Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 380 [Computing Power Efficiency]

However, it is unbelievably easy to get started; it really only takes three steps.

At this moment, after watching the tutorial, Shi Hongtai immediately began to experience creating a video, following the steps outlined in the tutorial.

The first step is to describe your wildly imaginative ideas in simple words and input them into the AI ​​Xiaojing. It then quickly types on the keyboard and edits a text description:
[Generate a steampunk-style image featuring massive mechanical gears, steam-belching pipes, and an adventurer wearing a retro leather trench coat and goggles standing on a city street powered by metal and steam.]

After completing the text description, Shi Hongtai entered it into the AI ​​Xiaojing's dialog box.

After a short wait, the AI ​​Xiaojing will not generate an image directly. Instead, it will provide text information about the main subject of the image for the user to review and see if it meets expectations. If not, the user can make targeted modifications, and Xiaojing will regenerate the text content.

At this point, the mirror has generated the text content:

[The following is a description of the steampunk-style visuals I envisioned for you, which you can use with drawing tools.]

[Main subject of the image]

A slender female adventurer stood on a brass arch bridge, her leather trench coat gleaming with an oily sheen, a glowing steam core device hanging from her waist, a gear-linked telescopic goggle on her left eye scanning the street, and a rivet pistol in her right hand, still shrouded in wisps of steam.

[City Details]

• In the background, towering Gothic buildings are covered with crisscrossing copper pipes, and intermittent columns of steam constantly emerge from the windows.

The three-layered rectangular gear system beneath the street is in operation, with fluorescent blue coolant seeping from between the teeth.

• The left side of the building's exterior wall is covered with pressure gauges, with red pointers trembling violently behind amber glass covers.

• A whale-shaped airship is hovering in the air on the right, with mechanical tentacles extending from its belly to load and unload cargo.

• Boiling green condensed liquid can be seen surging through the pipes through the glass observation window embedded in the ground.

[Light and Shadow Atmosphere]

• The entire structure is enveloped in amber-colored gas lights, and the halo formed by the steam creates a Tyndall effect.

• The phosphorescent glow of gears turning shines through the gaps in the building, creating a contrast of warm and cool tones with the searchlights of the helium balloons high in the sky.

• The pressure relief valve at the figure's feet is emitting a stream of white steam, lifting the brass buckle at the hem of the trench coat.

Dynamic elements

• Scattered gear fragments in the foreground float in the air, forming a temporary defensive force field.

• The wind-up messenger atop the clock tower unfolds its brass wings, ready for a night patrol.

• In the background, a steam train is passing by on the tracks, its chimney spewing out thick smoke with sparks.

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Upon seeing the generated text content, Shi Hongtai was astonished: "It's truly amazing. I just randomly entered a few dozen words of description, and it actually generated such rich text content."

If users are not satisfied with the text description, they can ask Xiaojing to make targeted adjustments until they are satisfied.

However, Shi Hongtai did not intend to add any details, feeling that this was sufficient, and he wanted to see the final product as soon as possible.

The next step is to select the text content generated by the mirror, click the prominent "Image Generation" icon next to it, select the image generation ratio, and confirm again.

After waiting for about five or six seconds, the small mirror generated more than a dozen high-definition images. "Holy crap! The quality of these image illustrations is amazing!" Shi Hongtai was shocked when he saw the image generation results. Not only was the quality superb, but the text description was also perfectly visualized.

After the images are generated, users can select a favorite image from them. If they are not satisfied with any of them, they can ask AI Xiaojing to regenerate one.

Users can also modify some details in the image, such as lighting effects and lens display adjustments. They only need to select one image and describe it with text.

At this moment, Shi Hongtai selected one of the images, and then he had a new option: he could choose the video quality. He immediately selected 8K quality to generate the video.

Before clicking to generate the video, describe in the description section how you want the video to move.

A short while later, he edited about two hundred words to describe it. The AI ​​Xiaojing generated the text description again, just like before generating the image. After Shi Hongtai confirmed that there were no problems, he clicked to confirm and generate the video again.

Next, we wait for the video to be generated, which is expected to take 17 minutes.

"Why is it suddenly so slow?" Shi Hongtai noticed that the estimated time displayed was slower than expected; he had thought it would only take a few minutes.

However, he quickly noticed an icon for 'accelerating computing power' next to him, which indicated that using computing power acceleration could shorten the generation time to about two minutes and thirty seconds.

So he clicked in out of curiosity and saw that video generation requires a lot of computing power, and the greater the computing power, the greater the generation efficiency.

This so-called "computing power acceleration" is actually an additional computing power service provided by the platform, but users need to pay extra to support this additional computing power service.

"Why do we have to pay extra for computing power?" Shi Hongtai couldn't help but complain. He didn't intend to spend the money and waited patiently for more than ten minutes.

Computing power is all about efficiency, and Lingjing Technology can't offer unlimited free services at this level; it only provides basic computing power services.

If additional computing power is required, it will no longer be free; otherwise, the monthly fee would not even cover the cost of computing power, and we would be losing money hand over fist.

Lingjing Technology provides computing power rental services with various billing models, including pay-as-you-go, annual, and monthly subscriptions.

It is worth mentioning that Lingjing Technology itself is not a computing power service provider. In addition to its own computing power storage center, the company also purchases additional computing power resources from computing power service providers.

When users purchase computing power on the AI ​​Xiaojing platform, they are actually purchasing services from other computing power service providers. The platform plays the role of an "intermediary," similar to the B2C and B2B models in e-commerce, i.e., enterprise sellers to individual buyers and enterprise sellers to enterprise buyers.

In other words, computing power service providers connect to the AI ​​Xiaojing platform to provide computing power services to potential customers. Users purchase their computing power services on the Xiaojing platform, and Lingjing Technology, which provides the transaction channel, will take a 1.5% channel fee and a technical service fee of about 2% to 4%.

In general, it's around 5%.

For example, if a user purchases 1000 yuan worth of computing power services on the AI ​​Xiaojing platform, Lingjing Technology will take about 50 yuan.

“Well, I didn’t expect that buying computing power on the AI ​​Xiaojing platform would be the cheapest. Lingjing Technology’s 5% commission isn’t much. If it were Apple, they would take 30% without question. Xiao Ge’s company is the most reliable…” Shi Hongtai searched for computing power service fees and found that the AI ​​Xiaojing platform had the best cost performance.

On the one hand, Xiao Yu did not use the platform's monopoly advantage to dominate both buyers and sellers like Apple or Meituan Waimai, taking a ruthless 30% commission rate, nor did he engage in big data price discrimination.

The combined commission rate for channel fees and technical service fees is only about 5%.

On the other hand, Lingjing Technology is also pressuring enterprise-side computing power service providers to lower their prices, as Lingjing Technology has significant bargaining power.

AI Xiaojing is now aiming for 5 million users. Everyone knows that AI Xiaojing is the next super platform with 10 billion users. It hasn't reached that level yet, but it's only a matter of time.

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(End of this chapter)