Chapter 188: Time Lab
ended the communication meeting of the friend network and gave some guidance on specific things, but Zhou Shi did not help them make any decisions. This is not only to maintain the authority of the CEO, but also to train Luqi and their abilities. Zhou Shi has already pointed out what is the right direction, if he still makes a mistake, he has no choice but to change people.
Walking out of a friend's company, Wang Xirui also left. She also has her own business, and is increasingly interested in artificial intelligence. Then the two of them spent less and less time together, and they were almost March and didn't know the taste of meat, and they were hungry and thirsty. Only a busy job can keep him from being bored.
Zhou Shi came to Time Lab, and with the cooperation of UBS, he finally bought Trolltech (Trolltech) at a cost of 150 million US dollars, and the advantages of the Android system in terms of human-machine interface (UI) can basically be established, and poaching people from Symbian is also underway. With the cooperation of domestic and foreign efforts, it will take about half a year to have a relatively complete system.
The development of browsers is quite complicated, and Yu Yongfu is reluctant to give up the dominance, but the development of technology is still not as advantageous as that of Silicon Valley. After several attempts to persuade him to no avail, Zhou Shi had no choice but to hand over the browser on the PC to Time Lab, and UC to Yu Yongfu. There will definitely be unpleasantness, but with financial support, UC entered IOS and Android and promoted the development of the European and American markets, which can be regarded as making up for their loss. In any case, with the support of funds and talents, the development of UC is still much better than in the previous life.
Mtime Chrome has also started the performance of the version emperor, which is upgraded every month to improve security and stability compatibility, and good scalability, so that this open source software has attracted more and more users to use. Earlier, relying on YouTube, Twitter and Friends' promotion, it has almost caught up with Firefox, and now although it mainly relies on the promotion of Friends.com and Friendster, it has good autonomy and expansion performance, and simple technical requirements can develop plug-ins independently, so that many IT enthusiasts take the initiative to promote and disseminate. YouTube also has a lot of videos explaining how to use this browser, which has attracted a lot of attention. Time Browser is loved by more and more geeks, and the speed of development continues to soar.
Time Music is limited by copyright, and is not ready for big development for the time being, so why should it be after the subprime mortgage crisis, Zhou Shi came here this time, mainly through Li Feifei's Naco graphic recognition project, remembering artificial intelligence: the four core capabilities of artificial intelligence, namely speech, image, natural language understanding and user portrait. "Image" has Li Feifei's project, "Voice" has iFLYTEK, but it is really a loss for iFLYTEK to be in a corner, although the most powerful in the field of intelligent voice is Nuance, and later this company provided voice technical support for Apple's Siri, but going abroad is the best development of iFLYTEK. The application of "natural language understanding" is chatbots, intelligent voice assistants, etc., and the "user portrait" friend network has been doing it.
In other words, personal intelligent assistants are also necessary in the future, he may liberate human beings from manual control to voice control, the changes brought by this huge progress to society have not been fully reflected until Zhou Shi's rebirth, but in the long run, he can get people rid of the control of the screen, such as a watch with artificial intelligence may be able to solve most of the problems that need to be solved by mobile phones and computers: including music, alarm clock, voice call, scheduling, shopping, travel, offline payment, etc. If you have a projection function, you may be able to watch videos. Unfortunately, although Zhou Shi said that there is no shortage of money now, in fact, there is still a lack of it, and the research and development of the operating system has occupied most of the resources of the laboratory, and if you continue to invest here, the funds for speculation will be reduced accordingly. And not only is there a lack of money, but also a lack of talents, and Time Lab needs more achievements to prove itself.
For Pichai's work, Chrome has become more and more admired by users through his improvements. There are also more and more developers of extensions and app centers, and Chrome is getting more and more fun.
Zhou Shi encouraged Pichai and talked to him about personal intelligent assistants, which is the future development goal. When you have the money later, you will start the project immediately.
Walking out of the laboratory, Zhou Shi found that he still had a lot of things, the development of each company seemed to have reached a critical moment, and with the increase of Zhou Shi's wealth, it seemed that the status of these companies had also increased, and after the development of Starlight was handed over to Zhang Zhao, he rarely asked, and at this time Zhang Zhao actually consulted him from time to time. For example, Huang Bai's overseas development road was not smooth, he found Zhou Shi, although there may be a billion people in the world who know him, but Hollywood just doesn't accept it. The high-end big movies basically didn't ask him to join, except for the cameo life explosion, other TV series didn't let him participate too much. After all, Starlight's arrangement for him is to take the road of big movies.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhou Shi thought of a way that was not a solution. I took the time to meet with Huang Bai and asked for his advice. Find someone to make an online movie: The Mixer.
Although "The Tuner" is a short film of only 14 minutes, the plot tension contained in it is not convincing, the movie uses a clever but mistaken clever short and concise idea, the greed, cowardice, and hypocrisy of human nature are all hidden in this pretending to be blind tuner. And until the end, you never know the outcome.
In order to make this short film, Huang Bai called his good friend Ning Hao from the mainland. Such an excellent script has great demands on both the director and the actors.
The script also invited a few experienced Hollywood screenwriters to assist, actors are easy to find, and Galaxy Capital has invested in Legendary Pictures, and has also been in contact with their royal director Christopher Nolan, if it weren't for "Batman", Zhou Shi was going to let him shoot this short film, but after Ning Hao arrived, the two people met a few times, but they also had a good chat, and Ning Hao also said that he received a lot of inspiration from him.
Huang lived in the United States for a few months, and his English skills skyrocketed. Moreover, during this period, he also went to film and television training institutions near Hollywood to study and listen to lectures, understand the differences between European and American performing arts and mainland China, and learn from their excellent experience.
Such a simple short film didn't take much time, and in just one week, they completed the final work, including editing and soundtrack. Zhou Shi thought it was very good, and he began to plan on YouTube to launch this short film. It's just a little bit of influence, and at this time an unexpected situation appeared, maybe the crew's run-in was not enough, Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in Batman, was injured during a shoot and couldn't move freely for a few months. "Batman", which has been delayed for a long time, is facing difficulties again. When Zhou Shi heard the news, he suddenly lifted his spirits, and immediately pulled Huang Bai and ran to the Batman crew.
I want to try it and see if I can write 180,000 words this month, and strive to earn 1.5K income! Let's see how it goes next month!
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