Feng Jianxiong sorted out his thoughts and talked freely: "I think it is easy to prevent General Gu Yong from imitating him. First of all, we must do a good job of confidentiality in the future and try to reduce the advantages brought by this innovation, so that General Gu Yong felt that "even if General N stands is catching up, it is just because we took the money from the Ali Group, which is rich and powerful, and we are willing to burn it."

I know Gu Yongjiang very well and have formed strategic cooperation with him for more than two years. He is a typical capital operation entrepreneur, CFO, and is not very sensitive to new technologies, but is only sensitive to the R&D input and output of new technologies. Even if he finally found that my layout was excellent, he would not be able to copy it well after half a year of inspection and made up his mind and spend another half a year to do algorithms and work a team.

If artificial intelligence things are to work, feeding big data is very critical. They cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, compared to Youku, I think it is completely undifficult to have a two-year lead in artificial intelligence distribution. This gap is enough to be worth the valuation difference I want today."

Jack Ma and Cai Chongxin looked at each other and nodded secretly, knowing that Feng Jianxiong's answer to this angle was correct.

Jack Ma was too lazy to be petty, so he chose to catch the big and let go of the small and asked the next key: "So, how are you going to be prepared to prevent Zhang Yiming from tracing your way out? I think for you, on this issue, he is a more dangerous opponent than Gu Yong."

...

How to prevent Zhang Yiming from catching his own way of retreat?

For Feng Jianxiong, this is indeed a difficult problem.

At least that's what Jackma thought.

In the field of artificial intelligence, at least before 2015, because incidents such as "Google's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol and defeated the genuine world champion Ke Jie" had not yet happened, so the capital industry is still relatively rational in spending money on "deep learning" artificial intelligence.

The price of talents in this field is at least several times, or even dozens of times, lower than later.

The capital vent has not arrived yet.

After 2015, any doctorate in a prestigious university with a professional "deep learning" (the so-called "famous schools" here refer to several prestigious universities such as Toronto, mit, Princeton, Stanford, uc Berkeley, etc., and Tsinghua or something can't be counted), and a little more than one or two years of project experience (even if you follow your tutor to do projects when you are studying for a doctorate)

Then, Internet giants will basically postpone monthly salary of at least 500,000 yuan (if it is at the Tsinghua level, it is OK to have more than 300,000 yuan. Before 2015, such a novice could not get 100,000 yuan, which is less than three times higher than coders of the same age/qualification.)

As for those who have worked with Zuckerberg in a long time, or those who have worked with Google in an intelligent picture engine, who can stand alone as the head of project technical services, the market after 2015 will have annual salary/dividend/options of millions to tens of millions of dollars, which are not dreams.

Who made the artificial intelligence in later generations so popular that it caused panic in the capital circle of all mankind?

It seems that whoever can't catch this bus will become the bottom of society in the future. All venture capital funds are taking advantage of the courage to escape or bet on their lives, and the value of talents is of course crazy growth.

(ps: I have seen many people who are richer and more educated than me. When talking about artificial intelligence, I lament whether their son's generation can survive in the future. They are all people who live at least tens of millions of villas, and they are beginning to worry that their son's generation will not be able to eat.)

Some people may think: Since artificial intelligence is not so valued and talents are not so valuable, wouldn’t it be easier for Feng Jianxiong, who is willing to invest earlier, to spend money and achieve results?

But the fact is not that simple.

Because it is not popular, there are few talents and the training scale is also small. Professor Jeff Hinton, the founder of the "deep learning" system, himself only improved his theory in 2006. The first batch of doctoral students he led only graduated in 2009 and almost all joined Google and Facebook.

For other professors in this research direction, the talent training progress will only be slower. So now there are only three fresh graduates on earth who can choose from this thing.

Feng Jianxiong can't recruit people with money now. As long as he wants to raise the price, those big companies will find ways to keep them, or take out options, or use their future development vision to bind people's hearts.

Although he has been secretly poaching people this year, the few he dug out are still the ones left by Zhang Yiming's subordinates.

If Feng Jianxiong's actions were bigger, he would really make Zhang Yiming unable to maintain his core business research and development. Zhang Yiming was not a vegetarian, and at most he could expand financing in advance and reduce the shareholding ratio of the founder's team.

In this way, the arms race in the entire industry will be upgraded ahead of schedule.

This is not what Feng Jianxiong wants to see.

Therefore, he could only poach people in moderation and be content with scraps.

...

