Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 67 [Promoting the first application of AI intelligent body]

The next day, at Lingjing Technology Headquarters.

"Entering the fields of AI and virtual reality, and also researching holographic imaging technology?" Xu Changming, who took over as CEO, was somewhat surprised to hear Xiao Yu's decision. He was currently discussing this matter in Xiao Yu's office.

Xiao Yu sat on the sofa and looked at Xu Changming: "The wave of artificial intelligence has arrived. In the foreseeable future, it will accelerate its entry into thousands of industries, empower hundreds of industries, and reshape thousands of industries. It will help power engineers repair circuits, help fire brigades conduct fire inspections, and even help scientists assist in scientific research. It will definitely become an efficiency multiplier and a new engine for development in many industries."

While saying this, Xiao Yu couldn't help but recall what he had seen and heard in the Blue Star world.

That is a world where artificial intelligence is highly developed. For example, the bionic humanoid robots of Vitas Industries are no different from humans in every way except that they are not human.

In fact, an important factor that makes the revolutionary road of the Red Tide organization on Blue Star extremely difficult is that the Kingdom of Heaven has a huge AI intelligent machine army, and the Red Tide warriors are fighting against the armed intelligent machine army of the Kingdom of Heaven almost with their flesh and blood.

If the Red Tide Army did not have its own captured supplies and armed intelligent equipment, the human warriors who relied solely on flesh and blood to fight against the armed robots would have been exhausted long ago.

Even if one person were to replace 1 armed intelligent combat units on the battlefield, such a casualty ratio would still be a huge loss for the Red Tide Army. As long as the Heavenly Kingdom's energy production was continuous, it would be endless, while every human soldier lost by the Red Tide Army would be one less.

But at this moment, Xu Changming said: "That's true, but this is not my company's specialty..."

Lingjing Technology started out as a manufacturer of precision components, and has since gradually expanded into semiconductor displays, new materials, micro-nano optical devices, robotics and automation equipment, etc.

In fact, the company has invested in the field of robotics for a long time, but it has not become the company's core business, the investment is not much, and it is hardware.

"Old Xu, you underestimate me. I'm an all-round player. I'm also good at playing AI." Xiao Yu said with a smile, his confident side was undoubtedly revealed. He suddenly stood up and took the tablet computer on the desk.

Xiao Yu handed it to Xu Changming and said with a smile: "This is a semi-finished product I have developed. I have already thought of the first application scenario. It is a universal AI assistant across devices."

Next, Xiao Yu gave Xu Changming a brief introduction and told him how to use this AI.

Xu Changming became more and more shocked, even unbelievable.

To put it simply, this tablet seems to be endowed with a "soul" or a virtual AI assistant inside.

Finally, Xiao Yu crossed his legs, looked at Xu Changming and smiled, "How is it? Old Xu, do you think it's going to work?"

Xu Changming put down the tablet and said without hesitation: "I have no objection. Even if you go all-in with AI, I have no objection. I will definitely support your decision."

Xiao Yu immediately made the decision: "Okay, it's settled that we're going to start a new business. We're going to allocate 300 billion yuan to buy a large amount of storage and computing resources as soon as possible. The company will purchase a supercomputer. If the budget is not enough, we can add more."

Xu Changming nodded and said, "No problem."

If Xiao Yu insisted on pushing forward before, he would support him but would reserve his personal opinion. But now he will not reserve his personal opinion and will give his full support.

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In the afternoon, the company's board of directors passed a resolution to develop new business and announced it in the evening. Lingjing Technology plans to invest a huge budget of 300 billion to enter the three major fields of AI, virtual reality technology and holographic imaging technology research and application.

At the same time, the company has further launched a large-scale expansion of its staff. Currently, the total number of employees in the company has expanded to 3200, more than double the number six months ago, and more than % of them are technical talents in the field.

The company is not short of money now. It has signed contracts with major downstream manufacturers. The goods have not been delivered yet, but many customers have already paid in advance.

There is no one who wants to hold back payment for goods, because those who want to hold back payment cannot sign the order at all. Lingjing Technology does not cooperate with such manufacturers at all. In a completely seller's market, buyers have no bargaining power.

At this time, we have to say that the military played a very important role. If there were no military procurement, those manufacturers would not dare to pay in advance.

What if Lingjing Technology just ran away with the money? Wouldn't we be dumbfounded?

But knowing that the military comes to you to place orders and purchase can, to a large extent, serve as a strong "endorsement". Others will not worry that you will run away with the money and can transfer the money to you with confidence.

However, after Lingjing Technology released this announcement, the capital market was shocked.

The market positions Xiao Yu's company as a new materials enterprise. Investors see its entry into areas such as AI and virtual reality as entering an unfamiliar field. The key is that the investment is terrifyingly large, with an astronomical investment budget of 300 billion yuan.

With such a huge investment, if it goes down the drain, it would be a real loss.

In addition, Lingjing Technology is still engaged in food processing and grain trading, and is even going astray to run supermarkets. Investors originally thought that it didn't matter, as food processing, grain trading and supermarkets were money-losing businesses. As long as the main graphene business made enough profit, any losses could be covered by the high profits of the main business, and it would not be a big problem.

But now the company is investing hundreds of billions of yuan at once to venture into an unfamiliar field. If it loses, the amount will not be small. It is possible that all the money earned from the company's main business will be lost. What will then support the company's current market value of 3500 billion yuan?
Some investors were worried that the annual report performance would be lower than expected and chose to sell stocks to avoid risks. As a result, the stock price, which was running at a high level, began to weaken. It was originally about to hit a new high, but in the end, it formed an M-head double top because of this news.

However, the fluctuation of stock price will not affect the company's development decisions. Xiao Yu does not care about the company's stock price now. He has absolute control over the company and will not sell his shares in the secondary market. The rise and fall of stock price has no impact on him and the company's development.

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In the following days, Xiao Yu actively promoted the implementation of the first application of AI intelligent body on Earth, and the operation of the company was handed over to Xu Changming.

Xiao Yu personally formed a development team with the recruited technical talents, and began to develop mobile APP applications and PC client applications for the AI intelligent body.

"Our AI assistant development process has reached 70% completion. The first version must be launched and open to users by March next year at the latest. Time is still very tight." Xiao Yu looked around at the members of the development team.

"The AI agent should have four basic capabilities," Xiao Yu said methodically: "Natural semantic understanding and computer vision, cross-application and cross-device operations within applications, user behavior habit learning and scene environment perception, and intention recognition and decision-making capabilities."

Xiao Yu continued, "With these four basic capabilities, our AI agent is already far ahead of the industry and the world. But our goal is not to stop there. Further optimization and improvement are still needed before the first official version is launched to users."

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(End of this chapter)