Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 494 Global Virtual Madness

While the on-site press conference was still conducting the Yun VW virtual machine experience session, a large number of articles sent out by various news media on site had already begun to appear on various online information platforms.

After experiencing the experience, a reporter from a mainstream traditional media in the UK combined a lot of interview content into a short video report and sent it out.

After briefly introducing the Yun VW omnidirectional virtual device, this video uses rare words such as "shocking" and "impossible" to describe the immersive experience of the Yun VW virtual machine.

We also included comments from some European and American high-tech company managers or some scholars in the scientific and social research fields, and these comments naturally cover a wide range of topics.

Of course, the overall tone of the video remains the same.

Safety is highlighted!
This includes potential physical risks to people during use, such as an overly realistic virtual world that will cause disgust towards the real world. Another example is the excessive simulation of the virtual world, especially when playing exciting and violent games, which will cause people to misjudge and think that they can do the same in the real world... Of course, when they criticized the shooting game Doomsday Battle for being too violent, they also said that the blood in the game is blue, the targets are fake creatures, etc., which is not real enough and not realistic enough!

Having said this, he also criticized things like the data security of virtual devices!

At the end of the video, while affirming the technological advancement of Zhiyun Group's virtual machines, they asked a rhetorical question: But at what cost?
Of course, this media's critical report is just one of countless reports.

At this time, content related to Zhiyun Group's virtual machine began to appear explosively on the Internet, with all kinds of comments.

A traditional American media published and pushed a long article by their reporter, which discussed the Yun VW virtual machine.

What to discuss?
Explore the gap between the United States and China in many high-tech fields such as artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic discussed in the American media for many years. Various media and experts have talked about it over and over again in the past few years.

The more this is said, the greater the gap between the artificial intelligence technology of companies like Google and that of Zhiyun Group.

In the early years, when Zhiyun Group first developed its artificial intelligence voice assistant, these high-tech companies in the United States were shocked, but they still had the confidence to catch up.

But who could have thought that the Zhiyun Group in front was running faster and faster... At first it was a few steps ahead, then it was hundreds of steps ahead, and now... even the taillights of the Zhiyun Group can't be seen.

Even many foreign companies, including Google, are unable to judge how big the technological gap is between themselves and Zhiyun Group in the field of artificial intelligence.

Because now Zhiyun Group’s many technological applications in the field of artificial intelligence have reached a level that they cannot understand!

They can understand Yun AI and GTAI, two generative AIs. Although the technology is advanced, the Google guys may be able to develop them if they grit their teeth and work hard for a few years.

But the problem is not here...but lies in the powerful autonomous capabilities provided by the artificial intelligence technology installed in the Zhiyun robot; the L4 level of autonomous driving provided by the artificial intelligence technology installed in the Hailan car.

The artificial intelligence control system of the X14 low-altitude drone.

There are also many scientific research artificial intelligence systems used within Zhiyun Group and many other miscellaneous artificial intelligence technology applications circulating in many information channels.

Now, here comes another artificial intelligence technology in virtual devices.

These are directly applied to various devices and provide highly automated artificial intelligence technology, which is the embodiment of Zhiyun Group's core artificial intelligence technology... As for Yun AI and GTAI, they are child's play.

The more they see this, the more desperate the artificial intelligence researchers at Google and other companies become!
I can’t understand it, I can’t comprehend it, I can’t tell the technological gap… and there’s no way I can imitate and catch up!

Compared with the huge lag in the algorithm field, the hardware part, that is, the semiconductor part, also has a huge gap!

"When Zhiyun Semiconductor launched the APO5000 graphics card with a 38-nanometer process and the ZY chip, what were our Intel, Qualcomm and AMD doing?"

“Have these large companies that have received countless subsidies really worked hard to use these subsidies in the field of artificial intelligence chips? Or have they just been pocketed by their shareholders?”

"AMD's server GPU plan has been advanced for many years, but to date, AMD's server GPU products are still very few. The comprehensive computing power of AMD server GPUs currently on the market is less than 4500% of the APO4500 graphics card, but the price is % of the APO graphics card."

"We can't help but ask, what has AMD's GPU department been doing for so many years? Are they seriously working on artificial intelligence computing cards? Where did the subsidy funds that have been spent for many years go?"

"Qualcomm's SR plan, which is the 'high-performance artificial intelligence terminal computing chip plan', has been announced for two years, but we still haven't seen the mass production plan of its chips so far."