If a person who relies on scraps to support the field, if he says that he is not afraid of a big technician, he will definitely not be easy for the audience to believe it.

There must be a reason to prove that "the technical master cannot copy my success for some reason."

Feng Jianxiong Zhizhu said in his arms: "Jack, I believe you should know that Zhang Yiming's "Toutiao" is just a content distribution mainly in news and information. Videos, even short videos, are not involved. With his current funding and expansion speed, he will not be able to expand into the video field within at least three years."

Faced with this remark, Jack Ma did not respond, but asked Cai Chongxin to respond: "But Xiao Feng, if you want to support your high valuation, you have to prove that 'even if he really becomes bigger in three years, he still can't get over the border if he wants to cross the border' - we are investing money for your future prospects, not for you in the past three years."

Feng Jianxiong corrected: "Three years later, he can't do it even if he wants to turn around. Artificial intelligence is divided into many sub-fields. Even if it is limited to the intelligent push, there are many technical routes that he doesn't want to do.

"Today's Headlines" and Google push focus on semantic recognition of text content. By letting the algorithm read an article, grab keywords, roughly summarize the core ideas, determine what aspects this consultation involves, and then push it to readers who may be interested in this field, thereby saving readers' consultation screening time on their mobile phones and enhancing the efficiency of advertising/recommendation bits.

This technology can be said to be of no help in the identification of "video content". At present, in the world, within at least four or five years, no company can judge the tone of a video by "directly reading video content", and the areas involved, including Google, are not.

Now I am intercepting some of Zhang Yiming's talents and building my own algorithm team. In the future, I will definitely be able to achieve "only a little inferior to Google in this subdivision, but definitely better than other domestic peers." Zhang Yiming's first-mover advantage in artificial intelligence investing in "understanding text content" will not have inheritance in the video field in the future and will return to the same starting line. Therefore, you should admit that I am "currently the number one in China" in this field and value it on this basis."

His words are quite complicated, but to sum up it up, it means one thing: Zhang Yiming is currently better than me in artificial intelligence, but his direction of strength is different from mine. This is not the same track, but two tracks that do not interfere with each other.

Jack Horse fell into deep thoughts.

After all, in 2012, there were not many bigwigs in China who could deeply understand the route of artificial intelligence technology.

Not to mention those who are from marketing talents like Jack Ma, even those who are from Prednis Mara, they may not be able to understand them.

It is probably only Boss Li of the Dunn family who can understand it. (This is limited to discussing being a boss, not discussing the technical person in charge)

Feng Jianxiong said that this was not a track, and Jack Ma could not refute it immediately. He could only swipe on his phone twice and call out a technical person in charge who followed him to New York. (Not cto)

In less than two minutes, a bald man in a 50-year-old suit walked into the lounge and greeted Jack Ma and Cai Chongxin politely.

Jack Ma was not polite, and recounted Feng Jianxiong’s point of view just now: “Lao Zeng, Xiao Feng just said that Zhang Yiming’s technology cannot be used for video recognition and push…”

After the retelling, Jack Ma asked Titti, who was surnamed Zeng, to see his own opinion.

Mr. Zeng seemed quite cautious and did not draw a conclusion immediately. Instead, he personally crossed the question with Feng Jianxiong and asked Feng Jianxiong how he came to this conclusion.

After thinking about it over and over again, he finally said to Jackma with certainty: "Jack, if it is for this reason, I think what he said is wrong."

Jack Ma's eyes lit up.

You can lower the price!

Feng Jianxiong was calm and sneered: "You need to tell evidence when speaking."

Of course, Mr. Zeng did not dare to talk nonsense in front of the big boss, and quickly presented facts and evidence: "As far as I know, although Zhang Yiming has not been involved in the push of video content, there are other similar push platforms in China that are involved in videos - at least short videos.

As far as I know, there is a company called "QuickTi Technology" that was established last year. The boss is called Su Pang, and their app is called "QuickTi". It has been developing for almost two years and has tens of millions of users. This app is for people to share 17-second short videos, shoot and upload them by themselves, and then the platform algorithm pushes these videos to people who may be interested.

There is no doubt that Su Pang’s technical route is similar to Zhang Yiming, and he has been involved in short videos - this shows that artificial intelligence push can currently be combined with the video industry. Why do you still say that you are firmly ranked first in China?”

However, after Mr. Zeng said this, Feng Jianxiong had not had time to answer. However, Jack Ma and Cai Chongxin were curious in unison:

"Qiaoti? What kind of company is this? Why haven't I heard of it? There are products from tens of millions of users, but there are actually ones I haven't heard of?"

