Chapter 939: Preparing to Build an Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
On the way back in the car, Pei Qian was shocked.
Although I was prepared to make money from the distribution of ICL league broadcast rights, I never expected that I would make so much money!
The money that was originally spent came back on its own with interest. Who can withstand this!
Pei Qian thought about where the money would be spent.
There is still a long time before settlement, so it is not too difficult to spend it, but in order to prevent the same money from running back again, you still have to think carefully.
The first thing Pei Qian thought of was to spend the money on Tuwei Live Broadcast based on the principle of "whoever makes money, who spends it".
But then I thought about it, and it didn’t seem possible.
Because the live broadcast platform is actually very limited in what it can spend money on. It doesn’t cost much to recruit more technical staff and develop more functions.
After earning tens of millions, if you only spend a few million, it will be a drop in the bucket and will not quench your thirst at all.
The only place where you can really spend a lot of money is to buy copyrights, poach big anchors, etc.
But spending money like this means that the popularity and attention of Tuwei Live Broadcast will rise again. The risk is too great!
From the launch of Rabbit Live to now, it can be said that it has been smooth sailing inexplicably. The two leagues, ICL League and GPL League, are under control. After other live broadcast platforms sent some big gift packages, Rabbit Live has attracted a lot of attention and popularity. The platform
There is not much content on it either.
In this case, spend tens of millions more to buy broadcast rights and poach big anchors?
I'm afraid it will cause a chain reaction.
Therefore, Pei Qian thought again and again and felt that the money should not be spent on Tuwei live broadcast. The risk was too great.
Tuwei Live is currently a critically ill patient and needs to be observed. He must not be given strong medicine and must be nursed back to health slowly.
So, where is the safest place to spend this money?
Pei Qian thought about it and suddenly thought of a good place to go.
Give flowers to OTTO Technology!
To be more precise, it was spent on OTTO Technology’s laboratory to study the direction of artificial intelligence.
Although OTTO Technology has AEEIS and researching artificial intelligence technology is profitable, after all, artificial intelligence technology should have already had a technological breakthrough in the last cycle!
It's been less than two months since the last settlement, so it wouldn't be appropriate for you to break through again, right?
Moreover, the last technological breakthrough was approved by the system, so the system cannot deceive people.
You can't fall in the same place twice, right?
In this way, spending a lot of money to build an artificial intelligence technology laboratory will produce some small results, make AEEIS more useful, and even trigger some small-scale chain reactions...
But as long as there are no further breakthroughs or leaps in artificial intelligence technology, the investment in these research funds will not bring much return.
In other words, even if there are some returns, most likely they will not be in this cycle.
The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more suitable it became for him, and he said to Xiao Li: "Let's go to OTTO Technology first."
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Half an hour later, Pei Qian came to the conference room of OTTO Technology and expressed his thoughts to Jiang Yuan, the new head of OTTO Technology.
Jiang Yuan's expression was dull, and he was a little unresponsive for a moment.
"Mr. Pei, what do you mean, do you want to invest 40 million to build another artificial intelligence laboratory for OTTO Technology? Directly recruit existing teams with high salaries to conduct research on artificial intelligence technology? Or acquire some existing companies?"
"Currently, Xunke Technology is the best in domestic artificial intelligence technology, including AEEIS, which also uses Xunke Technology. They have been deeply involved in related fields for many years, and the previous application of artificial intelligence technology can be said to be the result of accumulated experience.
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"Even if we spend huge sums of money to establish an artificial intelligence laboratory and recruit existing technical teams, it is nothing more than research and development on the existing basis. It is unlikely to have any technological breakthroughs. At most, it will be some optimization of the current situation of AEEIS.
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"Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to recoup such a massive R&D investment. The same amount of money would actually have much better results when spent elsewhere."
“The key is that it’s not cost-effective and it’s very unnecessary!”
Pei Qian couldn't help but laugh.
Not cost-effective? Very unnecessary?
That's right, we thought of going together!
Pei Qian could actually say nothing and directly arrange for Jiang Yuan to do it, but after all, Jiang Yuan had just taken over Chang You's job and had not been in charge for a long time. He was afraid that he would not be able to do things well, so he had to give a few more words to strengthen his belief.
Pei Qian said meaningfully: "This is wrong!"
"Although we are currently using Xunke Technology's technology very well, it is not good to use someone else's core technology."
"Look at our company name, OTTO Technology. Isn't it ridiculous if we don't do independent research and development?"
"In the short term, the benefits may not be huge, but in the long term, it is absolutely essential to set up your own laboratory and do independent research and development."
"Our goal is to develop all core technologies independently and never be controlled by others!"
