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Chapter 244 Is the other side anxious?

For Zheng Xiwen, it was great news that Qiao Yu had let go of this mess, and it also made him feel relieved.

Regardless of whether it was because he leaked the information that Qiao Yu learned that he had a biological father abroad, the matter has finally passed and all the information can be temporarily sealed.

To be honest, Qiao Yu acted indifferent about what happened to the overseas family these two days, but Zheng Xiwen felt under tremendous pressure, as if he was a sinner.

If he hadn't said that, so many things wouldn't have happened, and there wouldn't have been so many surprises. The most important thing was that Zheng Xiwen didn't quite understand Qiao Xi's thoughts.

To be honest, although Qiao Xi gave Zheng Xiwen a very good impression, it was not only because of her appearance, but more importantly, a woman who had been baptized by time had a kind of gentle temperament that was not pretentious or artificial.

However, although this woman usually seems gentle and harmless, after reading her file, you will find that she can be quite scary when she becomes cruel.

Although there are only two people in the family now, none of them is easy to bully. From this point of view, Feng Yu's family is not unjustly unlucky, but Zheng Xiwen does not want to be buried with this family.

So this is naturally the best thing to do. As for the life and death of that family...it's just an American family, it's none of his business.

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Yanbei University, Shaoyuan Hotel, Building 9, Room 307. This is the room where Zheng Zefeng stayed when he came to take the project team qualification exam. At this time, several professors were already sitting in the room.

After meeting Qiao Yu yesterday, he realized that he had misunderstood these professors. After returning from visiting Zhang Shuwen, he opened his heart and took the initiative to start chatting with several other professors who were engaged in physics and algorithm research.

I can only say that Zheng Zefeng is still very friendly. In just one night, he had a good chat with everyone.

In addition, in this small group, Zheng Zefeng is the oldest, has a handsome appearance, and a relatively rich resume. In addition, he had a good chat with Qiao Yu yesterday, so he naturally has a kind of momentum.

Unconsciously, he became the core figure of this temporary small group. Of course, this was also related to his apprenticeship with Zhang Shuwen.

It would be fine if Zhang Shuwen was just a professor at Princeton before, and he would have no control over China.

But now Zhang Shuwen is already the deputy director of the Huaqing Yuan Zhengxin Mathematical Research Center. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yuan Zhengxin called him back to take over the future of the Huaqing Mathematical Research Center.

In addition, Qiao Yu and Hua Qing have a close relationship. Especially since Qiao Yu's mother is Mr. Yuan's last student, this relationship is particularly important.

When going through important moments in life, especially when one is uncertain about the future, it is human nature to unconsciously turn to authority for psychological comfort.

So when they learned the next day that Qiao Yu had suddenly started negotiating with a large foreign technology company and had come up with such incredible news, they consciously gathered in Zheng Zefeng's room.

It's not just for the sake of watching the show, but mainly because I'm worried that something like this will happen suddenly when the project is being established, which will delay the establishment of this project.

This is a strategic key research project of the National Natural Science Foundation. Qiao Yu actually wants to cooperate with those large foreign technology companies? Will the higher-ups agree to this?

Of course, this level of international scientific and technological cooperation has happened before. But the situation this time is obviously different. Instead of starting from scratch, Qiao Yu has already produced some interim results, and has even threatened the stability of the other financial market.

Considering the current international situation, this seems a bit willful.

To put it bluntly, everyone is afraid that the project leader's willfulness will affect the establishment of the project team.

As for the later revelation about Qiao Yu's biological father, it turned out to be a professor at Berkeley...

Well, everyone actually wants to gossip about this news. After all, Qiao Yu is definitely a well-deserved top star in the global mathematics community.

But the worry about the future still makes them suppress their interest in gossip. It's a pity that they can't even enjoy the gossip.

"Professor Zheng, do you think we can really announce the selected candidates tomorrow as planned?"

