To speed up the filming of the sequel to "Super Marines", Luo Sheng made a phone call to Zhang Bowen and made the arrangement clear.

In order to quickly prepare for the production of time, Blue Star Pictures provided a production budget of $490 million for the sequel to "Super Marines", which is nearly three times the production cost of the previous film of $165 million.

According to the convention of tripling the box office of the movie, theoretically, the box office of "Super Marines" must reach $1.47 billion to recover the cost, and the current box office revenue of animated films in the world "Frozen" is only $1.276 billion, and this record has not been broken since its release in 2013.

Obviously, the producer didn't think about relying on the box office to make money with this movie at all, but more about the positioning of the new products of the Cote d'Azur, and this kind of thing is only what Luo Sheng can do.

However, this is a super good project for the director, many works have to compromise for the sake of business, and the sequel still chooses to be co-directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams of the previous film, and the producer does not set a commercial profit target for them.

The requirements are simple: influence, quality, topic popularity.

The sequel is a success as long as it reaches $1 billion at the global box office.

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During this time, Luo Sheng's main focus was on the Côte d'Azur.

Coming to the company early this morning, Luo Sheng participated in the internal executive meeting chaired by Yao Jianhong.

In the conference room, Yao Jianhong was speaking in an orderly manner: "From 2013 to the present, in the past five years, the company has made great progress and achieved new highs, which is worthy of recognition and indelible. ”

As he spoke, Yao Jianhong changed his words: "But it is also undeniable that we could have done better and our performance could have been higher, so what is the reason?" Lao Mei involved a lot of our energy to deal with, although in the overall view we are winning, but it is indeed slowed down the company's development speed, this is no way to do things, but the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, one step at a time, we have to run. ”

At this moment, Luo Sheng sat in the chief position as a melon-eating audience, basically did not speak, the meeting was also led by Yao Jianhong, he was basically no longer a company, the name of CEO was more of a name, and Yao Jianhong, the executive vice president, has been doing the work of CEO.

Lao Yao continued: "We have fallen behind in the smart home industry, not technology, technology is still maintaining a certain advantage, but in the construction of the ecosystem behind the competitors, from the 51st CES exhibition in January this year, the major giants are in the field of smart home in the field of melee, while we are entangled by the United States and have no time to take care of the time to build their own ecosystem." ”

CES is the abbreviation of International Consumer Electronics Show, which is known as the "bellwether of today's hot technology trends".

Yao Jianhong looked at the information in his hand and said: "In the past year or two, the global technology community has set off a new frenzy in the development of AI technology, whether it is the major technology giants we are familiar with, or startups from all over the world, are competing to tap the application potential of this technology in various fields." ”

"Among them, the AI voice assistant is the most eye-catching, and it has been a hot project in the past year. It is no exaggeration to say that the intelligent voice assistant has once again brought unprecedented vitality to the smart home. ”

The company that pioneered the AI voice assistant and brought it to the public eye is the Cote d'Azur in 2009 when it released the third-generation Azure smartphone, and launched the intelligent voice assistant "Xiaolan", which made the voice assistant begin to enter the sight of the technology circle.

Five years later, in 2014, Amazon launched the smart speaker Echo (Aigou), making the smart speaker a hot physical carrier of voice assistants, and during this time, the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology were in trouble at the same time, all of which were made by Lao Mei, and the main energy was on the line with Lao Mei.

Other competitors took advantage of the opportunity to go wild.

Nowadays, stimulated by Echo's high profits, the world's major technology giants have begun to compete for it, such as the domestic "Tmall Genie", "Xiao Ai", etc., and the vigorous development of voice assistants has also made smart home a hot field in the technology circle again.

On the contrary, the Cote d'Azur is quite "cold" to create a trend and master the most advanced AI technology, and the application of Xiaolan is currently limited to Azure mobile phones and ieP educational tablets, which have been continuously iteratively optimized over the years, but have not broadened the application scenarios.

The Cote d'Azur is stopping to rest, and other international friends are taking the opportunity to catch up, and they also know that the Cote d'Azur has always been alone in AI technology, so the major technology giants have turned to accelerate the construction of their own ecosystems as the focus, and at the same time increase efforts to iterate technology to shorten the gap with the Cote d'Azur in the field of AI technology as much as possible.

Yao Jianhong, who attended the meeting, spoke again: "At present, there are no more players with cooperation and ecological research and development pattern in the field of intelligent voice assistants than a few old friends, such as Amazon's Alexa, Google's Google Assistant, Samsung's Bixby and Apple's Siri in China. ”

"Judging from the current industry ecological pattern, in addition to our Xiaolan in the state of 'hang-up', everyone is desperately using various methods to attract third-party smart home companies to join their own ecosystem. Although it was my little blue on the Cote d'Azur that brought the industry of smart voice assistants to the heat, it was Amazon that saw that voice assistants were successfully introduced into smart home products. ”

As he spoke, Yao Jianhong listed a set of information reports on the current situation of the industry and put them on the big screen in the conference room, and Luo Sheng and other participants also looked at it.

"Since the end of 2014, Amazon first launched the smart speaker Echo based on the voice assistant Alexa, the popularity of smart speakers has been high and unabated. This is the market data I have put together, and the data shows that Amazon, which has a first-mover advantage, has sold at least 20 million Echo series smart speaker products, and this is still the case? ”

Luo Sheng saw the tens of millions of sales, and looked at Yao Jianhong's unhappy expression, and couldn't help but smile dumbly.

No wonder Lao Yao couldn't bear it, saying that the Cote d'Azur must be allowed to run into the field of smart home.

Amazon's Echo has rushed to tens of millions of sales, and it can already build a mature ecosystem, not only making a lot of money, but also making Lao Yao realize that it may threaten the Cote d'Azur, although this threat is not big.

But we can't ignore it, and when the opponent really takes off and forms a general trend, it will be difficult to get it, how brilliant Kodak once was, and finally it was killed by digital technology.

Luo Sheng is not dissatisfied because the company has pulled down in a certain field, the development of the company itself is actually quite good, the so-called Baimi will eventually have an oversight, not to mention that this is not the management's lack of attention, but to deal with the original suppression of Lao Mei is the first priority.

Now that he finally got over this breath, Yao Jianhong immediately ran quickly to enter, which was not easy.

The Cote d'Azur is indeed a big business, it is an unimaginable super-giant in the eyes of others, a super business technology empire, but at the same time, it also has many "enemies", those familiar technology giants in Silicon Valley, but there are many of them, which one is not in direct or indirect competition with the Cote d'Azur?

It is a competitive relationship, there are lawsuits and disputes, and at the same time they are cooperating, which is simply a pot of porridge.

It won't be long before he is about to get involved with Lao Huang, and Luo Sheng will never doubt that the Cote d'Azur will definitely fight with Nvidia in the future.

As for the smart home section, although it is lagging behind in the construction of the ecosystem, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry, the big white robot can help the Cote d'Azur fight a beautiful turnaround and announce what is the return of the king.

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