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Chapter 235 Da Ze Since Ancient Times
Late at night, Qiao Yu was busy.

The main consideration is the time difference of the financial sponsors and their distrust of the work efficiency of foreign executives.

Sacrificing some rest time in the early stage is also to be able to negotiate the benefits with the other party with more peace of mind in the future.

Qiao Yu has always felt that if one wants to be justified, one must at least give something first.

A little bit of rest time is within an acceptable range.

Of course, if cooperation can be achieved in the future, the other party should sacrifice their rest time to cooperate with him.

At this time, Qiao Yu was talking with John Martinis, head of Google's Google Quantum AI team, via remote video.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave the task of recruiting Qiao Yu to Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian.

Thomas Kurianze then entrusted the matter to John Martinis.

It’s not that Google doesn’t value Qiao Yu enough. In fact, it’s precisely because Google values ​​him too much that it delegates responsibility to lower levels.

There is no way Sundar Pichai can talk to Qiao Yu directly.

Although that would seem to be very important, it also means there is no room for any buffer.

If the talks fail, there will be no room for maneuver, unless the board of directors fires Sundar Pichai and replaces him with a new CEO.

Sundar Pichai would not worry about this. After all, the operational stability of a large company like Google is far more important than an ordinary technical talent.

In particular, changes in senior positions such as CEO will directly affect the company's stock price decisions.

But the technology Qiao Yu currently possesses is too worrying. The members who can enter the Google board of directors are all representatives of real capitalists.

These people are not interested in technology, but in capital.

This is why Google has been planning quantum computer research. In fact, not only Google, but also capital-led technology companies are researching these things.

After all, finance is the main battlefield of capital. Whoever masters the future quantum hegemony will be invincible in the financial battlefield.

You should know that the price-to-earnings ratios of these technology companies are basically maintained at more than 30 times, and some even exceed 50 times. This is where the real money is made.

The most important assets of these technology companies are their intellectual property rights, which are protected by law. A few office buildings cannot support a market value of trillions of dollars.

Once the first-mover advantage cannot be maintained, the blow will be so huge that the capital market will absolutely not be able to tolerate it.

Not to mention that what Qiao Yu currently has may change the overall structure of the financial market, and even directly affect the currently operating financial market.

This is absolutely intolerable for the board. Sundar Pichai knows this.

So unless it was too late to save the situation, he would not go down and talk to Qiao Yu in person. But he did give Thomas Kurian extremely high authority.

To put it simply, it can be summed up in four words: regardless of the cost.

However, for someone who can hold the position of senior vice president in a large company like Google, these four words obviously have to be discounted.

If the cost is really not a concern, the CEO can just come forward and negotiate on his own.

If the negotiations fail in this situation, then Qiao Yu’s conditions will be intolerable to the board of directors.

If he really had to negotiate a condition with Qiao Yu that the board of directors thought was unacceptable, he would have to take the blame for Sundar Pichai.

So the matter was delegated to John Martinis. It was reasonable for scientists to talk to mathematicians.

Of course, Thomas Kurian would definitely not say the words "regardless of the cost" to such a high-level technical expert.

He was afraid that John Martinis would really do anything, so he told John Martinis that he could negotiate with Google to increase the current salary and benefits structure by about 10%.

His sincerity is overwhelming, but there is also a ceiling. As long as the deal can be made, the treatment will not be too outrageous and will basically be the same as what he and Sundar Pichai had discussed before.

The remuneration structure of Google's key scientists is mainly based on bonuses and long-term incentive stock options. Compared with those incentives, salaries and the like are just a token of appreciation.

Of course, Qiao Yu could have more flexible working conditions. Thomas even hinted to John Martinis that he could allow Qiao Yu to use the Google X lab.

If this fails to attract Qiao Yu to join, Thomas believes that the board of directors will not blame him.

Moreover, after experiencing the panic in the capital market during this period, the capital giants behind the scenes have also discussed it.

Whether it is IBM, Microsoft, Intel, or Nvidia, the prices they can offer are similar.

