As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 257 Small talk
That year, Kechuang Bio's R&D center in Cambridge basically poached the entire R&D team of SecondMind.

At that time, Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital got the news and rushed to invest in SecondMind. Not only did they try to sell their shares to Kechuang Bio at a high price, they were also unwilling to give up their controlling stake.

Therefore, Ke Chuang Bio simply set up a special R&D center in Cambridge and poached all its people.

For a small research-driven company like this, the most valuable things are talent and data.

Kechuang Biotechnology does not manufacture cars, so the data from SecondMind is of little use to them.

By poaching these people, the purpose of Kechuang Biotechnology has been achieved.

Moreover, scientific and technological innovation and biotechnology are also attractive enough.

Kechuang Biotechnology is known abroad as the most attractive Chinese employer.

When Chinese Internet companies go overseas, there are often reports of their corporate culture not adapting well to the local environment.

Just like when ByteDance set up a branch in England, it received collective complaints about excessive overtime, which led to a wave of resignations, with more than half of the e-commerce team members leaving.

But Ke Chuang Biotechnology is not so competitive, and its welfare benefits are comparable to those of Apple and Google.

Salary is not the most important thing. The reason why Ke Chuang Bio was able to poach most of SecondMind's R&D team at that time was that the work content was more interesting and challenging.

Tuning the AI ​​platform for engine testing is not as challenging as developing brain-computer interface AI chips and AI algorithms.

After listening to this, Li Wanqing answered without much thought:

“I will definitely try my best to do the best I can.”

This is the answer given by a manager with a background in science and engineering, who is unlikely to be so definitive. If it is a manager with a background in business, he will definitely give a more absolute answer.

Of course, even if you have a background in science and engineering, Asan would answer: We will definitely develop top-notch biochips.

Including in Silicon Valley, compared with the Chinese, Indians are more skilled in group cooperation, expressing their desire and the art of expression.

Li Wanqing continued: "Director Zheng, I have another request. Can you buy a few more of the latest Beiming No. 2 biological storage servers?
I want to do some tests to figure out the internal logic of the biochip in the biostorage server, and preferably reverse engineer the manufacturing process.

Of course, reverse engineering is so difficult that it is almost impossible.”

The biological storage server produced by Huawei has now reached the second generation, namely Beiming No. 2.

Compared with Beiming No. 1, there have been significant improvements in storage density, read and write latency, and data security.

However, this improvement was caused by Hua Wei's better understanding of biological storage media, rather than Deep Blue Storage improving the biological storage technology provided by Merlin.

Moreover, currently, four regions in the world, namely China, Russia, America and the European Union, are capable of manufacturing biological storage servers.

Among more than ten manufacturers capable of manufacturing biological storage servers, Huawei is the first to achieve technical optimization.

The biological storage server has become another business card of China's high-tech. As the technology spreads, China has also relaxed its export controls on the product.

The latest Beiming-2 is the latest biological storage technology and is therefore subject to certain export controls, so that among Kechuang Bio's overseas R&D centers, only Singapore has obtained one.

There was only one, and it was still in use. Li Wanqing had no idea where to start even if he wanted to disassemble it for analysis.

In addition, due to its leading position in the field of biological storage, Huawei has announced that it will develop biochips, and its goal is to develop biochips that can be connected to biological storage media.

Having been blocked in the field of silicon-based chips, Hua Wei hopes to break through in the field of biochips.

After Li Wanqing finished speaking, Zheng Li directly replied: "Let the General Affairs Department dispatch two units to Lion City. You contact the vice president in charge of external liaison and ask him to coordinate with Huawei."

The cooperation in the field of industrial VR makes Huawei attach great importance to the relationship with Kechuang Biotechnology. It is unlikely that Huawei will refuse such a request.

After finishing the communication with Li Wanqing, Li Miaomiao followed closely and needed to discuss some recent developments with Zheng Li.

"Zheng Li, Song Zhiwen is now awake. The doctor in London reported that he had a mild concussion and some bruises on his limbs.

Judging from his medical examination report, the power of the water element is limited and the threat it poses to humans is limited.

I have expressed my condolences to him remotely on behalf of the company.

At the same time, they said they would give him a long vacation and let him rest for two months before returning to work.

