Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 161 [Substantial progress in negotiations with the Magnesium people]

Around 16: in the afternoon, in the chairman’s office at Lingjing Technology headquarters.

"Mr. Xiao, the tug-of-war in negotiations with the Magnesians finally reached a substantive agreement today. The Magnesians finally agreed." Xu Changming entered the office to report the progress of the matter to Xiao Yu.

Just this morning, Xu Changming held the fifth round of negotiations with the magnesium people on the graphene material transaction and finally reached a consensus.

Faced with Lingjing Technology's unyielding attitude, the Chinese compromised this time and accepted Xu Changming's two core conditions, namely doubling the purchase price of graphene and resuming the supply of computing power resources to Lingjing Technology.

There is no other way. If the Chinese want to get the supply of graphene, they can only choose to compromise, because there is no second manufacturer in the world to replace it.

Xiao Yu nodded and said with satisfaction: "As computing power resources continue to be supplied, the user restrictions for AI Mirror can be lifted in the second half of this year."

At present, AI Xiaojing still maintains a maximum online rate of 5000 million users. This is not the limit of AI Xiaojing, but is limited by the lack of computing resources. In order not to affect the user experience, it actively limits the maximum number of users who can use AI Xiaojing at the same time to 5000 million.

If the restrictions are lifted, it will definitely be able to easily exceed 2.75 million, because the total number of registered users of AI Xiaojing has now reached 10 million, which is already a super application. It has set such a terrifying number of registered users in just one year. It is definitely a super platform with a user base of billion.

After a while, Xiao Yu added: "Of course, the cooperation on domestic substitution will continue. We will only use Laomei's computing power chips for now, and eventually we will have to replace them independently. We have communicated this with several partners. We will do both, so don't let them worry."

Hearing this, Xu Changming nodded and said, "I understand."

The more computing power resources, the better, but they will never be enough. It can be said that before the advent of quantum computers, they will never be enough.

The result of the negotiation with Laomei this time is that from 2023, 20% of Lingjing Technology's graphene production capacity will be supplied to companies in Beimei, among which Apple is prominently on the list.

In terms of graphene material production capacity, Lingjing Technology continues to maintain a doubling trend every year, and the comprehensive production capacity will increase to 2023 tons in 1. Magnesium has secured a 20% quota, which is a comprehensive production capacity of 2000 tons.

Moreover, the price has doubled, which means that the money earned from selling 2000 tons to the magnesium countrymen is equivalent to the same amount of money earned from selling 4000 tons domestically.

There is no doubt that Lingjing Technology's performance this year will exceed expectations again.

However, it is worth mentioning that Europeans are very angry because European companies did not get quotas.

Xiao Yu had no plan to sell and release more production capacity to foreigners, so he gave 2000 tons to the Chinese, and the remaining 8000 tons of production capacity was consumed by major industrial manufacturers in the mainland, and it was still not enough.

There is no way. The total market demand is simply too huge. Even if the production capacity is increased to 1 tons this year, the market in Greater China alone is still in short supply.

The current situation is that everyone has to place orders in advance, sign contracts in advance, and pay first before delivery. Those who have accounts payable don't even get a turn because there are too many companies in the industry vying for the goods. The smartphone segment alone can easily consume thousands of tons. The situation of too many wolves and too little meat will continue for several years.

European companies are very anxious because they can't get the goods, but they just can't get the goods. In fact, the Chinese have cheated the Europeans. The previous rounds of negotiations were conducted in secret, and the outside world is still unaware of this.

During the negotiations between the two parties, the Magnesium people made an additional request when they compromised, that is, Lingjing Technology must agree that if there is additional production capacity quota for export, it must give priority to North Magnesium. Only when North Magnesium can it no longer consume it can it be sold to other countries.

Xiao Yu and Xu Changming naturally knew what Lao Mei was up to. Ameli Ka wanted to be the "general agent" for the overseas export of Lingjing Technology's graphene materials. Apart from North America, the largest demand market in the global market is Europe.

Lao Mei wants to cheat a bunch of big enemies in Europe. He wants to buy goods from Lingjing Technology, and then sell them to the big enemies in Europe at a high price, making a profit from the middleman price difference for hedging.

It is really because Lingjing Technology has lowered the price too much, directly by 50 to times. Even if Laomei purchases the products at a premium of twice the cost and then increases the price by % to sell them to the European enemies, the price is still much lower than that of other graphene manufacturers.

Xiao Yu agreed to Lao Mei's condition, but the validity period was only two years, and he would decide whether to renew it after two years depending on the situation.

It is obviously impossible for Xiao Yu to sign a long-term contract at one time to allow Lao Mei to directly monopolize the overseas graphene sales for a long time. A Mei will serve as the "general agent" for two or three years at most, because Xiao Yu estimates that in about three years, the domestic substitution of computing power resources will be almost completed.

As for the Ouzhou people, they have been regarded as the main enemy for a long time. Ever since the fight between Big Goose and Ermao, the Ouzhou people have been the main enemy.

At this time, Xu Changming changed his topic and said, "There is another thing worth noting. A new AI company has emerged in Silicon Valley recently. It is called Cyera-AI. Its founder is Peter Vitas. It has raised $5 million in Series A financing. Many overseas venture capital institutions are very optimistic about this company."

Xu Changming paused for a moment, then looked at Xiao Yu and added: "We have also noticed this startup company and have experienced its AI products. They are not to be underestimated. They beat big companies like Open-AI from Laomei. According to the evaluation of our AI department, Cyera-AI's AI agent is second only to our AI Xiaojing in terms of its advanced level."

"Cyera-AI is likely to become a potential strong competitor of our AI Mirror. Its rise is quite fast, which can be said to be very amazing. Peter Vitas is now well-known in the Silicon Valley technology circle. It is said that many capital institutions in Beijing have high hopes for Cyera-AI to fight against AI Mirror. Beijing has compromised so quickly. I think this company has played a significant role."

Xu Changming obviously didn't know that the so-called Peter Vitas was a substitute for his immediate boss. It was normal for him not to know and not to think of it. If he knew, Xiao Yu would be upset.

At this moment, Xiao Yu remained calm when he heard him mention Peter Vitas and Cyera-AI. He nodded seriously and said, "Cyera-AI is indeed a rising force and a potential rival. We are now leading in the field of AI, so we should not be too careless. We should keep an eye on Cyera-AI. In my opinion, this company is likely to become our biggest competitor in the field of AI."

This was said in a serious tone, and Xu Changming on the side nodded very seriously, with no sign of anything unusual.

This is also good. Xiao Yu cannot do everything by himself. In the future, if he has to go to the front line to bring in more new technologies from the Blue Star World, he will not be able to take care of it. Obviously, he needs to delegate power and let his subordinates take charge.

At this time, having a strong external competitor can effectively prevent the subordinates from becoming arrogant and conceited.

If external competitors are not strong enough, then we can create a strong external competitor ourselves. The external pressure brought by Cyera-AI will give us a sense of urgency and prevent us from being too arrogant. It is a good supervision for our subordinates.

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(End of this chapter)