In fact, almost everyone in the Quantum Intelligence Project team was puzzled by John Martinis' sudden departure from Google.

Of course, it's not that this quantum physics master can't leave his job, the key is that this time node is very weird.

The whole world knows that Google made a bet with Wang Yufei on whose quantum computer will be better in April next year. Even Wang Yufei didn't take this gamble to motivate everyone, but at this time, the chief scientist in charge of Google's quantum computer hardware research and development suddenly left, what does this mean? Do you really feel that you can't do it? So you take the initiative to give up treatment? Is the 500 million dollar really not wanted?

It's weird.

Not only did most people in the laboratory find it strange, but in fact, Wang Yufei also felt that this operation was very incomprehensible.

While he doesn't think Google has improved much in technology this year, it's not like it's not struggling at all.

This is not in Google's interest.

Nor is it in the interest of the entire Western Silicon Valley.

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"I don't know if the professor named John has found a good home, if he can come to us, at least it will make it a lot easier for me. Lu Yuxin sighed.

To not that there are no suitable quantum physicists in China.

The main thing is that those who can independently lead the team to engage in quantum computers have basically been covered by several research institutes.

It's all too familiar, it's really hard to start.

And these people are not quite the same as the brain-machine club.

Gao Deyuan has already cultivated him as a closed disciple, which has nothing to do with familiarity.

Wang Yufei felt that if he really poached all the talented people from the Beijing Quantum Research Institute to Yuxin Technology, Professor Pan might find him desperately.

Lu Yuxin's words made Wang Yufei's eyes light up.

These cattle people in China have masters, but these big scientists abroad are different.

Especially for those who have no master, if they can come to Yuxin Technology to report, they can indeed save a lot of things.

The crux of the problem lies in how to make these scientists understand the truth that science knows no borders, and can honestly come to China from abroad to dedicate their few youths.

"I don't know if I signed a non-compete agreement when I left the job, but if not, I can really ask. This Mr. John Martinis is known to me, and I have read 136 papers of which he is the first author, and he has a very deep understanding of many aspects of quantum physics. If it can come, it will not only be of great help now, but also play a great role after our quantum brain is manufactured. ”

Wang Yufei gave a very pertinent evaluation.

After all, he was arguably the person who knew John Martines the most in the entire lab, and there was no one.

The reason, of course, is because of John Martines' papers.

John Martines' papers are quite prolific, with more than 200 papers published in his six years at Google alone.

How are you going to ask?" Lu Yuxin looked at Wang Yufei in surprise and asked.

"There are always people in my circle of friends who know this old gentleman, find his contact information, call him and ask him if he has any ideas of settling in Huaxia. If he wants to, we'll invite him over. Wang Yufei spread his hands and explained.

"It's so beautiful to think about. Why do people fly tens of thousands of miles to work for you?" Lu Yuxin was a little speechless.

"Didn't you say that? People just have to dare to think! Maybe they can do it?"

Saying that, Wang Yufei has already begun to flip through the address book on his mobile phone, so that he can't remember the phone numbers of those bigwigs, and at the critical moment he has to think about who to find to ask for the number of Mr. Martines, at least so as not to get into too much trouble.

After thinking about it, I still think that Tim Cook is the most suitable.

Although Apple is also working on quantum technology, its focus is not on building a complete quantum computer. This is calculated based on Apple's annual allocation of R&D funds.

Wang Yufei has carefully studied the financial reports of high-tech companies including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Google, Apple, etc., so he is very clear about the R&D direction of these companies.

For example, Apple's annual investment of nearly 10 billion yuan is 80% of the investment in basic technology, mainly chips and sensors.

Google is different, the lab is all-encompassing, from quantum computers to autonomous driving, from operating systems, to chips, it seems that Google wants to mix in any technology.

So it's safest to find Tim Cook.

There aren't many conflicts of interest, and Apple now relies on a lot of technology from Enjoy.

