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 don't know the storage 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, all the people who have graduated with a doctorate in deep learning algorithms add up to more than 20 people, and they can dig one, which is very awesome.

Sheng Wei and Gu Mojie have a good personal relationship, and they inquired privately in advance. Gu Mojie's salary for Yan Lei is 300,000 US dollars a year, which is 150,000 yuan a month. Dividend options are not available at this time. However, after completing Taobao's "picture to find the same paragraph" technology 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 part-time person like Yan Lei. It has to be the treatment of the director of such and such a research institute.

When Yan Lei himself came, he also brought two apprentices who were just studying for a doctorate this year to help, and Gu Mojie would also give these people a monthly allowance of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, but these people are not full-time, and most of the time they can't stay in China to work, they 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 will not be birds - any sacrifice and 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, he is really not hard enough in the field of deep learning algorithms, and Gu Mojie has cooperated with Professor Jeff Hinton on so many academic achievements, and he brushed his face to brush his face. That's where it worked.

"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 to his subordinates to be quiet, and then continued:

"Right now. The company's financial strength is sufficient enough, even if Zhou Hongyi wants to fight a long-term 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 announce that in the first half of this year, we have invested the team related to deep algorithms in Ahri's 'Find the Same Picture'. Other traditional development teams will also be given sufficient R&D tasks to allow our company to enter a stage of rapid expansion - after I announce the strategic direction, we can calculate and report on how many new programmers we need to hire and how many servers we need to replenish. 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 that the technical level of the music player shall not be lower than the current domestic No. 1 'Qianqian Jingting', and the technical level, decoding compatibility, and stability of the video player shall not be lower than that of 'Storm Audio'.

After the first half of the year to push out these two things, in the second half of the year, if we have a little more space in the R&D team, I will prepare a 'Hatsune game lobby', it doesn't matter how many games there are in it, but we must make the platform framework, the goal is the same as Fuji Xun's QQ game lobby, and we will design a profit entrance for our existing qiē platform resources first.

Once all these are completed, our company will no longer be a start-up company that focuses 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 will also be supported by continuous and stable financial support 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 ZÀI like BAT, of course, a shortened version that was two years behind the development process 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.

Based on Gu Mojie's previous growth, 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 in the process 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 to securely collect user credits, and it can also help graphic search engines 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.) )