Everyone has their own ideas, and even if they are working towards the same goal, individual desires often conflict with collective goals in one way or another.

At this time, it shows the benefit of the whole team with only one backbone.

Even though everyone now knows that the quantum intelligent brain in the future can achieve many functions that cannot be achieved by classical electronic computers after it is successfully manufactured in their hands, most of them have no idea what to do with it.

Anyway, Wang Yufei will arrange it.

That's probably what everyone thinks.

Including Lu Yuxin, he just asked.

Whether it's using Xiaozhi to direct traffic, or conducting geological exploration, or weather forecasting, it can be used anyway, and even if it is made and put as an ornament, most people have no opinion.

When the contract was signed, the high benefits made everyone very happy, and they gave up a lot of rights.

Of course, no one else felt that they really contributed a lot to the team, so a lot of things were also taken lightly.

If scientific research is simply regarded as a job, the job of Yuxin Technology is undoubtedly very admirable. Especially for those highly educated people who are used to running around in the lab.

After staying for a long time, getting used to it, everything in the lab is taken for granted.

Three hours of non-stop operation and test machine operation in a row does not seem to be a big deal.

Even if Ash broke out again this time, it took three hours and two minutes to find and calculate five Mersen primes.

Last time, it took me an hour to find three, and this time it took more than three hours to find five, really, for researchers who have been working in the laboratory, it is really not such an achievement.

For example, Cao Luping.

With his scientific literacy, he certainly knows how rare it is to find so many Mersenne primes at once.

In the past, when he was still in the Brain Computer Research Institute, he might have cheered and applauded this achievement, and even burst into tears. After all, any little achievement made by Huaxia's mother under the watchful eye of many powerful people can bring tears to this man's eyes.

But now it's different, Senior Brother Cao feels that he has seen a lot of things, and he is no longer the young man who can only be moved.

Discover five more Mersenne primes?

It's really nothing.

His junior brother had already proved the twin prime conjecture, which was enough to show that there were countless Mersen primes.

Is it difficult to find just eight Mersenne primes in the middle of an infinite number of Mersenne primes?

Of course it's difficult!

When five new Mersenne primes were listed on the official website of Changxiang Technology again, and even one of the digits had broken one billion, and all of them needed to be dragged by trains, the entire mathematical community was going crazy.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation in New York, USA, just yesterday remitted a $150,000 bonus to the account of Changxiang Technology in accordance with the previously announced agreement, rewarding the company for becoming the first company to find 100 million Merson primes, and just reported that the company's current bounty is only $250,000 for one billion Merson primes, and the next day the company put out five new Mersen primes, and there happens to be one that breaks one billion.

In other words, the Foundation will soon make another $250,000 payment to Changxiang Technology.

In addition to the rewards offered by other small organizations, basically the double salary promised by Wang Yufei this month has been covered by these organizations or foundations.

After calculation, the prize money obtained through 100 million and billion Mason primes can steadily exceed one million US dollars. This is eight or nine million yuan, and there are nine years to enjoy the tax incentives of science and technology, and this money can be recorded almost without loss, and on average, each person can share nearly 300,000 yuan, not to mention a double salary in one month, and a double salary in two months is almost enough.

Of course, for the academic community, it doesn't matter if there is money or not, the key is the Mersenne prime, which has not been broken through for several years, and suddenly found eight. If there is no breakthrough in the computing power controlled by Changxiang Technology, no one believes it now, even if Changxiang Technology remains silent and does not admit anything.

In fact, from top to bottom, we really don't know what this is all about.

After the company separated, Yuxin Technology was responsible for R&D, and neither Ge Lingyue nor Gu Bingjun deliberately explored the research progress of Yuxin Technology. Because Wang Yufei already has the backend account password of the official website of Changxiang Technology, and the news of the release of Mason Prime has not passed through Changxiang Technology, so the business company is very ignorant.

