Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 576 A Super Order Worth 50 Billion Dollars!

In mid-July, Xu Shenxue donated 3 billion yuan to Guangcheng University to support impoverished and outstanding students, and to fund teaching and research.

The release of this news has sparked some discussion.

Some people, having nothing better to do, compiled statistics on Xu Shenxue's numerous donations to Guangcheng University and other universities in China over the years, and then discovered that the scale of his donations was enormous.

"Over the past decade, Xu Shenxue, through his Liuhe Education Charity Foundation, Zhiyun Group, Hailan Auto, Yihai Technology, and other companies, has donated more than 18 billion yuan to Guangcheng University!"

"It's not just direct funding; every year, Zhiyun Group recruits a large number of outstanding graduates from Guangcheng University through its campus recruitment program. Moreover, an unnamed Zhiyun Group employee revealed that the entry requirements for students joining Zhiyun Group at Guangcheng University are significantly lower than those at other universities!"

"This fully demonstrates how much a school can benefit from having a successful alumnus!"

"Xu Shenxue alone is enough to make Guangcheng University very prosperous!"

"Xu Shenxue's educational philanthropy in China is not limited to Guangzhou University, Shenzhen University, and Tongcheng United Semiconductor College. Tsinghua and Peking Universities are also key schools he supports, providing substantial funding every year and offering a large number of lucrative job opportunities to students!"

In fact, the information that netizens have found is very one-sided!
Xu Shenxue invests a great deal in charity every year... not only in higher education, but also in basic education, providing scholarships for some impoverished students and outstanding students.

They also donate money to schools in underdeveloped areas, providing children with milk or teaching aids such as computers and tablets.

Then, the medical field is also a major investment in its philanthropic efforts, providing financial assistance to patients from impoverished families, which is even more evident in the field of cancer.

His company, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals, reduces or waives the cost of Xeloda for a large number of extremely impoverished cancer patients every year... Of course, such quotas are not available to the average person; families with an apartment or a car should not even think about it.

You need to prove to the charitable foundation under Galaxy Pharmaceuticals that you are truly in extreme poverty and have exhausted all means to raise funds, but still cannot get approval.

It's not enough to just talk or provide some ordinary documents; you also need to provide Galaxy Pharmaceutical with a lot of data, including bank statements and spending records.

Galaxy Pharmaceuticals will use big data models to analyze your financial transactions, including online and offline spending records...

If anyone feels this violates their privacy, they don't have to apply...

The reason for checking this big data is, of course, to prevent "poor people" who own several properties, drive a blue car, and use an S19 MAX Pro from applying...

For a simple example, anyone who has purchased a Zhiyun S series phone in the past three years will be directly rejected by the big data system once it detects this!

The system has refused; manual intervention is not possible!
As for why you refused, you can afford a Zhiyun S series phone, so stop pretending to be poor... and then you come here to try and get a few tens of thousands of yuan in funding, have you no shame!

Although Hirokta is expensive, after most of it is reimbursed by health insurance, the portion that individuals have to pay is not too much.

Even if the condition is more serious, late-stage patients need to take Xeloda for a longer period of time. However, even if they take the medication continuously for six months, the out-of-pocket expenses will be at most a few hundred thousand yuan.

An ordinary, normal family shouldn't be unable to come up with this money... The reason they say they can't is because they haven't sold their house, car, or other assets, and haven't yet borrowed from relatives or friends...

Galaxy Pharmaceuticals' charitable projects are never open to ordinary people... They don't need them!
What truly needs help is the extremely poor, those who genuinely cannot afford tens of thousands of yuan, cannot even borrow it, and cannot even afford a small portion of their personal expenses.

Don't think that there are few such people. Considering the vast population of China, there are actually many such people.

Any small percentage of a matter, when placed on a massive base of 1.4 billion, will result in an extremely large number of data.

Therefore, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals provides financial assistance to a significant number of impoverished cancer patients every year.

Besides domestic and international markets, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals also conducts some charitable activities abroad, such as giving away Xeloda for free, for reasons of reputation, tax exemption, or exchanging benefits with local people. However, these activities are not large-scale and are just for show.

In addition to its regular charitable activities for Hilokda, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals also donates a large number of free medicines to remote and underdeveloped countries, especially in Africa, every year... These are mostly medicines that are close to their expiration date or medicines with very low cost.

This is also a routine practice for pharmaceutical giants... donating drugs that are nearing their expiration date or cheap drugs that cost very little to produce to countries in Africa and elsewhere, thereby gaining corporate reputation, tax breaks, and other overt or covert benefits.

Some extreme examples are as follows: Galaxy Pharmaceuticals donated a large quantity of low-cost drugs to a charitable foundation organized by a member of parliament in a certain country, obtaining tax breaks and gaining corporate reputation at minimal cost; the member of parliament gained fame and used it for publicity and vote-buying. The member of parliament's wife or son could then sell a large portion of these donated drugs to make some extra money.

