Gu Mojie and Jeff Hinton's private deal was extremely complicated, and that day was just an intention to finalize a framework. This is because there are still various legal aspects that need to be dealt with to ensure that the other party fulfills the contract, and it is far from being solved overnight.

From this point of view, Gu Mojie paid 4% of Vivien Li's lawyer's fees as negotiation services in the premium part, which is not too much of a loss. Because they still have a whole team of professionals to work for a month.

However, since the main conditions have been set, both parties also know that the other party can afford to hire a team of professional lawyers behind them, so they will naturally not be villains in vain in specific operational methods.

Everyone left the specific matter to the lawyer and slowly deliberated on it.

On the other hand, Jeff Hinton promised to launder the first tranche of money as soon as possible within this month through covert means, and at the same time in exchange for Gu Mojie to immediately join several of his important researches.

What Gu Mojie has to do is not just to sign a name on several of Jeff Hinton's papers. After all, people have paid millions of dollars, so they can naturally ask you to do a full set of plays and be realistic.

In addition to his signature, Gu Mojie provided Jeff Hinton to Jeff Hinton after his "Hatsune Input Method" and "Hatsune Translation" provided some of the evidence codes of the topology to Jeff Hinton after his own strict review to ensure that there would be no possibility of commercial leakage. It also summarizes the general concept behind the design ideas of these codes, so as to fit the context of Jeff Hinton's professional explanation.

In a word, in addition to the commercial interests behind the software, which cannot be sold, the rest of the programming ideas and network architecture ideas are exchanged between Gu Mojie and Jeff Hinton without reservation.

All communication is done through a huge number of emails. In this busy work, in the rest of March, Gu Mojie almost turned on a axis. I don't have time to talk about classes, and I don't even have the energy to deal with the company's affairs.

Fortunately, there are no major issues to deal with in terms of development and improvement of software such as the Yueyin input method in the past two months. Lu Wenjun can already resist him for a while. And Gu Mojie can hand over the promotion of things to Fei Liluo and Sheng Wei to dock, the company is relatively empty, so he can free up.

However, this study is also of great benefit to Gu Mojie himself. Originally, he wrote code and made software. Relying on their own hard work, brave and diligent, accumulating and summarizing experience in hard work, but not precipitating and quietly thinking about many topology optimizations.

Including when he wrote several software such as Hatsune input method,There are also large sections of code that are directly copied from the code decompiled by Hatsune Niang.。

Those codes, in Gu Mojie's eyes, were only regarded as "black box" functional modules, and they only knew the logical structure between the whole and what functions could be achieved; But I never thought about how to achieve it, and it belongs to the typical "knowing it but not knowing why".

Now, follow Jeff Hinton's people to do the project. During the joint signing of the paper, Gu Mojie did not know why he had many key points, and they were all connected. In just one month, Gu Mojie's comprehension of programming language ideas has risen to several levels, which is not inferior to the level of a master's degree from a famous computer science school. Originally, he could only be regarded as a doer with strong application and weak theoretical thinking.

The busy days passed quickly, and it was the middle of April in the blink of an eye. The collaboration between Gu Mojie and Jeff Hinton has finally come to an end.

His signed papers have been officially distributed to several SCI journals under the name of IEEE. There are a total of five articles, and Gu Mojie is co-signed on the last author.

The corresponding author and the first author are undoubtedly Professor Jeff Hinton, and most of the second authors are Professor Bangil, and Yan Lei, who came to China with Bangil, also got two signatures in the details. The rest of the signatories, Gu Mojie didn't know him.

SCI-level papers, even if it is a great god like Jeff Hinton. And if it is passed at one time, it will not be available until at least the end of May, so Gu Mojie is not afraid that he will immediately become a celebrity in the school because of this.

After the academic work was over, Jeff Hinton's $2 million was almost in place - Gu Mojie heard that although Jeff Hinton's thesis group had not yet completely surfaced. Some of his early ideas have managed to get Google's attention, and Google has begun to sponsor him. Coupled with some of Jeff Hinton's financing channels, he was able to scrape together enough money for Gu Mojie.

Gu Mojie decided to calm down, think about how he should spend his money in the next stage, and after the user share in the input method field is stabilized, what direction should the company develop next?

2 million US dollars, equivalent to 15 million yuan. There is also a long-term 6 million basic scientific research funds under the supervision of the auditor. With so much money, in the Internet industry in 04, it is enough to develop several blockbuster products.

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Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

When Gu Mojie was proud, his competitors in Shenzhen, Shi Guanghu and Zou Sheng, were not having a good time.

After all, the timeline of history has quietly moved to April 2004. It has been the fourth month since the "Hatsune Input Method" was launched.

IT HAS BEEN TWO OR THREE MONTHS SINCE GU MOJIE FOUND SHENG WEI TO OPERATE GOOGLE ADSENSE AD OPTIMIZATION.

