Chapter 517 The acquisition of Xianzhengda is completed, and the artificial intelligence war will begin?!
Tuesday, February 23rd.
The day after the Lantern Festival, Pingguo issued another announcement and modified the relevant commission rules.
The anger of some Chinese consumers has finally been calmed.
But obviously, there is no shortage of smart people in this world, and they quickly saw through Pingguo's little trick, "In the final analysis, it is not that we still have to take away, but it has changed from overt robbery to covert robbery."
"One is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer, so it doesn't matter!"
What is different from the original time and space is that in this world, Pingguo users are no longer the mainstream in the Chinese market.
Wheat grains are.
If that's the case, it's hard for outsiders to say anything.
Besides, there are a lot of smart people in China. Since recharging through IOS channels will get you a lot of money, you can recharge on the computer, or let Android users help recharge on your behalf.
Basically, you can avoid the fate of being ripped off by Pingguo.
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Pingguo's commission controversy lasted until March.
And as time enters March, as the ice and snow melt, everything recovers, and the "post-holiday effect" fades away, the budding development seems to be on the fast track again.
Friday, March 11th.
Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's first AAA masterpiece "Black Myth" has started its first closed beta.
It made huge waves in the industry.
As early as last year, Zhang Shuo had actually been trying out "Black Myth". Whether it was gameplay, plot innovation, or production level, it had already reached the world's first-class level.
It can definitely be called the "Light of the National Trend" of Chinese games.
The sensation caused can be imagined.
Just two days after the internal beta of "Black Myth" started, on March 14, Dream Fund, together with Vision Fund, Lime Group, and Xinghai Group, officially completed the acquisition of Xianzhengda.
The acquisition price was US$43.5 billion, which was agreed upon previously.
Among them, Dream Fund, as the main body of the acquisition, holds 45% of the shares, becoming the largest shareholder of Xianzhengda in one fell swoop; the remaining Vision Fund, Green Lemon Group and Xinghai Group each hold 15% of the shares.
The remaining 10% of the equity was jointly subscribed by some Europa investment institutions.
After the acquisition is completed, Xianzhengda's board of directors will undergo a comprehensive reorganization. Dream Fund has the power to nominate three directors, and it is agreed that Howard, the president of Dream Fund, will serve as chairman.
The remaining Vision Fund, Green Lemon Group and Xinghai Group can each nominate one director.
"In order to complete the acquisition of Xianzhengda, Qing Ning Group and Xinghai Group need to pay 42 billion in funds, and they are required to receive the funds within three months."
At the meeting, Lin Zhengdong, the senior vice president in charge of the acquisition, reported this.
This also means that——
In order to acquire 30% of the equity of Xianzhengda, Meiya Holdings needs to pay 84 billion in funds, which is definitely the largest overseas merger and acquisition since the establishment of Meiya.
There is no one like it in the country.
"Completing the acquisition of Xianzhengda is only the first step. The next step is to actively guide Xianzhengda to invest in China, and at the same time use the two platforms of Lime Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical to cooperate." Zhang Shuo instructed.
For example, if Xianzhengda plans to invest in building a super chemical plant in China, it can enter into a joint venture with Xinghai Chemical.
The latter can get a ticket to enter related fields through joint ventures.
certainly.
It's just an admission ticket.
If Xinghai Chemical wants to truly gain a foothold in the agrochemical field, it will have to rely on its own R&D investment in the future.
The same is true for lime farming.
Although Zhang Shuo can gain indirect control over Xian Zhengda through remote control of the Dream Fund and Vision Fund, after all, it is only remote control.
It is actually very difficult to directly intervene in the daily operations of Xianzhengda.
It is impossible to really take Xian Zhengda as his own.
In the future, a slightly more high-end operation may be to guide Xianzhengda to spin off, sell some of its business segments, and then let the two strategic partners Qing Ning Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical acquire them.
In this way, Xian Zhengda will be gradually cannibalized.
"yes!"
Lin Zhengdong smiled and nodded, "After the reorganization of Xianzhengda's board of directors is completed, the first thing to do is to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Lime Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical."
"At the same time, we will discuss, plan, and issues related to investment in China."
After cooperating with the Dream Fund and the Vision Fund twice in succession, Lin Zhengdong has vaguely realized that the Dream Fund seems to be very capable of taking care of Bu Ya's interests in external decision-making.
This kind of care does not seem to be simply attributed to the fact that Dream Fund is the majority shareholder of Germination.
As for the underlying reasons, Lin Zhengdong neither has the ability nor the will to delve into it. He only needs to figure out how to make good use of his relationship with the Dream Fund to seek benefits for Bu Ya.
that's enough!
In addition to winning Xianzhengda, on the other hand, Xinghai Group has also made progress in its contacts with Vale, which was also reported by Lin Zhengdong.
"Three days ago, Xinghai Group successfully signed a memorandum of cooperation with Vale."
