Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 220 [Inducing A-Mei to Actively Break the Agreement]

Xiao Yu, on the contrary, did not pay any attention to the huge increase in the company's market value. After he held a press conference to announce the major technological breakthrough of the smart medical operating table, he began to arrange another important matter.

The cooperation reached with Lao Mei's people before was that Lingjing Technology would provide it with graphene materials, and as one of the conditions of the exchange, Lao Mei would resume the supply of computing chips to Lingjing Technology.

But Xiao Yu has now established a deep cooperative relationship with the Red Tide of the Blue Star World, and has also confirmed the relationship with Yan Lingjun. He had previously gone to the Blue Star World and packed up a series of Blue Star "local specialties" that he brought back, including AI technical support provided by Red Tide, or more precisely, some advanced algorithms.

These technologies are not considered top AI algorithms in the Blue Star world, but on Earth, Xiao Yu still has to do some "technical downgrading" before he can release them, because they are still too advanced.

With the support of these algorithms, low-power operation can be achieved without the need to stack computing resources crazily. This means that the cost of operating an AI agent or large model will drop exponentially, and the power consumption cost can be reduced by two to three hundred times on the existing basis.

In other words, Lingjing Technology has enough computing power resources to run the AI ​​mini-mirror even if it does not need Nvidia to provide computing chips.

Therefore, Xiao Yu wanted to tear up the agreement he had signed with Lao Mei on his own initiative. However, doing so would not only be a mistake, but it might also ruin Lao Mei's grand plan to dig a hole in the field of AI. Xiao Yu was still counting on Lao Mei to increase the scale of funds and frantically stack computing resources, and then cut off the source of the trouble, so that the other party would scream in pain.

In order to achieve the goal of not affecting the plan to cheat Lao Mei, and not making himself feel guilty to tear up the agreement, the best way is of course to let Lao Mei tear up the agreement on his own initiative. In this way, Lao Mei will be unable to express his grievances in words, and can only swallow his anger silently.

Xiao Yu’s strategy was very simple, which was to break the situation by controlling his stand-in Peter Vitas.

Specifically, Peter Vitas developed a set of "technologically downgraded" or "castrated" graphene mass production technology and launched it. The product cost advantage of its mass production technology is about five to eight times higher than that of Lingjing Technology, but compared with other graphene manufacturers, it has greatly reduced costs and increased efficiency. The castrated version of the technology is between the two.

Xiao Yu also figured out the reason why Peter Vitas also made a breakthrough in graphene technology. It was the auxiliary research of AI technology that allowed Peter Vitas to make this technological breakthrough. This will further strengthen the importance that Lao Mei attaches to AI technology.

This link is also very critical, because Xiao Yu needs to control his stand-in Peter Vitas to lobby Lao Mei to take the initiative to tear up the cooperation agreement with Lingjing Technology and restart the supply of computing chips.

The reason is to prevent Eastern powers from making breakthroughs in the field of AI. AI is too important. Just look, it was with the assistance of AI in my research that I made a breakthrough in graphene technology. Therefore, the speed of development of AI technology in Eastern powers must be prevented, and the means is to curb the expansion of their computing resources.

There is no doubt that after listening to Peter Vitas' lobbying, Lao Mei would absolutely agree and would definitely tear up the agreement on his own initiative.

And this is the hidden purpose that Xiao Yu wants to achieve. At this point, the AI practitioners on Lao Mei's side will only be more convinced that the development of AI requires large-scale investment in computing resources, and their funds will definitely be invested here crazily.

This is exactly what Xiao Yu would like to see. He is just waiting for the boss to go all in, and then he will cut off their funding, making their huge investment of resources basically useless.

In addition, there is another factor involved, which is to prevent the Western countries from going crazy and let them see that they also have a genius like Peter Vitas who is no less talented than Xiao Yu. AI has been developed, and it is so awesome. Graphene technology has also made breakthroughs. Maybe in the future, room-temperature superconducting materials may also make breakthroughs.

With such expectations, there is hope, and people will be less willing to take risks and overturn the table. They will be willing to wait for the genius Peter Vitas to create a miracle. In this way, Tokyo University will have enough time to use room-temperature superconductivity to drive the superconducting empowerment industry upgrade of the entire industrial system.

Xiao Yu's layout plan actually has another natural effect, that is, Peter Vitas's performance is getting better and better. This kind of external competitive pressure will inevitably make the country more dependent on Xiao Yu. This is an inevitable and natural effect.

There is an ancient idiom called "raising the enemy to protect oneself". Although Xiao Yu did not have such a starting point in his subjective will, it is undeniable that his plan did have such an effect objectively. As long as Peter Vitas performs better, the country will pay more attention to Xiao Yu, because there is no better person to hedge and compete with Peter Vitas of Lao Mei.

After all, when it comes to technological innovation, especially epoch-making technological breakthroughs, we can only rely on a few geniuses to break through this ceiling.

Moreover, unlike industrial manufacturing, which can be mass-produced and replicated, genius cannot be replicated and is something that can only be encountered by chance.

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A week passed and it was Friday, August 8th.

As soon as Xiao Yu arrived at the headquarters of Lingjing Technology Company in the morning, Xu Changming came to his office first.

"Old Xu, what's wrong? Why do you look so serious?" Xiao Yu looked at Xu Changming and said with a smile, his eyes showing some surprise. In fact, he had already guessed why the other party was like this.

Xu Changming said solemnly, "There is some bad news. It came out last night. I wanted to call you to communicate at that time."

Xiao Yu pretended to be ignorant and asked curiously: "What bad news?"

Xu Changming immediately said: "Last night in the morning of Beijing local time, Peter Vitas announced on his personal social media account that he and his team have made an exciting breakthrough in graphene mass production technology using Cyera-AI-assisted research, and it is expected that the cost of graphene can be reduced to less than ten times that of our company."

The production cost of Lingjing Technology's graphene materials is dozens of times higher than that of traditional graphene manufacturers. If Cyera-AI can really reduce the graphene production cost of Lingjing Technology to less than ten times, it will indeed be a significant technological breakthrough.

There is a reason why Xu Changming looks solemn, because graphene material is currently Lingjing Technology's absolute core business, and its biggest moat is its technological monopoly, which no one else can handle. Now Peter Vitas has emerged, and there is a tendency for him to pry open Lingjing Technology's graphene technology moat. Of course, Xu Changming, the CEO, can't sit still.

However, Old Xu would never have dreamed that all this was actually the result of the planning by his immediate superior.

At this time, Xu Changming could not help cursing and said, "This Peter Vitas is really something. He was an unknown person a year ago, but he suddenly jumped out, as if God had sent him out to target us. We are doing AI, and he has also made a name for himself in AI. Now he has even made a breakthrough in graphene materials..."

Old Xu was cursing Peter Vitas, but he didn't know that this was Xiao Yu's incarnation, which meant he was indirectly cursing him in front of Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu, who was listening to Old Xu's cursing, remained silent, lowered his head slightly and touched his nose.

After being indirectly called a bitch by Old Xu, Xiao Yu felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He could only accept it with a pinch of his nose. What else could he do?

After a while, Xiao Yu, while trying to suppress his laughter in his heart, glanced at Xu Changming calmly and said, "Calm down, calm down, the sky won't fall down."

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(End of this chapter)