Everyone can benefit!

As for where the medicine went... that's not important.

Some less meticulous people, after going through all the above procedures, will not send the remaining medicines that cannot be resold for cash, such as some medicines that are really about to expire, to Africa... The shipping cost is too high, so it is better to just dump them into the sea, which is worry-free, labor-saving, and cost-effective!
There's a lot to talk about regarding the philanthropic projects of pharmaceutical companies...

Galaxy Pharmaceuticals is no exception. In many of its practices, it follows the standard practices of international pharmaceutical giants... It has no choice but to do so, because it is a pharmaceutical giant with annual revenue approaching hundreds of billions of dollars, and the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

Ironically, over 90% of Galaxy Pharmaceuticals' revenue comes from Xeloda!

This makes many people envious and jealous... In order to open up the market and avoid some trouble, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals often operates in many countries overseas in the same way as traditional multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Sometimes, 'philanthropy' is also part of the business, especially in overseas markets!
In fact, it's not just Galaxy Pharmaceuticals that operates in this way overseas; several other multinational companies under Xu Shenxue's name are in similar situations.

Many so-called 'charitable' projects can't actually be discussed in too much detail or taken too seriously...

While these activities may at least be disguised under the guise of charity, more often they involve exchanges of benefits through more clandestine means that are unknown to the public.

For example, one of the overseas shell companies of the Zhiyun Group needs to purchase a batch of office supplies... and the winning supplier happens to be the son of a certain member of parliament... This is the simplest and most direct way; in practice, the operation would be much more secretive.

For example, Zhuyun Group has acquired seven or eight gold mines over the years through shell companies and offshore secret companies, and then quickly resold them!

While others give cash or gold, Zhiyun Group gives away gold mines!
In terms of publicly disclosed expenditures, Zhuyun Group is actually quite willing to spend money.

For a global multinational giant like Zhiyun Group to expand its business extensively and smoothly around the world, it's not enough to just have good products and strong technology. Often, it also requires a lot of behind-the-scenes operations to coordinate... and Zhiyun Group is actually very good at doing these things.

It's not just about giving money...

Sometimes, when Zhiyun Group can't send money, they'll send bullets instead.

The operation of companies like Zhiyun Group is actually quite different from that of ordinary companies.

For example, in commercial activities outside, the scale is often tens of billions or hundreds of billions of US dollars. Who the hell would play normal competition with you at this level? In addition to conventional competition, there are also various kinds of competition behind the scenes.

Sometimes, things escalate to the point where they can lead to trade disputes, such as sanctions and counter-sanctions.

The competition between companies like Zhiyun Group and overseas conglomerates is vastly different from the business competition that ordinary people are familiar with.

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After concluding his trip to Guangcheng, Xu Shenxue stayed in Guangcheng for a few more days. This was mainly because many of Fairy Mountain Holdings' subsidiaries were located in Guangcheng, such as the headquarters of Nanjiang Technology. So every time he came to Guangcheng, he would take a walk around and take a look.

However, he didn't see much of it, and a few days later Xu Shenxue left Guangzhou and returned to Shenzhen...

However, shortly after returning to Shenzhen, he received news that executive teams from several high-tech companies in the United States were coming to Shenzhen.

The purpose of our visit is simple: to finalize the order for the next-generation APO6000 graphics card!
The news that Zhiyun Group has officially started mass production of APO6000 graphics cards is not exactly a secret. Although no press conference was held and no official announcement was made, there was no secrecy involved either... and there was no need to keep it secret, since the APO6000 graphics cards will be sold to the public anyway.

Therefore, the news about the APO6000 graphics card is not a secret to these large companies, as they have their own sources of information.

After learning the news, they also tried to contact Zhiyun Group through ordinary channels to request the purchase of APO6000 graphics cards. However, the APO6000 graphics cards had not yet been officially released, and there was no plan to sell them to the public at this time. The initial production capacity of the APO6000 graphics cards was to fully meet the needs of Zhiyun Group before considering external sales.

This timeline will likely be completed around the end of the year!
However, large companies like Google, upon hearing that Zhiyun Group had developed another excellent product, were naturally not going to be foolish enough to wait six months until Zhiyun Group officially began selling the APO6000 graphics card before placing their orders!

By then, the daylilies would have gone cold, and the production capacity would have been snapped up long ago.

These few companies aren't the only ones on Earth that need high-performance, top-tier computing graphics cards. Every reputable high-tech company in the world is procuring them...

These days, it's quite common for high-tech companies to be involved in artificial intelligence... Internet companies want to use artificial intelligence to drive the upgrading and development of their various businesses, and some related hardware companies want to train models for vertical fields to be applied to the hardware field.

