The Super Rich: Start from when the family business is about to go bankrupt!

Chapter 308 WPG0307: How to make Wugengtian a world-class pharmaceutical giant? 134K
After An Wuyang secretly decided to use the character rating subsystem, he did not think about Gu Mingyue's intention. He responded to Gu Mingyue's cousin Zhan Chunfeng, "You're welcome. We are helping each other!"

An Wuyang added, "We at Wugengtian have very high quality control requirements for white peony, and I hope Brother Chunfeng will take care of it."

Zhan Chunfeng assured, "Please rest assured, Brother Wuyang!"

This guy is obviously older than An Wuyang, but he calls him "brother" all the time, and it feels quite natural.

While An Wuyang and Zhan Chunfeng were chatting, Gu Mingyue walked directly to Yang Yuxin, moved her chair to be closer to her, and then sat next to her.

Yang Yuxin's expression was a little embarrassed.

Zhan Chunfeng's expression was even more embarrassed. He couldn't help but shout out to remind her, "Cousin!"

However, Gu Mingyue ignored Zhan Chunfeng's intentions and asked Yang Yuxin, "Yuxin, how did you get Mr. An to give your Ping An Xingtian Group an additional quota of 100 million Shuxin Pills?"

When Gu Mingyue asked the question, everyone looked at Yang Yuxin.

This Yang Yuxin actually asked An Wuyang to add 100 million Shuxin Pills quota to Ping An Xingtian Group?

Lin Qianli looked at Yang Yuxin with even more surprise, because Lin Qianli's girlfriend Yang Yuting was Yang Yuxin's cousin, and he knew Yang Yuxin's character.

An Wuyang came to the rescue on behalf of Yang Yuxin, "This time, we gave Ping An Xingtian Group an additional quota of 100 million bottles of Shuxin Pills at : a.m. to commend Ping An Xingtian Group's past performance. Don't let your imagination run wild."

Chen Hongzhi teased, "Oh~~~I understand!"

Xu Le also followed suit, "Haha, I understand too!"

Lin Qianli also seconded the proposal, "Since Brother Wuyang said so, I believe it!"

Yang Yuxin blushed slightly, and she responded to Gu Mingyue, "We at Ping An Xingtian have sold all 100 million Shuxin Pills in North China, but the other four distributors of Wu Gengtian are playing tricks. They are planning to sell the products overseas."

"For this reason, President An specially added 100 million bottles of Shuxin Pills to our Ping An Xingtian Group's quota," Yang Yuxin added.

Gu Mingyue looked at An Wuyang and asked, "Is this the achievement of Ping An Xingtian Group worthy of praise?"

An Wuyang didn't want to talk about this topic anymore. He skipped Gu Mingyue's question and looked at Chen Hongzhi and asked, "Brother Hongzhi, how is the Carbon Change Team doing recently?"

Chen Hongzhi complained, "No, buddy, haven't you figured it out yet?"

"Isn't your company Wugengtian a pharmaceutical research and development company? Why do you want to invest in the chip field?" Chen Hongzhi asked puzzledly.

Gu Mingyue heard the topic of the Carbon Change Team, and she didn't ask about the previous topic for a while.

"Is everyone curious about this matter?" An Wuyang asked.

Lin Qianli responded affirmatively, "I am indeed curious!"

"Logically speaking, your Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group should focus on the pharmaceutical field. Even if you want to invest, you should invest in Professor Wei Zhenghong's team to continue developing the lupus erythematosus project, rather than focusing on the carbon change team." Lin Qianli explained.

An Wuyang responded affirmatively, "We at Wugengtian are also very interested in Professor Wei Zhenghong's team and project."

"As for the Carbon Change Team." An Wuyang was silent for a moment.

Xu Le spoke first, "Could it be that Brother Wuyang wants to break the restrictions in the chip field?"

Gu Mingyue couldn't help but raise her eyebrows as she listened to Xu Le's words.

An Wuyang shook his head, "That's not the reason."

"Although many netizens like to fantasize about such statements on the Internet, such fantasies are too unrealistic." An Wuyang sighed.

