Yahoo's business scope is extensive, but the focus is still very clear, Zhou Shi said when he first moved into Yahoo that mobile first, artificial intelligence first. The reason why the stock price was repeated at the beginning was because the public did not understand artificial intelligence, thinking that it was just a bubble and a concept.

However, in 2015, Alpha Dog was born, and artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms played an important role in various apps such as Toutiao, Yahoo's search quality and translation capabilities were greatly improved, and everyone's acceptance of artificial intelligence began to become popular. Yahoo, as the most well-known listed artificial intelligence company, has benefited greatly from this boom, and the rise in market value is only one of them, and the reduction of financing costs is important for Yahoo.

Of course, the biggest driver of Yahoo's stock price is mobile-first and information flow. Because it's mobile-first, apps like Yahoo, Yahoo News, Yahoo Messenger, Flickr, Toutiao, LinkedIn, and DingTalk have all changed, evolved, and emerged under this mindset. Even if it is Yahoo News, if you continue to watch the news after manually recommending the news, it will also appear information flow news and advertisements, which not only meets the needs of users and increases user activity, but also provides Yahoo with huge cash flow!

Yahoo's revenue is not complicated by the large number of businesses, and the main revenue is obtained through advertising, and there is fierce competition with Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Then there are value-added services, such as cloud computing and Yahoo Financial, which provide users with more services and obtain income, how is it not value-added services? No matter what others say, Yahoo's opinion is very simple, in addition to advertising, it is value-added service income!

Despite its many businesses, Yahoo's monetization model has become simpler, offering more apps, attracting more advertising, providing more online services, and capturing more revenue from value-added services. This is the core, really, this is the core business idea of Yahoo! As for artificial intelligence or something, it's just a means. That's why Yahoo open-sourced its own deep learning framework, tensorflow, last year, so that more people can understand and invest in the industry!

As for why open source, it is not difficult to understand that the demand for large amounts of data and the complexity of deep learning itself is the biggest obstacle to its development and growth, and open source means opening up their own source code for others to consult and use, and developers can use open source frameworks on any platform and in any field. If you have image data, you can use it in image recognition, if you have voice data, you can use it in speech recognition, and so on. The idea of open source is that everyone is for everyone, everyone is for me, and as long as there is enough data to support it, this deep learning framework can grow faster. And the more people who are good at this deep learning framework, it is equivalent to raising Gu, and the powerful people will always stand out from it, and the more talent Yahoo can get from it......

Although Yahoo has a large number of data resources, artificial intelligence deep learning requires more data, and the development of the industry is the most important, no one knows how much patience the capital has, Yahoo may die on the eve of the success of artificial intelligence. Open source frameworks can help it succeed faster, even if it loses some benefits, it is acceptable, survival is the most important thing!

In the plan, Guoke is responsible for smart home, Nut is responsible for smart manufacturing, Dongcai Technology is responsible for financial technology and robo-advisory, Carrefour is responsible for smart retail, Best TNT is responsible for smart logistics, Time is responsible for smart transportation and security, and Yahoo is responsible for smart healthcare and education. This is a general division made by Zhou Shi for his enterprises, not that enterprises cannot develop in other directions according to their own needs, but to focus on the development of artificial intelligence development direction assigned to them. If the shell's unmanned technology is also the core of their development, and smart home for the time being, there is no primary or secondary, but unmanned driving and other technologies, Guoke is already the industry leader, and smart home has just begun; nuts have their own factory, and plans to increase production capacity, to achieve self-sufficiency, critical moments can also help domestic counterparts, intelligent manufacturing is the natural direction, but some popular versions of smart home also need nuts to be responsible for promoting; Yahoo Financial risk control and robo-advisor......

The only regret is that although Yahoo is the initiator of artificial intelligence, the first place in AI strength is Deepmind, a subsidiary (because of the large number of papers, the wide range of fields involved, and the great social impact). Fortunately, Yahoo Brain's open-source tensorflow has a good chance of being widely used and can become one of the biggest "standards" in the industry! Yahoo Brain is more flexible, working with Berkeley, Stanford, Yenching University, OpenAI (a research institute promoted by Musk with a team of top teams), Lex and countless product teams within Yahoo.

After the emergence of Yahoo Brain, Google Brain, Time Brain, etc. have appeared one after another, and they have affected specific products and received good feedback.

"Although Yahoo Brain only has such a name is the most familiar to everyone, but Yahoo itself in the field of artificial intelligence research is by no means worse than deepmind, we know in combination with the past performance of Yahoo Search, almost every song for half a year or so, Yahoo Search has made great progress, it is an exaggeration to say that it catches up with or even surpasses Google, but it is a fact that the gap between Yahoo Search and Google is getting smaller and smaller. That's what someone said on Quora, commenting on the relationship and power gap between Yahoo and Deepmind

There's nothing wrong with him saying this, the development of Google's search engine technology has reached its peak, and there is really too little room for further development. It's like an athlete in a 100-meter race, crossing 10 meters per second, and every progress is very difficult. Yahoo Search has a low starting point, and every progress is very conspicuous, so in contrast, Yahoo Search's technology is naturally a significant improvement.

Because of the progress of Yahoo Search, the development of Microsoft Bing has been hit hard, and the input and output are seriously disproportionate, even if they have reached a cooperation with AOL, but whether it is PC or mobile, Yahoo Search's market share is much larger than Bing.

This is also a matter of no choice, Time Chroe browser first reached a cooperation with Firefox before the cooperation, which is equivalent to occupying the default search engine position of these two mainstream browsers in the past two years. Not to mention the mobile terminal, Yahoo Pass can scan to take photos to search, scan code shopping, today's headlines, flickr and other products The search box is Yahoo, and it also cooperates with Time to default to Yahoo as a search engine.

Although the use of various channels has made Yahoo Search bear huge costs, the market share has been surging upward, and Yahoo Search has still achieved profitability!