At nine o'clock in the evening, there were still several lights on in Tiance Law Firm.

For lawyers who have a pile of cases on hand, it is really normal to stay up late and work overtime to read the files.

However, this kind of scene has not happened to partner Vivien Leigh for many years. As a partner, after spending the years of her youthful qualifications, she has an assistant to call.

Tonight was an exception, as niece Feliro described things as urgent/important on the phone; Listening to Fei Liluo's meaning, "it is about the academic transaction between the top academic leader in the field of artificial intelligence for all mankind and Gu Mojie".

In front of a small conference table, Vivien Li read the materials sent by Gu Mojie, she didn't understand the technical aspects, but she quickly understood the demands of both parties.

She asked Gu Mojie a few questions concisely: "How many users of your two software are there?" How much overseas influence? ”

Gu Mojie also did his homework, and said without thinking: "Those two software have been online for more than two months, and the current number of active users in the world of Hatsune input method is about 20 million, including 134 million in China; There are about 5 million Chinese and Chinese users in developed countries in Europe and the United States; The remaining one or two million are in the Chinese circles in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Hatsune Translation has 5 million users, which is about the same distribution, and the proportion of overseas users is even higher than the former. ”

For any other input method product, it is impossible to get such an active user data at your fingertips. After all, the traditional input method,Essentially equivalent to"stand-alone game",After others download it,Is it in use,How often is it used,There is no way to track it。

However, Gu Mojie's input method has been positioned in the nature of "online games" from the very beginning. As long as the user uses it. When you are connected, you can always get word frequency feedback. Therefore, the user usage frequency data that is difficult to obtain by peers is easy to obtain in Gu Mojie.

Vivien Leigh estimated in her mind what technical features and technological innovation a software used by 20 million people has. It should be said that it is well known to the world. No matter how many people have hands and eyes, they can't hide the truth.

"We can take this job." Vivien Leigh made up her mind, considered the price, and said, "Because the investigation can't be carried out in a hurry, I can give you some discount - Xiao Luo also said, the Canadian has already offered $1 million." Therefore, I will not charge you agency fees for the part within 1 million. Tomorrow to talk about it, the excess part, I will be discounted according to the last Baidu negotiation, do you accept it? ”

Last year, when Gu Mojie asked Baidu for compensation for false propaganda with keywords, Tiance charged him eight points in negotiation agency fees. Now Vivien Leigh is folded in half, which is four points.

Gu Mojie didn't plan to dwell on these small money, so he readily agreed.

"I want to make sure that my business interests are not flawed in any way - I can only sell my reputation in academia."

"Rest assured. We are professional in these details and will take care of them for you. Information about the other party's previous worth and disposable funds. After your informant sent it, give it to me in time. ”

What Vivien Li said naturally refers to the clues that Gu Mojie searched for on the Internet through Sheng Wei's channels. In the end, Vivien Leigh added one more point on this basis:

"Also, you'd better be mindful of this subdivision of the field of scientific research. If there are any competitors who are weighty enough to pose a threat to Jeff Hinton - they may not have paid attention to the internal first drafts of the IEEE series of journals, then you need to help them take note of that. ”

Gu Mojie shuddered a little when he heard this, why didn't he think of this earlier!

……

A busy night's work, but there is no waste. Sheng Wei's side is also quite powerful. helped Gu Mojie spy on two pieces of industry information that were not too confidential.

First, Jeff Hinton could get a million dollars a year in research funding at CIFAR, but he didn't get a salary. His own salary and allowances are still paid by the University of Toronto, which adds up to less than $300,000 a year.

Second, since last year, Google has tried to set up a "picture search engine" technology project, with a large budget for it. Jeff Hinton has been in contact with people at Google. If Jeff Hinton can really succeed in coming up with a decisive result that makes the "deep learning algorithm" a success. It is likely that he was asked by Google to take up the position of director of a research institute. With Google's move, it is estimated that Jeff Hinton's annual research funding will be several times that of his time at CIFAR, and his salary may skyrocket by more than five times.

Naturally, this information was also provided to Vivien Leigh as soon as possible as the basis for negotiations.

Early the next morning, Gu Mojie stayed up with dark circles under his eyes, and took Vivien Leigh and Fei Liluo's aunt and nephew to receive the two Canadians in the company. To his surprise, the other party also brought a lawyer, a white man named Sunderland, who was said to have just flown in from Canada.

When Professor Bangil and Yan Lei came to China a week, they were not ready to have difficult negotiations with Gu Mojie, and at first they were full of plans to rely on the authorship of a few SCI papers to catch Gu Mojie obediently. Who knew that after so long in the end, even the review sent out by Professor Jeff Hinton was about to be exposed, and they still hadn't been able to win it, so they had to spend a lot of money to settle it.

On Gu Mojie's side, the main force of the negotiation is Vivien Leigh. After all, Jiang is old and spicy, Vivien Leigh has been immersed in the field of commercial law for many years, and foreign-related matters are often handled, and between the words and swords, she is not inferior to the Sunderland lawyer brought by the Canadians.

