Having gotten enough hot money, the atmosphere inside Hatsune Network Technology is also completely different.

Before this, Gu Mojie himself certainly had enough confidence to defeat Zhou Hongyi, because he knew that he had enough plug-in advantages to use. However, Gu Mojie's self-confidence cannot be effectively transformed into the confidence of the entire entrepreneurial team, because his plug-in cannot be shown to his teammates, and others do not know the existence of the plug-in.

In a protracted battle for confidence and morale, this situation is very unfavorable.

Until the first redemption funds of Ahri Group are in place.

All the senior executives of Hatsune Network Technology already know that as long as they don't drop the chain, they will get at least four or five billion real funds within a year, and this fund does not need to be invested in other projects at all, and can be used 100% in the fields where Hatsune Network Technology is now opened.

Morale is booming.

A few days after the funds were in place, Hatsune Network Technology came with several new faces. Gu Mojie also held a mid-level meeting for this purpose to welcome the help of new members.

"Let me introduce to you - Yan Lei, graduated from the University of Toronto with a major in artificial intelligence, and was personally brought out by Professor Jeff Hinton. I worked at Google for half a year, and later participated in some of the cloud security projects that our company cooperated with Google in the United States, mainly providing algorithm coordination.

This time, for the sake of our cooperation with Ahri Group, I made a special trip to recruit you, who did not know much about the application of deep learning algorithms before, and should learn more with an open mind. ”

After Gu Mojie finished speaking, around the round table, Zou Sheng, Sheng Wei and other technical elites under Gu Mojie's original subordinates were also a little awe-inspiring when they heard Yan Lei's origin. Although the other party's seniority in the industry is at least five years shorter than that of Zou Sheng, he can't stand up to the cutting-edge professional direction of others - on this earth, people who have graduated with a doctorate in deep learning algorithms. All of them add up to more than 20 people, and being able to dig up one is very awesome.

Sheng Wei and Gu Mojie have a good personal relationship, and they inquired privately in advance that Gu Mojie's salary for Yan Lei was $300,000 a year. Converted, it is 150,000 yuan a month. There are no dividend options for the time being, but after Taobao's "picture to find the same paragraph" technology is completed this year, maybe there will be another talk about dividend options.

As a person who has worked for a year after graduating from the doctorate, the annual salary of 300,000 US dollars is a lot. Professor Jeff Hinton himself received only $2 million a year at Google, and there were no dividends. However, Professor Hinton still has much more control over scientific research funds than his annual salary, which is not available to a person like Yan Lei, who has a part-time job, and has to be the director of a certain research institute.

When Yan Lei himself came, he also brought two apprentices who were just studying for a doctorate this year to help. Gu Mojie will also give these people a monthly allowance of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, but these people are not considered full-time, and most of the time they cannot stay in China to work, and need to stay in Canada or the United States and work remotely.

Yan Lei and others can be attracted to it, but it is impossible to say that it is all based on the factor of money. They are all people with pursuits, and they have a development prospect and an upward channel. If the boss doesn't know anything about it. They can't use their talents to the best of their ability, even if the salary is several times higher. These people are not birds either—any sacrifice or slowing down the growth and inheritance of their own skills is unacceptable in the eyes of Silicon Valley tech nerds.

This is also why for the same thing, Gu Mojie's Hatsune Network Technology can poach so many people, but Ma Feng's Ahri Group may not be able to do it if it comes out in person. Because of Ahri's own reputation. It is really not hard enough in the field of deep learning algorithms, and Gu Mojie's cooperation with Professor Jeff Hinton at the beginning of so many academic achievements, and the forced style he brushed his face, had an effect at this time.

"Yan Gong is really young and promising."

"I'll have a lot of advice in the future!"

"Where is it~ can only be said to learn from each other."

After a kind greeting, the newly recruited technical backbone is familiar with the old people.

Gu Mojie waited for everyone to say enough, cleared his throat and motioned for his subordinates to be quiet. Then continues:

"At present, the company's financial strength is sufficient enough, even if Zhou Hongyi wants to fight a protracted money-burning war with us in the three fields of computer housekeeper, security guard and download tools, we are no longer afraid. And I estimate that Zhou Hongyi will soon give up his attempt to burn money, so it is very likely that our funds will be enough as long as we maintain deterrence.

In view of the current situation of sufficient funds, I announced that in the first half of this year, after we invested the deep algorithm related team in Ahri's 'picture to find the same model', other traditional development teams will also get sufficient R&D tasks, so that our company will enter a stage of rapid expansion - after I announce the strategic direction, how many new programmers and how many servers need to be added can be calculated and reported. Money is not an issue. ”

Sheng Wei, Zou Sheng, and Yan Lei all listened quietly, motioning for Gu Mojie to finish his expansion plan.