"The cooperation between the two parties mainly focuses on two areas -"
"First, Xinghai Mining directly acquires some of the copper and iron ore interests in Samba that Vale intends to transfer. The investment in this part is expected to be around US$8 billion."
“Second, Vale introduced an investor like Xinghai Group through private placement.”
"In general, the first piece of investment is easy to realize after all, and it is also the focus of the current specific negotiations. As for the second equity investment, the resistance encountered by Vale's board of directors is relatively large."
Without it.
Although Gein Vale is a company from the Samba country, its major shareholder is from the beautiful country Wolf Street, and the latter is usually wary of investors from China.
"Especially when Xinghai Group just participated in the investment and acquisition of Xianzhengda, it made Langjie even more afraid."
Some people even shouted out——
"The sprout is a threat to the investment community and will destroy the original market rules."
Speaking in human terms is——
"Sprouting is indeed very strong, but it only needs to operate within China. Overseas markets are Wolf Street Capital's territory, so don't go overseas to grab food. Otherwise, we will be blamed for being rude."
Before Gein, many overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies, even if they were successful, were all about leftovers.
For example, Wanda’s recent acquisition of Legendary Pictures.
And what about sprouts?
He successively participated in the acquisitions of Japan Storage, Dongzhi Flash Memory and Xianzhengda. They were all taken from the mouths of beautiful American companies, and now he is interested in Vale.
Naturally, the other party would not agree.
If Vale hadn't been facing serious debt problems right now, even the first cooperation would have been troublesome.
"It depends on people!"
Zhang Shuo was quite confident, "If possible, it would be best for Xinghai Group to go it alone this time and stop inviting helpers like Dream Fund and Vision Fund."
Indirect control is always less efficient than direct control.
What’s more,——
With the current development trend of Sprout Holdings, sooner or later, it will have to compete head-on with the capital from Wolf Street on the international stage.
It's not a bad thing to get in touch earlier and adapt earlier.
"At the end of last year, I proposed to reorganize the overseas business department and establish three regional companies at the same time. This is also the purpose, which is to enhance our ability to invest and acquire overseas." Zhang Shuo added.
"clear!"
Lin Zhengdong nodded, but he also felt a lot of pressure.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Zhao, how are the preparations for the three regional companies going?" After listening to Lin Zhengdong's report, Zhang Shuo looked at Zhao Mingchuan, president of the overseas business unit and president of Asia.
"Is such that."
Zhao Mingchuan did not panic and reported: "Jiaoyang Holdings has completed the relevant name change and filing work. It is also the first among the three regional companies to get on the right track and put it into use."
This is normal.
The focus of Sprout's overseas development has always been on the Southeast Asian market, and Jiaoyang Holdings was previously the carrier of Sprout's overseas business unit.
It's basically a seamless switch.
For the overseas employees of Jiaoyang Holdings, it is just that their company has changed its name and nameplate. Other than that, there are basically no other changes.
Including personnel adjustments.
Because Zhao Mingchuan, president of Germination Overseas Business Unit, will still serve as president of Asia.
"Prussian Company and New York Company have also completed relevant registration and filing matters, and have also rented the new headquarters building."
"The next step is to use the headquarters framework as a hub to integrate the resources of these two regions."
Compared with the preparations for the Xiangjiang Company, the Prussian Company and the New York Company, it is obviously much more complicated. The internal integration and running-in alone are enough to be a headache.
I'm afraid it will take some time to get on the right track.
"Do you have any idea of the candidates for the heads of the two companies?" Zhang Shuo asked with concern.
As the saying goes, a snake cannot survive without a head.
Whether it is a Prussian company or a New York company, if they want to truly form a fighting force, internal coordination is the next step. The key is to select a suitable and excellent president.
It will then be up to the new president to complete the follow-up matters.
"yes."
Zhao Mingchuan nodded and said: "In the past two months, with the support of Director Wu, we have conducted multiple rounds of contacts with overseas headhunting companies. Basically, we have locked in four to six candidates."
The next step is to invite them to the Germination Headquarters and have the big boss Zhang Shuo personally interview them.
"very good!"
Zhang Shuo then relaxed his mind, but suddenly he missed the reputation item "Headhunter Card" that the system rewarded from time to time, so that he could accurately find suitable talents.
It's a pity that since reaching the max level of reputation, there is no more.
The system is quite stingy.
At the end of the meeting, Zhang Shuo looked at chief scientist Tan Yunsong, who had been silent, and asked with a smile: "Did you read the news yesterday? Alpha Go developed by Gu Ge defeated Rise Stone."
"Looked at it."
Tan Yunsong smiled and nodded, "Very exciting!!!"
Board games have always been regarded as a touchstone of top human intelligence.
The confrontation between artificial intelligence and human chess players has been going on. Previously, computer programs have defeated humans in checkers, checkers, chess and other games.
