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

The air in Paris seems to be filled with romance at night.

Of course, this requires mentally blocking out the stench of the sewers, the vagrants wandering around, and the rampant robbers and thieves.

In a luxury hotel in the city, the Google team is making what may be the most important decision in the company's history.

Schmidt was already quite certain that he would accept the proposals from various European countries to move Google directly to Europe.

However, Google cannot succeed on its own; it must bring in Nvidia and UMC. To put it more bluntly, Schmidt needs the yellow jacket and Morris Chang, otherwise the morale within Google will be shaken.

Google has been battling Chen Yiran for six years. Although it has relied on its status as the perennial runner-up and its stock price has stabilized after a significant drop, the winner-takes-all nature of the technology sector is too strong in the future. In a few years, it will be a question whether Google will still have enough capital to compete.

Inevitably, in addition to staunch fighters like Schmidt, other factions also emerged within Google.

First, there's the complete surrender faction, who advocate selling the company to Chen Yiran at a bargain price. After all, Google still has some businesses and some strengths in mechanical design.

This faction is developing very rapidly and will become increasingly exaggerated over time; the main problem lies in the shift in consciousness. While the technology behind the aurora borealis initially shocked the world, many also felt that luck played a role.

Many companies believe that people may have been constrained by ethical issues before, and that once they let loose and work their way up, this technology is not difficult.

However, two years have passed, and Lida Zhuanfei can only produce wet parts at best, and they are very impractical. The power consumption and maintenance of wet parts are extremely high. They do not have the high-tech feel of Aurora at all. They are like things made from garbage by humans in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Therefore, some pessimists believe that this technology may only be achievable by Aurora. And within Google, there are, of course, many employees and executives whose family members are ill.

Chen Yiran's pettiness is no joke; he's blatantly discriminatory. Aurora's technology isn't open to Google employees and their families, supposedly to prevent leaks, but in reality, it's forcing them to take sides.

It's fair to say that if it weren't for the vested interests of many people involved, a quarter of Google's top management would have already resigned. Now, they are all staunch advocates of surrender, arguing that integration into the Aurora ecosystem is the future.

Besides the surrender faction, the survivors' ideas weren't much better. They clearly understood that the disagreement between Aurora and Google lay in their framework. The survivors believed that Google should completely abandon Transformer, fully embrace DeepFlow, and become a supporting company for Aurora.

Oasis is such a lucrative business! Nintendo and Sony are making a killing! There's absolutely no need to go through all that trouble with hardware development and Aurora Mobile. Focusing on making games to entertain the masses is a perfectly viable option.

In short, if the yellow-clad men and Morris Chang also choose to withdraw from the fight, Schmidt is certain that Google's fighting faction will essentially disintegrate.

Schmidt slammed his fist on the table, looking incredibly passionate, and practically unleashed all his years of persuasive skills: "My old friends, my comrades, I know you two are a little confused, a little wavering."

But actually, our situation has improved a lot, hasn't it? The whole of Europe, including Russia!

We can establish our own virtual space and obtain a great deal of crucial data through it, which will benefit our further efforts in conquering consciousness transfer.

The man in the yellow jacket sighed: "But can the European market really make up for what the US lacks? Besides, we still don't know where the key to consciousness transfer is. If it really is the underlying Transformer framework that can't understand human consciousness like Deepflow does, then we may have been doing useless work all along."

"The objective fact is that the United States signed that agreement, and we are no longer able to compete with Aurora in the United States. Aurora is almost equivalent to the future designated technology choice recognized by the US government."

But Europe has also given us this kind of preferential treatment, and in terms of influence, Africa could very well be ours! Even if we lose the United States, we still have enough to survive!

You're being far too pessimistic about Deepflow! That was a framework Chen Yiran wrote in the early stages of his startup; how could it possibly have such a complete and forward-looking vision? Did he have AI in his head all along?

I'm convinced that he must have made many changes later on to perfect the framework, and the technical gap between us and them shouldn't be that big!

Imagine, the whole of Europe is supporting us. To put it bluntly, even with the difference in our capabilities, Google can still be the officially designated creator of virtual space in Europe, Nvidia will still be the chip supplier here, and UMC will be the designated chip foundry.

The man in the yellow jacket didn't speak, but looked at Morris Chang.

In reality, the man in the yellow jacket wasn't under much pressure, although he was indeed very unwilling and had been fighting against the aurora borealis alongside Google.

But that was mainly because his NVIDIA CUDA, which he had been developing for many years, was directly defeated by Aurora, and the AI ​​giant he envisioned standing at the top of the world, NVIDIA, did not materialize.

But then Aurora went on a wild run, and it wasn't just AI chips anymore; it even developed wet brains and consciousness transfer for immortality.

What else is there to say? I just want to run the company well, while he wants to be a character in a science fiction novel. The huge gap made the man in yellow feel relieved, and his continued involvement with Google was entirely out of camaraderie from their past.

Besides, he has a backup plan. His son and Chen Yiran are old acquaintances. Given Chen Yiran's personality, if he backs down in the end, his whole family won't suffer any losses.