"The reason why we spent so much energy on integrating computer butler last year is to provide enough channel platforms for the company's future products - the search engine platform, which has been taken away by Baidu, and the social software platform, which has been taken away by Teng Xun. In the domestic Internet industry, there is really little left in the platform field when we started, so we had to grab one. Even if you make your security software free, you won't hesitate to make your antivirus software free.

Now, the platform has been set up, although there are still people like Zhou Hongyi who want to take it back, but we are confident to ensure that he will not succeed. At this time, we can't wait, we can't wait for the winner to be completely decided, and the enemy will be defeated before taking our next step, because then we will miss a lot of opportunities.

After the completion of the two outsourcing projects of cloud security and graph search, the main development direction of our company in the future will be Internet entertainment, and as for social networking, it is possible to cut in at the right time, but it is estimated that there will be no such demand in one or two years.

For this long-term plan, in the first half of this year, I plan to launch two platform-based channel entry software, which are called 'Hatsune Video and Audio', and the specific functions include two modules: music player and video player. My technical requirements are,The technical level of the music player shall not be lower than the current domestic No. 1 'Qianqian Jingting',The technical level of the video player、Decoding compatibility、Stability cannot be lower than'Storm Audio'。

After pushing out these two things in the first half of the year, if we have a little space in the R&D team in the second half of the year, I am going to come up with a 'Hatsune Game Hall', it doesn't matter how many games there are, but we must make the platform framework, the goal is the same as Fuji Xun's QQ game hall, and all our existing platform resources are designed to make a profit entrance first.

Once all these are completed, our company will no longer be a start-up company focusing on burning money to expand the number of users and expanding traffic, but will grow into a stable growth company with stable cash flow and perfect profit model. When that day comes, we will be able to reach the heights of Baidu, Tengxun, and NetEase, and the research and development of all new technologies can also be supported by continuous and stable funds and enter a virtuous circle. You must have faith. ”

Gu Mojie's words made everyone really digest it for a while. Judging from Gu Mojie's subconscious hints, he hoped that his subordinates would believe that if he was given two years, he would be able to develop the company into a powerful existence like BAT, of course, it was a shortened version that was two years behind the development level of BAT.

In other words, by the beginning of 2007, Gu Mojie hoped that his Hatsune network would grow into a large group equivalent to Baidu or Fuji Xun in 2005.

In 2005, Teng Xun had not yet reached the level of 10 billion, but Baidu was the first to soar because it was listed in this year. Gu Mojie set this goal, indicating that he needs to turn a company with actual own funds of one billion yuan to ten billion yuan within two years. In two years, it has grown at least ten times.

With the growth that Gu Mojie showed before, this kind of goal is set, and his subordinates still have some willingness to believe it.

After digesting Gu Mojie's decision, Zou Sheng was the first to ask: "JAY, can I ask, why did you choose Internet entertainment as the main direction of future development?" ”

"Because only this one is still relatively blank, there is no need to start fighting with the major giants immediately. At present, there is no good Internet music content platform in China, and there is no video content platform. In addition to piracy or piracy, but in the future, Chinese will one day need to use genuine, customized, self-media resources. The domestic Internet industry cannot always stay at the level of helping the real economy sell goods or help the real economy advertise, and one day, the self-consumption of the Internet will become the mainstream of its profit point.

In the next few years, there will also be a great improvement in related streaming technology, so we can lay out in advance. What's more, make a few players with a large number of users first, the cost is not high, but you can leave an entrance, why not? The content can always be enriched slowly. ”

This kind of thinking is like hoarding the land first when the land is cheap, and then developing and building a house when the surrounding facilities are good and the land appreciates. Real estate developers don't do too many of these things, but in fact, it is also feasible in the Internet industry.

Zou Sheng nodded slightly, feeling a little reasonable: "Okay, you are the leader, you have the final say." Anyway, it doesn't cost much money to develop this matter, at most it costs money to promote, which can be improvised, more or less. But it's estimated that we'll make a player similar to Qianqianjing's listening.,If you want to surpass each other technically,There's no breakthrough point at present.。 ”

Gu Mojie waved his hand and signaled his subordinates not to let their thinking be too limited.

"How could it not be? There are many things that deep learning algorithms can do, and don't underestimate them. Since it can help the cloud securely collect user credit data, and it can also help the graphic search engine find the same paragraph, why can't we use voice search to find song resources?

If we can first realize the 'lyrics search song' in the first step, and then 'search for songs by the audition tune', do you imagine, what is 'Qianqian Jing Listening'? (To be continued.) )