"In order to cover up its lack of AI terminal computing chips, Qualcomm even used its automotive-grade multimedia chips to cover it up... Can installing a large screen in the car and playing a high-definition video enable American cars to achieve L4 level autonomous driving?"

"Because Qualcomm continues to lag behind in the development of high-performance terminal computing chips, Tesla has to continue to use Zhiyun PX chips to develop and build high-performance assisted driving."

"When our smart electric vehicle industry needs American PX chips, where is Qualcomm?"

"Last year, Intel announced that it would launch a large-scale data processing chip program for intelligent robots, aircraft and other fields in the future. It aims to create Americans' own ZY series chips that can be used to process massive amounts of data and work together with artificial intelligence computing chips!"

"But in the fall of this year, the company officially announced the end of the plan... According to internal information obtained by reporters at Intel, Intel believed that chip design was too difficult, the R&D cost might exceed $3 billion, and there was a lack of application customers, so the plan had to be terminated."

"When people cheer for Zhiyun Yun VW virtual machine, please remember: this is not our American product, and there is not even a single American component or technology on it!"

"Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and all other high-tech companies, you should be ashamed!"

Of course, articles that insult people, especially long articles that insult one's own people and provide in-depth analysis, naturally have little traffic... On the contrary, all kinds of brainless propaganda information are accepted by a large number of people.

But no matter whether it is scolding or praising!
Information about the Yun VW virtual machine just released by Zhiyun Group spread across the Internet in just a few hours.

Especially when the virtual machine launch conference of Zhiyun Group ended and it was getting dark, it was gradually getting light on the American side.

Many Americans woke up from their sleep and just picked up their phones to see a lot of news push notifications about smart virtual machines.

When many families turn on the TV, the news channel on the TV is talking about Zhiyun Group's Yun VW virtual machine.

You know, Zhiyun Group won’t advertise in the United States... It’s banned in this place, so there won’t be any corresponding marketing promotion.

The various mobile phone news pushes and television news reports that Americans receive early this morning are all pushed by major news media and Internet information in order to attract traffic.

After all, in the past few hours, the hottest news word in the world is: Yun VW.

The words virtual devices, virtual worlds, and virtual games are inherently very attractive.

Add to that the reputation of Zhiyun Group and Xu Shenxue!
That is a guarantee of traffic...even in the United States!

Regardless of whether you like Zhiyun Group or not, or hate Xu Shenxue or not, you cannot deny that Zhiyun Group is the world's top high-tech enterprise with the highest market value, and Xu Shenxue is the world's richest man with the most wealth in the open!

In addition to the long-term competition between Zhiyun Group and many American companies, many Americans actually regard Zhiyun Group as the biggest competitor... and a competitor that is ahead of themselves, which makes people pay more attention.

Therefore, although Zhiyun Group’s various smart terminal products are banned from sale in the United States, Zhiyun Group does not conduct marketing activities in the US market.

However, the names of Zhiyun Group and Xu Shenxue still frequently appear in various American media!
People just like to talk about Zhiyun Group and Xu Shenxue over and over again.

Many Americans also have a very special feeling about Xu Shenxue. On the one hand, many people think that he is a competitor and an enemy who must be suppressed, and it would be best if he were killed.

But another group of people think that Xu Shenxue is a great scientist, a high-tech tycoon, and the hope for mankind to reach the stars.

Some people also often compare Xu Shenxue with various super-rich people in the United States, and Zhiyun with their own companies...

Of course, this comparison is not because I think Xu Shenxue is so good, but because I think the capitalists in my family are too evil!

These posts all praise Zhiyun and Xu Shenxue to the sky, and then slander America's own capitalists to death.

Look at Zhiyun Group, they will not lay off employees without reason, and even if they do, they will provide generous compensation.

But Google and other high-tech companies in Silicon Valley only need to give you two months' notice when they lay off employees... Little-known fact: companies in California do not need a reason or compensation for layoffs, they just need to give you two months' notice.

Look at the treatment of employees and layoffs, no wonder Google can’t develop artificial intelligence!
Top artificial intelligence expert, who would be willing to follow you!
The people who said these things naturally didn't know, or they knew but didn't mention that Zhiyun Group implements treatment standards according to local laws in countries around the world... When Zhiyun America in Silicon Valley lays off employees, it also gives two months' notice in advance or immediately dismisses them and compensates them with two months' salary.