Obviously this is a challenge for John Martinis.

The bosses were unwilling to offer a higher price, which meant that he needed to rely on his personal charm to win the opportunity to work with Qiao Yu in the future.

In a sense, John Martinis, Zheng Zefeng, and those professors who want to join Qiao Yu's project team have similar ideas.

If you want to stand at the forefront of the scientific community, you naturally have to follow the latest theories. Not to mention that the academic community itself has always had a tradition of genius worship.

Especially in mathematics, the worship and pursuit of genius is the first among all disciplines, and the only one that can compare with it is theoretical physics. But those who can play theoretical physics must be good at mathematics.

This can be seen from the textbooks. Whether it is domestic or foreign, go to any university and collect the old textbooks used by students.

As long as you are not a mathematics major, the mathematics-related textbooks are definitely the latest, and even many people's advanced mathematics textbooks are brand new.

This shows how unpopular mathematics is. Coincidentally, human nature often makes people yearn for things that they cannot learn...

This is probably the reason why various beliefs are prevalent in human society. After all, if you don’t understand something, just blame it on God.

Advanced mathematics happens to belong to such a realm of God. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just know how to worship it. There are always some people with abnormal IQ who will guide mankind.

It’s like in modern society everyone has a smartphone, but there is no need to care about the series of technical principles in the smartphone.

Fortunately, John Martinis found the conversation with Qiao Yu quite pleasant. He even thought Qiao Yu was humorous.

In fact, it is not easy for a Chinese teenager to make a pure American feel funny. After all, there are huge differences between Eastern and Western cultures.

"Haha, John, you know what we agree on? It's that we both agree that there's no point in getting something back without giving it back.

Just like we don't pray to God to make a lot of money. Money itself can't bring us any satisfaction.

What we pursue is nothing more than the value created by scientific research. It's just a pity that these values ​​need to be measured by money. Do you agree with me? "After the initial communication, Qiao Yu looked at the screen and gave his own opinion easily.

In the video, John Martinis smiled and responded: "Of course, Dr. Joe, I actually agree with you very much."

"It seems we have reached a consensus. So the question is, do you really think that a technology that can affect the global market value of trillions of dollars is only worth the conditions you proposed?
This is unrealistic. My research is very cutting-edge and can be said to determine the future development pattern to a certain extent. If Google really wants to hire me as a scientific advisor...

Well, if you want to provide effective guidance for your quantum computing projects in the future, the conditions you have given do not reflect the sincerity that should be there. "

After hearing what Qiao Yu said, John Martinis smiled and said, "Okay, then what do you want? Of course, my power is not that great.

However, your request is not too far beyond my authority. I think we can definitely reach a cooperation. Please believe me, and please believe Google. I come here with sincerity. "

Qiao Yu had obviously already thought about how to deal with it, and immediately replied: "In fact, if we really want to sign a strict intellectual property agreement as you said, I don't think it's realistic.

You may also know that I recently applied for a project on quantum computing and it has passed the review, which means that all relevant technical information will be strictly supervised.

So even if I promise, no one can predict the future development. And I am in China, even if I sign a contract, I cannot fully guarantee your interests. So I have an idea to get the best of both worlds, do you want to hear it? "

"Of course," John Martinis said immediately.

In fact, even if Qiao Yu didn't mention this, he would have brought it up later.

Google even regrets having pioneered the concept of quantum supremacy.

Given the current relationship between Dongda and Xida, if Qiao Yu really made some achievements in this area, it would be a hassle to effectively avoid censorship.

Of course, if Qiao Yu cooperated, there would be ways to circumvent the review. To achieve this goal, they were even willing to spend a lot of money to find someone to lobby those people in the White House.

In order to ensure that some deals can be reached with higher levels in China, this has also received the support and commitment of many bigwigs.

There is no way. It is difficult to strike at the real industry without starting a hot war. After all, this world is material. People need to buy various goods to meet their daily needs.

But it is too easy to attack the financial industry. All we need to do is destroy investors' confidence.

