When the sun set, the program discussion meeting finally came to a conclusion, and it is not surprising that the three seed units of 2020, Yanling Institute and Shanying Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. obtained the next stage of bidding qualifications.

However, other units are not without gains, and the sub-systems of more than a dozen units have been selected by the review, and three qualified units are required to integrate resources with these units.

In the eyes of ordinary people, XGPA is undoubtedly abandoned, and even if the cost is reduced to eight million, the military is completely unacceptable. It's like choosing a new generation of military pistols, and as a result, you can take out the shaped pistol from Star Wars. Buying one is equivalent to buying a tank gun, and it is of no use except for blinding people's eyes.

The pot-bellied vice president of Shanying Heavy Industries ran over and said to Xia Ming enthusiastically: "Mr. Xia, why don't you come to our side?" After spending so much money, I don't even have a standing ticket, it's too cost-effective, right? ”

He raised two fingers and smiled like Maitreya Buddha: "20%!" You take out the two pieces of operation control and information integration, and we will form a new company and give 20% of the shares! ”

Yi Liqing stared at him with an idiot's gaze, while Xia Ming smiled and said, "Then you are too bad." ”

The vice president also heard Xia Ming's teasing, and said regretfully: "You guys, you're still too young......

In the distance, the person in charge of the 2020 Institute was chatting with Director Gu of the Yanling Institute, and they couldn't help but smile when they saw this scene.

Director Gu shook his head while laughing: "I'm afraid Shanying doesn't know yet, XGPA is the biggest winner of this discussion." ”

The person in charge of the 2020 Institute sighed: "We really want to exchange with XGPA, they will enter the next stage and let NORINCO sell us." ”

"You guys...... Can it be sold? ”

"...... each other"

"When the Middle East heats up the power armor, our plan will be outdated."

"Yes, today is completely to accompany the prince to study. There is only gritting his teeth and holding back his strength in the back, and catching up with a little is a little bit. ”

The 2020 Institute is a military system, and the Yanling Institute is a scientific research system, each with its own news channels. They all know a thing or two about XGPA's follow-up arrangements. There is only the ignorant Shanying Heavy Industry, who thinks that the military does the same thing as the people, and getting the bidding qualification is a victory, so he sent his face to Xia Ming to be drawn.

However, there are still people on Xia Ming's side who are not clear about the situation and are extremely depressed.

One is Lao Hong, who is the most enthusiastic about XGPA, and keeps complaining that the current military top brass is stubborn, just like back then: "At first, I didn't have any idea about cat ear piercing, and I had to dig it myself, and I was frightened when I saw the casualty figures, and rushed to study the steel frame ......"

Liu Zhen was scratching his head. He didn't know what to read when he wrote the word "Liu" upside down, of course, what made him and his subordinates lose was the future, did he have to go back to the base to guard the warehouse?

Afraid that Lao Hong would be too excited and shouting at the scene, Xia Ming didn't tell him, but just muttered to Liu Zhen: "You still have to go back with me, there will be an order for you in two days, and we will get along for a long time." ”

Liu Zhen opened his mouth wide, and his joy could not be concealed at all. He understood.

After packing up, the convoy returned to the research institute, Xia Ming pointed to another factory area covered with weeds, and said to Yi Liqing: "Char Heavy Industries' research center is temporarily located over there. You will be given 30 acres of land, the factory, and the military quarters in charge of the guards, and the design and supervision will be handed over to you. ”

Yi Liqing, who was promoted to the general manager of Char Heavy Industries, geared up: "Understand! I'm going to make ten monkey versions in three months! ”

Xia Ming shook his head: "Take out two monkey versions in ten days." Half a month later, it will be the Dubai Defense Exhibition, and NORINCO wants to take two parts to hang its appetite first. ”

It is not difficult to come up with two monkey versions of XGPA for display in ten days, and the power armor is not a tank. No manufacturing process is required. The skeleton is directly processed on the lathe, and the electromechanical group is first topped with spare parts, since it is a monkey version, the information integration can be simplified, and the observation and sighting equipment is not needed for the time being. It will take some time for the AI to collect new data and form a new motion control model.

After Yi Liqing made a guarantee, he was still puzzled: "Why don't you just take these two prototypes?" ”

"There is a separate test item ......"

Xia Ming didn't elaborate, Yi Liqing thought it was a top-secret project of the military, and didn't ask again.

It is not a military project, but Xia Ming wants to use these two XGPA for safety reasons, one is improved, and the other is to remove some parts as spare parts.

In the afternoon, he talked to Shang Weidong about going to the Seychelles to explore and salvage, on the pretext that Metz had the materials and technology urgently needed by the research institute, but Metz wanted to salvage things in the Seychelles, hoping to get a license through Huaxia's connections.

Shang Weidong said that this matter is easy to do, just go directly to NORINCO, and they have a good relationship with the Seychelles government.

After finding the representative of NORINCO and agreeing to hurry up and take out the monkey version of XGPA, the other party patted his chest very happily and introduced Huahai Group, which helped the navy with chores.

The CEO of Huahai Group naturally trusted the business introduced by NORINCO, saying that they had a deep-diving mother ship resting in Chittagong and could start immediately. It was also assured that the mother ship had a certain exploration capacity, and as long as it was not drilling, there was no need to find another exploration ship.

In less than two hours, this series of things were solved, which made Xia Ming have to sigh, it is easy to do things with his thighs.

Hearing Xia Ming say that he was also going to Seychelles for "tourism", Shang Weidong reminded him that there was nothing wrong with Seychelles, and he had to pay attention to it when he got to sea, because the political situation in Madagascar in the south was unstable, and there might be pirates.

