This man knows how to hype

Chapter 677 God Bless China

“This plan will last for a hundred generations.”

"Although, we don't know what kind of home the new sun 4.2 light years away will bring us."

"But from this day forward, human courage and perseverance will be forever engraved under hope."

"This cosmic journey of despair and hope, which lasted for 2,500 years, is known in history as..."

"Wandering Blue Star Project!"

Inside the Ivy Theater, accompanied by this calm yet majestic ending narration, the rising camera angle on the screen and the classic BGM of "The Wandering Earth".

All the audience in the hall who were watching the movie for the first time felt a surge of electricity rising from their tail vertebrae and goose bumps appeared all over their bodies.

As mentioned before, Xu Xiyu's version of "The Wandering Blue Planet" is a work that stands on the shoulders of "The Wandering Earth" with more money, more resources, and more technology.

Therefore, the audio-visual experience it brings will be a pleasant surprise even for those who have watched the original version and watch it again, let alone those who have not seen it.

The applause rang out like thunder when the end credits appeared.

After hearing the applause, the main creators of the film who were sitting in the first row looked at Shan Xinbao beside them. They asked Shan Xinbao with their eyes whether they should stand up and express their gratitude.

Shan Xinbao had no idea whether to thank her or not. She just shook her head slightly and then looked towards the third row behind her.

Sitting in this row are Xu Xiyu and several old gentlemen.

However, Xu Xiyu did not notice Shan Xinbao's actions at this time.

Because he was chatting with the old man next to him.

"When do you plan to release this movie?"

"It will be released at the end of the year, during the Spring Festival, if nothing unexpected happens."

“Are you planning to broadcast it overseas?”

“We are currently in talks. We have almost finished the talks with distributors in Japan, South Korea, the ten ASEAN countries, several Middle Eastern countries, major EU countries, Russia, and major Latin American countries.

There are still some problems in some countries in North America and Europe, but it’s not a big problem, there’s still time, so we can take our time.” Xu Xiyu introduced truthfully.

Hearing this, the old man smiled and said, "Your distribution channels are already so wide?"

"Several big-profit movies have been produced, and these distributors also have to consider the economic benefits." Xu Xiyu was not bragging about himself, he was just stating the facts.

"It is said that cooperation leads to win-win results. You make money from the box office and they also make dividends. Isn't this a win-win situation?" The old man nodded.

Without waiting for an answer, he looked at the end credits still scrolling on the screen and continued, "I also like culture and art.

When I was young, I thought that it would be nice if I could teach in school and do some literature and art and live my life like this.

Unexpectedly, the organization has continuously entrusted me with important tasks. It has been sixty or seventy years since I took on the first responsibility. "

Xu Xiyu did not interrupt, nor did he say anything flattering, he just listened quietly.

"You were born in 98, right?"

"Correct."

"That year, the Yangtze River, Nen River and Songhua River experienced severe floods. Your hometown, Gangxi, was in the hardest-hit area. I stood on the land of your hometown and watched the flood pass by. I felt that humans were so insignificant in front of nature.

But the great flood-fighting spirit of the Chinese people, united as one, not afraid of difficulties, fighting tenaciously, persevering and daring to win, has supported us, the tiny people, to overcome this natural disaster."

At this point, the old man showed a look of nostalgia, and then continued: "So, I think your movie is well made.

The good thing is that it reflects the spirit of us Chinese people when facing disasters. Saturation rescue is not just empty talk, it has really happened and has happened countless times.

The good thing is that it also reflects the unswerving belief of our Chinese people, generation after generation, in achieving great goals.

In the past, the Qin Dynasty was able to unify the world by relying on the remaining strength of six generations; now, we can also embark on a century-long journey to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the future, if there really comes a day like the one set in the movie, I believe that we can indeed propose and implement such a grand plan that will last for 100 generations and span 2500 years.

This is the precious quality and extraordinary ambition that is engraved in the bones of the Chinese people. As the absolute representative of the new generation of Chinese literary and artistic workers, you should interpret this quality and ambition more as you are doing now. "

"Don't worry, I will." Xu Xiyu nodded solemnly.

"I believe you will, and I also believe that you will bring some new atmosphere to China's literary and artistic circles. Each generation has its own mission, and the past is also a product of the times. There is no point in criticizing it.

It’s just that from now on, do what you have to do well and don’t let down the talent God has given you and the expectations of the people. ” The old man said, patting Xu Xiyu on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I will." Xu Xiyu repeated his answer again.