Therefore, in order to ensure that investors' confidence will not collapse due to new technologies, they are even willing to share technology with China and make concessions in some other aspects.

Although John Martinis didn't quite understand the details of the operation, at his level, he still understood the general direction of the operation.

He has now begun to think that if Qiao Yu really has a way to bypass higher-level scrutiny, perhaps he should persuade the higher-ups to offer better conditions.

"It's actually very simple. I only provide you with theoretical guidance and give you the correct theory. The specific technical research work will be the responsibility of your engineers.

Of course, since I only paid for some correct theories, I will not be greedy and continue to raise the price. You can just do as you said just now.

But you should know that this kind of theoretical guidance may not only come from Google. But I think this is also good for you. Competition leads to progress, don’t you think? ”

These words made John Martinis frown.

As a scientist in charge of a large project, John Martinis certainly knows how difficult it is to transform theory into technology.

To be honest, he didn't have much confidence.

Besides, shouldn’t theory itself be free? If they don’t buy it, will Qiao Yu not publish his paper?

"This... To be honest, Dr. Qiao, I don't quite understand what you mean. After all, there has never been such a precedent."

"No, no, no, you get it. To put it bluntly, I can provide Google with the extremely detailed mathematical derivation of the Qiaoyu modal space that guides quantum simulation calculations.

At the same time, I will help you train a group of engineers who can fully understand this theory. As for remote training, or you can send people to my project team in China for training, it is all fine.

These people will become the main force of Google's research on quantum simulation computing. I guess you must be wondering, why can't you wait for me to publish a paper so that your people can also fully understand this theory.

Unfortunately, on the one hand, the publication time of the relevant paper is still far away. At least I have no plan to publish a paper in the next two or three years, after all, there are still many things to be improved.

On the other hand, even if the paper is published, it will certainly not be as detailed as the information I gave you as a consultant. Many of the mathematical derivations in it are the key ideas for quantum simulation calculations.

So the papers I publish will hide this part. Instead, there will be detailed calculation data. So you know, this is a very cost-effective choice.

All in all, Google only needs to pay about 20 to 30 million US dollars each year, which is less than 5% of your net profit, and most of it is stocks with a three-year protection period.

You will get the latest theories, and the outstanding talents who will make the theories come true for many years to come! Maybe they will soon be able to implement this technology with our joint efforts! "

After saying that, Qiao Yu's expression softened, and he said in a more sincere tone: "John, whether you admit it or not, this is already the best solution! Do you know why I think so?

Because I think the world is on the wrong path! Science needs communication and the joint efforts of all scientists! Just like many of my inspirations were found through exchanges with mathematicians like Peter Schulz and Pierre Delini!

But now the world is moving towards closure! This is obviously wrong! We should all make our own efforts to make the world move towards integration!"

John Martinis was silent...

Well, he admitted that he was moved by Qiao Yu! And he felt that Qiao Yu was right.

Science requires communication. Just as Qiao Yu said, many of scientists' inspirations come from the collision of thoughts!
Although he did not go to Hua Xia Yanbei University to attend Qiao Yu's history-changing lecture, he had heard the story of Qiao Yu's interaction with Peter Schultz.

I also heard Peter Schultz's almost incredible evaluation of Qiao Yu and his performance during the entire lecture.

So he believed Qiao Yu's words almost immediately.

Yes, science needs communication, the world needs integration, and isolation is a dead end for all mankind...

"Okay, Qiao Yu, I think you're right. But I can't promise you anything right now. You know, your suggestion is too different from what we thought before.

But please believe me, I will report your idea to the president in charge right away. We have the same idea! You are right, this world needs integration, not confrontation. "

Qiao Yu's smile became more sincere.

I can only say that the face at the age of seventeen is too deceptive. All the little thoughts are hidden under that innocent face that is not worldly-wise.

Of course, Qiao Yu didn't think he was deceiving the honest people. The world fusion is a good concept, but he didn't say who would lead it?

The great integration of the world's people, led by Chinese civilization, has been the dream of China since the Qin Emperor and Han Emperor Wu!

(End of this chapter)