IEI is the English abbreviation of "International Extended Intelligence Company", which is the name given by Xia Ming to the new company.

On the third day after the opening of IJCAI, Xia Ming announced the establishment of the company at a press conference in Silicon Valley, and officially released the Terminator neuron chip. The appearance of the Terminator has pushed the tide of EI to a higher heat, and this time it is a carnival of the entire industry.

The hardware of the Terminator Neuron chip is the same as IBM's TrueNorth Neuron chip, which uses the transistor processor with a thin architecture as a neuron and the memory as a synapse.

However, in terms of specific structure, the Terminator is fundamentally different from TrueNorth.

IBM's third-generation TrueNorth relies on 7nm process technology and has 16,384 cores, 8 million neurons, and 1 billion synapses. The Terminator also uses a 7nm process, but cancels the "core" level, and directly accommodates 12 million neurons and 2 billion synapses, which is already the limit of existing transistor technology in terms of physical structure.

According to IBM's neuronal chip performance standards, the third-generation TrueNorth is hundreds of billions of synapses per second, and the Terminator has reached a terrifying trillion per second! However, the energy consumption of the two is on the same level, and there is basically no need for external heat dissipation.

Compared with TrueNorth, the innovation of Terminator is to eliminate the core level and flexibly combine neurons of any size into a processor through the programming method of quantum computing language. TrueNorth, on the other hand, can only combine neurons into fixed processor cores, which is like an electronic stepless speed change versus a mechanical stepless speed change, which has a world of difference in efficiency, energy consumption, and compatibility.

The most fundamental difference between Terminator and TrueNorth is that TrueNorth does not have universal programming, and there is a problem to solve. It must be programmed from scratch. The Terminator, on the other hand, has a full set of instructions and compilers, and even has built-in programming intelligence.

Therefore, IBM and Intel also attended the Terminator press conference and signed a technology cross-licensing agreement with Xia Ming, which is unexpected and reasonable.

Although in the future industry blueprint, the computing aspect. IBM and Intel's traditional architecture processors are still responsible, but computing has become less intelligent. In order to maintain a complete ecological chain in the new era, and also take a share of the EI pie, IBM and Intel need to use the programming technology of Terminator.

On the IEI side, the Terminator neuron chip does not have a complete technology patent chain, and like TrueNorth, the Terminator is more suitable for artificial intelligence applications such as neuro-like computing and deep learning, as well as at the top level of computer management, and conventional computing is not a strong point. So in terms of communication interfaces, data storage. It must also involve the existing underlying hardware technology, and the two sides must cross-authorize in order to smoothly bring the computing era into the EI era.

From a business point of view, this is a rational choice for all parties and a win-win situation, and such cooperation discussions have started two or three months ago, after receiving the finished product of the Terminator a month ago. The two leaders finally made up their minds.

On behalf of the newly established IEI, Xia Ming signed agreements with IBM and Intel. This not only represents the official entry of mankind into the EI era, but also represents the handshake between the technology leaders of the old era and the technology leaders of the new era.

After the long table, in a flash that could not be stopped for a moment, Xia Ming exchanged agreements with IBM CEO Steve Mills and Intel CEO Brian Koziannick, which not only appeared on the front page of major websites around the world at the fastest time, but also appeared in the next day's "Time Magazine".

However, the cover of Time magazine did not use this photo. Instead, the artist painted a picture similar to a movie poster with ink brushwork.

At the top of the painting is a somewhat blurry Xu Ping, looking squarely at the reader, on the left is Lin Cheng's side face, and Xia Ming is on the right, looking ahead with a slight smile. Behind the avatars of the three people is a wall of expressionless robot faces. This ink painting not only symbolizes a new era of artificial intelligence, but also symbolizes another technological revolution set off by the Chinese people.

The cover story of Time magazine is titled "Three People Who Spann Electronics and People."

The photo of Xia Ming exchanging agreements with the CEOs of IBM and Intel was included in the article of Time Magazine. The report itself is also special, with no comments other than the headline and the introduction "August 21, a new era for mankind".

One photo says it all, and Time editors probably feel that any comments outside of the annotations of these photos are feeble. Only the maturity of cloning technology, or the realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology, can be compared with this technological revolution.

In addition to IBM and Intel, the cooperation between Alphabet and IEI has attracted more attention.

The first cooperation is the cross-swap between IEI and Alphabet, and the share swap ratio shocked the industry, 1:1! The two companies will exchange 7% of the shares.

This cooperation means that the two companies have formed a relatively stable strategic alliance, and this ratio also means that IEI, a private company that has only been established for a few days, is already the same scale as Alphabet in the eyes of Page and Bloom!