Even if you can't create your own AI model, there's still the GTAI series from Zhiyun Group, which is free and open source, as well as a bunch of other open source models, including robot models!

No problem if you're not familiar with AI. Zhiyun Group has prepared various AI models for you. You just need to purchase an APO graphics card, and then you can directly deploy GTAI or run other large open-source models. Earlier this year, Zhiyun Group also released the latest version of GTAI, 4.6, with further performance improvements, surpassing even the performance of other companies' self-developed large-scale generative AI!

GTAI and other open-source models have significantly reduced the cost and technical barriers to developing artificial intelligence for a large number of companies worldwide.

It's very simple to do artificial intelligence now. As long as you have money, you can buy a new APO card and then directly deploy the free and open-source large model of Zhiyun.

This refers not only to internet companies or some emerging innovative companies, but also to a large number of traditional manufacturing companies and other industries... The application of artificial intelligence is actually very extensive.

It can be used in almost all industries, thereby saving certain costs, improving production efficiency, or enhancing the performance of service products.

Therefore, developing artificial intelligence is essential right now!

What happens then?
A large number of companies worldwide are seeking to purchase APO graphics cards.

Under such circumstances, even with a large production capacity, Zhuyun Group's top-tier APO graphics cards, such as the APO5000 and the APO6000 which have not yet been released to the public, would not be enough...

Otherwise, so many companies wouldn't have opted for the APO4600S graphics card as a second choice, and some small businesses wouldn't have even used the APO4500M graphics card instead.

It's not just because it's cheap, but also because they can't buy high-performance graphics cards!
This is also why executives from Google, Microsoft, and many other American companies wanted to come and visit Xu Shenxue as a group... It's very simple, they wanted to secure the export production capacity of APO6000 in advance.

Moreover, they didn't come alone; they formed a so-called official trade delegation and came as members... After all, this involves a massive purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars, and it is also a major purchase that affects the global layout of the artificial intelligence field, which is enough to rise to the official level.

The other party's emphasis on artificial intelligence, and its willingness to spend huge sums of money to continue purchasing APO graphics cards on a large scale, has raised concerns among some people: Will continuing to allow these American companies to purchase APO series top-of-the-line graphics cards on a large scale challenge our huge leading position in artificial intelligence?

In response to these concerns, Xu Shenxue even made a special trip to Beijing to provide answers.

In his answer, Xu Shenxue listed the current situation of the United States in the semiconductor field, pointing out that although the United States is not doing very well in the field of server GPUs, there are still a few companies that have produced corresponding products, such as AMD's MC series graphics cards!

In this timeline, AMD, influenced by the early AI wave spearheaded by Zhiyun Group, had already begun developing data center GPUs, also known as AI chips or computing graphics cards, many years ago.

One of their better examples is the MC series graphics cards released in 17.

However, their MC series graphics cards are far inferior to Zhiyun's APO graphics cards in terms of both performance and ecosystem, resulting in extremely low market competitiveness.

How low is it? Even AMD, which is developing its own artificial intelligence, uses APO graphics cards...

Unfortunately, their locally deployed AI is also GTAI, and GTAI requires APO graphics cards, leaving them with no other option.

Of course, they didn't use it directly, but rather indirectly used a subsidiary to cover their tracks.

I didn't dare use it publicly; I couldn't bear the embarrassment.

They are a company that makes data center GPUs, and their MC series graphics cards have long been touted as the main competitor of Zhiyun APO graphics cards. If they were to publicly use APO graphics cards, they would be contradicting themselves!
It's okay to fight, but we can't let the whole world know about it!
However, despite the poor performance and even worse ecosystem of this AMD MC graphics card, it is still a proper data center GPU.

Its latest model, the MC350, also uses a 7nm process, HBM2 memory, and 3D packaging technology to package 64GB of memory...

Although its pure hardware performance is far inferior to that of the APO5000 graphics card, it is still comparable to that of the APO4600S graphics card.

However, given this level of performance and its extremely poor ecosystem, the market response has been very small, and the market prospects are bleak!
However... although this thing is inferior, it really exists!
If Zhiyun Group doesn't sell them APO graphics cards, a whole bunch of American companies will start buying AMD graphics cards on a large scale in no time... It's better than nothing, the ecosystem can be built up slowly.

We can't just say we'll stop working on artificial intelligence without APO graphics cards!
Therefore, it is unrealistic to think that blocking APO graphics cards can restrict the United States from developing artificial intelligence!

In the hardware field, there is another very important point: the core computing power source for Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence is no longer traditional electronic chips, but quantum computers.

Simply using APO graphics cards, even a sufficient number of APO6000 graphics cards... cannot match the computing power of Zhiyun Group's quantum computer plus APO graphics cards!