"You may wonder why we at Wugengtian want to invest in the Carbon Change team. In fact, it is because you don't understand the field of medical research and development." An Wuyang added.

"In 1994, an international protein structure prediction competition was launched. This competition is held every two years. The first 12 competitions were all participated by human contestants, so the gap in results between them was not that big." An Wuyang explained.

"Three years ago, Google's artificial intelligence system AlphaFold participated in the 13th International Protein Structure Prediction Competition for the first time. Can you guess the result?" An Wuyang gestured for everyone to guess.

Before everyone started talking, An Wuyang continued, "Before, the general public's attention on the Alpha series of artificial intelligence systems was often focused on AlphaGo, and they thought that the so-called artificial intelligence systems could only play Go. But in fact, artificial intelligence systems have already emerged in the field of medicine."

Chen Hongzhi asked curiously, "Did AlphaFold defeat humans?"

"Of course!" An Wuyang answered affirmatively, "This artificial intelligence system directly defeated all the human contestants in its first competition and won first place."

An Wuyang continued to add, "Last year, in 2020, the AlphaFold artificial intelligence system was updated to the second generation, AlphaFold2, and once again participated in the International Protein Structure Prediction Competition."

"The result this time is even more exaggerated!" An Wuyang said with a sigh, "In this competition, the scores of human players ranged from 40 to 60 points, but Google's AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system directly scored 90 points, thus winning the championship with a cliff lead."

"Perhaps you don't know much about [protein]. The [protein] in this [International Protein Structure Prediction Competition] is not the [protein] in the popular sense." An Wuyang reminded specially.

"The protein in this competition is the basic component of all life on our planet, and is a very basic and very small unit of life." An Wuyang explained. "Just like in physics, different atoms are arranged in different ways to form various molecules, which then form matter. Different proteins combine to form different cells, which then form different life forms." An Wuyang gave an example.

Everyone listened to An Wuyang's explanation.

"Take us humans as an example. Each human body has about 40 trillion cells, which together make up a human being. This shows how tiny a cell is, right?" An Wuyang used humans as an example.

"However, such a tiny cell contains tens of billions of [proteins]. This [protein] is the protein mentioned in the [International Protein Structure Prediction Competition]." An Wuyang explained the specific meaning of protein in the competition.

"Can you imagine how small the scale of a protein is?" An Wuyang asked.

Everyone fell silent, perhaps they were doing mental arithmetic?
A human being is made up of approximately 40 trillion cells, and one cell is made up of tens of billions of proteins. So a human being is made up of more than four quadrillion trillion proteins?
'Trillions and trillions'?
What a niche counting unit!

"The tens of billions of proteins in a cell contain hundreds of thousands of different types of proteins. If we multiply this order of magnitude, what will that mean?" An Wuyang asked jokingly.

"This [International Protein Structure Prediction Competition] takes out several or dozens of proteins at a time and asks the contestants to predict the three-dimensional structure information of the corresponding proteins. The predicted information is then compared with the actual information to determine who can predict the corresponding protein three-dimensional structure information more accurately and quickly." An Wuyang explained the rules of the competition.

"We just said that proteins are equivalent to molecules. If we break it down from the protein level, we can break it down to the amino acid level. Currently, there are about 500 known types of amino acids, but there are only 20 fixed types of amino acids that make up life." An Wuyang continued to explain.

"I won't tell you the specific types. You won't understand even if I tell you, although I can't remember them myself." An Wuyang laughed.

He only knew some basic information from the family business, but he didn't actually bother to remember the more specific details.

"A protein can be composed of a few amino acids, dozens, or even hundreds or thousands of amino acids, and proteins folded from different amino acid chains will have different three-dimensional structures," An Wuyang explained.

(↑Conceptual diagram of protein three-dimensional structure)

"Different three-dimensional structures determine the different functions of proteins. Even a slight change in the structure of the amino acid chain can make the final function of the protein significantly different." An Wuyang continued.

"For example, the famous Alzheimer's disease is caused by problems in the protein folding structure, which leads to the corresponding dementia." An Wuyang gave an easy-to-understand example.