Brain-computer chips, Xin systems, and solid-state high-energy batteries, so the Apple president has every reason to betray their allies.

I heard that Changxiang Technology has not yet arranged to design a battery for Apple's new mobile phone, presumably Mr. Cook has been waiting very anxiously, asking him to inquire about a contact information, in exchange for at least a month in advance to make the new mobile phone standby for a week or even two weeks, I think the president will definitely be very willing.

As for the feelings between allies......

In fact, Wang Yufei has never believed in the friendship shown by these big businessmen, although the lessons that mankind can learn from history are often not at all, but there are still many things to learn from it.

For example, it is absolutely not impossible to give up allies a little for the sake of their own interests.

If the other party behaves decently, it must be that the temptation to go out is not enough, and the money has to be added.

So in Lu Yuxin's surprised gaze, Wang Yufei picked up the phone and called Tim Cook.

However, it took about ten seconds for the Apple to answer the phone.

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Silicon Valley, USA.

Deep down, Tim Cook wanted to smash his phone.

It wasn't for any other reason, the point was that he was sleeping when the call came.

Speaking of which, Tim Cook is definitely the kind of person who is extremely self-disciplined, and his sleep time is controlled to about five hours a day, about 11 o'clock every night, he goes to bed on time, and wakes up on time at 3:45 in the morning.

However, it was only 3:20 at the moment.

Twenty-five minutes before his wake-up time.

But the phone still has to be answered.

The reason why the phone is not turned off and muted when who teaches at night is because there are very few people who know this number, but whoever can dial his number will definitely not harass him without anything, there must be something urgent for him to deal with?

But when he got on the phone and heard the request from the other side, Tim Cook felt that no one would call him to make a harassing phone call was too absolute for him.

There are still people who dare to fight, such as the young child in Huaxia.

"Mr. Cook, do you know the contact information of Professor John, who left Google?"

Yes, as soon as the phone was connected, Tim Cook heard such a question.

What do you mean?

What about teasing him?

The brain was forced to turn on, and there was already a fire in his belly, but the next sentence on the other side made his annoyance disappear.

"If you can give me Professor John's contact details in an hour, I can call the shots and place an order for solid-state high-energy batteries through Apple within a month. How about allowing Apple's devices to use the latest batteries a little faster than Samsung's?"

"Got the battery order ahead of schedule?"

Well, it didn't surprise Wang Yufei at all, Tim Cook was moved.

said that he was still communicating with Ge Lingyue last night, hoping to get the order in advance, but he was politely rejected on the grounds that the current output is insufficient and there are still many production lines that need to be commissioned.

Unexpectedly, before dawn, someone came to send warmth. However, after the brain cells were activated by the good news, Tim Cook soon discovered the problem.

At three o'clock in the morning, where did he find John Martinis's phone? He didn't know this person well? Does he also want to learn from Wang Yufei's disturbing dreams in the middle of the night?

"Wait, you said within an hour? What if it's more than an hour? You know, it's only three o'clock in the morning."

"With each additional hour from now on, Apple's battery order will be delayed by a month. That's it, I hung up first. ”

"Hey, hey, hey......"

Tim Cook looked at the hung up phone and was stunned for a second, then reacted, picked up the phone and began to look up the address book.

Don't sleep.

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Lu Yuxin watched Wang Yufei hang up the phone, leaned back in the chair very comfortably, and asked, "Why did you force him to find the phone in an hour? You are not in such a hurry." ”

"If Mr. Cook is not given some pressure and difficulty, he will definitely feel that it is too easy, and at the same time he may misunderstand the future business with us. That's not good. Wang Yufei explained very firmly.

Lu Yuxin nodded, agreeing with Wang Yufei's opinion, and had the same posture as the hero.

"Okay, can Professor John come or not, today is an important day. We're going to officially start testing the capabilities of the Quantum Brain. Wang Yufei said very seriously.