Zhiyun Group currently has a subsidiary in the United States, namely Zhiyun USA, which still has thousands of employees. It mainly provides enterprise-level services in the local market. Various chips and some enterprise-level companies under Zhiyun Group are still operating normally in the United States.

Zhiyun's enterprise-level flash memory products, which bear the name of an American subsidiary, occupy a considerable market share in the United States. A large number of American giants are using Zhiyun Semiconductor's enterprise-level flash memory... Of course, many Americans think that this is an American brand and an American product!
Despite various restrictions and sales bans, the U.S. market has still been able to provide Zhiyun Group with tens of billions of dollars in revenue to date... After all, sales restrictions are restrictions, but chips cannot be stopped from being sold, especially computing power chips.

If we don’t buy these high-end computing chips from Zhiyun, they have no alternatives!
Many Americans also talked about how much money Xu Shenxue donated every year. The Liuhe Scholarship Fund under his name funded more than 50,000 poor college students last year alone. The Disabled Children's Treatment Fund run by Xu Shenxue and his wife provided medical assistance to more than 3,000 disabled children last year.

However, the super-rich in the United States are very stingy and say that all donations are donated to funds run by themselves or their families... It sounds like they are donating money, but in fact they are just trying to avoid inheritance tax.

In short, after all the comparisons, Xu Shenxue is good in every way, and all the super-rich people in this country deserve to be hanged!
Of course… people who say this don’t really care whether Xu Shenxue is good or not. Many of the so-called stories about Xu Shenxue were made up by the Americans themselves.

They only care about whether the super-rich in their country live or die!
All these messy things, good and bad, taking advantage of this traffic carnival to achieve other purposes, all kinds of things have appeared on the Internet in Europe, the United States and other countries.

During this process, news about Zhiyun Group, Xu Shenxue, and Yun VW swept the world!

Many ordinary people wake up to find that the media are already promoting that mankind has entered the virtual age!
Virtual world, isn’t this bullshit!

However, after watching many videos and reading many analyses, many people still can't help but feel curious and even expectant about Yun VW.

Mainly because the media exaggerates it too much!

Even the critics criticize it from other angles, such as security, but they still have to admit the shocking virtual world brought by YunVW... Even the overwhelming criticism is a testament to the product's strength.

Without enough influence, people are too lazy to criticize!

Not to mention, as a world-class high-tech enterprise, Zhiyun's S series mobile phones and other smart terminal products are sold all over the world, and it has a large number of loyal users and even fans.

A European technology blogger, a loyal and even somewhat brainless Zhiyun fan, shared his feelings about attending the Zhiyun conference and experiencing the Yun VW virtual machine on his YouTube channel.

"You can hardly imagine, the moment I put on the virtual helmet, entered the virtual world and opened my eyes... it felt like I saw a whole new world!"

"It was so real, so real that I couldn't tell the difference between the real world and the virtual world. I even doubted whether I had entered the virtual world because it looked too much like the real world!"

"Can you imagine scooping up sand and splashing seawater in the virtual world?"

"This is definitely one of the greatest innovations of mankind in the past 20 years. The emergence of Yun VW is just like the launch of the iPhone, which ushered in the era of mobile Internet. Yun VW will also usher in a new era: the virtual era!"

“Of course, the price of this epoch-making product is also constantly approaching the limit of people’s wallets, just like Zhiyun Group’s pursuit of technological limits!”

"The price of this device in China is very expensive. The entry-level version is 102,171 euros, and the high-end version is 191,570 euros and 446,998 euros."

"At the same time, this virtual device will also be available for sale in Europe in half a month. The price is expected to be even higher. The price of its entry-level version in different European countries is expected to be more than 120,000 euros or even higher."

"This is a luxury price that is more expensive than traditional luxury cars, and most people are destined to be unable to afford this expensive price."

"But it is worth noting that Zhiyun Group has opened an experience center for virtual equipment, which will provide people with relevant virtual experience services in a relatively cheap way."

"Zhiyun Group's first virtual world experience center in Shenzhen has a reservation price on its official website of RMB 100 per hour for entry-level models, RMB 200 per hour for high-end models, and RMB 400 per hour for flagship models. At the same time, a spokesperson for Zhiyun Group also disclosed that they are recruiting partners for virtual world experience centers worldwide. In the future, we hope to see such virtual world experience centers in Europe, where people can experience the virtual world in a relatively cheap way!"

"Believe me, you should go and experience it once!"

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Just as foreign media reporters were concentrating on reporting the news, it was already past 11:50 p.m. in China.