He had already cashed out a lot at the peak and bought Apple stock with it. He actually wanted to take this opportunity to quit and go home to be a rich man.

However, Huang Piyi had to consider Morris Chang. If Chang wanted to continue, he could only follow suit, since Chang, who had already retired, had been persuaded by him to return to United Telecommunications.

Schmidt followed the gaze of the man in the yellow jacket to Morris Chang. He knew that the decision-maker today might be the octogenarian in front of him.

"Mr. Zhang, you should be aware of the recent international situation. Unless you leave your homeland, you still won't be able to get any preferential treatment from Aurora. Aurora's technology is unlikely to enter your area in the short term."

Morris Chang understood Schmidt's meaning: if he wanted immortality, he might have to abandon all the honors he had accumulated in his life and go to Singapore or Hawaii to pray for the aurora borealis.

The old man smiled and said, "I don't agree with your point of view. In the current situation, without the protection of the United States, things would be different."

Schmidt's expression changed; he thought things were going to fall through.

But to everyone's surprise, Morris Chang's expression immediately changed: "But I will still choose to continue. As long as you support me, I will do my best to persuade my employees to open factories in Europe, Russia, and even Africa."

The man in the yellow jacket was surprised for a moment, but then said, "Nvidia will also be prepared. We will move our R&D center to Europe."

Schmidt was overjoyed, but reminded the two to be careful, as even five-star hotels in France are not safe, with numerous safe thefts occurring. He then hurriedly went out to negotiate with various European governments.

The man in the yellow leather jacket inside the room asked, puzzled, "Old sir, why? I thought that at your age, in this situation, you could choose to retire. After all, we don't have the technology for immortality, what if..."

Morris Chang pulled a watch from his pocket, stroked the lettering on the back, and said, "This watch is the first time TSMC has received a large order. I had someone specially made 19 of them and distributed them to key technical personnel and sales staff. Of course, I kept one for myself as well. You are still young, and Nvidia's history of success is quite different from TSMC's. You can't understand my feelings."

I don't have a strong desire for immortality. Living a whole life is already so tiring; having to keep living would be too exhausting. Plus, there's the issue of interest; what if I run out of money later?

So if someone gives me a chance to keep fighting, I will continue, after all, Chen Yiran personally took my company from me.

I'm sorry, Xiao Huang, for making you struggle along with me. I know our chances of winning are actually very slim. I'm not really optimistic about the European countries. Look at what happened on our way here today; someone was sniping phones right there on the street.

These countries, relying on their accumulated wealth from hundreds of years ago, could have managed to get by. But now, with the rapid advancement of technology, and perhaps even the beginning of humanity's expansion beyond Earth, the discipline of these countries is simply too poor.

The man in the yellow jacket felt a pang of sadness and quickly said, "You don't need to say that. You were about to retire, but I brought you to UMC. We'll just do our best. Besides, I think Schmidt has some merit. In any case, adding Russia to a complete European alliance will definitely give us some weight."

Morris Chang nodded, then asked in a slightly embarrassed voice, "You and Chen Yiran actually have a pretty good relationship, right? When we played golf together, I saw you two talking very familiarly."

I heard your son is now working at the Aurora Center in Hawaii. And there's a rumor that they're gaming buddies at Oasis? And supposedly members of the SEELE Council?

"Their relationship is alright, and they do play games together. Chen Yiran's gaming skills are actually quite bad, but he's a bit of a perfectionist and doesn't like to cheat by modifying data in his Oasis. He often has my son help him. The SEELE Council is just a little group that Chen Yiran created for fun; it doesn't have any real meaning."

"Anyway, as long as we have a good relationship, that's fine. But if in another ten or eight years I'm no longer able to do it, you'll have to plead for me and make sure Aurora doesn't stop providing me with services."

The man in the yellow leather jacket felt the sadness that had just risen in his heart dissipate: "Didn't you want to die?"

"I meant I don't have any particularly big ideas, not that I have no ideas at all! And I meant life is tiring, but we still have to live! Also, regarding money, I think I've earned quite a bit in my life, it should be enough. So, tell me if it's okay or not, I feel that although Chen Yiran is petty, he's not completely heartless. He takes good care of people he knows quite well."

"Alright, I'll have my son sound out their opinion later."

A week later, Google, Nvidia, and UMC simultaneously announced that they would move their headquarters and R&D centers to Europe.

Meanwhile, with the support of France and Germany, Russia formally submitted its application to join the European Union, in accordance with Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union.

Despite numerous difficulties—Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland all opposed Russia's accession—France and Germany still made every effort to push for Russia's entry into the EU.

But at this point, the troublemaker reappeared to make his presence known.

The British government had been wavering between two opposing views: on the one hand, the media announced a welcome to the aurora borealis, while on the other hand, it was actively engaged with the EU, seemingly prepared to fight the aurora to the end, and even actively participated in negotiations between France, Germany, and Russia.

However, just two days after Russia announced its application, Britain announced that it would hold a Brexit referendum within a month, preparing to completely abandon the EU and follow its two big brothers.

Of course, Britain sold out all the previous European negotiations and offered a strong pledge of allegiance.