 and some other open source artificial intelligence algorithms!"

"However, the Yun AI used by Zhiyun Group itself is currently blocked by the Chinese people and lacks a spirit of sharing, so the industry still does not have a clear understanding of the model. However, it is generally believed that Yun AI is at least one era ahead of GTAI2's technology!"

"And this is just Yun AI. In fact, artificial intelligence technology is not just this kind of large-scale generative AI. The core is the Yun RT model installed on the Yun Robot. Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence model for terminal devices has not yet released any information. We don't even know what technical principles it uses, parameter model scale, and training methods."

"Here, I have to say one more thing. It is inappropriate for Zhiyun Group to block the technology and not even publish a paper or explain the technical principles. Artificial intelligence technology is the result of the civilization of all mankind. It is based on the development of human civilization for tens of thousands of years and the joint efforts of more than seven billion people around the world. It does not only belong to the Chinese people, nor does it only belong to Zhiyun Group. I strongly suggest that Zhiyun Group open source the Yun RT model for the sake of human civilization as a whole!"

At this time, the host beside him nodded after hearing this: "Yes, if the Yun RT model can be open source, it will definitely take the development of human civilization to a higher level!"

However, the host was more concerned about why Zhiyun Group was able to develop such powerful artificial intelligence technology and other high-tech technologies.

The Korean professor who was a guest also brought out some useful information. After all, he was a professor and he did some homework before going on the show.

"Artificial intelligence technology is an industry that is intensively populated with high-level talents. It requires not only capital and massive amounts of data, but also a large number of top talents!"

"According to a report by AI practitioners, 80% of the top 10,000 talents in AI technology research and development are Chinese. Most of them graduated from many top universities in China. Although some of them have gone abroad to work for large foreign companies such as Google, the vast majority of them have stayed in China to work."

"Because China began to invest heavily in the field of artificial intelligence about seven or eight years ago under the influence of Zhiyun Group, top talents in the field of artificial intelligence have ample employment opportunities and generous salaries."

"Sufficient and high-quality talent is the core factor for China to make great breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence!"

"As for why Zhiyun Group was able to do it, the reason is actually very simple. According to reports, more than 90% of the top 500 artificial intelligence technology experts in the world work in Zhiyun Group's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. They are not only Chinese, but also Russians, Americans and even Koreans!"

"In fact, Dr. Park, who recently returned to China to serve as the director of the newly established 'Four Star Artificial Intelligence Research Institute' under Four Star Electronics, previously worked in the artificial intelligence department of Zhiyun Group. He is an experienced and top-notch artificial intelligence technology expert."

"But before, even a top talent like Dr. Park in the field of artificial intelligence could only find a suitable position in a top artificial intelligence company like Zhiyun Group. Other companies simply could not support his salary level and the various conditions required for research."

"With Dr. Park leading the way, our pace of catching up in the field of artificial intelligence will be much faster. Someone from Sixing Electronics revealed that they are expected to develop their own artificial intelligence model within a few years."

"In addition, as far as I know, Sixing Electronics paid a huge price to invite Dr. Park to return to work in China!"

If this person hadn't said anything, most people wouldn't know about this. In fact, Dr. Park is a Korean-American who studied abroad and immigrated to the United States a long time ago. He joined Zhiyun America in 13. Later, Zhiyun America abolished its R&D center, and he was transferred to Zhiyun's Beijing Artificial Intelligence R&D Institute.

Although this person is engaged in research in the field of artificial intelligence, like many foreign scientists, he mainly works on open source projects, such as GTAI2. Because Zhiyun Jingcheng's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute is mainly engaged in GTAI2 and other open source projects, there is no need to talk about confidentiality.

As for many core R&D projects in Zhiyun Group, such as Yun AI and Yun RT, these top artificial intelligence projects are all developed by the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the headquarters, and the employees are all Chinese...

Even if Chinese scientists want to join, they need to go through very strict multiple reviews... Not only will Zhiyun Group's human resources department and security department review them, but the secret agency above will also conduct qualification reviews for every employee who joins Zhiyun Group's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

Even some people who had studied abroad and joined in earlier years were gradually cleared out.

Up to now, Zhiyun Group’s main R&D departments and some important civilian positions, in principle, no longer recruit talents with overseas study backgrounds...

Although foreign talents like Dr. Park are well paid and are also engaged in research and development in the field of artificial intelligence technology, they cannot access core projects and confidential information.

However, even if he is not ranked in Zhiyun Group and can only work on some open source projects, he is still considered a top talent in various overseas countries.

Sixing Electronics paid a huge price to recruit Dr. Park to work in Korea. They wanted Dr. Park to give up his familiar living environment in China, his generous income, and excellent working environment, and then run back to Korea to develop artificial intelligence... The price was extremely high.

The excellent working environment is actually very important. Zhiyun Group's unique "technology-oriented" corporate culture and business philosophy highly favor technical personnel. Even foreign scientific researchers can enjoy very generous salaries and respect.

