Robin Li, Zhou Hongyi and Wang Xiaochuan basically have the same idea, they all want to seek exclusive cooperation, after all, exclusive cooperation means that they have absolute competitiveness and create a new era of intelligent voice search.

And with the presence of opponents, the three bigwigs did not go around the corner, and directly opened a lot of cooperation chips, such as Robin Li, who directly used three-thousandths of his company's equity in exchange for Zheng Yi's technology shareholding cooperation, and promised to give Zheng Yi a company an investment of 500 million yuan in the future.

You know, Baidu's market capitalization is $50 to $60 billion, and 0.2% of the equity is worth at least hundreds of millions of yuan, which is really attractive.

Of course, Zhou Hongyi and Wang Xiaochuan are naturally not to be outdone, and the chips they offer do not have to be low for Li Yanhong, and these two seem to have the purpose of making him pay more price even if they can't defeat Li Yanhong in the end, and they began to bargain with Li Yanhong.

Seeing a few bigwigs as if participating in an auction, constantly increasing their chips, including equity, investment, cooperation resources, etc., Zheng Yi was naturally very excited, no matter which one he cooperated with, he would instantly become a billionaire, and the company would develop more smoothly in the future.

However, Zheng Yi has his own plans, he wants more money, or more resources, and more autonomy.

If technology takes a stake in any company, then it is tantamount to being kidnapped into the chariot of this company, and if it is really a small company that has just started a business, it is simply something that cannot be desired.

But Zheng Yi knows very well that his future company is going to surpass any of the bigwigs present, so he doesn't care about the equity of their company.

And if you only cooperate with one of them, then there will inevitably be a situation where one is dominant, without the containment of competitors, maybe it won't be long before people don't pay as much attention to themselves as they do now, and the resources promised now may be difficult to fulfill in the future, Zheng Yi feels that it is the most direct to collect money directly, and the most important thing is to keep the right to speak in your own hands.

Listening to the words of the three bosses, Zheng Yi smiled and said nothing, and finally they didn't speak, obviously they had already come up with the final bottom line, Zheng Yi smiled slightly, and said: "First of all, thank you for the love of the three CEOs, I can tell me my thoughts, I can understand the mood of the three CEOs, but I personally think that if I choose any one, it is very unfair to the other two, so I think it is most reasonable to cooperate with your company in the form of technical services, and you can freely choose whether to cooperate, The service fee is charged annually, all upgrades to the program are free, and if you don't need it after one year, you can terminate the cooperation at any time, which is very convenient, as for the service fee, my team and I agreed that it is 100 million US dollars per year! ”

Hearing Zheng Yi's words, the three bigwigs could be said to have a sinking face, they didn't expect Zheng Yi to be so scheming at a young age, he obviously took advantage of the discord between the three of them and decided what they meant, but they couldn't help it, who let the family master such awesome technology, and their company spent a lot of research funds on voice engines every year, but they did not achieve satisfactory results.

And now, if they don't cooperate with Zheng Yi, the other two or one that are already sworn enemies will inevitably seize the opportunity, making their existing market situation even less optimistic, so they have no choice.

Of course, Baidu is better, after all, where is their popularity, market share and strength, but in today's Internet era, the situation is changing rapidly, and now people are more willing to accept new things, so Robin Li does not dare to guarantee that if he gives up this opportunity, how earth-shattering changes will occur in the search engine market in a month or a year.

And the most important thing is that all the masters of their company's technical department tried to crack it together, but found that they couldn't crack it at all, and the encryption algorithm used by the program almost completely subverted their cognition, so it was impossible to obtain Zheng Yi's technology through improper means.

So at the moment, they have no choice, just spend money to buy a ticket to take this intelligent voice search flight, otherwise they can only watch their opponents fly higher and higher, and they may have no place to turn over.

After some negotiations, the three bigwigs could only reluctantly agree to Zheng Yi's cooperation method.

Zheng Yi agreed with them to sign the contract in a week, and he was busy registering the company and producing exclusive program installation packages for the three companies during this time.

After sending off the three bigwigs, Zheng Yi was in a good mood, and drove home and instructed Sonny to modify and optimize the program into an intelligent voice retrieval program that was more suitable for search engines. In the evening, Zheng Yi came to the Hilton Hotel again to meet and negotiate with the heads of major application market companies.

In the end, App Treasure, which has Tencent's huge backing, bought the exclusive publishing rights of the Android version of the intelligent voice assistant for the next three years for 50 million.