This has nothing to do with the amount of computing power on the surface. Rather, it is because, through years of research and development, Zhiyun Group has been able to utilize the many unique characteristics of quantum computers to train and develop smarter and more advanced big data models, which are the series of big data models that Zhiyun Group is currently using.

This type of big data model cannot be trained using APO graphics cards alone.

Therefore, Xu Shenxue believes that in the pure hardware field, large-scale sales of APO graphics cards, even APO6000 graphics cards, are unlikely to pose any real threat to Zhiyun Group.

Even if there is concern about this, production capacity can be used as an excuse to control the other party's computing power.

Besides the advantages in hardware, Xu Shenxue believes that the advantages in software are even greater... The global success of APO graphics cards is not simply due to their good performance and high cost-effectiveness in computing power, but rather because of their developed and comprehensive software ecosystem.

From open-source large models like GTAI to YUDA, a unified GPU development architecture, APO is given extremely high efficiency and a low barrier to entry when training artificial intelligence.

This is the ecological advantage that Zhuyun Group has painstakingly accumulated over the years.

If Zhiyun stops exporting APO graphics cards, it will force others to build their own ecosystem. To exaggerate a bit, they could perfect the entire ecosystem in just a few years... And during this process, AMD's management will be laughing all the way to the bank!
AMD has put in a lot of effort and worked on its ecosystem for many years without success... and then Zhiyun generously gave its ecosystem to AMD... Is this doing a good deed?

Regarding software advantages, Xu Shenxue also emphasized that Zhiyun Group is at least twenty years ahead of its competitors in the core underlying algorithm field of artificial intelligence!

This twenty-year period is even a bit conservative...

Because the core algorithm is based on mathematics, and mathematics cannot be improved by time.

Math is either you know it or you don't...

It doesn't mean that the amount of money or time invested by the other party will result in outstanding mathematical achievements... There are no equations here.

If they want to achieve a level similar to the core AI underlying algorithms of Zhiyun Group, first of all, they need a Professor Lin Andong, who has been holding an SS-level research position for many years.

Professor Lin Andong, who holds an SS-level research position, has a mind that far exceeds the limits of human beings.

A brain of this caliber is simply impossible for humanity to achieve at its current level of evolution; it is purely a mystical product driven by research quotas.

Therefore, it's impossible for the other side to have their own Professor Lin Andong, not even for the next hundred or two hundred years... How could something that doesn't exist in reality possibly exist!
Unless, of course, the other side also obtains a research system!
Without a superhuman scientist like Professor Lin Andong, they wouldn't be able to develop similar underlying algorithms... and without similar algorithms, no matter how many APO6000 graphics cards they have, they will never be able to develop artificial intelligence capabilities similar to those of Zhiyun Group.

After Xu Shenxue explained, he suggested continuing with dumping as the main strategy... Suppression will not stop the other party's development; on the contrary, it will stimulate the other party's development!

Continuing to shout about globalization while dumping computing power chips is the true way to impose technological blockades!

If you continue dumping for another ten or eight years, until the other side completely loses its computing chip industry chain and related talent... then you can consider blocking them then.

If we impose a blockade, it will make things extremely difficult for the other side.

As for now, the other party will only be upset for a short while, and will recover quickly.

After the symposium, Xu Shenxue returned to Shenzhen... Not long after, representatives of executives or senior management from American high-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft visited Shenzhen. After making a show of it outside, this group went directly to Shenzhen to meet with Xu Shenxue.

One side wants to continue dumping computing chips, while the other wants to lock in orders for the APO6000 graphics card!
The atmosphere at the meeting was naturally quite friendly, and Xu Shenxue even invited them to a dinner party at Zhihai Garden.

A few days later, Zhiyun Group, a listed company, also promptly announced related major news, stating that Zhiyun Group had reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation plan with many American high-tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, and Tesla. The two sides will continue to maintain in-depth cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and have reached a procurement plan totaling more than 50 billion US dollars!

Meanwhile, these American companies also issued announcements one after another. After all, they are also listed companies, and such large-scale graphics card procurement requires timely public notification.

This collaboration also brought Zhuyun Group's new generation APO6000 graphics card into the public eye for the first time!

Although the specific performance parameters are unknown to outsiders, the responses from some of the American company executives who were interviewed contained various praises of the APO6000 graphics card.

And more importantly, judging from the huge purchase orders from these American companies, the performance of this APO6000 graphics card is probably quite extraordinary.

After all, this is a mega-deal worth 50 billion US dollars... Although it's the sum of many orders from multiple companies, it's still quite staggering.

What kind of graphics card could possibly make Google and a bunch of other American companies go crazy and spend 50 billion US dollars?

(End of this chapter)