It's a pity that Xia Ming clearly announced that IEI is a private company, will not be listed, and will no longer accept external capital, which makes Wall Street crocodiles beat their chests.

The second, more detailed, is the merger of DeepMind into IEI as an additional condition of the share swap acquisition, with DeepMind's CEO Hassabis becoming vice president of IEI. What Xia Ming mentioned in his conversation with Hasabisri has become a reality, which has also become a good story in the industry.

Under the photo of Xia Ming exchanging agreements with Page, there are a large number of companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Cisco, and Facebook.

Even Musk was present at the conference, where he signed a CEI technical cooperation agreement with IEI on behalf of Tesla. The agreement stipulates that the two parties will jointly research the application of EI in automobiles, and at the same time cross-license the battery pack management technology, which is actually the price that Musk paid in exchange for IEI's support for Open-AI's deep custom programming intelligence.

Each photo represents the ardent expectation of an industrial giant to catch the first train of EI, and the open attitude taken by Xia Ming in EI technology.

That's why Time magazine and the global industry value this day so much. The unprecedented support from the industry for neuronal chips indicates that EI will soon be used in all aspects of society.

At the press conference, Xia Ming also stood at the height of the industrial ecology and sorted out the current artificial intelligence products, which also pointed out the business direction for various companies.

Xia Ming said that IEI will focus on the basic research of EI software and hardware. Cicada will focus on the consumer field and launch PEI products based on IEI's technology, that is, personal extended intelligence. Illusion, on the other hand, continues to focus on graphic image technology, especially VR technology. SynaCyber, a game company that expanded from the studio, is not only responsible for the development of Galaxy of Illusions, but also focuses on advancing the game into the EI era.

As for BEI at the commercial level and GEI at the public affairs level, it will not be the core business of his company.

Under EI, Xia Ming will use many weak artificial intelligence such as voice and text translation, electromechanical control management, image recognition, etc. Classified as MI (machine intelligence), this part of the business, several companies will only have very detailed involvement, related technical standards, industry norms, he has no intention of leading.

It is this kind of planning that has allowed Xia Ming to gain unprecedented support from the entire industry, and the space he left is too great. It is completely dragging all the employees of the traditional industry to promote this change with him.

If Xia Ming is willing. He can completely adopt a closed system, eat all the consumer market and the commercial market, and use the technological advantages of the Terminator to destroy all the traditional technology systems. Instead of trying to be compatible with the traditional system as it is now, so that everyone has a way to live.

Of course. Xia Ming really wants to eat alone, I don't know how many open guns and hidden arrows he will face, and it may not wait for various companies or consortiums to figure out solutions, the US government will brazenly take action, and the outside world also understands why IEI will exchange shares with Alphabet.

During the Q&A session. There are still media who don't understand technology and ask what is the difference between future EI products and past AI products.

"As I said on IJCAI, EI is an extension of our will, and it has a will, albeit only as an analogue. To put it more colloquially, it is alive. Even just paramecium, or even viruses, are all life, and the meaning of life lies in survival and continuation. ”

"EI is such an existence, it will have the concept of 'body' and 'environment', the body is its hardware and the software that constitutes hardware cognition, the environment is the problem we give it to solve, and solving the problem is a state of survival for EI."

Xia Ming patiently explained: "If you understand this, you can understand what EI products are like." For example, PEI, which adheres to your will, processes all kinds of network information, and completes all kinds of work on the network. All choices are based on a simulation of your personal will, and it's like ......"

The female reporter roughly understood, and her imagination took off, and she interjected: "It's like my contract elf?" ”

"That's right, it can be understood as a spirit that is one with your soul", Xia Ming continued: "As long as the necessary adjustment is completed, it will take the initiative to do a lot of work, which greatly reduces manual intervention, and also reduces the misleading information and misunderstanding of people." ”

"At present, the most valuable business direction of EI is to upgrade the work originally undertaken by MI to BEI or GEI in addition to PEI."

"For example, traffic control, although we can achieve very detailed and timely management through MI technology such as image recognition, we still need a lot of manual monitoring, judgment and decision-making. In this regard, after the MI is upgraded to EI, it can not only achieve real-time control, but also make more accurate judgments and some simple executive management according to the set organizational will. ”

"So, can we expect EI to be mayor or councillor in the future?" The questions of female journalists are getting more and more silly.

"If your country is legally allowed, I think this is a future to look forward to", Xia Ming had to sacrifice diplomatic rhetoric, with the nature of the media, he believed that the headline of the report would probably be "Xia Ming said that the president of the United States can be replaced by EI". (To be continued.) )