"Let's go and take a look at the next project." The old man said as he stretched his arm away and squinted at his watch.

At this time, it was almost 12 o'clock.

From 9 o'clock to now, in the past 3 hours, he looked at the past achievements and future plans of the Dixing Group, and even played "Journey to the West: The Sequel" for a while.

He also read some of Wei Gu's things.

Now, after watching the finale project "Wandering Blue Planet", the only major project left is [MOSS-550A].

I have to say it, all thanks to MOSS in "The Wandering Blue Planet".

When the old gentleman and his entourage who came to visit saw this AI, which is also called MOSS, they became instantly interested.

But with Gawain's introduction and test, everyone's expressions turned serious.

Especially the old man who had just given Xu Xiyu a long explanation, waved his hand to interrupt and said: "Xiao Gao, wait a moment.

Are you saying that your team has trained an AI model of similar quality at one-tenth the cost of foreign teams? "

"Yes." Gao Wen nodded, and after looking at Xu Xiyu, he continued in the most popular terms possible: "But one tenth is just a relatively rough calculation.

Currently, we are training MOSS-550B and Wei-550B together with Mr. Xu. The chip used for training is the castrated version of NVIDIA H100, H800.

Because our architecture is excellent, we have achieved processing of every trillion tokens, which is the smallest data unit that AI can handle, with only 18 hours of GPU computing time.

We now have 2048 GPUs operating simultaneously, so it only takes 3.7 days to process this data. The data that needs to be processed during the entire pre-training phase is expected to take 266.4 million hours.

Adding the 19 hours of context length expansion and the 5 hours of post-training, our complete 550B training only takes 278.8 million GPU hours, or about two months.

Therefore, the current rental price of each NVIDIA H800 GPU is about US$2 per hour, which means that our total training cost for 550B is only US$557.6 million.

However, this cost only includes our official training costs. It does not include costs associated with prior research and ablation experiments on architectures, algorithms, or data.

In comparison, the training cost of ChatGPT-4, which is at the same level as ours, is more than $1 million, so if we only count this, their cost is times ours. "

It must be said that even though Gao Wen had tried to make his speech as simple as possible, 9% of the audience still didn't quite understand it.

But it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. As a leader, the greatest ability is to grasp the core.

Gao Wengang’s core points actually only have four aspects: lower computing power (castrated version of chip), better architecture, lower price, and the same level.

When these four key points were combined, the old man's eyes lit up.

cooked.

This smell is too familiar. Over the years, in other industries, the old man has witnessed similar statements countless times: lower cost, same level; same cost, higher level.

What does this mean?
This means that in the field of AI, foreign countries have not been able to strangle us!

Thinking of this, the old man said with a serious expression: "Xiao Gao, there are no outsiders here, I will just say whatever I want to say."

"You say."

"Are you exaggerating what you just said? I have also been through a young age, and I understand the mentality of young people who want to achieve something.

But we still need to seek truth from facts when doing things. Of course, this does not mean that I doubt you. I am not saying that MOSS has really achieved what you said.

Even if you only achieve half of it, no, even if you don’t achieve even half of it, as long as you can prove that this path is feasible, then you have done a great job and deserve praise.”

My goodness, when these words came out, Gao Wen almost sweated. The pressure that came instantly was really unbearable.

So, he was speechless and instinctively looked at Xu Xiyu again.

Seeing this, Xu Xiyu stepped forward and said, "Boss Gao, haven't we already invited domestic and foreign scientific research institutions and enterprises to test our 550A?"

"Has it been tested?" the old man asked curiously.

"Yes." Xu Xiyu nodded, and then added, "In fact, you don't have to worry about us exaggerating. AI is no different from other things. Even if we want to cheat, we can't do it. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't."

"Mr. Xu, which institutions have you invited to conduct the test? Can you provide us with a list?" At this time, an accompanying staff member who had been silent suddenly stepped forward and spoke.

"Mr. Gao." Upon hearing this, Xu Xiyu called out to Gao Wen.

"I'll be able to provide it later." Gao Wen finally regained his composure and added, "However, we can also test the capabilities of 550A on site and compare it with the mainstream AI on the market."

"Okay." The old man was really interested.

So...

Several "old men" wearing reading glasses surrounded the MOSS demonstration machine and tested it repeatedly, even skipping meals for the duration of the test.

The more people like them there are, the more they understand the significance of breaking through technological blockades. Today's artificial intelligence is the engine of a new round of industrial revolution.