"What's more, artificial intelligence technology is the future, and it is related to many industries of Tenda. No matter how much money is invested in this direction, it will not be too much!"
"You should keep this in mind in your work from now on. Marketing is all imaginary, but core technology is real. Do you understand?"
This impassioned speech made Jiang Yuan's blood boil.
"I understand, Mr. Pei!"
"It is true that I am short-sighted."
"Then I will make arrangements immediately. If I can dig up a research team, I can dig up a research team. If I can directly invest or buy a research team, I can also do it. In short, the specific situation needs to be carefully investigated."
Pei Qian nodded: "Well, just go ahead and do it!"
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After finishing all matters on both sides, Pei Qian came to Moyu Internet Cafe, intending to have a cup of coffee and take a short rest.
During this period of time, Pei Qian felt a little tired about Tuwei's live broadcast, but now it has finally come to an end.
The broadcast rights of the ICL League have been distributed. Although Longyu Group will continue to spend a lot of money to promote the ICL League in the future, after all, it is no longer an exclusive broadcast, and the popularity will be shared by other live broadcast platforms. Tuwei Live Broadcasting should be safe in the short term.
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It's about time to take a look at what's going on in other industries.
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At the same time, the vice presidents of various live broadcast platforms have also returned to their companies to start preparations for the broadcast of the ICL league.
As early as when the contract was being negotiated, these vice presidents had already greeted their technical teams and spent the past two days preparing the live broadcast room and various promotional materials for the ICL League.
Tomorrow is Thursday, and there happens to be a hot focus game in the evening. All these live broadcast platforms require their teams to work overtime and arrange all the preparatory activities for the live broadcast before tomorrow night.
After all, Friday's game is not very exciting. If you miss the heat of this game, the next focus game will have to wait until Saturday, and you will miss a lot of heat in vain.
At the same time, Longyu Group is also arranging teams to connect with various live broadcast platforms. Both parties are seizing every opportunity to copy the function of Tuwei Live: real-time data display during the game.
This data originally exists in the background, but it needs to be retrieved in real time and then displayed in a certain chart form. The specific packaging still requires a little development for a period of time to complete.
But there is no rush, after all, this season has just started. If it is a week early or a week late, the impact will not be big.
Zhao Xuming didn't expect this feature to bring much popularity to the ICL league. It was just a defensive method.
If GPL has it but ICL does not, others will think that the ICL league is not professional enough, so even if it is criticized for plagiarism, this function must be done.
The only minor problem is that the live broadcast time of each live broadcast platform is actually slightly different, which greatly slows down the development progress.
Tuwei's live broadcast is the fastest, thirty seconds faster than other live broadcast platforms. However, other platforms may also have a delay of several seconds when broadcasting the game due to network delays, lags and other issues.
But this data is difficult to change with the progress of each platform, because what the ICL League official provides to each live broadcast platform is actually only a live broadcast signal, and the in-game data is all in its own backend, and these data must be transmitted to each live broadcast platform.
On the home platform, it is difficult to perfectly match the time on both sides, and it is more troublesome to do.
For example, if a player just gets a big kill and the economy suddenly increases by 1,000 yuan, but the real-time data has not been updated yet, it will appear very stiff.
Tuwei Live does not need to consider this issue at all, because only Tuwei Live has this function, there is no need to consider other platforms, just follow Tuwei Live.
But if Zhao Xuming wants to provide this function for all platforms that broadcast the ICL league, it will be more troublesome.
Zhao Xuming thought about it and found that there were actually two solutions: either ignore the time difference between the platforms and force a compromise time; or spend a lot of effort to make the data follow the current live broadcasts of each platform.
After some discussions with the technical team, Zhao Xuming felt that we had to do the latter.
Because there is a 30-second difference between Tuwei Live and other platforms, if we force a compromise, 15 seconds is enough to finish a relatively fast team battle. Equipment and economic data may not change in time, but it seems that this function is not enough
Very amateurish.
Therefore, we can only choose the second option and spend more effort to develop this function so that the data is consistent with the current live broadcast screen of each platform.
This would slow down the development time, but Zhao Xuming thought about it and thought it was worth it.
After settling these tasks, Zhao Xuming also breathed a sigh of relief.
After so many twists and turns, the ICL League is finally on the right track this time!
Various live broadcast platforms are broadcasting it one after another, and the popularity of the league is also steadily increasing. As long as it can be promoted smoothly, accumulate viewers, and accumulate popularity, it will definitely play a good role in promoting the ioi national server in the future!
When ioi's mobile games are launched in the future, we can sound the clarion call for a full-scale counterattack!
