Eric Schmidt's expression turned somewhat unpleasant upon hearing Chen Yiran's words.

He believed he had come with sincerity, but Chen Yiran's attitude was incredibly disrespectful.

In Silicon Valley, he is also a godfather-like figure.

He worked at Bell Labs and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1979, and joined Sun Microsystems in 1983. Java was developed under his leadership.

Before the Apple incident, he had a very good reputation in Silicon Valley. During the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, his company, Norville Network Systems Software, suffered huge losses and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

To ensure his income, the board even proactively introduced him to Google, allowing him to work for both companies simultaneously.

He hadn't been confronted like this in many years.

He really wanted to stand up and leave, but considering that Google's market value had fallen below $80 billion, he suppressed his anger and smiled, saying, "Google can abandon our previous Transformer deep learning framework and fully embrace the Deepflow framework."

We hope to obtain exclusive licenses for Deepflow's algorithms, such as those for searching videos. Of course, your Duck family of apps shares the licenses with us.

We hope that we can sign a non-aggression pact, under which Google will not proactively launch new competing products on the AI ​​framework, and you cannot use your technological advantage in AI to take sides in the competition between our software and the Duck suite.

Google could deduct a portion of its annual Google fees for search and video as licensing fees for DeepFlow.

Although the duck family bucket is doing well now, its complete lack of quality means that these software features can only serve as a supporting moat for the hardware.

This isn't a good deal for you, is it? You don't have that much of a stake in Apple, and the licensing fees Apple gives you certainly won't be higher than ours.

We at Google are very sincere, and we can have deeper cooperation in AI.

Chen Yiran pondered for a few seconds, then asked with a cold smile, "I don't want money. Give me YouTube and your Chrome browser's data model, and I can license Deepflow to you. How about that?"

Eric Schmidt's smile immediately vanished.

Data from YouTube and the Chrome browser is Google's biggest trump card right now.

They were indeed preparing for a knee-slide this time, but Google's knee-slide can only be short-term.

The non-aggression pact is just a way to buy Google a few years of breathing room. During these years, Google needs to quietly and thoroughly understand the DeepFlow architecture and reverse engineer enough technology to bypass the patents.

In their vision, once they reach a similar level in AI technology, they can use data from the Chrome browser and YouTube to refine their own models.

This will give them an advantage in the subsequent competition in AI.

Eric Schmidt was surprised by Chen Yiran's sharp reaction, as he immediately asked Google for the most important data they had at the moment.

He realized that his soft approach wasn't working, so he switched to a hard one, saying harsh words: "You know this is impossible! YouTube and the Chrome browser are Google's most important assets right now."

I hope we can both be more realistic. Since you took the initiative to ask for these two data points, you should also understand that you can't catch up with these two software programs in the short term.

While the duck-themed product line is doing quite well, your duck videos still can't compare to YouTube. Not to mention the duck browser; browsers have much higher user engagement.

The browsing habits, bookmarks, saved usernames and passwords, and autofilled forms of hundreds of millions of people worldwide are all stored in Chrome's account system. You can't force them to switch browsers.

Don't think that Google has no trump cards left. For one thing, Motorola has more than 17,000 hardware-related patents.

We have everything from wireless communication and video encoding/decoding to antenna design. We won't be targeting Apple and Samsung; we'll be targeting Aurora Mobile directly.

Your subsidiaries, such as Aocheng Uniview and DJI, are all covered by this patent network. We don't even need to win a lawsuit; we only need to prove that such infringement is indeed possible, and we can extend their customs clearance time by at least three months.

Your current alliance between Apple, Samsung, and Aurora seems perfect, but what if Google completely abandons the interests of Android? What if we completely abandon all of the terms and conditions of the Android agreement?

Allowing everyone to customize factory software without app stores taking a cut will quickly fragment Android. At that point, more phone manufacturers will return to Android, and the foundation of your three-way alliance will crumble.

Furthermore, Aurora has its own wafer fabs and is a dominant player in EDA. Do you think companies like Intel, IBM, and Nvidia don't have any concerns? Even Samsung—can you be sure they won't panic watching you expand into their core businesses?