In the first half of 04, Google's advertising push algorithm is still in a relatively primitive and empty stage. As long as you are a caring person, it is not difficult to calm down and optimize carefully, so that one dollar of advertising money can spend three or five yuan.

It's a pity that the people who can think of drinking this head saliva are very rare after all. Shi Guanghu, who has only a simple understanding of the Internet industry, but has not even studied how to burn money on the edge and burn it more efficiently, is not among them.

Shenzhen market, fast network technology. Shi Guanghu blushed and looked at the bad news fed back by the technical support department and the after-sales service department.

In February and March, Shi Guanghu once thought that his "universal input method" in the field of free pinyin input method in China has been firmly seated, and turned to seek a new profit model. He began to play tricks such as bundling mini-games and teaming up with the winger game hall to find a way to recoup his cash flow.

At the beginning, because there is no domestic counterparts with enough scale to compete with it, although this cash-out method makes the user experience worse, it is not a death, so as not to let the universal input method fall into the quagmire of losing the market.

But with the growth of Gu Mojie's Hatsune input method, everything has changed.

What about Gu Mojie's lack of cash flow? Why didn't it show up?

Zou Sheng swore at the beginning of the year that he patted Shi Guanghu's chest: according to his estimates, Gu Mojie's liquidity this year is only five or six million, if it is according to the proportion of 2 million advertising expenses burned out of 5 million users at the beginning of the year, Gu Mojie will burn the money dry, and the "Hatsune Input Method" is only more than 20 million users, and it still can't shake the status of the "Universal Input Method".

But now, the number of users of Gu Mojie's "Hatsune Input Method" has already exceeded 30 million, approaching 40 million, and Gu Mojie's advertising fee has not shown any signs of drying up.

Shi Guanghu's "universal input method", although it has already exceeded 40 million users, it is said that it has not yet reached the critical moment of being overtaken. Unfortunately, to the surprise of the top management of Swift Network Technology, for the first time since the end of March, their user base has loosened and experienced a slight negative growth.

Although the absolute value of negative growth is small, it is negative growth after all. As a signal, this is bad news, as it proves that the software is starting to pave the way and enter a recession. If you don't take action, you will soon be unable to stop the decline.

Shi Guanghu is a rich second generation who is strict with discipline and lenient with himself, of course he will not find problems from himself. As long as the company is in trouble, it must be the people below who execute his wise leadership poorly, and the Holy Monarch will never be wrong, and the wrong ones are the mediocre ministers below.

As a result, Zou Sheng's chest at the beginning of the year was braided again by Shi Guanghu.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and a stack of reports was slammed on the desk by Shi Guanghu. If someone was eavesdropping outside the office at the moment, only hearing his voice and not seeing his form, maybe he would misunderstand that Zou Sheng was slapped by Shi Guanghu.

However, the fan is not much worse than the fan. Although it is not hit, it is not far away.

Shi Guanghu pointed to the report and asked in a tone that splashed spittle on Zou Sheng's face: "This is the feedback data obtained by the technical support department - this month, we have more than three million users who have uninstalled our products!" One million of them checked the reason for uninstalling and gave feedback. There are also more than 200,000 users who not only ticked the box, but also wrote long text comments - do you have anything to say about this? ”

Netizens of later generations will naturally not be surprised by the pop-up "Why did you uninstall this software?" pop up when the software is uninstalled? What isn't the software good enough? The feedback window is unfamiliar. In the 2010s, not to mention pop-up feedback, pop-up web feedback, it was to do something to sell cute cartoon images and kneel and beg for goodbye, and Internet companies did it.

However, this thing was still quite fresh in 2004, and the software market at this moment was not as hot as it was ten years later, and most Internet companies had not sold out of their festivals. Selling cuteness and begging not to unload this kind of thing, I can't do it.

The reason why the "universal input method" of Swift Network Technology has left this feedback window is that it was left when Gu Mojie sold the software to them. Gu Mojie was very kind, and he didn't cut off this function when he made a move.

This function was not used at first, and Shi Guanghu did not pay attention to its existence. Until this moment, the residual heat was finally exerted: this setting on the software could finally make Shi Guanghu understand why he was slapped in the face, and he knew why he was beaten.

Zou Sheng has read the report, and he has nothing to say about the above data, so he can only endure Shi Guanghu's non-stop spraying:

"There are 800,000 users, who ticked the box on 'insufficient input accuracy and speed', and 500,000 users, and also ticked 'inferior to similar domestic software'. 200,000 users clearly wrote long text reviews, saying that we are not as good as 'Hatsune input method' - I ask you, what does your technical team do! At the beginning, I paid a lot of money and bought all the source code of Gu Mojie, let's work the same technical starting line again, why did you still lose to him! (To be continued.) )