What they do is to communicate with those foundations and organizations, provide company accounts, and transfer the bonuses directly to Yuxin Technology's account after receiving them. Then he rejected the various interview invitations that followed.

What to interview?

How these numbers were calculated, they don't know. Even if they scare the whole world, they still don't know how to calculate it.

It's just a faint guess that the quantum computer designed by Yuxin Technology is afraid that there has been a breakthrough.

Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun can guess this, and others can naturally guess too.

Wang Yufei has been busy again recently.

Lao Pan called him at least seven or eight times, and the result was that it was agreed that on Wednesday, Lao Pan would take the bigwigs of the School of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to visit Xiaozhi, who was still in his infancy.

Of course, when I talked to Wang Yufei on the phone during this time, it was not only Lao Pan who wanted to talk about it from him.

John Martinis, who is still in the United States, also called immediately after the release of the five new Merson primes to inquire about the situation.

Then he expressed his yearning for Xiaozhi, and said that he had received an invitation letter, and took the invitation letter to apply for a visa, and it was expected to arrive in Huaxia in about three days at the latest, and the tone on the phone was very excited.

Especially after learning from Wang Yufei's mouth that Xiaozhi had been running stably for more than three hours this time, he was even more excited.

If it weren't for the fact that the visa hadn't been processed yet, I am afraid that he might have bought a ticket for the day and rushed directly to Huaxia.

As Wang Yufei has judged before, for a pure scientist like John Martinis, there is nothing more important than a breakthrough in the technology he has studied all his life.

If anything, it must be that this guy has suddenly become interested in other disciplines. For example, a mathematician changed his career to study physics, and a physicist changed his career to study theology.

As for others, such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Intel President Stephen, etc., these bigwigs who have had a relationship with Wang Yufei basically called to inquire about the situation.

There is no way, they can't help but be careless.

The sky is about to change.

It's been a difficult year in Silicon Valley, and if the Chinese company can really build a universal quantum computer first, the future of Silicon Valley will be even harder.

Of course, for these competitors, Wang Yufei is also telling the truth.

"Hello, Mr. Gates. ”

"Thank you so much for your interest in us. ”

"Yes, you guessed it right, these Mersenne primes are calculated and verified by our quantum computer, but now Ash can't keep the operation for a long time, and at present, about 200 minutes is the limit, and there are still too many problems to solve. ”

"No, in fact, 200 minutes is just an estimate under the best of conditions. In fact, the maximum run time is currently only 182 minutes. These five Mersenne primes were found and checked during 182 minutes of operation. ”

"Well, there's nothing to celebrate, is it? It's a shame to be able to run for less than a day. We look forward to the long-term operation of our quantum computer in a year's time, and I believe that we still have a lot to work with by then. ”

"Uh-huh, goodbye!"

......

That's right, basically every big guy who calls, Wang Yufei is so honest.

It can only last 200 minutes, and there is really nothing to be proud of.

Different from the extremely simple values of Google and the public, in Wang Yufei's view, the minimum standard of a real quantum intelligent brain must be able to operate continuously.

If you carry out one or two tasks, you have to lie in the pot for a while, obviously not a real quantum brain, not even a serious computer.

You can't say that a computing task lasts for two or three days, but a computer can only work for two hours a day, and every two hours of work has to be maintained, and then wait for the next three hours to run, and then four hours for the next time......

What was supposed to be a two- or three-day calculation task turned out to take a few weeks or even a month or two to complete.

With such a delicate quantum brain, how can you be embarrassed to show off everywhere?

This is also the reason why Wang Yufei only announced the Mersenne primes, and did not announce how to find these Mersenne primes with great fanfare.

There are some things that can be talked about in private, and just take them out and say, what if you are slapped in the face?

But when this achievement falls into the ears of others, it is unsettling.

This kind of emotion can probably be described in two sentences, I don't want to believe it, I don't dare to question it.

It's understandable that you don't want to believe it.

Most of the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley are laying out future-oriented quantum computer technology and investing a lot of money and energy.