The question was asked by Zhang Xiaoli, a researcher at the Institute of Quantum Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This opportunity is also extremely important to him. After all, no one in scientific research wants to be left behind. In particular, Zhang Xiaoli is facing a dilemma recently, as a large amount of the institute's resources are devoted to hardware, namely the research of quantum chips.

Zhang Xiaoli's main research direction is the research on quantum computing architecture and quantum simulation algorithms, but the laboratory does not provide much support in this regard.

In addition, Qiao Yu's Qiao Yu modal space has already led the entire track. If I can't join the project team this time, I will most likely be further marginalized when I return to the institute in the future, and then I will be mediocre for the rest of my life.

This is absolutely unacceptable and totally unworthy of his more than 20 years of study and research.

After all, he was selected into the national high-level talent program and obtained the title of researcher. People who have seen the scenery from a high place find it much harder to accept mediocrity than ordinary people.

Of course, for everyone else at the scene, the experience was similar.

These people were probably more afraid of any accidents happening in this project, because everyone knew that it was not Qiao Yu who needed them, but they who needed Qiao Yu.

When there was no team, Qiao Yu was able to use the new algorithm to complete the calculation of super-large Mersenne primes. From this point of view, even without the assistance of the team, Qiao Yu could ultimately achieve the project goals on his own.

It just takes longer. But considering Qiao Yu's age, this problem is not a problem at all. After all, a seventeen-year-old still has a lot of time to waste.

But they are different. Their average age is already close to 40. They can no longer enjoy the preferential treatment for young scientists when applying for projects, and now they have encountered bottlenecks in their lives. In short, they don’t have many years to waste.

"Don't worry. I met Dr. Qiao yesterday, and he told me that the list would be officially released as scheduled. So this matter must have been reported to the higher-ups.

Although Dr. Qiao is young, he knows how to handle these things. Moreover, he has Academician Tian and Professor Yuan to help him check. The fact that these two did not object shows that they have reached a consensus with the foundation. "

Zheng Zefeng answered calmly.

After meeting Qiao Yu yesterday, he felt that he had a great chance of being selected.

According to Qiao Yu, even if we only look at his grades, he is still the best in the mathematics category, not to mention his relationship with Zhang Shuwen.

The most important thing is, although he only talked a few words with Qiao Yu yesterday, he felt that he handled it well.

Especially Qiao Yu’s abrupt question at the end.

He didn't understand it at the time, but after learning about Professor Frank today, Zheng Zefeng has come to his senses.

There was the argument that bad people cannot have good rewards, and there was also the idea of ​​terminating cooperation with Berkeley... Fortunately, he did not express any opposition at the time and fully took Qiao Yu's feelings into consideration.

"That's good. It would be bad if an accident happened at this critical juncture." Professor Luo Qixun, who was sitting next to Zheng Zefeng, echoed.

This person registered as an NLP algorithm engineer and was selected into the team. He came from an organization that Qiao Yu was relatively familiar with, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

My main work in the institute is the research and development of algorithms related to natural language processing.

After learning that Qiao Yu’s project required relevant algorithm engineers, I signed up immediately and was fortunately passed the review.

But Luo Qixun was probably the most unsure of all. After all, his current work content did not fully match the requirements of the project at this stage.

But since I've been chosen, I must come.

After all, quantum computing is more than just a SHOR algorithm, which is used to do boring things like cracking passwords.

If the future develops well, electronic computers will be able to simulate millions of bits of calculations, and can also be used to develop general artificial intelligence, which is the legendary AGI.

His work experience will come in handy then.

Of course, even now, Luo Qixun feels that he can make a lot of contributions to the project. He has been working on algorithms for many years and has also studied quantum algorithms, but it will take some time to pick it up again.

"I think what Professor Zheng said is right. We are too concerned about the project. If there is any problem with the project, we will definitely issue a notice as soon as possible.

For such a big project, Dr. Qiao can’t make a decision alone without someone’s endorsement. So, instead of worrying about these things, you might as well think about whether you can join the project team! ”

"Hey……"

When this issue was mentioned, everyone started to have a headache again.

