Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

On Wednesday, Chen Yiran and Cook took a plane together to Sun Valley.

As a summit that has been held for thirty years, the procedures have been established.

This place calls itself a summer camp, so the first day is called the registration day.

Around noon and in the afternoon, people from all walks of life arrived one after another, and a banquet was held in the evening.

Herbert Allen III, the third generation of the Allen family, greeted guests warmly by the fireplace in the lobby.

The Allen family is quite interesting. The founder was Herbert Allen, the second generation leader was Herbert Allen II, and in 2002 the current Herbert Allen III took over.

The fact that three generations of a family share the same name reminded Chen Yiran of the Lightning Village in Naruto, where the eldest son of each generation has the same name.

The first day's dinner was also called the "Face Recognition Special".

Allen would invite first-time visitors to the front table and introduce them to everyone. Companies that had made significant progress within a year would also be invited to the front for a presentation.

This year, for example, was Cook's first time attending. Allen warmly introduced him, as this was the first time an Apple executive had come to the summit.

Steve Jobs had an eccentric habit: he rarely participated in non-Apple events. The Sun Valley Summit sent him an invitation every year, but he was never invited.

Allen was clearly excited about Cook's visit.

Then there was Zuckerberg, who was called to the front to celebrate Facebook's recent IPO, which officially made it a publicly traded company.

Several more people were introduced, and finally it was Chen Yiran's turn.

The same procedure was followed, and Chen Yiran's deeds were mentioned.

He received even more applause, with the loudest applause coming from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

The dinner menu has remained unchanged for decades: North American elk steak, mashed potatoes, and local Idaho trout.

This was Chen Yiran's first time eating North American red deer meat, and she thought it was pretty good. The meat was more delicate than beef and had a flavor similar to lamb.

After the dinner that evening, Chen Yiran wanted to take Olsen skiing, but was firmly refused.

Chen Yiran said helplessly, "Didn't you get your period? Are you sure you're not pregnant?"

"I asked, and it's still possible to get your period in the first month of pregnancy. And maybe the magnetic field on Lanai Island isn't working with me! You'll be fine once you get back to the mainland. Go take a shower, hurry up!"

Helpless, Chen Yiran could only painfully take a bath and plow the field. The villa they were staying in had a very beautiful view, and the mountain scenery outside the window made Chen Yiran feel very good.

The next morning, Olsen didn't get out of bed.

Chen Yiran went to the restaurant alone for breakfast, which is a local tradition. Almost everyone comes to eat the buffet breakfast the next morning.

Chen Yiran first met up with Cook, then took some things and began to observe.

The restaurant was lit by candlelight last night, so he only saw a few key figures.

It was only in this hall today that he truly understood the top-tier lineup that had come.

Not to mention Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the Murdoch family, along with the famous volleyball player Wendi Deng, were also seated at the next table. Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Yahoo's Jerry Yang were also seated nearby.

The others looked familiar to Chen Yiran, but he couldn't recall their names. They were probably people he had seen in the news. Jasmine began to introduce them to him.

Jeff Baker of Time Warner, Marc Andreessen, the father of the browser, Peter Thiel, an old friend of Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal, Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Robert Iger of Disney, Howard Stringer of Sony, and Meg Whitman of HP.

These are people we saw in the news before. Those we don't recognize are probably mostly from the manufacturing industry. Just counting the ones we know, we roughly estimate their combined net worth to be around 5000 billion US dollars.

As expected of a long-established summit, if we include those that Chen Yiran doesn't recognize, the total is estimated to be another hundred or two hundred billion.

After everyone finished eating and rested for a while, the speech session of the summit officially began at nine o'clock.

Everyone who needed to speak applied to Allen in advance to give a 15- to 20-minute presentation.

It is worth mentioning that the Sun Valley Summit is a closed summit that fully adheres to the Chatham House Code.

This is a set of confidentiality rules for meetings specifically formulated by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1927 to maintain academic independence. It is also known as the Chatham House Rules, named after Chatham House in London, where the institute is located.

This standard is now used in almost all multilateral conferences around the world, and even the internal mechanisms of China's judicial system have adopted it.

Simply put, it means everyone keeps things from each other.

Participants are free to use the information obtained during the meeting, but may not disclose the identities of speakers or their affiliated organizations, nor may they disclose the identities of any other participants or their affiliated organizations. The meeting organizers may not record the speakers' speeches without their consent.

Therefore, the speeches at the Sun Valley Summit were not intended for the general public from the beginning; they were targeted at the top circles for one-on-one promotion.

Here, speakers usually say something more authentic. They don't just spout compliance rhetoric or growth guidelines—the usual press conference platitudes.

Instead, they reveal some of their trump cards to potential partners and demonstrate their strength to their adversaries.

People promote themselves, screen contacts, and facilitate transactions here, much like a closed-door roadshow.

For example, when Cook took the stage this time, he talked about Apple's outlook on the future development of the television industry, mainly focusing on the demand for classic content providers.

After Zuckerberg took office, he talked about the difficulties Facebook faced in adapting to mobile devices, the predicament after its stock price fell below its initial offering price, and his hope that someone could provide him with mobile support.

During his speech, Chen Yiran also saw several of his targets come up on stage.

These are all people he selected and felt were worth talking to and trying to recruit.

His favorite is Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO.

Her resume is quite impressive; she has served as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Finance in the Clinton administration and Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google.

Thanks to David Fincher for making the movie The Social Network in 2010. Chen Yi watched the movie in 2019 and then casually looked up information about Facebook.

Sheryl Sandberg has done an excellent job at Facebook, in some ways even more so than Zuckerberg, and is known as Facebook's First Lady.

She has the ability to integrate various disparate business operations and achieve reasonable commercial monetization, which is exactly what Chen Yiran needs.

This person is great in every way, the only problem might be that she's too great. She's at the peak of her career on Facebook, and Chen Yiran isn't sure if he can poach her.

The second candidate was Alan Mulally, Ford's CEO. During his tenure, he unified Ford's global parts, assembly lines, and suppliers into a single system, pulling Ford back from the brink of bankruptcy without government assistance.

His abilities can make the supply chain between a bunch of hardware companies in the Aurora Group smoother; he is a top expert in this area.

Chen Yiran felt that Aurora Group was much more attractive than Ford, but unfortunately, Alan Mulally was already 67 years old and had said more than once that he was preparing to retire.

Chen Yiran wasn't confident, but convinced him that 67 was the perfect age to take risks.

Chen Yiran didn't gain much in the morning; he wasn't very interested in any of the speeches.

However, Chen Yiran was particularly looking forward to the luncheon, as it was a very interesting part of the event.

Allen would scatter the people and have them sit in different areas based on the information he received from each family.

Chen Yiran had told him beforehand that she hoped to sit with Sheryl Sandberg and Alan Mulally.

Alan gave him assurances, though Sheryl Sandberg wasn't entirely sure, but Alan Mulally was definitely going to be on his dinner table.

To show respect, Chen Yiran arrived at the dining terrace five minutes early.

To his surprise, Alan Mulally arrived even earlier than him.

Moreover, besides Alan Mulally, there were two other unexpected people on the table.