In an instant, Jack Ma actually had an illusion that he was too incompetent? He was so obscured by industry trends.

Mr. Zeng quickly showed off to his boss: "Jack, it's nothing you don't know. The main reason is that this company's main focus is low in the market, so scholars have basically never used it. The current 20 million users are almost all migrant workers and express delivery, as well as left-behind women with children in rural areas.

The most trendy user group is probably the washing, cutting, blowing and blowing at the urban-rural fringe areas, accounting for about 100,000 yuan. There are also nightclub girls and factory girls who have just come out to have sex, which adds up to millions, which is the main force of the content provided by this app."

These words are very straightforward and can explain things clearly, but they are not very nice.

Of course, Jack Ma is a person who wants to be decent. After absorbing the nutrition of content, he still has to pretend to be a good person: "Oh, Lao Zeng, you can't say that. The profession is not divided into high and low, but the division of labor is different. There are 20 million people using things, I don't know, this is because my job is not done well, and I should reflect on myself."

However, judging from Jack Ma's attitude, he was already very satisfied: with the argument provided by Mr. Zeng, Feng Jianxiong's position of "the current domestic artificial intelligence push algorithms cannot make videos well" is untenable.

Facts are better than words!

You Feng Jianxiong said how different the technical routes here are, they cannot be inherited and transplanted...

Even if it is so scattered, the facts are right in front of you, and if you have a colleague, you are not going to be stubborn?

No matter how awesome your stubbornness and theoretical skills are, you can't withstand objective facts!

Jackma seemed to see the achievement of "successful bargaining" and was already waving to him.

In fact, he is not reluctant to let go of these hundreds of millions of dollars.

But he always claimed to be the king, and he was born as a teacher and was born as a verbal person. For 20 years in the business world, he has never been the only one who has been selling his verbal person in front of others to make profits.

But when he met Feng Jianxiong, he was convinced by Feng Jianxiong and criticized him for winning.

We have also had six years of cooperation and in Jack Ma's memory, he has never beaten Feng Jianxiong.

Too unhappy!

This time I must make a comeback!

"Ha, hehe, hahahaha..." Feng Jianxiong was not aware of the sudden disaster at all, and continued to mock him. His laughter was so rampant and confident that it made people feel sad.

"Mr. Zeng, Mr. Zeng, you are more concerned about the frontiers of the industry than Lao Ma and Lao Cai. This is your point. But I wonder if you have heard a saying: I will always feel shallow on paper, and you must practice it if you know it.

You just listened to the name "Quick Hood", and then listened to the technical routes they promoted themselves, and believed them all? You want facts to be better than words. OK, we will next app now. I will go to the headlines on my phone, and you will go to the fast Hood Hood on your phone.

We will push the personal content of our "training" algorithm according to the same tone. At the same time, click the same number of "likes" and "steps/not interested" with the same number of times. After the time comes, have these two algorithms been trained by "big data". I want you to see if Su Pang brags is real? Can he really do it!"

"Xiao Feng! You..." Zeng was a little unhappy, but he also knew that his words just now were arbitrary and offended the other party.

Since you have to use facts to make a fight, it’s useless to bet, so just do it.

Mr. Zeng gritted his teeth and responded: "Okay, let's train according to the same standard - so that every content or video, likes or doesn't like it, will be judged according to Mr. Ma's preferences. This is the most fair."

The two of them did it as soon as they said they could, downloaded the app on the spot, and then began to train their algorithm preferences.

Jack Ma took turns to take a look at Lao Zeng's mobile phone, then at Feng Jianxiong's mobile phone, and said in turn "like/collect" or "step/not interested".

The function of "stepped" in "Today's Headlines" is relatively detailed, and the reasons for dislike can be further subdivided into many categories such as "repetition of content/vulgarity/disgusting discomfort/blacking the author".

However, because the fast hoof does not have these scene functions, Lao Zeng was afraid that Feng Jianxiong would take advantage of it, so he asked Feng Jianxiong not to specify specific reasons, so he could only choose "Don't like" in a general way.

Feng Jianxiong was not afraid at all and readily accepted this competition rule.

Half an hour later.

Jackma took two mobile phones and swiped the app again.

He thought about it and said with great sensibility: "Lao Zeng, it seems that you lost - in today's headlines, the content I am interested in, after half an hour of training. Now, I have already clicked 11 of the first 15 items I am interested in. Here, if I can clicked 15 items, I can only read 3 items."
To be continued...