It has been many years since they had such an anxious experience for the exam results. Usually they graded their own graduate students, but who would have thought that at this age they would have to experience the anxiety before the exam results were released.

Speaking of this, Zheng Zefeng didn't know what to say.

Although he felt that he had great hope, before the final result came out, even his former mentor Zhang Shuwen did not dare to guarantee that he would be selected, and just asked him to do his best.

"Hey, everyone, check out this news. Microsoft's official website announced early this morning that it will hold a product launch conference tomorrow to officially release Majorana, the most advanced new state of matter quantum chip."

"Microsoft? They seem to have been working on topological quantum chips? Have they succeeded?"

"That should be the case. But we won't know the specific technology used until it is officially released, right? What a coincidence, isn't it? They chose this critical moment to release this technology urgently. Did the talks with Dr. Qiao fall through, or did they reach an agreement?"

"Let me see." Hearing this, Zheng Zefeng's heart moved, and he took the initiative to move over to take a closer look.

This is news released by China Science and Technology Network. This kind of official media will definitely not forward news without definite information.

Of course, it is impossible that it is just a random forwarding. After all, there are screenshots of Microsoft's official website in the news.

Someone has already logged into Microsoft's official website and quickly saw this message.

After all, it is the latest release, and you can click on it on the homepage.

"This was announced at 5:10 in the morning? Just two hours ago? A product launch conference was held at 10 o'clock? This was totally unprepared? Has Microsoft's stock price fallen sharply recently?"

"It's not just Microsoft. All the high-tech companies that have recently deployed quantum computing have seen their share prices fall sharply. Only Apple, which did not deploy in advance, saw the smallest drop. Who would have thought that being too inexperienced could become an advantage in maintaining stock prices?"

"It seems like they are eager to show off their muscles? This is obviously targeting our research project, right? I guess they didn't reach an agreement with Dr. Qiao, so they are trying to increase their leverage. Otherwise, they wouldn't release the latest results so suddenly."

"Haha, doesn't this just prove that Dr. Qiao has put too much pressure on them? Oh, by the way, I remember Microsoft published a paper in Nature last year about their latest quantum chip architecture, which used a new material. Why not look up the literature and take a look?"

A breaking news successfully attracted the attention of these people. From this, we can see that although the final project admission list has not yet been announced, these professors and researchers have already regarded themselves as part of the project team.

In particular, the timing of the other party's new product release was obviously very targeted, which made the discussion on the spot even more heated.

Since they were all professionals, they quickly found a series of papers on quantum chip technology published by Microsoft in recent years from the literature retrieval database.

And through these papers, we quickly sorted out the development context.

"This is completely different from our photon quantum route. The topological architecture of semiconductor indium arsenide and superconductor aluminum is built layer by layer. This involves atomic-level operations. This technology should be difficult to mass produce, right? It will take a long time for commercial applications."

"Well, there is no fixed timeline for the commercialization of quantum computers. But the details will depend on what is said at the press conference later.

The announcement said that Nadella will host the product launch himself, which shows that Microsoft still attaches great importance to this launch. Why don’t we wait and see together?”

"Yes, we can show some concern. I just don't know if Dr. Qiao has received the news. I think, with Dr. Qiao's temper, he would definitely not tolerate this."

“Hahaha… maybe Dr. Qiao is already rubbing his hands and planning to do something big again.

Why are you looking at me like that? I have studied Dr. Qiao's resume. Every time someone wants to make trouble and overshadow him, he always makes some noise..."

As the few people chatted, they all felt more relaxed.

After all, this is not the first time that the other side has hyped up quantum hardware. As early as 2019, Google announced that its Sycamore processor had achieved quantum supremacy by performing random circuit sampling calculations in 200 seconds versus years.

But until now, quantum computing has not become the world's mainstream computing model.

Including machine learning training, large language models, machine vision, and AI training, the mainstream is still the classic computers using binary.

But Qiao Yu's simulated quantum computing actually calculated two super Mersenne primes, which means that it has potential for application...

It seems that the other party is anxious?

(End of this chapter)