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 at hand, it is really normal to stay up late and work overtime to read the filesreads();.

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 users in developed countries in Europe and the United States; The remaining one or two million are in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Chinese circles. 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's impossible to get such a number of active users.。 After all, the traditional input method,Essentially equivalent to"stand-alone game",After others have loaded,Is it in use,How often is it used,There is no way to track。

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, it is difficult for peers to get the frequency of user use, but it is easy to get it in Gu Mojie.

Vivien Leigh estimated in her mind. What are the technical features of a piece of software that has been used by 20 million people? Technological innovation should be said to be 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 of the rush, the investigation cannot be carried out." I can give you some discounts - Xiao Luo also said, the Canadian has already offered $1 million, so I won't charge you agency fees for the part up to 1 million. Tomorrow to talk, 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 was sent by your informant. Give it to me in time. ”

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

"Also, you'd better be aware that there are any competitors in this niche of science who are likely to pose a threat to Jeff Hinton -- and maybe they haven't paid attention to the internal first drafts of the IEEE series of journals, so you want to help them notice that."

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

……

A busy night's work. There's no waste. Sheng Wei's side was also quite powerful, and helped Gu Mojie to spy on two industry information that was not too high.

first reads();. Jeff Hinton can get a million dollars a year in research funding at CIFAR, but he doesn't get paid. His own salary and allowances. It is still issued by the University of Toronto, and it 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, took Vivien Leigh Feeli's aunt and nephew, and received the two Canadians in the company. To his surprise, the other party actually brought a lawyer, a white man named Sunderland, who was said to have just flown in from Canada.

When Professor Bengier and Yan Lei came to China a week, they were not prepared for hard 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 in the end, after so long, even the review sent by Professor Jeff Hinton was about to be exposed, and they hadn't been able to get it yet, 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. Any achievements made in the field of basic academic research do not have commercial interests such as copyrights and patent rights; 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 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 had not long taken over the matter, his lawyer nature had a seizure. When talking about things, it is easy 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 wife murder. Although his lawyer team is extremely strong, he spent tens of millions of lawyer fees to settle the case. But Simpson, who was unable to pay his lawyer's fees due to the dispersion of his family's wealth, had to write a book called "Ifido" ("If I Killed"). to explain "If I had killed my wife back then, how would I have committed the crime" to hype up to 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 brought Simpson to the lawsuit was still very proud. Pride: What is a lawyer's ability if he can only help innocent people get away with their crimes? Shouldn't it be done, even if my client is guilty, I can fish him out, and then I can show my ability? Is this why countless people come to me despite the expensive legal fees?

Sunderland felt that his negotiations would be sufficient to prove that "Professor Jeff Hinton is not flawed on a 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 the problem.

In this case, it is like Wanyan Honglie hired Ouyang Feng to get the "Wu Mu Testament". It's a pity that Ouyang Feng went to the treasure cave of 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 day for thousands of years. Naturally, he applied his own values to the values of his employer, taking it for granted that "what I think is important, the employer must also think is important." ”

Simpson was legally exonerated though. But it will always be scolded in the history books; His reputation in the public eye will not be changed by a legal victory.

Edison won Tesla though. won a commercial victory, but the people who overturned Tesla's case in later generations are still like carp crossing the river. Even if only in the fact that Edison was proud to invent the light bulb all his life. Although the patent rights really belonged to Edison, the authors of the history books have not repeatedly emphasized in the next 100 years: before Edison, Henry 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 vibrate, and a text message was sent by Sheng Wei recently, asking him to pay attention to it, there may 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 Bangil jumped up: "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 how serious the problem is, because he's not an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, just a lawyer.

But Bengil knows all too well about Yanlaika's details: that man 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.) )