This is the reason why Xia Ming is ready to bring XGPA, if it is only at the level of Somali pirates, there is nothing to worry about with Metz looking for a mercenary company. But if Yang Yuanchang makes a move, he has to be lenient to the enemy.

The two discussed the details of the improvement of XGPA, and regretted that there was no breakthrough in the two key technologies of energy and materials.

If the battery technology can be greatly improved and the energy storage density can be doubled, XGPA will have practical value. Equipped with standard battery panels, it can be used for three hours of high-intensity activity, and it has good practical value.

The breakthrough in material technology is even more significant, if the strength of the XGPA is higher, it can have the ability to maneuver close to insects, and at the same time, the reliability of the motor unit will be greatly improved, so that the cost of use is also greatly reduced.

Yi Liqing had an idea: "If we use a battery pack management system like Tesla, we can not only improve sustainability, but also reduce a lot of costs." ”

Xia Ming was a little surprised: "You are very familiar with Tesla?" ”

"I've studied, the battery is also very important for the simulation puppet," Yi Liqing had a natural expression: "The puppet can't hold a 10-kilogram battery." You can't just move for half an hour, and then take into account the contraction and heating ...... below."

"Getting to the point!"

Xia Ming interrupted his foul explanation.

"There is nothing mysterious about Tesla's battery pack in hardware, that is, more than 7,000 18650 lithium-ion batteries plus heat dissipation and protection systems, more than 300 kilograms of batteries, can provide nearly 100 degrees of electric energy, drive a two-ton car to run more than 350 kilometers, the price, about 35,000 dollars."

"XGPA's vanadium battery pack has a higher energy storage density, but because of poor consistency, the actual efficiency is not as good as Tesla's battery pack. And 10 kilograms of batteries cost us almost 100,000 dollars. If the XGPA uses Tesla's battery technology, it should be able to increase efficiency by 20%, and with the cooling and control system, it will not cost $10,000. ”

Xia Ming asked: "Then why do you still use vanadium battery packs?" ”

"In a hurry", Yi Liqing shrugged helplessly: "In the puppet circle, someone has come up with a very complete hardware solution, using the 20700 lithium cobalt oxide battery used in Tesla's latest generation of battery packs, and the problem is that the software can't solve it." Tesla's battery pack is advanced in that set of battery pack management software, which can ensure that the consistency of more than 7,000 batteries is in the best condition for a long time. ”

I figured out what Yi Liqing called "battery consistency management". Xia Ming smiled, isn't this the same as XGPA's artificial intelligence?

Because of the large number of batteries and the efficiency of computer-controlled software and hardware, Tesla also had to divide the battery pack into three levels to manage. The Clover architecture is well suited to handle this complex decision-making problem. Comprehensive end-to-end management is possible. Coupled with a simple weak AI program that manages a battery pack that is only one-thirtieth the size of Tesla, it will only perform better than Tesla.

Xia Ming said confidently: "Find that person, I will see something within three days." And then...... Give me three more days and I'll fix the problem. ”

Yi Liqing was dumbfounded, and after a while, he said, "This is Tesla's unique skill?" ”

Xia Ming patted him on the shoulder: "Since artificial intelligence can coordinate movements. Of course, it is also possible to coordinate the battery, but the object of monitoring and management has changed. ”

"Ouch!" Yi Liqing slapped his head: "Why did you forget, our most powerful thing is artificial intelligence!" ”

He clenched his fists and said excitedly: "I'll find that guy right away, and I'm going to tie him up too!" ”

"Artificial intelligence can indeed dominate the world, but only if you understand people's minds......"

In the laboratory, Xiaotang, who was using Xia Ming's link to solve the equation with Qianyan II, was complaining.

At present, Qianyan II is only equivalent to a supercomputer, which makes Xiaotang very dissatisfied. As soon as Xia Ming entered the laboratory, he got a sentence from her to train a bear child: "Have you had enough fun?" ”

Xia Ming was still thinking about XGPA, and suddenly remembered that Xiaotang didn't have a doctorate degree in materials science?

Half serious, half diverted the topic and mentioned this to her, Xiaotang spread his hands: "The field of materials science is too broad, and the one you said belongs to the field of metallurgical engineering materials." If you want to study this direction, you have to pull up a research team of more than 100 people, and it will take several years to make some gains. ”

Yo, do you feel like there's a door?

If this topic was meaningless, Xiaotang would not have said so much nonsense, Xia Ming put on a posture of a good teacher and nephew, and listened attentively.

"The key is artificial intelligence, you can upgrade Qianyan from a supercomputer to a scientific research assistant as Professor Xu said, I can take on a field by myself, after all, that kind of assistant is equivalent to a team."

Xiaotang's words made Xia Ming wake up, it seems that continuing to upgrade Qianyan is the most important thing. Xiaotang's research on artificial synapses is only in hardware, and no one has solved it in software.

Xiaotang assigned the task: "The auxiliary intelligence you got before, as well as the artificial intelligence of Prometheus computer version, are all a little interesting, I think you can try it in this direction." Don't forget, we also promised Lillo that if all she sees is a supercomputer, don't blame her for continuing to focus on your brain. ”

Thinking of being pestered by Liluo to be a MIR every day, Xia Ming secretly shuddered.

Xia Ming decided that when he found an assistant in the direction of weak artificial intelligence, he would put all his energy on this matter.

However, this is not a top priority, Xia Ming sent a few pictures to Xiaotang on Shen Chat.

"Beauty, would you like to spend a beach holiday with me?"

Xia Ming asked with a smile, the picture is the island scenery of the Seychelles.

"A week later? So fast!? Xiaotang was shocked.

"You have to thank XGPA", Xia Ming said suffocatingly, really thinking that he was a bear child who tossed power armor as a toy? (To be continued.) )

PS: Everyone is complaining about the lack of updates, two more today, and two more in the future.