Xueba's computing system

Chapter 262: All-in on Short Selling
Lin Yuan shouted, "In fact, Musk has always been a traditional conservative, both in terms of ideology and behavior style."

“Although he seems to be a maverick, if you look at him, he never gets involved with LGBTQ or other monsters. The spirit of a tech geek is the pioneering spirit of the cowboys in the West who rode their horses with guns slung over their shoulders.

As for making money on a global scale, globalization and conservatives are not contradictory.

After globalization, conservatives can also collect technology taxes through hard-core technology, rather than controlling the media and taking a "luxury" route to collect technology taxes through packaging.

Therefore, the biggest disagreement between Musk and that group of people lies in the choice of the future path of the empire.

He insisted on the direct approach of opening up the West, while the other group adopted the strategy of differentiation and disintegration from a cultural level.

So the question then becomes one of dividing the camps along ideological lines.”

Lin Yuan stopped looking at the cards on the plastic board. "Musk wants to turn the empire back from its wrong path, so he must unite all forces that have no major ideological conflicts and crush those demons and monsters first.

This makes sense, so when the Silicon Valley technology forces represented by Facebook surrendered, the old boys at Mar-a-Lago gladly accepted it.

Therefore, Musk cannot start a new business on issues like OpenAI.

Because starting a new business would offend people like Gates.

The group of people represented by Gates do not have any fundamental conflict of interest with Musk, because for technology companies, the system of the Eagle Country does not affect their ability to make money.

Musk wants to make his empire strong, while his opponents want to destroy their opponents. In fact, there is no fundamental contradiction between the two sides on the issue of globalization.

So, I know the answer.”

After being enlightened by Zhang Yan, Lin Yuan has already analyzed the answer - in order to unite the technological forces, Musk cannot confront Gates and others on issues like OpenAI. So Lin Yuan needs to be the villain.

"In that case, I'll help him."

"What?" Zhang Yan was a little confused. "He tricked you, and you still want to help him? You wouldn't do that."

Lin Yuan smiled evilly, "Of course I will help him."

Zhang Yan instinctively sensed Lin Yuan's ill intentions, "Brother, are you being sarcastic?"

"No, I am not a person without vision. Isn't Musk trying to unite all forces to kill those LGBTQ monsters? Isn't he trying to revive the ambition of the empire? I am here to create some external pressure on him.

People cannot teach people, but things can teach people once they are taught.

Musk made a mistake. Why should I be the villain to promote open source? Just create a strong opponent outside and force the people around him to improve.

It's the catfish effect."

Zhang Yan understood the catfish effect, but she didn't know what Lin Yuan was going to do specifically. "Brother, what on earth do you want to do?"

"I'm just sitting around doing nothing." Lin Yuan sighed and looked around. For his own safety, he couldn't even leave the main door. There were even people squatting on the high ground around him all year round. He and Zhang Yan had to draw the curtains and turn off the lights before they could do anything.

And the noise couldn't be too loud, because the upstairs and downstairs had already been cleared out and the security team had moved in.

"Since you've gone to so much trouble to protect me, I'll return the favor." "Are you going to hand over something of value to the country?"

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. It's too troublesome. I don't want to deal with all kinds of experts and scholars. I'd better look around the domestic AI circle and find a more reliable company to cooperate with."

According to Lin Yuan’s idea, the best way to put some external pressure on Musk is to give OpenAI a slap in the face.

Giving a few harsh slaps to this thing that is actually closeai not only avenges Musk's previous betrayal, but also actually helps the other party.

Moreover, Lin Yuan can also make a lot of money. Because the AI industry on the other side of the strait has formed a complete industrial chain, including companies like OpenAI that make large language models and companies like NVIDIA that make hardware GPUs.

Although OpenAI has only a valuation and has not yet gone public, NVIDIA's market value has exceeded 3 trillion US dollars.

A hard blow to OpenAI could easily affect other companies in the AI industry chain. Therefore, Lin Yuan planned to short NVIDIA.

With this in mind, he immediately contacted Musk and said that he wanted to completely exit Tesla. He did not want the Tesla stock worth billions of dollars and asked for an immediate discount because it would take a long time to cash out these stocks.

At the same time, considering Lin Yuan's contribution to Tesla's food delivery and Musk's guilt for having backstabbed him, he readily expressed his willingness to give Lin Yuan 1 billion US dollars in cash.

However, cash of one billion US dollars cannot be obtained all at once. This level of cash cannot be transferred through online banking. Musk needs to make an extremely complicated equity subscription agreement with Lin Yuan, and then pay taxes. There is also the issue of how the funds will enter the country.

Lin Yuan couldn't wait that long, so he directly asked the other party to open a stock investment account for him on Wall Street and put as much money as he could into it.

Stock investment? Musk didn't understand why Lin Yuan suddenly became interested in this, because they were obviously not the kind of people who liked to get involved in finance. People like them only had one purpose when they got involved in finance - to use finance as a tool to make some money.

"Lin, do you have any inside information?"

"Yes, I want to short NVIDIA." Lin Yuan did not hide his intentions from the other party at all.

"What? Are you crazy? There is no room for shorting NVIDIA's stock at the moment. What are you thinking?"

"Literally, I'm going to short NVIDIA."

"Okay." Musk was too busy, so he didn't bother with Lin Yuan. He quickly opened an account for Lin Yuan and put nearly $100 million into it. Since all this was done in Eagle Country, there wasn't much paperwork involved.

Musk just thought of it as giving Lin Yuan 100 million to go to the casino to play around. Yes, in his opinion, the stock market is a casino.

Then Lin Yuan really used all his money to borrow and short MVIDIA's stock, and then added ten times the leverage.

"Crazy?" Musk didn't understand Lin Yuan's crazy behavior at all, because even for him, he wouldn't just bet all 100 million yuan when he entered the casino.

Because of the tenfold leverage, Lin Yuan’s losses would be magnified tenfold for every one point NVIDIA rises in price.

Musk was very clear about the next national policy of the old boy. The old boy would definitely insist on supporting the AI industry, because this is the core concept of the Eagle country's technological hegemony. So he felt that Lin Yuan would definitely lose money. He even wondered if Lin Yuan was giving up on himself and deliberately taking his own money to vent his anger.

Never mind. Musk finally let it go.

Lin Yuan, on his part, began to look for suitable partners.

(End of this chapter)