"There is an important point of knowledge about proteins, that is, a string of amino acid chains with the same sequence folded into proteins in the same environment are always the same. This involves knowledge of physics, because they all need to reach a relatively stable minimum energy state." An Wuyang explained.

At this point, An Wuyang asked jokingly, "Don't you laymen understand?"

Chen Hongzhi nodded, "It's really a bit hard to understand!"

"It doesn't matter, you will soon know what I am talking about and why I want to invest in the Carbon Change Team again!" An Wuyang responded.

"The International Protein Structure Prediction Competition is based on this important knowledge point. After all, under the same conditions, the folding of amino acid chains is the same, which means that the corresponding proteins can be predicted." An Wuyang explained.

"So the rules of the competition are to tell the contestants a fixed sequence of amino acids, and use the known order of permutations and combinations to analyze and predict their three-dimensional structural information after they are folded into proteins." An Wuyang introduced the rules of the competition.

"Through my explanation, everyone understands the meaning of protein, how small it is on the physical scale, and how exaggerated its quantity is. Now let's bring the issue back to the AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system." An Wuyang began to conclude the topic.

"Google is using the AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system to conquer the entire protein information library. This so-called protein information library contains approximately 2.8 million protein sequence information. Currently, this artificial intelligence system has conquered the prediction of more than 2 million protein three-dimensional structure information." An Wuyang explained the exaggerated performance of the artificial intelligence system AlphaFold2.

"As for why we only made predictions for more than 2 million proteins, the answer is very simple. The remaining sequences are either too short or redundant sequences and are not very valuable for research. Therefore, they were screened out by AlphaFold2," An Wuyang explained.

"What is this concept? Let me explain it in a way that is easier for everyone to understand." An Wuyang tried to explain the importance of artificial intelligence systems in the medical field in a simpler way.

"In this [International Protein Structure Prediction Competition], its question bank contains more than 200 million questions. Each competition only needs to take out a few or dozens of questions for the contestants to solve. If it is a traditional manual analysis method, such as X-ray crystal diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, cryo-electron microscopy, etc., the problem-solving methods will be adopted." An Wuyang paused slightly.

"Using these methods to analyze the three-dimensional structural information of complex proteins, even if only one complex protein is analyzed, it will take several months." An Wuyang sighed.

"Precisely because of this, each competition only needs to analyze the three-dimensional structural information of a few complex proteins or dozens of simple proteins, so as to avoid the situation where the question setters have no time to study the correct answers." An Wuyang joked.

"However, Google's AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system has broken the traditional limitations. This competition has become a toy for it, because it has already cracked all the question banks of this competition. This competition has no meaning to it." An Wuyang described the power of the AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system.

"If nothing unexpected happens, Google's AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system is very likely to win a Nobel-level award, perhaps the Chemistry Prize or the Medicine Prize," An Wuyang added.

"In addition, there are billions or even trillions of protein types on Earth. If humans are allowed to study them one by one, how long will it take to finish?" An Wuyang talked about the relevant prospects.

"But if we use this AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system, we can study proteins more easily and develop medical projects based on a more basic logic." An Wuyang explained the connection between protein and the medical field.

"We at Wugengtian are relatively weak in these aspects, coupled with the relevant blockade in the chip field. If we at Wugengtian want to become a world-class pharmaceutical company, we can only find our own way out." An Wuyang sighed.

"You can't ask us to buy chips with outdated performance and then use overseas system tools to conduct our own drug research and development, right?" An Wuyang complained.

Wouldn't that be a waste of time and effort?
More importantly, who knows if these things will have backdoor programs?

Maybe some people think that as long as these devices are not connected to the Internet, everything will be fine?
Is it possible that some kind of information threshold is preset inside these devices, and when it is reached, the device will fail, so that relevant information can be extracted during on-site maintenance?
Don't ask how An Wuyang knew about this.
It’s easy to make mistakes if you talk too much!
"Brother Hongzhi, now you understand why I want to invest in the carbon change team, right?" An Wuyang looked at Chen Hongzhi.

An Wuyang's investment in the Carbon Change team is not to do traditional chip research and development work, but to promote Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group to become a world-class pharmaceutical giant!

(End of this chapter)