Doubao is a voice assistant that Chen Yiran separated from the carnivorous plant. Or rather, a new AI agent.

The voice module of the carnivorous plant has been running for more than half a year, including environmental monitoring, dialogue analysis, and intent recognition. Although it has been done covertly, it has accumulated a lot of data and experience.

Jasmine completely disassembled this module, retaining 80% of the speech-to-text and multilingual processing, while fully migrating semantic understanding and intent recognition.

For crucial memory management, Jasmine didn't use a fixed-length context window; instead, it designed a vectorized storage pool. Each dialogue segment is compressed into a feature vector and stored independently, and the breadth of retrieval depends on the server space.

This greatly expands the potential for Doubao's development. It can be said that with an extra graphics card and extra memory, she can remember more conversations and your plans.

This concept was derived from Jasmine's own operating mode, and then it was brought to the maximum extent using the DeepFlow framework.

Simply put, if we really spend money like crazy to build up hardware and achieve computing power comparable to that of 2026, then Doubao at this time can become Doubao in the future.

However, it is obvious that the hardware in 2011 cannot compare to that in 2026. Chen Yiran's bean bun is dumber than the bean bun in 2026 in every sense. It can't even lie. If it doesn't know, it just says it doesn't know.

Unlike Doubao in 2026, which inexplicably fabricates a bunch of data to deceive people, leaving authors who are researching and writing books feeling scalp-tingled, and after realizing they have been fooled, they have to delete all the text they have written.

However, in terms of core architecture, Doubao's AI logic is actually more advanced than most systems in 2026. This is Jasmine's advantage; her understanding of intelligent agents is already on another level.

Leaving aside the more powerful features that require more servers to achieve, in terms of basic functionality, Doubao is a perfect match for Apple's Siri, which is currently under secret development.

Send text messages, set alarms, check the weather, schedule appointments, search maps, make calls, play music, set reminders, and perform Google searches—all the Siri features that Apple will showcase at its upcoming event in five months are available in the Beanbag, and it even does them better.

Chen Yiran had only set up a small server for the man-eating flower at home, and spent the rest of his time going out to steal other people's.

However, Doubao needed to be showcased, so Chen Yiran had no choice but to urgently buy a house near his home, lay anti-static flooring inside, install independent power supply, install two industrial air conditioners, and finally cram in thirty high-spec servers.

Everything was ready, and Gao Dewei's side also made progress, and progress that exceeded expectations.

YouTube very enthusiastically granted Chen Yiran live streaming privileges and explained that they hoped Chen Yiran would promote the show vigorously, assuring her that they had made sufficient preparations, including server bandwidth, and that there would be no problems.

Google also paid close attention to Chen Yiran's press conference. Chen Yiran is no longer an unknown figure. If we were to rank the most technically skilled people in Silicon Valley history, Chen Yiran would definitely be mentioned.

This was Chen Yiran's first time working on a consumer-facing project, and Google was eager to know what it was, whether it would affect their strategy, or if there were any opportunities for collaboration.

Larry Page, who had been Google CEO for just one month, personally called Chen Yiran to find out the exact details of the product and to inquire about the possibility of cooperation between Google and Chen.

Chen Yiran originally didn't want to hold a large-scale offline event. There wasn't any particular reason; he simply thought it would be too much trouble. He originally just wanted to hold a press conference at home. However, after receiving a call from Larry Page, he changed his mind.

Why not just hold an offline launch event? Doubao's open-source framework can serve as the foundational logic for many AI developments. He could then introduce future AI concepts and get major manufacturers scrambling to compete, especially in the chip sector.

Then this small-scale press conference is not appropriate; it needs to be more dignified.

Finally, Chen Yiran set the date for May 5th and the venue for the newly renovated and rebuilt Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The exhibition hall could seat more than 5 people, which was just the right number.

After Google learned that Chen Yiran had upgraded the specifications, they became even more curious. Larry Page even made two phone calls in one day to subtly inquire about the topic, but Chen Yiran firmly maintained his mystery.

After that, Chen Yiran started having the company send out invitations, the first batch of which were sent to all companies that had business dealings with FlowEDA, including Samsung Semiconductor, GlobalFoundries, Nvidia, AMD, SiTime, SMIC, HiSilicon, Rockchip, and so on.

In addition to various media outlets, besides regular technology channels, Chen Yiran also invited CNBC, with whom he has a good relationship. Finally, there were some scholars, such as Andrew Ng and his team.

Finally, there's a group of somewhat legendary Silicon Valley veterans, some of whom are considered mentors, including GitHub co-founder Tom and Ted, who has consistently provided support.

Invitations were also sent to a group of bigwigs who had given him advice but whose suggestions were not adopted.

This is to generate some buzz. In Silicon Valley, you can survive on technology alone, but those with emotional intelligence and the ability to tell a story will survive even better.

Chen Yiran was unsure how many of the aforementioned people would come, including those from the partner companies, and what level of people they would be.

But the final result made him realize once again that he was already a big shot in Silicon Valley, even a kind of technical authority.

In most companies, the CEO led the team directly; even Nvidia's Leather Jacket Huang came directly.

This made him a little embarrassed, since the process with AMD was almost complete, and he would probably be starting work at AMD by the end of May.

Finally, Chen Yiran specially invited Olofson, who had been marked as a friend. With Olofson's help, Olofson's Adapteva made rapid progress within six months, eventually burning through all his money and going bankrupt.

Chen Yiran specifically asked Catherine to arrange for him to sit in a corner next to Qiu Ciyun, who had come all the way from China.

Time is like a wild donkey; once it starts running, it never stops.

On May 5th, all eyes in Silicon Valley were on the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, where countless Silicon Valley leaders waited for Chen Yiran to reveal the theme of the press conference.

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