Many wealthy people who are not short of money and like to try new things, especially some second-generation rich people and the first generation of entrepreneurs in the technology industry, have been lurking on the Zhiyun official website mall.

They are ready to snap up the product as soon as possible and be the first to experience the virtual device Yun VW, which is touted to be very magical.

Although the price of Yun VW is extremely expensive, it is only for ordinary people... and there are a lot of people in China who are not short of money.

Even though the proportion is small, with a huge population base, the combined total of these small proportions of people who are not short of money is still a very large number.

The main market for Hailan Automobile's million-dollar luxury cars, Hailan's large SUVs and large luxury sedan Hailan SLC is in China.

Although the overall sales of the luxury sedan Hailan SLC are not very good, this type of car has never had many sales. Hailan SLC is already the best-selling large luxury sedan in China, but its sales are still not very good.

Compared with large luxury sedans, wealthy Chinese people prefer large SUVs.

In the past, people tended to prefer SUV models from overseas high-end luxury brands, but now many people buy the Hailan SEV!

After all, HaiLian Automobile is not a mid- or low-end brand. Driven by the early Zhiyun Group and Xu Shenxue's brands, and with its outstanding performance in the field of autonomous driving, it has been aiming to be a high-end luxury brand since its birth.

Back then, the Hailan SEC was a place for the rich second generation to play, and ordinary people had nothing to do with it!

The luxury brand characteristics of Hailan Automobile have also been extended to other Hailan models. Coupled with Hailan Automobile's high-tech attributes of autonomous driving and various top-level and modern configurations, the wealthy group in China is increasingly inclined to buy Hailan Automobile.

Therefore, the sales of large SUVs from the top domestic brands such as Hailan SEV have always been quite good in the domestic market, and it has been occupying the first place among domestic SUV models priced above 500,000 yuan for many years!
Therefore, there are actually quite a lot of wealthy people in China. They are willing to spend millions to buy the Hailan SEV or Hailan SEC two-door sports cars, and they are also willing to spend money to buy Zhiyun Group’s latest black technology product: Yun VW virtual machine.

And they waited in the middle of the night to buy it!

In a villa in Shanghai, several young men dressed in shabby clothes were squatting in front of their computers, their faces full of sorrow.

One of the young men said, "Are you all ready? Pay as much as you can later. I heard that the initial stock of this Yun VW is only about one or two thousand units at most. Be quick and get it!"

In a large apartment in another ultra-high-end residential area in the same city, a man who looked to be in his thirties was also squatting in front of a computer, constantly refreshing the page.

The same situation is happening in many places across the country!

It is a very rare scene that can make a large group of rich second-generations and young first-generation entrepreneurs from all over the country squat in front of their computers to play the shopping game.

The last time this happened was in the summer when Hailan Automobile released the Hailan SEC2018 Collector's Edition, a two-door hardtop butterfly door sports car with a very sci-fi, bold and avant-garde design, limited to units worldwide!
Moreover, this limited sales volume was sold directly through online snap-up, causing quite a stir among a group of rich second-generations.

Now, this kind of scene happened again!

As the time approaches twelve o'clock, many people begin to frequently refresh the interface of Zhiyun's official website mall...and it's not just the wealthy people who are rushing to buy, there are also media reporters and ordinary netizens who are just there to watch the fun and gossip.

A netizen who was reading gossip was browsing the page when he suddenly discovered at exactly 1500 o'clock that the pre-order button on the newly refreshed Yun VW ordering page turned red, and the inventory quantity was also displayed: units.

But when he clicked on it, there was a slight lag for a while... but when the page came out, it said 'Sold Out'!
This situation made the young man who was just watching the fun couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, it's only been a few seconds, and 1,500 units are sold out?"

“Are there so many rich people?”

Just a few minutes later, relevant information released by self-media was circulated on major information platforms: "The sky-high-priced Yun VW sold out in five seconds!"

"Is this world crazy, or am I too poor? I don't understand, I really don't understand!"

"Who has bought these 500 flagship models priced at 3.5 million? Stand up! I want to kowtow to you, big brother!"

Yun VW’s first-time official website purchase exceeded many people’s expectations!
Such an expensive toy is sold out in seconds?
This is unreasonable!

"Whoever is buying Yun VW, stand up and if you see the rope on the street light in front, hang it up yourself, don't force me to do it!"

"Professional game leveling, free virtual game leveling for big guys, is there anyone who needs it?"

"Zhiyun is going to heaven again!"

(End of this chapter)