Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 154 [Test aircraft flight test]

Two days later, on December 12, Cyera-AI received a large amount of financing, becoming another unicorn-level startup and was favored by venture capital institutions.

Not only did it skip the angel round of financing and start the A round of financing, but the scale of financing also caused a sensation in the industry. The A round of financing directly won US$5 million. It was very rare in the industry to win US$5 million in the first investment.

What is even more rare is that the valuation reached US$35 billion, which means that the A round of financing obtained US$5 million, and the equity transferred by Cyera-AI was less than 15%, which is extremely rare in the industry.

This is all because Peter Vitas, the incarnation controlled by Xiao Yu as the founder of the company, painted a big picture for several major venture capital institutions.

The AI of Cyera-AI, which was just launched not long ago, is already significantly ahead of its peers in North America. Such strength has made venture capital institutions very excited about the future blueprint described by "Peter Vitas".

Another important reason is that the capital groups in Beimei desperately need a genius to fight against Xiao Yu on the other side of the ocean, and the sudden appearance of "Peter Vitas" made them very excited.

The venture capital institutions participating in the Series A financing are also very luxurious. The leading venture capital institution is Thrive-Capital, which focuses on investments in the fields of Internet, software development, technology and media. It was famous for its early investment in Instagram.

Moreover, Thrive-Capital had already invested in Open-AI in its early stages and continued to increase its investment in subsequent rounds of financing.

This time, they also chose to bet on Cyera-AI, a company founded by Peter Vitas, who is Xiao Yu's incarnation. In the total A round of financing of US$5 million, Thrive-Capital led the investment with US$2.65 million, accounting for more than half of this round of financing.

In addition, Microsoft followed with an investment of US$1 million, Nvidia also invested US$6000 million, and several institutions including Fidelity Investments, Sequoia Capital, MGX, Accel, Redpoint, etc. also followed with an investment.

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At the same time, in Linzhou City.

AVIC's prototype aircraft will also enter the superconducting levitation test. All preparations have been completed, and the first superconducting levitation flight test will officially begin tomorrow, December 12.

In fact, the test could have been done the day before yesterday, but Xiao Yu adjusted and postponed it for two days, setting it on this special day, December 12th.

In fact, Jiang Heng and other participants in the "Shenlong" project team did not want to set this date, but they were worried that it would be bad if the car overturned. Although they were confident, they were not absolutely 100% sure that there would be no overturn.

But Xiao Yu was obviously full of confidence, so he decisively decided to set the date as December 12th.

Others are not absolutely sure, but he is absolutely sure because he is personally in charge of this project.

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The next day, the morning of December 12th.

At the AVIC Linfei R&D base, an aircraft that was a size larger than the J-20 fighter was seen slowly driving out of the hangar. It should be noted that the J-20 is a heavy fighter.

From an intuitive perspective, the biggest feature of this fighter-bomber is its delta wing, no vertical tail, the engine on its back, and the canards that are unique to fighter jets from Eastern powers. There is still a cockpit at the nose, but the interior of the cabin cannot be seen.

The so-called cockpit is actually a disguised deception, which is to make others, especially some foreign intelligence organizations, see it and believe that it is a manned fighter jet, thereby achieving the purpose of hiding important real information about the aircraft.

The difference between manned and unmanned aircraft is huge. If the opponent misjudges this, it will make a greater misjudgment of the fighter and formulate a wrong response strategy.

This aircraft is the predecessor of the "Shenlong" fighter, the initial prototype test aircraft.

Although it is not fully electric and the aircraft is equipped with a lot of antique technology, this test is only to test the aircraft's superconducting levitation and vertical take-off and landing. Other technologies are not included in the test mission process, otherwise it would not be possible to complete the test so quickly.

However, the aerodynamic layout and appearance will basically not change, and the future "Shenlong" fighter will most likely look like this when it is finalized.

Because this is the result of Xiao Yu's multiple simulations and corrections based on the aircraft and technology of the Blue Star World using a quantum computer. It means that Xiao Yu has almost finished the design in the Blue Star World, and then goes through the process on Earth.

At that time, the wind tunnel test and other things will be tested again, and for Xiao Yu, the result must be expected. The appearance of this plane is quite cool and full of science fiction. Just from the outside, you can't tell that the inside of the plane is made up of a bunch of antique technologies from Earth.

At this moment, at the aerial center of the R&D base, under manual remote control, the test aircraft slowly drove out of the hangar on the ground and arrived at an outdoor take-off and landing platform.

Driving it outdoors is actually for others to see. Although the R&D base of AVIC Linzhou is far away from the center of Linzhou City and located in the suburbs, there are still many eyes watching nearby, including some who are gathering intelligence.

At this moment, a young man was sitting on his balcony on the 15th floor of a residential building far away.

The man just got a Huawei M50Pro mobile phone today and is experiencing the camera function of this phone. The M50Pro has a x hybrid zoom capability and can shoot at a very long distance.

At this moment, the young man is using this function. The balcony of his house just faces the AVIC Linfei R&D Center.

He suddenly had an idea, and out of curiosity he zoomed in on the R&D base of AVIC Linfei. Coincidentally, he happened to capture the prototype that had just driven out of the room.

“What the hell—?”

When the young man saw the prototype captured on the mobile phone screen, he suddenly exclaimed, and the picture disappeared as soon as his hand shook. Because the distance was too far, the prototype was no longer in the picture as soon as his hand shook slightly.

He quickly refocused and found the prototype again. After confirming that he was not mistaken, he exclaimed again: "What the hell! What the hell is this? What kind of plane is this? AVIC Linfei has made a plane so quickly? Is it going to test fly?"

The young man exclaimed, "Wow!" and realized that he had captured something incredible.

"Wow! This plane is so cool!" The young man exclaimed while taking pictures and looking at it.

The higher the appearance of a fighter jet, the more likely it is to have a poor combat capability. If the appearance is too poor, it will often be directly eliminated. The most typical example is the old Boeing X-32. The biggest reason why it lost to the fat electric F-35 is that it is extremely ugly.

"How can we take off without a runway? Do we have to fly out of this R&D base and somewhere else?" At this moment, the young man was curious and confused.

This research and development base of AVIC Linfei Company does not have an aircraft take-off runway, because superconducting levitation vertical take-off and landing does not require a take-off runway at all, only a take-off and landing platform is needed.

Just as the young man was confused for a moment, a moment later he was shocked again.

"What? It just lifted off vertically like that?"

He was so shocked by the scene before his eyes that his eyes widened. The camera captured the picture that the prototype seemed to violate the laws of physics or was equipped with anti-gravity technology. It actually rose vertically on the spot and moved very smoothly.

Unlike the old magnesium F-35 fighter, part of the power of the main engine is transferred to the lift fan, causing it to rotate and eject jets downward to help the aircraft overcome gravity and take off vertically.

This prototype does not rely on engines to overcome gravity at all, and it can be seen intuitively that it floats upwards so cleanly and neatly.

When the prototype was floating up in the air at the take-off and landing platform, the landing gear was slowly retracted into the belly of the aircraft, and it then quietly hovered at a height of several dozen meters above the ground, and its floating state was extremely stable.

Moreover, there was no strong wind on the ground like when a helicopter takes off and lands. This can be judged from the staff working near the take-off and landing platform. Their clothes obviously did not seem to be blown by the strong wind.

"Fuck, this is so fucking awesome, this is science fiction coming to life."

At this moment, it was not only the young man who was stunned, but also the other witnesses were all shocked by the scene.

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(End of this chapter)