Zheng Li: "Okay, sure. Song did very well this time."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said: "If Song Zhiwen runs away, it will cause a relatively large public opinion crisis.

The foreign media are waiting to find fault with us.”

Kechuang Bio's brain-computer connection products are often featured in major overseas media.

Among them, negative news is the most common one, and the most common one is that a user experienced discomfort symptoms after using the brain-computer interface to connect to a mobile phone.

In the past two years, due to the launch of Neuralink's brain-computer connection mobile phone technology, the health problems caused by brain-computer connection mobile phones are significantly less.

What is popular now is the health problems caused by using brain-computer connection VR. A user developed a mental disorder after using brain-computer connection VR, and the media forcibly combined it with brain-computer connection VR.

These aren't big deals, but they're annoying.

Li Miaomiao continued: "Song Zhiwen and the team he brought with him were given corresponding long vacations according to their job levels.

In addition, similar to our expectations, after the brain-computer connection VR was launched in the Europa League, the sales peak period in the first two days was affected to a certain extent.

However, the subsequent sales curve is smooth, and we are still waiting for the heat of the recent hot news to dissipate so that we can carry out subsequent online marketing and promotion work.

There are two hottest news in the world right now. One is the mysterious appearance of water elements in London, and the other is the successful development of a life-extending potion.

Basically, more than 90 percent of the world's news pages are occupied by content related to these two news.

There has been a lot of discussion about the element of water, but London has not yet given an official explanation.

And I found something very interesting, all flights to London were suspended.

Then I followed this line to collect some relevant information, and found that not only were all flights suspended, but no planes were allowed to pass over the entire London sky.

Yesterday, Stephanie from Goldman Sachs came to the board meeting and in a private chat with me, she also told me not to go to London in the near future, and not to let my relatives and friends go to London.

I have a feeling that a storm is brewing.”

Zheng Li said: "It is normal to block flights. It is a simple reason if someone in London can use magic and this person is not under the control of the London government.

So how can he ensure the safety of everyone on the plane after he gets on board? "

Li Miaomiao responded: "No wonder, ordinary security methods cannot detect who can use magic."

Zheng Li waved his hand and a flame appeared in the air.

In Li Miaomiao's sight, the flame flashed by but was extremely clear.

"Can a fire mage like this directly designate a location to burn across space?"

Zheng Li nodded to answer Li Miaomiao's question. Li Miaomiao continued, "The uncontrollable risk is too high."

"Any mage on a plane has the ability to hijack the entire plane."

"I suspect that the threshold for new magicians in London is lower, which has greatly increased the risk."

"Before, mages had to exchange magic coins for magic brains, but the cost was too high."

Zheng Li said in a noncommittal tone: "Maybe."

After the magic video appeared on London's FB this time, the first reaction of England and the European League was that a new wizard appeared in London?

Has anyone exchanged magic coins again?

But this conjecture was quickly overturned, because the number on the magic forum did not have +1. After injecting the magic brain for a period of time, these mages could log in to the magic forum directly with their brains.

At the same time, the number in the upper left corner of the magic forum will increase by one. The number in the upper left corner indicates how many mages under the Merlin system there are on Blue Star.

Therefore, when the FB video was confirmed to have no editing and props, the European Union quickly realized that a new magic system had emerged.

It was this discovery that made them react so quickly.

The situation on the entire Blue Planet is only calm on the surface, but there are undercurrents beneath the surface.

Everyone wants to be in a more advantageous position than they are now after the era of change.

Few people can see that this technological revolution is an incremental competition rather than a stock competition.

The combination of magic and Blue Star's technological system will bring Blue Star into the interstellar age.

Entering the interstellar age will bring great material abundance.

Of course, how much these rich people have to do with the lower-class people is still unknown.

Incremental competition will be more advantageous for latecomer countries.

Zheng Li thought for a moment and explained in detail: "I've also seen the video from London. I can only tell you that no new mages will appear on the entire Blue Star within this month."

Li Miaomiao asked curiously: "How do you know?"

The vast majority of Blue Star people are interested in things related to magic, the only difference is the degree of interest.

Not to mention a young person like Li Miaomiao, who is also a loyal fan of Harry Potter. The combination of these two identities makes her full of curiosity about this.

Zheng Li continued: "Every magician who becomes a magician through Merlin's magic coin can know the number of magicians currently existing on the entire Blue Star.