The most representative ones are Google, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, etc.

Although Microsoft has fallen behind in the operating system, and now everyone is not optimistic about how Windows can survive, but after Microsoft acquired Syllabus, the stock market has come to a wave of recovery.

But whether it is to continue to make systems, or to specialize in the new fist product of syllables, or to Google, IBM, and Intel's layout for the future, everyone is actually competing for computing power.

There is no doubt that if quantum computers are really born, their computing power can beat almost all supercomputers in the world.

Not to mention quantum supremacy, just from the comparison of computing power, everyone can imagine that if the quantum brain of the Chinese people is born, the most powerful supercomputer in the world is now the world's most powerful supercomputer, Fugaku, which is manufactured by IBM and currently settled in the Riken Computing Science Center in Hishima, is just a younger brother.

You must know that this new supercomputer has a maximum performance of more than 1,000 petaflops, and its computing efficiency is 2.8 times that of the current second-ranked Summit system in the United States.

But even so, the way of computing is different, and it is destined that classical electronic computers will never be comparable to quantum computers. If these supercomputers could have the efficiency of quantum computers, they could find eight Mersenne primes in three or four hours, and those organizations and foundations wouldn't need to do any crowdfunding projects.

Even now, the cost of renting a supercomputer for a day is about more than a million dollars, and half a day is only a few hundred thousand dollars.

Everyone is worried.

Of course, the most embarrassing of these is probably Google.

He was once the king of quantum computing, once stood on top of the world, and once demonstrated two million times the computing power of electronic computers at the press conference, if you remember correctly, he also accepted the challenge from Wang Yufei at that time.

At that time, Google also publicly responded to Wang's challenge on Huaxia Weibo.

The embarrassing situation is that not long after the agreed time of the bet, Wang Yufei claimed to have found a full eight Mersen primes during the quantum computer test, and Google's chief quantum computer hardware expert has just resigned.

Google is also said to have approached several world-renowned physicists at this time, hoping that someone could replace John Martinis.

Of course, there is also a theory that Google has promoted former John's students from within to replace John, but no matter what the situation is, no matter which direction you look at, Google's situation does not seem to be too good.

Although everyone doesn't want to see quantum computers appear in China, at least no one else bets with Wang Yufei on Weibo, right?

It's okay to say that this kind of public bet wins, but if you really want to lose, there are problems with how to deal with it. You must know that both sides have gambled a total of 500 million dollars!

Give money here, the whole world thinks that you are wronged, and you will give 500 million to your competitors for some reason.

Don't give money, if it's a friend, it's okay to say, but there is a lot of competition between the two in the future, as long as Wang Yufei is unhappy with Google in the future, he can talk about it, and I think it's a very disgusting thing.

But given the complex relationship between these companies in Silicon Valley, they have different perspectives on the matter.

Microsoft, for example, feels that Google is to blame.

During Ge Lingyue's trip around the world, Google signed an agreement with Changxiang Technology to jointly promote the Xin system in Europe and the United States.

The agreement was arguably one of the key drivers of pushing Windows into the abyss, and Microsoft's stock plummeted 18 points that day when the agreement was signed. In the end, Microsoft's board of directors had to ask Bill Gates to go out of the mountain and quietly went to China, but the final result was not satisfactory, and Microsoft was forced to start looking for new profit growth points.

Windows is now semi-operational, and Microsoft has begun to make widespread layoffs around the world.

It is said that Microsoft's board of directors is discussing open-source win10 and making it available for free to some countries in the third world, in order to maintain a certain market share of the operating system, and to promote related software in this way, and to maintain the development of windows X with the profits obtained from the promotion of these software.

From Microsoft's point of view, Google is now so embarrassed that Google is indispensable.

In short, although everyone had to sit down again to discuss how to deal with the aggressive offensive of the Chinese, the relationship between everyone was obviously not as harmonious as it once was.

Or maybe it didn't get along at all.