Due to chip restrictions in China, things were originally very difficult.

Now, I suddenly realized that it was not stuck.

Two hours passed.

The old man who couldn't stop playing sat on the sofa, drinking water and exclaiming in surprise: "A few days ago, I heard that there was a breakthrough in domestic lithography machines.

I never expected that today, in a company like yours that is in the arts sector, I would hear about a breakthrough in AI models. God bless China, God really bless China!"

"God bless China, it cannot be crushed by wind and rain, and it blooms amidst suffering." Xu Xiyu echoed in the lyrics. This is a line from a lyric, so when he said it, he couldn't avoid having a special accent.

It was like he couldn't read Phoenix Legend's songs in standard Mandarin.

It was precisely this special tone that made the old gentleman, who was highly artistic, jokingly say, "I heard Wang Shan say before that you write songs very quickly.

Last time I wrote "My Motherland and I", it took me three days to finish. Today is a good day. If you write "God Bless China", how long will it take?"

"Right away!" Xu Xiyu could see that the old man was very happy, so he consciously pushed the atmosphere a little higher.

So, after he finished speaking, he clapped his legs and sang the last part of "Heaven Shines in China" with one word changed:
"God bless China~~God bless China~~It cannot be crushed by wind and rain~~It blooms in adversity~~"
Sincerely pray, God bless China~~May you be safe and prosperous~~
God bless China~~God bless China~~Auspicious clouds are floating in all directions and glory spreads to the world~~
I sincerely pray that God will bless China~~This is my deepest expression to you..."

shock.

Everyone present was shocked.

Especially Gao Wen. Although he and Xu Xiyu are partners, he has never seen Xu Xiyu engaging in literary and artistic creation.

Therefore, when Xu Xiyu suddenly did this, he almost popped his eyes out.

It’s not just Gawain.

The old man was also stunned. After Xu Xiyu finished singing, he was still stunned for a second or two before he said with a bit of a smile: "You really come as soon as you say so?"

After that, he praised to the others, "Look, look, we have always heard that God gives us food to eat, and today everyone has seen an example."

“Hahahaha…” As soon as the words fell, a burst of laughter and applause rang out, and the atmosphere on the scene quickly reached a climax.

In this high-spirited atmosphere, the old man said again: "I have gained a lot today. I am very happy to meet Xiao Xu, Xiao Gao, Xiao Hu and all the outstanding young representatives present.

You are the hope of the country's future. Again, you must not waste your talents and the expectations of the country and the people on you."

Naturally, these words were greeted with another round of applause.

Amid the applause, the old man whispered a few words to the entourage, who ran out after listening.

After a while, he came over with a big notebook and a pen.

The old man sat on the sofa, opened the notebook, thought for a while, and quickly wrote four big words with a fountain pen: [Earth Star Culture]

After he finished writing, he signed his name again, turned to Xu Xiyu and said, "I heard you say that your group will be established soon. This is my gift to you."

"You...this...is...too..." When Xu Xiyu heard this, he was speechless for the first time today.

Originally, he was planning to find a calligraphy master to write the words "Earth Culture" for his own signboard.

Now, with the old gentleman’s inscription, we can also find a great calligrapher.

Just when Xu Xiyu was excited, the old man turned over two pages and wrote down [MOSS Technology] and [Wei Gu] respectively.

After finishing writing, he said to Gao Wen and Hu Ningwei: "Work hard, keep up the good work."

"Yeah!" Hu Ningwei nodded quickly.

As for Gao Wen, his face was as excited as a pig's liver. While he responded, he glanced at Xu Xiyu.

That look was just short of shouting: "Brother, dear brother, you are so awesome!!!"

Obviously, he never thought that he would receive this gift today.

And Xu Xiyu, feeling Gao Wen's fiery gaze, pretended to be calm, raised the corners of his mouth, and nodded slightly, signaling him to stay calm.

This pretentious look made the employees of Dixing Culture present feel that Xu Xiyu was extremely handsome.

Only Dan Xinbao couldn't help but purse his lips.

I thought to myself, "Boss, you're pretending again."

“But it’s really handsome!”

At the same time, on the other side, in the courtyard of the Du family, Dan Xinbao's colleague Xiao Lin was preparing the ingredients for tonight's celebration, as well as mattresses and quilts.

At the same time, she was still thinking about the problem that she had been unable to figure out for two days.

What does "Ning Wei is not that kind of person?"

(End of this chapter)