If we, Google, take the lead in creating a completely open-source AI hardware standard and bring all these companies in to jointly develop this standard, do you think they will openly or secretly exclude your Aurora Group?

I hope you can think about this carefully. Our cooperation will definitely benefit the development of AI, which is what you hope to see, right?

Eric Schmidt's words are indeed all true.

Although Google seems to be under pressure from Chen Yiran's anti-Google alliance, YouTube and browsers can indeed help support Google in the short term.

Moreover, the various methods and strategies he mentioned were indeed disgusting.

Generally speaking, even if they have ulterior motives, it would be the most reasonable thing for Chen Yiran to temporarily cease hostilities with Google.

As for Google secretly researching other AI frameworks, that's purely a matter of technological competition.

This kind of thing happens frequently at Google; two companies fight tooth and nail, and then suddenly they stop fighting.

Actually, it's all about easing the situation.

One side is desperately trying to improve its technology in hopes of overtaking the enemy by taking a shortcut and temporarily ceasing hostilities to lull them into a false sense of security.

The other side was confident that its technology was not easy to surpass and was constantly developing, so it agreed to a ceasefire to ensure that attention and legal resources were not wasted on pointless confrontations.

Chen Yiran remained silent for even longer. Alan Mulally and Bill Gates, who were standing next to him, both felt that this was probably just the young man being self-indulgent, and that he would eventually rationally agree to a ceasefire.

However, in reality, the persona of a chuunibyou (delusional) tech genius that Chen Yiran initially created for herself has unknowingly influenced her actual personality.

Or rather, as a reborn individual with special advantages, Chen Yiran found these business compromises increasingly unacceptable.

However, he still asked Jasmine in his mind, hoping to get some rational advice.

[Get him! ▄︻┻┳═一∵∴∷∶∵ (∵_,∵)>>>> He still dares to talk back to us! Let's sneak around and do something! Let's go back and tweak the settings for the carnivorous plant; I already have two great ideas to kill him! I guarantee YouTube and that browser will suffer a slow, agonizing death!]

Chen Yiran discovered that it was probably because Jasmine used his brain as a model, and her personality was basically exactly the same as his.

Since that's the case, let's do it.

Chen Yiran revealed a slightly terrifying smile, then slightly modified a passage from Steve Jobs's words: "Believe me, if necessary, I will use my last breath, exhaust all the profits of Aurora Group, to destroy Google. Because it's a garbage company, even if it means waging a thermonuclear war."

Eric Schmidt squinted and said, "Alright, let's have a thermonuclear war then!"

Then he got up and left, leaving a visibly embarrassed Bill Gates behind.

Bill Gates sighed and said, "I've heard you're a bit arrogant, but I didn't expect you to be this arrogant. Compared to you, Ellison is a rational person. I hope you won't hold a grudge, so I'll be frank: Microsoft is considering acquiring some of Google's businesses, or rather, a merger."

Their market capitalization is indeed low enough for us to make a move, but we're unsure of your attitude. We're afraid that if we buy in, we'll end up fighting tooth and nail, which is why I came to discuss this. It seems we can't buy in; buying in would only cause more headaches.

"A wise choice, or you can wait. Before I kill Google, the price will definitely be lower, and then you can buy it."

Bill Gates didn't reply, but stood up with a smile: "Then I'll be going now, you can chat privately. Oh, by the way, there's one more thing, when I got married, the ceremony was held on Lanai Island."

I never imagined you'd buy the island and shut down the tourism industry. Could you do me the favor of letting my family go there for a vacation the year after next? That year marks my 20th wedding anniversary.

Chen Yiran shook her head: "Do you know who I snatched Lanai Island from? From Ellison. He bought it so you wouldn't be able to go on your wedding anniversary. Here's what we'll do: you go and tell him that if he agrees, I'll agree too."

Bill Gates' face darkened, and he walked away with a sigh.

Chen Yiran looked at Alan Mulally, about to say something.

Alan Mulally spoke up excitedly first: "That's exciting! Tech companies are really interesting. Tell me, what's the current situation in our company, and what problems do you need me to solve?"

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