This number has not changed for many days, at least a month.”

Li Miaomiao: "I see, why did Merlin do this?
Let everyone know the number of magic brains used on Blue Star?
Is it convenient for supervision?

Zheng Li: “I guess it’s to make the Blue Star people realize that they can cooperate.

You know Deep Blue Storage, right? "

Li Miaomiao nodded: "Of course.

When DeepBlue Storage came out, people in the investment circle were paying attention to see if there were any new investment opportunities.”

You should know that the global commercial storage market alone is worth over 100 billion, and the storage chip market accounts for a quarter to a third of the entire semiconductor market.

It’s just that this track is relatively saturated, and it requires a lot of capital investment to barely squeeze in.

Mature players in the market such as Samsung, Hynix, and Micron dominate the market.

Yangtze Memory Technologies was able to barely break into this market thanks to more than 20 billion yuan of investment from the Chinese government.

This is a good track, but it is too mature, with high investment and high risk.

The emergence of biostorage means that this track will face a reshuffle, and turbulence breeds opportunities.

Buy when there is disagreement, sell when there is consensus.

"At that time, Tencent, Mimi, and Ali were all looking for investment opportunities in the field of biostorage. Pony Ma from Tencent even asked us if we wanted to invest in the projects they were interested in."

Compared with Ali, Tencent is more willing to invest in other companies together with its core investment partners.

To be precise, Tencent is willing to work with partners to make the pie bigger, while Ali prefers to invest with venture capital institutions.

Zheng Li: “Deep Blue Storage’s biological storage technology comes from Merlin.

Need to use magic coins to buy. "

Li Miaomiao was shocked and said, "This must require a lot of magic coins, right? Is China so rich?"

Zheng Li: "10 magic coins."

Li Miaomiao looked at the equity structure of DeepBlue Storage and asked: "China and Russia have each issued five magic coins? Did they purchase the technology?"

Zheng Li shook his head and said, “I don’t know the specific details.

The technology inside is not only biological storage, but also many more. The most expensive one costs 500 magic coins. "

Li Miaomiao opened her mouth wide: "So expensive!"

She was well aware of the financial reports of Kechuang Biotechnology. In the financial reports disclosed by Kechuang Biotechnology, the cost of the magic coin they obtained was hundreds of millions of US dollars.

The R&D costs of Magic Coin disclosed by Apple in its financial report are even higher.

Li Miaomiao knew that this thing could not be bought with money.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many Internet giants that don’t have it.

Resources, luck and talent are all essential.

Zheng Li explained: "But it's worth it. For example, if our brain-computer connection technology is sold for 500 billion US dollars, do you think America will buy it?"

Li Miaomiao said without hesitation: "Definitely."

"Even if we need cash, Microsoft and Apple will even team up to buy our brain-computer connection technology."

"No, Apple alone has 200 billion dollars on its books. Apple will buy it all by itself."

Zheng Li: “So I guess Merlin wants to let the people of Blue Star know the approximate number of magic coins that the entire Blue Star has.

Let them collaborate and pool their strength.”

Li Miaomiao: “This is too difficult.

The conflicts of interest among the countries on Blue Star have a long history, and it is difficult to reach a consensus.

I would like to ask first whether the technology that Merlin has brought out is many years ahead of Blue Star Technology?"

Many of the things that Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao revealed cannot be disclosed to the outside according to Chinese regulations.

It’s just that Zheng Li doesn’t care much about the regulations of China or even Blue Star.

Now he can do whatever he wants.

Zheng Li said directly: "Yes, it is much more advanced than Blue Star's technology."

Li Miaomiao smiled and said: "This is the reason, America and the European Union would rather maintain the status quo.

Nor are they willing to join other countries in mastering technology that is decades ahead of Blue Star Technology.

Especially China, they are absolutely unwilling to return to the same starting line with China.

It seems that Merlin is a wizard of the justice and lawful camp."

Zheng Li: “Maybe.”

Zheng Li only knew that he indeed preferred order, even a bad order was better than no order.

Whether Zheng Li was in the Mage Alliance before or has come to Blue Star now, he is an individual who occupies a large amount of social resources, that is, a high-level person in the traditional sense.

Being at the top, one cannot understand the mentality of those at the bottom who want to watch fireworks.

(End of this chapter)