Professor Bengill sat in the conference room of Hatsune Network Technology and felt that the time was so long.

"Beasts, treacherous fellows!"

There is a shortage of swear words in English, and the most used words are nothing more than a four-letter word starting with F, which is repeatedly added in various tenses. Professor Bandier and Yan Lei were painfully broken there, and they were unwilling to call back to China to ask for instructions, to see if it was possible to increase the price a little more. However, they knew in their hearts that the price increase was meaningful, since they had forced the other party to hook up with the Yankees in New York, most of this matter would be yellow.

You can't fight for money and the gang in New York.

Fifteen minutes later, Gu Mojie came back, and he generously played a few minutes of phone recording in public to show that he was indeed talking to Yang Laika. Professor Bangil and Jan Laika are people in the same "noble circle", and they are naturally very familiar with each other's voices, and at this moment, they naturally will no longer have any doubts.

After listening to it halfway, Gu Mojie pinched the phone recording.

Yan Lei stood up tremblingly, staring at Gu Mojie with hatred for a long time, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire, it was a kind of outburst after there was no longer any need to be false and wronged: "Mr. Gu, you can't be so shameless." ”

"Am I shameless? If I sue you, I didn't answer him. ”

Of course you will...... What did you say you didn't promise him??? ”

The air froze.

Yan Lei said half a sentence, and stopped abruptly, as if he didn't know how to round the field. I want to be soft, but I am afraid that Gu Mojie is joking, and he will be humiliated in vain.

"I didn't promise him." Gu Mojie repeated.

This time, he heard the three Canadians on the other side let out a long breath.

Professor Bengil seemed to be a disciplined person, and asked with a little puzzlement: "Why?" ”

yes, why? New Yorkers' offer will definitely be much higher. Even the Canadians themselves didn't understand how Gu Mojie could still cooperate with them at the last moment.

"I don't know much about Yanlaika, but I know that he doesn't have much research in the field of 'deep learning algorithms,' and that he's only a little bit done with traditional convolutional neural networks — he doesn't deserve what he's trying to get his hands on now."

Gu Mojie said. Sunderland may not understand, but Professor Bangil and Yan Lei are both clear. As insiders, everyone in the circle has a detailed academic background, and they are naturally clear.

It's just that. Gu Mojie looked like a pure businessman one moment ago, but the next moment he suddenly had the arrogance and righteousness of some scholars, and this contrast made people a little unbearable.

Professor Bengil apparently hadn't figured it out yet: "But he should have made a much higher bid than we did." ”

When Sunderland heard Professor Bangel's words, he was already stomping his feet under the table, eager to kick this angry pig teammate off the negotiating table. Sometimes. The stubborn temper of the pedant will really get to the bottom of it, even if the conclusion obtained after the investigation is in favor of the other party.

Gu Mojie smiled, although the two guys on the other side didn't like him very much, they were really really academic, and they were so stupid and cute.

"It's true that I'm a businessman, I only look at money when I do things, and it's not fake. But I don't like the bureaucratic 'scholar' more than the 'scholar', and I don't like the New Yorkers. ”

Gu Mojie smiled. No more nonsense, leave the Canadians out there and let them touch their consciences and give a final offer.

……

Gu Mojie's last words are undoubtedly false, but there are also three truths mixed in it.

In this matter, he is still unwilling to do too much purely for the sake of money, disgusting the real masters in this field, and then pulling up bureaucratic scholars who have no real skills and are just more awesome in the sponsorship circle.

Professor Janlaika of New York University, this chess piece, Sheng Wei tried to deliberately leak secrets the day before to make the other party pay attention to the papers of his competitor Jeff Hinton.

Jan Laika calls today. In fact, he only came to Gu Mojie to explore the possibility of cooperation first, and there was no in-depth specific operation plan. It was impossible for Yang Laika to think that in fact, he was used by Gu Mojie as a bargaining chip to sit on the ground.

Of course, this utilization is by no means without the possibility of translating into actual cooperation. If Jeff Hinton's people are really too unkind. Gu Mojie can completely turn this spare tire that he just came into contact with, but it will take a little time, and it will be much uglier to eat.

Therefore, the real reason for Gu Mojie's point to stop is that he wants to make a sum of money, but he also doesn't want to offend the scientists of the Jeff Hinton department to death.

If it's overdone. It is likely to attract widespread resistance and hostility from the emerging academic circles on the West Coast, and in the future, Gu Mojie will encounter a big obstacle when he wants to recruit the world's top Internet talents.

Silicon Valley people are also righteous, and there are countless people with lofty ideals who still drive broken cars with an annual salary of millions and just want to change the world. To attract such people, money alone is not enough, they will also distinguish between right and wrong. If Gu Mojie helps a scholar who originally did not have enough academic strength to step on a real scholar who has more than ten years of real talent and cutting-edge research, then Gu Mojie can certainly make more money, but it may cause the public anger of those cross-circle grassroots researchers who have entered the academic community from industry.

