After testing DeepMind several times, he didn't get a satisfactory answer, Zhou Shi basically had a number in his heart, and vetoed the application of DeepMind founder Hassabis, and there could be a salary increase, but it couldn't go beyond common sense.

Such a reply was naturally not satisfactory to Hassabis. They are pioneering a career, and they will naturally be rewarded if they have to pay. And there are people who are willing to pay a higher price, why is Yahoo not willing to pay?

The man-machine battle of Go, the emergence of Alpha Dog made DeepMind a world-renowned technology company, and Hassabis gained great popularity in the industry. It is a normal thing to pursue profit when you have fame. Why does Yahoo make so much money and they don't get a corresponding return?

Yahoo's stock price has always been volatile and upward, and now it has a market capitalization of $180 billion, and a market capitalization of $200 billion seems to be close at hand. Zhou Shi is the biggest beneficiary, Yahoo's shareholders are the beneficiaries, Yahoo executives and employees who own stock options are also beneficiaries, but DeepMind's executives and employees are not......

In Hassabis's view, this is very unfair, they have contributed to the rise in Yahoo's market value, why can't they be compensated?

DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company, and the biggest cost is labor costs, that is, employee salaries. Because of the large number of doctoral graduates, the average annual salary has reached 180,000 US dollars, which is not low by any means. But this time, Hassabis wants to raise DeepMind's average salary to $300,000.

And the company has barely ever generated revenue. If Yahoo is as rich as Google, Zhou Shi naturally doesn't care, but unfortunately Yahoo is now due to the huge investment in cloud computing data centers, Yahoo Tong and Toutiao need a lot of investment, so the financial pressure has not been alleviated much because of the increase in income. Yahoo's daily interest payouts are a huge stress!

Don't say right or wrong, in the final analysis, this matter is still a matter of money, and people who have no money have no status, and it is expected that they will be disliked. It's just that Yahoo has supported DeepMind all the way to grow, and at this time, it's quite uncomfortable. Especially when Hassabis was vaguely coerced to confess.

Here's the thing, The Sunday Times interviewed DeepMind's founder, Hassabis, in which he said his schedule.

"My day is 24 hours a day, with two working days ......"

The first working day was a visit to DeepMind's office to guide the work of the company's 700 employees (400 of whom have PhDs) to maintain DeepMind's position as the world's leading AI company.

Then I came home at 7:30 p.m. and had dinner with my wife and two children. After the children go to bed at 10 p.m., he starts the second working day.

"I usually stay up until about 4 a.m.," he said, "sometimes it's 4:30, depending on the situation." "Hassabis

Well, such a diligent genius, how could Zhou Shi be embarrassed not to treat him well? I don't know when this genius will go to bed at 4 o'clock in the morning, when he will go to work in the company, and when he will do the man-making movement. Is once in a while a common occurrence?

didn't get too entangled with him, and directly sent the word "Google" to the past, and Zhou Shi waited for the official confrontation.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for someone from Google to come forward and they wanted to buy DeepMind.

His arsenic and my honey, DeepMind is a burden to Yahoo, but in the hands of Google, it is a sharp blade, and being rich is amazing.

It stands to reason that under no circumstances should you sell a high-quality business to your competitors and increase the strength of the other party. But DeepMind has a lot of independence, and the company that has the ability to take over is limited, Microsoft, Apple or Intel? It seems that every company is a competitor of Zhou Shi, and if it is sold to Guoke, it is impossible, such a company with strategic value, selling a Chinese company, the British court is not so generous.

"Let's talk to them, our focus is on developing cloud computing ......," Zhou Shi

This year's cloud computing industry has finally exploded, with Internet start-ups and traditional enterprises trying cloud computing one by one. For example, China's live-streaming companies are basically attached to the time cloud, and many of the financial industries in the lighthouse country have adopted Yahoo Cloud.

However, Time and Amazon are cloud computing giants, Microsoft Azure cloud is making efforts, and Nadella's cloud computing department has regained a lot of power because of its rapid development. Cheng Shouzong's position at Microsoft is in jeopardy, and the problem is that he is not doing badly, so Microsoft's future has yet to be certified. But Google is also a potentially formidable rival, and while Yahoo has an advantage, how can it maintain it?

At this time, the opportunity came, Google wants to acquire DeepMind, there is no problem, give their sincerity, what Yahoo wants is not Google's huge cost of unmanned driving, but the accumulation of cloud computing-related technology.

There is no doubt about the power of Google's technology, which can efficiently complete various searches and searches of countless people at the same time in a very short period of time. Whether it is a database or a retrieval technology, it should be regarded as the world's top-notch! How much of this is worth learning from Yahoo? How much talent does Google have in reserve?

Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle sometimes recruit employees not out of the needs of the company, or often use the best talents to complete some basic things, which artificially raises the cost of the enterprise. But it's not that they're stupid, there are so many elite talents who graduate every year, and they use high-quality talents to complete low-level work, which can not only ensure the quality of their work, but also make possible competitors not have enough talent resources. There is also an even more sinister intention, which may be able to nurture a part of the elite of the hostile country. For example, Oracle Huaxia Company has abolished hundreds of elites, and Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu, once said that he is a pension at Microsoft. You know, the sinister nature of this world is far beyond everyone's imagination! The complexity of competition between countries is really extraordinary......

What Yahoo can get from Google, Zhou Shi actually doesn't know, but there is one point, it can't be done without a high price. At that time, since the price is high, it will definitely be taken seriously, and since it is important here, there will naturally be places that cannot be taken into account. After all, human energy is limited, and it is difficult for Google to maintain a competitive advantage in all aspects. This is not a question of more money and less money, but the result of internal power struggle.

Of course, Google's troika now looks solid, and artificial intelligence is even more tempting, and Google's acquisition of DeepMind could give Yahoo one less competitor in cloud computing, or at least weaken them.

"Hey, no matter what, these are just Ah Q's spiritual victory methods, or our strength is not strong enough!" Zhou Shi

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