In the history before the human-machine battle in Go, the most famous human-machine battle was the chess match between the world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the chess artificial intelligence program "Deep Blue".
In 1997, chess artificial intelligence defeated top humans for the first time, and in 2006, humans defeated top chess artificial intelligence for the last time.
Since then, chess, the top human intelligence game in the European and American tradition, has been completely defeated by computers.
Go has become the last high ground in human intelligence games. Go artificial intelligence has been struggling for a long time, and top artificial intelligence cannot even defeat slightly stronger amateur players.
This seems reasonable.
Because if artificial intelligence uses brute force to enumerate all situations, the number of changes that Go needs to calculate far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe that has been observed.
This huge number is enough to discourage any brute force exhaustion.
And humans can rely on a certain algorithm that is difficult to copy to bypass brute force and see the essence of the chessboard at a glance.
later--
Artificial intelligence researchers have come up with the ultimate weapon - "deep learning".
Deep learning is a popular subject in the field of artificial intelligence. It can complete very complex tasks such as handwriting recognition, facial recognition, driving autonomous cars, natural language processing, recognizing sounds, and analyzing biometric information data.
AlphaGo is developed based on deep learning technology.
In order to test the level of Alpha Go, Gu Ge launched a challenge to Rise Seok, the world champion of Go and the top player of Korea in March 2016.
Riseok accepts the challenge.
As a result, Alpha swept Riseshi with a score of 4:1 and won the final victory, which then triggered massive discussions on the Internet about "Is Go dead?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There is no doubt that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is the ultimate beneficiary of this man-machine war.
Before the human-machine war in Go, artificial intelligence was still so obscure to ordinary people. After the war, people have learned through various reports that artificial intelligence has penetrated into everyone's work and life.
Intelligent services will quickly connect to the fields of life services such as catering, travel, tourism, movies, education, and medical care, covering users' food, housing, transportation, and entertainment.
In the future, artificial intelligence will be completely comparable to human full-time secretaries.
AlphaGo's greatest victory is to create a global science popularization for artificial intelligence, and it also represents the declaration of high-tech companies' ambitions for artificial intelligence technology.
In the past, artificial intelligence was only a smart exploration that existed in laboratories; in future science and technology, artificial intelligence will be the foundation and a powerful driving force for the development of business and society.
This human-machine battle also made Guge famous far and wide, establishing its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence in one fell swoop, and was even praised by many media as "the light of human science and technology."
Various praises also came one after another.
"I'm curious, how did Alpha win?" Zhang Shuo asked humbly.
"Is such that."
As a top scientist in the field of artificial intelligence in the world, Tan Yunsong is naturally concerned about Alpha. He explained: "The traditional artificial intelligence method is to build all possible moves into a search tree, but this method is not applicable to Go.
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"Alpha combines advanced search trees with deep neural networks that pass descriptions of the board through 12 processing layers containing millions of neural-like connection points."
"In the game, Alpha has two brains. One of the neural networks, the 'decision network', is responsible for choosing the next move, and the other neural network, the 'value network', predicts the winner of the game."
"In layman's terms, one brain is used to decide how the current move should be made, and the other brain is used to predict the final winner of the game."
"Before this, in order to train Alpha, Guge completed a lot of deep learning in advance, consolidated learning, and even used the cloud platform to complete a lot of research work."
"Looking at Riseok, this is his first time playing against a machine. He can't study the opponent's chess record and playing style like he can against humans. All he can do is play against himself."
But even in this situation, Rise Seok still managed to get back one round with a stroke of genius.
It can be seen from this——
Although artificial intelligence is very powerful, it is by no means as magical as some media touts it.
It’s impossible to really kill Go!
"So that's it."
Zhang Shuo basically understood. He was also involved in the knowledge of artificial intelligence, and then asked the last question: "How does this Alpha compare with our Star Zero?"
Xingling is the artificial intelligence that Fertile Land Research Institute has been secretly developing.
"If it's just in the field of Go, Xingling is definitely not as good as Alpha. But when it comes to the real level of artificial intelligence, it's hard to say because there's no comparison." Tan Yunsong answered cautiously.
Alpha Go is specially trained for human-machine battles, so there is no comparison.
"Then let me put it another way. Can we get a glimpse of Gu Ge's research and development progress in the field of artificial intelligence from the level of Alpha Go? Is it ahead of us or not?" Zhang Shuo did not give up.
Without it, artificial intelligence represents the budding future.
To a certain extent, the secret weapon of Xing Ling is the biggest "Light of the National Trend" that Sui Ya has been planning for a long time.
Once it comes out, it will reshape the development trend of the entire era.
It is the anchor of the next trend.
"Judging from the level of Alpha Go, it should be about the same." Until this moment, Tan Yunsong showed a little bit of his confidence and pride in the field of artificial intelligence.