The next day, Zheng Yi signed an exclusive contract with App Treasure, and 50 million cash was also transferred to Zheng Yi's bank card.

And with enough start-up capital to set up your own company, it's time to start planning for the next step.

Now with the product of intelligent voice assistant, it is equivalent to having a steady stream of funds, plus the $300 million income of Baidu, 360 and Sogou, and now he has the strength to enter the field of artificial intelligence.

However, the production of intelligent robots can't help but need to complete the writing of artificial intelligence programs, and more importantly, the support of hardware production.

The only thing that limits his plan is the current level of hardware technology, which cannot be compared with "Mechanical Public Enemy", whether it is electronic chip technology, mechanical automation technology, or mobile battery technology, it needs to be improved.

So even if you want to produce the old model of robots in "Enemy of the Machine", it is impossible.

After thinking about it, Zheng Yi feels that the easiest thing to achieve at present is a household intelligent robot with relatively simple functions, but since it is a robot, it must at least have a human appearance, and it cannot be like the robot that looks like a "gas tank is fine" on the market.

And now is the era of looking at appearance, and the robot must also have a good-looking appearance, otherwise it will look like a ghost at home, and who is willing to spend money to buy it.

Just like Apple phones and computers, not only are they functionally and performantly good, but they also look very beautiful.

So Zheng Yi must design a beautiful appearance for his robot, although the old-fashioned robot in "Mechanical Public Enemy" is not ugly, but it is definitely not good-looking, but to produce a robot with the appearance of NS-5, it is not up to it for the time being.

So after thinking about it, Zheng Yi suddenly thought of an animated movie image - Dabai.

"That's right, Da Bai is the most suitable prototype!" Zheng Yi clapped his hands, and suddenly there was a feeling of enlightenment, Dabai is an inflatable folding robot, which is very convenient for future transportation, mailing, warehousing, and sales, and it is also very convenient for users to take out, even if there is no power halfway, it can be automatically deflated and folded and brought back, so as not to be embarrassed to carry a robot home all the way.

And the popularity of "Super Marines" has made Dabai a cute image that is well-known to everyone, and is deeply loved by children and adults.

Of course, Zheng Yi also knows that the first batch of robots produced by him cannot reach the powerful performance of Dabai in the movie, and the intelligence level cannot be compared with the real Dabai, after all, the intelligence level of Dabai in the movie is almost the same as that of Sonny, and he already has independent thinking and emotion.

However, Zheng Yi does not need to produce such an intelligent and powerful robot now, as long as it can meet the needs of households, and it can also imitate Dabai in the movie, according to the different needs of users, to provide customers with replaceable functional chips, such as medical care, education, housekeeping, cooking and other functions.

"Looks like we're going to get in touch with Disney!" Zheng Yi thought that if he wanted to use the appearance of Dabai, he must first obtain the authorization of Disney, although he may have to pay a lot of licensing fees for this, but Zheng Yi felt that the return should be far greater than his own efforts.

After all, their robots are to be sold all over the world, and with this image, it is of great help to open up the international market.

Of course, Dabai is only Zheng Yi's first generation of products, and when the technology allows it in the future, the brand awareness is enough, and he can completely design the image of the robot with his own copyright.

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In the following days, Zheng Yi began to be busy going through various procedures, selecting office buildings, purchasing office supplies, and recruiting the company's top management.

Although there is no need to raise too many technical personnel in Zheng Yi with Sonny, some technical personnel such as necessary program maintenance personnel, server management, company website development and maintenance are still needed, and the human resource management, finance, and marketing departments that every company must also have personnel.

Everything went very smoothly, Zheng Yi quickly rented a suitable office building, found a decoration company to produce design drawings, and began to decorate.

However, the progress of personnel recruitment is relatively slow, after all, Zheng Yi's first position to be recruited is the company's deputy general manager level, which almost belongs to the company's second-in-command, such an important position, Zheng Yi naturally has to be cautious.

And the really talented and virtuous people are basically the pillars of major companies at present, and they have no intention of changing jobs at all, if they dig the corner of the wall by themselves, what they can dig over basically shows that this person is not loyal enough, not to mention that Zheng Yi's company is not too well-known at the beginning, and it is still a little difficult to dig people.

Therefore, Zheng Yi, who couldn't find a suitable candidate for a long time, even used Sonny to start searching for suitable candidates on major recruitment websites and channels, and checked all the past file information, work situation, consumption habits, chat records, credit records, and even opening records of the target candidate, and evaluated the person's personality, character and ability through Sonny's data calculation.

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