It's like the public outrage of the general public against Simpson. Gu Mojie doesn't care about the reputation of the academic world, but he doesn't want to bear the infamy, especially since this infamy will not affect the expansion of his career in the circle and the recruitment of backbone talents in the future.

In the Internet industry, the veteran scholars in the northeast of the United States do not represent the future.

Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, maybe their business schools are strong, their law schools are strong, and they are inextricably linked to Morgan Stanley and Chase. But their history and twilight have bound themselves, and the circle of students in these schools has been rounded up by the banker financial dogs of Wall Street and the lawyers and brokers who serve these bankers' financial dogs. (Except MIT)

Just like in China, Hujiang can develop into a national financial center, but a circle of financial centers can never become a center of cutting-edge technology at the same time. None of China's most powerful Internet technology companies are based in Hujiang. In a banker's circle, everyone wants to make a quick buck, everyone is proud to be on Wall Street, and if the talented young people go to Wall Street, then they don't have the motivation to create cutting-edge technology.

In the United States, the information industry belongs to California and belongs to Silicon Valley. Belongs to Stanford and UC Berkeley. Gates and Zuckerberg, who came from Harvard, are only a few exceptions.

In this case, with a small difference of one or two million dollars, Gu Mojie doesn't care. Borrowed from the appearance of Yanlaika. Finally, beat Jeff Hinton's men and horses with a stick, and then take it when you see it, and sit on the ground to collect the money.

……

Gu Mojie did not participate in the rest of the negotiations, and all of them were lost to Vivien Leigh. The Canadians, on their part, also made an urgent request for urgent instructions, and Professor Bangil personally called his dean, Jeff Hinton. The possibility of New York University's Yanlaika intervention was emphasized, and the righteousness of Gu Mojie's reluctance to do things absolutely was emphasized.

Jeff Hinton, who was on the other side of the ocean, obviously also recognized the problem and finally adjusted the offer again.

Unfortunately, the difficulties faced by Jeff Hinton are also real. As a scholar, his previous achievements have not translated much into economic outcomes that would benefit him personally. Although he has benefited many Internet companies from his basic research, that benefit has not made him rich.

It's like Einstein discovered the mass-energy equation, and so many people in later generations made nuclear power because of Einstein's theory, but Einstein couldn't get money from these nuclear power plant projects. Because the discovery of natural laws cannot be directly realized, and there is no economic interest such as patent rights.

It can be protected by patents and can make a lot of money. It will always be just the end application technology of "transforming scientific research achievements into real productivity". Economically, basic researchers are very hard-pressed if they do not have funding from charitable foundations or public institutions.

Jeff Hinton wanted to give money, but he couldn't get that much money for the time being.

So, after the final fierce negotiations, Vivien Li brought two conditions to Gu Mojie.

"Canadians can't come up with the $5 million offer we made, not even $4 million. They gave us two options:

First, accept a $3.5 million cash buyout and then commit to doing what they want. Participate in the co-authoring of a series of scholarly works and provide them with the necessary code to prove their academic arguments.

Second, receive $2 million in cash and transfer a total of $6 million in basic research funding for the biennium. The rest of the conditions remain unchanged according to the opening price. ”

Gu Mojie can only choose one of the two to accept, or to collapse. But when you hear this condition. Gu Mojie's first reaction was curiosity and incomprehension:

"$2 million plus $6 million in basic research funding? Isn't that the total price 8 million? It's twice as high as the compromise price of 4 million between us and the other party. Why are they making higher and higher counteroffers? ”

Vivien Li knew that Gu Mojie didn't know much about the laws of the United States and Canada, so she explained to him succinctly: "This matter is not clear in a few words. You just need to know that in the future it is possible that this money will come from Google. However, if the people of the United States have strict restrictions and audits on the use of basic scientific research funds, the use of these funds will be strictly restricted, and they cannot be transferred to places outside the United States. ”

Vivien Leigh explained again, and Gu Mojie finally understood a synopsis: Jeff Hinton is a scholar. If he is asked to come up with completely laundered cash, people can't take out so much. The only thing the other party can do is to transfer and embezzle some scientific research funds sponsored by large companies in the future, and give Gu Mojie some cooperative research on Internet basic technology.

In short, if the first condition is chosen, Gu Mojie can get $3.5 million in free money to spend as much as he wants; If he chooses condition two, he will only get $2 million in free money. The remaining 6 million are some dead money whose use is strictly restricted and subject to trial, cannot be used in the commercial field, and cannot be transferred out of the United States.

Gu Mojie didn't know the laws of the United States, but he believed that he had a way to find a reasonable use for the dead money.

"I chose to accept condition two. Aunt Fei, you have to help me check the rest. The deal seems to be complicated, but don't leave the other party with a loophole for breaking the contract. ”

Unexpected, reasonable choice. Vivien Li couldn't help but look at Gu Mojie's understanding again: this young man is not yet twenty years old, and he should be worth nearly 30 million now. The niece's vision is really good. (To be continued.) )