Today he is not the only one who is serious, everyone in the laboratory is very serious, because for the first time today, the quantum brain of the project is ready to run and has been assigned a very special task, using the SHOR algorithm to find Mersenne primes in the sea of numbers.

If it can succeed, it can be said that Yuxin Technology has mastered the world's most advanced quantum brain technology, and there is no one.

Today, of course, is just a test.

Whether it can succeed or not does not have much impact on Wang Yufei's mentality, if it doesn't work this time, it will be good to continue next time.

But for the rest of the lab, the results of today's test are very important.

After all, everyone is a halfway monk, and after working for so long, in addition to seeing the quantum brain surrounded by seven laboratories gradually plump, and conducting various data tests in accordance with the operating procedures, I really don't know if my own quantum brain can be used and how useful it is.

And today it is finally time to test the phased results for the first time.

If it can be successful, it is tantamount to a shot in the arm.

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"Count down to five seconds!5,4,3,2,1,Power on!"

With the countdown in the laboratory, the quantum brain in the middle of the space was officially launched.

Looking down from the second floor, the quantum superbrain designed by Wang Yufei is a ball wrapped in transparent glass.

In the center of the sphere is a hollow column with a full line of wiring, and below it are various equipment and diamond sheets engraved with electrical circuits.

In fact, even if there is no need for this verification, Wang Yufei knows very well that this is definitely the most advanced quantum brain in the world, and there is no one.

Because this quantum brain can now effectively manipulate 102 qubits at the same time, which is twice as many qubits as the quantum computer shown at Google's previous press conference.

The increase in qubits is not a multiplication, but an exponential increase in the computing power of quantum computers. In other words, if Yuxin Technology's state quantum intelligent brain is only from the perspective of computing power, its computing power directly throws Google's quantum computer into the shadow.

In the simplest way to understand, an n-bit quantum computer 2 to the nth power is parallel computing of traditional computers.

The 54-bit qubit computer displayed at Google's press conference, because one qubit does not participate in the calculation, is roughly equivalent to 2 to the 53rd power of traditional computer parallel computing, and the superbrain is being tested is 2 to the 102nd power of traditional computer parallel computing.

Without the support of basic theory, so many qubits stacked together cannot be effectively controlled and operated.

Of course, if this test is successful, Wang Yufei will have to increase the bits.

Wang Yufei's ideal first quantum intelligent brain should have at least 300 bits.

If the first stage of the test passes, it won't be a difficult task.

From the perspective of quantum computer research, Wang Yufei feels that going from zero to one is the most difficult, and then it is also difficult to increase each bit, but when the controllable bits reach ten, the difficulty begins to change to the difficulty of adding ten bits.

After the controllable bits reach 100, it is even easier to continue to increase the qubits in hundreds than it was to increase the number of qubits in 100 before.

Of course, this simplicity is also relative, and there is a limit.

According to Wang Yufei's calculations, the existing industrial base is the limit of 300 qubits. Beyond that, the task becomes very difficult again.

But for the current stage of the earth's civilization, a quantum brain with 300 qubits is enough to use it for a long time.

A computer to the 300th power of 2 is roughly equal to the 90th power of 2 times 10.

That's enough computing power to make the whole world smarter.

Such a quantum brain doesn't even need much, one can make the whole world change dramatically, and Wang Yufei's goal is to spend five years to build ten quantum brains.

Of course, in addition to using these five years to create a quantum brain, he can also free up his hands to do too many things.

With the huge computing power of quantum superbrain, many things are promising.

Driverless, space elevators, building virtual worlds, small floating cities, and so on can all be on the agenda.

Of course, these things do not necessarily need Yuxin Technology to do, and Wang Yufei does not mind technical cooperation with any domestic company in these aspects.

Just as he positioned Yuxin Technology, it is a research institute, and professional things are handed over to professional companies.

And this is where it all begins.

Wang Yufei sat in front of the console and began to type instructions with a solemn expression.

At the very least, what they're doing now is much more meaningful than what they did with much fanfare at Google's conference.