At the same time, Zhiyun Group has awesome technology. When you sit with your colleagues, they are all top talents who are as awesome as you. Naturally, you will be more adept at doing things. Few technical personnel can refuse this unique technology research and development environment.

In addition, what outsiders don’t know is the role of the scientific research system. Although Xu Shenxue will not give high-level scientific research quotas to foreign personnel, he will still give them the lowest level D-level scientific research quotas. After all, they are his own employees and they have spent money!
All these factors combined will make it very easy for technical personnel to work in Zhiyun Group. They have money, status, and respect, and the working environment is particularly friendly and relaxed... It is simply the best place for workers to work.

Every year, a large group of talents in science and engineering want to join Zhiyun Group...not only domestic talents, but also foreign talents.

According to some third-party statistics, Zhiyun Group is the world's top company most popular with top technical talents... Last year, Zhiyun India held a job fair to recruit 20 local Indian engineers for its Mumbai R&D center. More than 2,000 Indian engineers participated in the interviews. These 2,000 Indian engineers are all senior talents who have met the basic job requirements. They are all graduates of India's top universities, the Indian Institute of Technology!
This shows how attractive Zhiyun Group is to top talents around the world!
Koreans are actually no exception...Dr. Park is a typical example. In his early years, he would rather join Zhiyun Group than Sixing Electronics.

Of course, now he agreed for various considerations, mainly because Sixin Electronics offered him a sky-high annual salary of at least three million US dollars, and also various generous incentives.

In addition, in order to recruit Dr. Park, Sixing Electronics needs to pay Zhiyun Group a sky-high level of professionalism compensation, a full 16 million US dollars!

It's exaggerated!

Zhiyun Group has nothing to say about this. Everything is done according to the contract. As long as the compensation is paid, there is no leakage of secrets, and Zhiyun Group's technology is not misappropriated for use by Sixing, you can do whatever you want.

Anyway, talents like Dr. Park are not top-notch talents. If he wants to run away back to South Korea and play tricks in the river with no fish or shrimp, and work on artificial intelligence with a group of kindergarten kids, then let him go.

In this way, Sixing Electronics finally found a truly high-level talent in the field of artificial intelligence! And then... that was it.

Dr. Park was just a lone commander. Even after searching the entire South Korea and adding Koreans overseas, Sixing Electronics could not find a few professionals in the field of artificial intelligence. They could only draw some personnel from other fields to make up the number.

So, now Dr. Park is struggling to write code alone, and he doesn’t even have a few assistants to help him.

Before returning to China, Sixing Electronics boasted loudly, saying that there was at least a team of 500 people waiting for him to lead, and that everything was ready except for the east wind!

Leading a team of 500 people, this is a huge attraction. Although he has a good level in Zhiyun Beijing R&D Center, he only has a dozen team members under him... He also wants to be a senior manager and lead a big team. Everyone has dreams and ambitions.

But after returning to China, Dr. Park realized that this was pure bragging.

His favorable wind had come, but there was still no sign of Wanshi… The top team of 500 people that was supposed to be there now only had a dozen or so half-baked people who only knew the basics, and dozens of laymen who had never even come into contact with artificial intelligence.

When you speak professional terms in the field of artificial intelligence, these people don’t understand… They can’t even communicate in daily life.

Just one month after returning to China, Dr. Park wanted to run away and regretted it very much... This job is not a job for humans. If he had known that even if he had to change jobs, he would have jumped to Google. He was really crazy at the time, returning to Korea to work on artificial intelligence for the sake of a high salary.

There are Koreans working on AI, but there are reasons why others don’t come back…

Besides, even if he is willing to continue, he doesn't have the ability to create artificial intelligence by himself. Top artificial intelligence technology like GTAI2 is the result of the collaborative efforts of a large team. It will take him a long time to develop it by himself.

Unfortunately, the employment contract signed by Dr. Park and Sixing Electronics also comes with a sky-high penalty for breach of contract... During the contract period, there is no way for him to resign and switch to another company to continue working on artificial intelligence. He can only bite the bullet and continue working, waiting to run away after the five-year contract is over!
Dr. Park's situation is not an isolated case. In fact, many mid- and high-level technical personnel who jump ship from Zhiyun Group to work in other companies basically face very serious problems of acclimatization.

There are so many regrets... because they can't help but compare the new company they joined with Zhiyun, and this comparison is the end of it...

I've been in the passenger seat of a Porsche, stayed in a five-star hotel, eaten at a three-star Michelin restaurant, and been a one-night stand with a big shot. Now you marry me and let me ride in this crappy car? Stay in this crappy hotel? Eat this crappy food?

Many people can't stand this kind of gap!

This actually confirms what the professor from Seoul University said on the show, that Zhiyun Group does indeed have the world's top talents in the field of artificial intelligence.

More than 90% of the top 500 artificial intelligence talents in the world work in Zhiyun Group... Of course, there is actually another core reason for this, which is that only by working in Zhiyun Group can they become the top 500 artificial intelligence talents in the world.

It’s just that outsiders don’t know these things, not even they themselves know.