In the course of the negotiations, Canadians have repeatedly used rhetoric such as these in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough:

"Mr. Gu Mojie, we want you to pay attention. There are no commercial interests such as copyrights and patents for any achievements made in the field of basic academic research; Anyone can make reasonable use of these results. Even if Professor Jeff Hinton's papers are not co-signed with you, those papers still have no possibility of infringement and can be published smoothly! ”

These words were originally good, but unfortunately Vivien Leigh easily cracked them. Vivien Leigh only needed one sentence to beat the other party speechless:

"Then you go and publish it, we don't care, why do you come all the way to China? The 'legal profession' will admit that all of Professor Jeff Hinton's work is his own creation. There is no reference to the work of any predecessors. But only in the 'legal profession'. ”

Sunderland tried to retort, but was stopped by Professor Bangil.

Because Sunderland has not been taking over this matter for a long time, his lawyer nature has flinched, and when talking about things, he is prone to make the mistake of only looking at the gains and losses of the legal profession.

A lawyer sometimes takes pride in saying that "the whole world knows that my client is guilty, but I have the ability to make my client innocent at the legal level".

It's like Simpson's murder of his wife, even though his lawyer team is extremely strong. It took tens of millions of lawyer fees to settle the case. But Simpson later had to write a book called "IFIDO" ("If I Killed") because his family fortune was scattered and he couldn't pay the lawyer's fees. to explain "If I had killed my wife back then, how would I have committed the crime" to hype, provoke society, and win eyeballs and book sales.

After the book came out, the world thought that Simpson really killed his wife, but the lawyer who litigated Simpson was still very proud and proud: if a lawyer can only help innocent people get rid of their crimes, what is the ability? No, it should be done. Even if my client is guilty, I can fish him out, is this a good thing? Is this why countless people come to me despite the expensive legal fees?

Sunderland's lawyer felt that his negotiations would suffice to prove that "Professor Jeff Hinton is not flawed at the legal level".

But Professor Bengil knew that was not enough. His dean wants to be immortal.

Sunderland came in too much of a hurry. It's too hasty, and it's too late to figure out the root cause of all the problems.

This situation. It's like Wanyan Honglie hired Ouyang Feng to get the "Wu Mu's Testament", but unfortunately Ouyang Feng went to the treasure cave of the Lin'an Palace to take a look, scared? "Nine Yin True Scripture" is also here? Then he fought with Guo Jing, Huang Rong, and Zhou Botong, and left "Wu Mu's Testament" behind. The occupational disease of the martial idiot has flare-up, and it is not as valuable as the first in the world. And he naturally. I applied my own values to the values of my employer, and took it for granted that "what I think is important, the employer must also think is important." ”

Although Simpson is legally exonerated, he will always be scolded in the history books; His reputation in the public perception. And it doesn't change because of a legal victory.

Although Edison won the battle against Tesla and won a commercial victory, the people who overturned Tesla's case in later generations are still like carp crossing the river. Even if it is only in the matter of Edison's lifelong pride in inventing the light bulb, although the patent is really attributed to Edison, the authors of the history books have not repeatedly emphasized in the next hundred years: before Edison, Henri Goebbels had already made a light bulb with carbonized bamboo fiber as a filament, but the lighting life was much shorter, only 300 hours......

Vivien Leigh was perceptive to the other party's appeals, and responded to Sunderland's words with an unchanging attitude, as motionless as a mountain. Sunderland was a little off track, which made the other two Canadians feel colder the more they listened.

Before they came, they had already given a reserve price of $1 million the night before, and after the negotiations began today, the price quickly opened to 2 million.

Unfortunately, Vivien Leigh quoted an asking price of 6 million - Vivien Leigh gave this asking price according to Jeff Hinton's "three times the annual salary that he could earn from Google if he succeeded", and Vivien Leigh thought that this amount was within Jeff Hinton's affordability.

The price difference between the two sides is constantly bridged, and the willingness to pay up to 3 million is already the limit. Vivien Leigh only relented to 5 million. The two sides kept exchanging evidence, trying to make a final game.

Gu Mojie's mobile phone vibrated a little, and a text message was sent by Sheng Wei recently, asking him to pay attention to it, there might be a call in a while. Gu Mojie was mentally prepared, and sure enough, a few minutes later, an unfamiliar American number called.

"I'm sorry, I answered the phone, it should be New York University's Jan. Professor Laika called. ”

Professor Bengil jumped up all at once: "What? Jan Laika? Look at! You can't do this! That Yankee is a thief! ”

"I didn't say what to do, I just answered a phone call first."

Professor Bengill and Yan Lei had cold hands and feet, and seemed to see that their efforts for more than a week had been in vain, and that the academic reputation that the dean had accumulated for half his life began to be damaged.

Sunderland doesn't know the extent of the problem, because he's not an expert in artificial intelligence, he's just a lawyer.

But Bengil knows all too well about Yanlaika's details: he is one of Jeff Hinton's main competitors in convolutional neural network research. If there is a chance to stomp on Jeff Hinton's shoulder, Janlaika will never hesitate.

If the big conglomerates in New York want the epoch-making achievements in the field of artificial intelligence to fall on a New York state university, they can afford any money. Toronto scientists may be much better than those Yankees, but if they compare money, how can they compare......

Is it really going to fall? (To be continued.) )