The divorce comeback system arrived right after I was born.

"Then why did you call me?"

Zhang Yiming was somewhat puzzled.

Since he's not asking me to take down the videos, what is this young CEO Chen up to?

"I want you to give these kinds of videos more boost in popularity."

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Chen, did I hear that right? You want me to push the video that's attacking you more?"

"You heard me right."

Aren't you afraid that public opinion will affect the company?

"Mr. Zhang, there is currently no AI company in the world stronger than us."

Zhang Yiming was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

"Haha, Mr. Chen is really in high spirits. Alright, then I'll do as you say and lend a hand."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang. I don't have time to invite you to dinner."

"?"

Chen Zhi hung up the phone.

Dai Dama stood across the desk and listened to the entire phone call. His expression changed from doubt to confusion, and then from confusion to utter bewilderment.

"Mr. Chen, are you asking them to push the smear article further?"

"Um."

"Did I misunderstand something?"

Chen Zhi placed his phone face down on the table and leaned back in his chair.

"Tell me what you found out first."

Dai Dama looked down and flipped through the tablet.

"That blogger is called 'Geek Lao Zhou,' and he started out doing digital product reviews. He had never touched AI-related content before. We checked his MSN, and there was a recent transfer of three million yuan."

"Where did it come from?"

"A shell company in the Cayman Islands, registered last month with a registered capital of US$10,000, has no actual business operations and is clearly a paid shill hired by a competitor."

Chen Zhi gestured for him to continue.

Dai Da Mai continued scrolling down.

"There's another thing. Several major companies have been making a lot of moves lately. Baidu just released a large model last week, and Alibaba followed suit with an upgrade. Not to mention Sogou and 360, they've been participating in all sorts of third-party evaluations and getting a bunch of random titles."

"What title?"

"'Most Innovative AI Product Award,' 'Best Large Model Application of the Year,' 'AI Pioneer Enterprise'... basically those kinds of shady awards where you can get on the list just by paying money."

Dai Dama flipped the tablet over for Chen Zhi to see.

The screen was filled with a dense list of PR activities from seven or eight major companies over the past month, including press conferences, reviews, awards, and media placements. Together, they must have spent at least several hundred million yuan on advertising.

"You should be able to tell what they're doing." Dai Da-mai closed his tablet. "Compared to these big companies, we, as a startup, don't have their stable traffic channels. This wave of public opinion is very disadvantageous for us."

After listening, Chen Zhi nodded.

Everything Dai Da-mai said was true.

This is the real advantage of big companies in the capital game. Their most terrifying aspect is never how advanced their technology is, but rather that they hold a pool of hundreds of millions of daily active users and stable traffic exposure channels.

If you make a great PPT, invite a few experts to endorse the product at the press conference, and edit the promotional video to be cool, users will naturally come.

As for whether the product is actually good or not?

Most ordinary users simply cannot tell the difference.

What do they use AI for? Nothing more than searching for information, asking a few simple questions, and generating a weekly report template. Any large language model with a few layers of code can easily handle these tasks.

These ordinary users are precisely the most stable source of income.

They don't care about your underlying algorithm architecture, they don't care about a fraction of a second faster inference speed, and they certainly don't care whose technology is more advanced. They only care about who has more Google Ads, whose name is more familiar, and whose app ranks higher in the app store.

To put it bluntly, big companies are fighting a battle of information asymmetry.

By overwhelming users with GG (Google's advertising platform), half-finished products are packaged as finished products, and the advantage of traffic is used to squeeze the survival space of startups. Once your user growth is blocked and investors can't see the data, you will either have to sell yourself or die.

This combination of tactics is the true weapon of capital; it may be shameless, but it's undeniably effective.

"So," Dai Da-mai stared at Chen Zhi, "what exactly are you thinking? Getting people to push more negative articles on you, isn't that just throwing mud at yourself?"

Do you think there's any merit to what that video said?

Dai Dama was stunned for a moment.

"...That makes some sense. We haven't published any peer-reviewed papers or released any source code, but you know the technical sophistication of Moss better than I do."

"Yes, we know that ourselves." Chen Zhi turned his chair around to face Dai Dawei, "but the users don't know."

"so?"

"So let them curse."

Dai Da-mai hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Chen Zhi stood up and walked to the window. The view from the 20th floor of the IAPM Center was very open, and the office buildings in the CBD reflected the sunlight.

"The harsher the criticism, the lower the users' expectations. The lower the expectations, the greater the contrast when they actually use Moss."

Dai Dawei pondered these words.

"Are you trying to prove them wrong with your product experience?"

"almost."

"But the problem is, how do we get ordinary users to actually use Moss?" Chen Zhi turned around. "We can't compete with the combination of pre-installation and app store recommendations from big companies by relying solely on app downloads. We need a platform."

Dai Da-ma frowned: "What carrier?"

"We manufacture mobile phones."

Dai Da Mai was shocked.

"What did you say?"

"Making mobile phones."

"...Mr. Chen, did you not sleep well last night?"

"I am perfectly sober."

"Making phones?" Dai Da-mai exclaimed incredulously. "We're an AI company, not a phone manufacturer. Making phones requires a supply chain, industrial design, production lines, and distribution channels—"

"These are all problems that money can solve."

"Money can solve the problem, but what about time? From project initiation to mass production, it will take at least a year and a half, and that's assuming everything goes smoothly."

Chen Zhi did not refute, but instead asked a question.

Have you used any of the voice assistants on the market right now?

Dai Da-mai paused for a moment: "I've used it...occasionally."

"How was the experience?"

"...It's a long story."

"Right?" Chen Zhi walked back to his desk and sat down. "Siri has been around for over a decade, and it's still a moron. Xiao Ai can only tell jokes and control home appliances. Samsung's Bixby is even worse; the consensus among users worldwide is that they can't find the off button."

"Why are all the voice assistants from mobile phone manufacturers garbage?" Chen Zhi asked himself, answering, "Because their AI capabilities are insufficient. What they do is keyword matching and preset commands, not true intelligent interaction."

"But Moss can."

Dai Dama continued the conversation.

He has a technical background, and he understands Moss's underlying capabilities better than anyone else.

What Moss can do, no other AI product on the market can currently do.

It can understand context, remember user habits and preferences, and accurately grasp intent in multi-turn conversations. If you cram this into a phone, it's no longer a "voice assistant."

It is a real, living, intelligent entity that can talk to you.

"You want to turn Moss into a mobile phone operating system?" Dai Da-mai asked.

"It's not an operating system." Chen Zhi shook his head. "It's about making Moss the brain of the phone. We do deep integration at the system level. Moss can intervene, optimize, and learn every operation the user performs when they open the phone, from taking pictures to navigation, from calendar to shopping, from typing to social networking, all scenarios are connected."

"You need to keep users immersed in the Moss ecosystem 24/7."

"Accurate."

Dai Dama held the tablet to his chest and remained silent for half a minute.

"Technically feasible," he began. "Moss's inference engine is lightweight enough for on-device deployment without any issues. But manufacturing phones... supply chain, quality control, after-sales service, distribution channels—we know absolutely nothing about any of those."

"So you need to find someone who understands it."

"Who?"

Chen Zhi picked up his phone and scrolled through his contacts.

"Sometimes the enemy of my enemy can become my friend."