In addition to Zhiyun Group, the remaining few top talents in the field of artificial intelligence work in the four major Internet companies in China, and some work in American companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and Tesla.

The top talents in the field of artificial intelligence in other countries can be simply ignored!
South Korea is even more of an artificial intelligence desert, not even making it into the top ten in the global rankings... This is actually the result of Sixin Electronics' desperate development, but it is still useless.

The lack of talent is the core factor leading to South Korea's backwardness in the field of artificial intelligence technology.

And this cannot be changed in the short term, even in ten or twenty years!
There are few Koreans, and most of the top talents prefer to study liberal arts. Law and medicine are the first choice for top Korean talents, and there are not many top talents studying science. Most of these science talents are concentrated in the fields of consumer electronics and semiconductors. In order to maintain its advantage in the semiconductor field, Sixing Electronics is more inclined to cultivate talents in these fields.

This is the result of a combination of many conditions.

This is not a unique case in South Korea, it is basically the same in other countries.

Nowadays, only China and the United States can afford artificial intelligence.

Although the technology in the United States is still a little backward, they do have a lot of talent, just not the best. They are also not short of money. APO graphics cards are ordered in batches of 100,000. In addition, they also have an Internet industry foundation and have enough data for training.

This professor from Seoul National University disclosed these data and current situations in a talk show, which attracted a lot of discussion among Korean netizens.

Some were worried, while others cursed.

Many Korean netizens think that this professor from Seoul University knows nothing. He actually said that our Korean artificial intelligence is not even among the top ten in the world. He is a complete traitor to Korea!
Not only him, but also other Korean experts and scholars have participated in some programs and expressed their own views.

The fields they talk about are different and have their own deviations, but they all basically have a common point of view, that is, the rise of Chinese technology led by Zhiyun Group can no longer be ignored.

Some people talked about the field of intelligent robots, saying how awesome Zhiyun's robots are in the fields of hardware and artificial intelligence, how to catch up, and how the Korean robotics field should face this threat and how to follow up.

Some people also talked about HaiLan Automobile, saying its various advanced technologies and exaggerated low-cost advantages. The core of it is the improvement of China's electric vehicle industry chain.

Why do they have such a complete electric vehicle industry chain?

"Because they started to lay out the electric vehicle industry chain 20 years ago, and began to commercialize electric buses in the early 2000s, and spent a huge amount of money to support them, thus cultivating the entire electric vehicle industry chain!"

"At that time, Hailan Automobile stood on such a complete electric vehicle industry chain and rose rapidly with the addition of autonomous driving technology."

"Driven by Hailan Automobile, China's electric vehicle supply chain has undergone a large-scale technological upgrade in the past five or six years. From batteries to motors, to various sensors and other parts and equipment, all have reached world-class standards and are ahead of other countries!"

“Most importantly, they rely on the huge domestic market of Chinese people, which can absorb the cost of these technological advances.”

"Their huge domestic market advantage is a huge factor in the rapid rise of their electric vehicle industry. This advantage is difficult to match in other countries, including South Korea, except for the US market!"

“This is also why, after the rise of Hailan Car, only Tesla in the United States has achieved success, rather than electric car companies in other countries, because the United States also has a huge domestic car market!”

"Even Europe seems powerless in this regard. Although the EU is a unified market, it is clear that not many EU countries will provide sufficient support and subsidies for German electric vehicles!"

"In the field of electric vehicles, our automobile industry is also facing a huge threat. Our Hyundai's main export market is the Chinese market, and now our Hyundai's sales in China are facing a huge impact threat from their new local electric vehicles!"

"Although the impact is not that big at the moment, this momentum has already become apparent, because in addition to high-end smart electric vehicles like Hailan Automobile, there are also a large number of mid- and low-end electric vehicles in the Chinese market. For example, BYD's electric vehicles are doing very well. I have visited Huaxia and experienced their models. They are very cost-effective and cheap!"

"At the same time, everyone should have heard that China's Weiku Electronics Group, the world's fourth-ranked smart terminal company and one of our Sixing Electronics' main competitors in many countries, has also officially announced its entry into the smart electric vehicle industry!"

"According to various sources, including their own information, the smart electric car of Weiku Electronics Group is intended to be a mid-range model, and the price may drop to 200,000 or even 150,000 Chinese yuan. This will inevitably have a certain impact on our Hyundai cars!"

"So our auto industry must take action, accelerate the layout of the smart electric vehicle field, and increase R&D investment in power batteries, vehicle-machine systems and other fields. Otherwise, we will fall behind in the era of smart electric vehicles, which will have a huge negative impact on our country's auto industry."

In response to the various concerns of Koreans, the Japanese next door are quite calm.

Toyota has stated on many occasions in public that although smart electric vehicles have shown certain potential, fuel vehicles will still dominate the future!
Of course, this is just a statement. In fact, Toyota is also actively developing the field of smart electric vehicles, but they encountered the same problem as the Koreans: they can’t do it!

Not only is it impossible to produce equally excellent products technically, but the costs cannot be brought down as well.

This is really frustrating!

(End of this chapter)