At the same time that several people chatted and became acquainted with each other, and talked about the topic of entrepreneurship in a joking manner.

Just a few kilometers away, there was a middle-aged man who was quite handsome, with trousers and a white shirt, and was dressed very neatly and concisely, just returned to his CEO's office.

If you want to talk about entrepreneurship, this Internet predecessor can be said to be one of the best, a real self-made technology entrepreneur who raised the first money with his own superchain technology.

Although the whiteness of the later search, library, post bar and other functions and products have played a good hand of cards to a sparse extent.

But just talking about the perseverance and vision of quitting his job on Wall Street and Silicon Valley around 2000 and returning to China to start his own business, it is indeed one in a million.

Robin Li pays attention to planning and then acting, and rarely does it on a whim.

Before founding Baidu in 2000, he spent five years returning to China every year to carefully inspect the Internet situation and environment in China.

Whether it was focusing on an independent search engine website later, listing in the United States, or proposing the concept of box computing and launching an open platform for data and applications, it was the result of his careful consideration and repeated consideration.

At the beginning of this year, Robin Li established the Baidu Deep Learning Research Institute to elevate the status of AI to the core technology that the company needs to innovate and develop.

As early as 2012, when all major domestic manufacturers were still skeptical about AI-related technologies, Baidu had verified the effect of AI algorithms in speech recognition and image recognition.

"AI-related algorithms and technologies will definitely have tremendous value in our various technical fields." After carefully reading the results presented by the Baidu team, Robin Li made this judgment firmly.

"Baidu has algorithmic capabilities, a solid technical foundation for search and retrieval, and a massive amount of big data and a powerful computing platform. These things are what AI needs the most, and it can be said that whiteness has the right time and place! ”

"We are bound to build the world's top AI research institute!"

With the slogan of Robin Li's morale, Huaguo's first AI research center was established in January 13.

But nearly a year has passed, but Li Yanhong is not very satisfied with the current situation and progress of the research institute.

He laid his boss chair flat and lay on it with his eyes closed.

His brow furrowed involuntarily.

As if he also felt this, Li Yanhong gently kneaded the position above the bridge of his nose and between his eyes with his left hand.

Although it was alleviated, it still couldn't solve the worries in his heart.

"The results of the institute cannot be said to be bad, but every year it is completely unable to catch up with new breakthroughs in the world." Li Yanhong let out a long breath and felt a little tired.

Ask yourself, he feels that he started early in this direction and invested a lot.

Why is it that every year is like seeing a ghost, there are always outrageous and exaggerated technological breakthroughs, far from the results of whiteness?

Last year, it was AlexNet, who made a huge offer of 200 million yuan, but still failed to win the Sinton team in Google.

This year, it was a better place, an unknown Chinese student, and even his school, Yenching Electric Power University, was near the headquarters of Baidu Yenching.

But no matter how you look at it, this kid deliberately doesn't accept contact!

The more Li Yanhong thought about this, the more irritated he became, and his brows, which had been slightly stretched, furrowed tightly.

"That should be a good thing." Li Yanhong comforted himself in his heart, "It shows that this kid has some confidence, is not arrogant or impatient, will protect his information, and will not be in a hurry to contact the industry." ”

"If you don't have any real skills, but you just have good luck, most of them can't wait to sell it for a good price as soon as possible."

Li Yanhong sat up slightly, reached out and pressed a button on the landline in front of him, and after a while, his secretary knocked lightly on the door and came in.

"Mr. Li, what is the matter?"

"Professor Fu of Yanjing Electric Power University, is there any news later?" Li asked, this is the only reasonable communication channel on paper.

"There's no new news, and last time he replied that the student didn't want to be disturbed, so he reported to you once." The secretary hurriedly flipped through his notepad and added, "He said he would convey it on his behalf, but I guess at most it will be mentioned casually, or mentioned together with other similar situations, which may not be of much use." ”

"On the side of the scarf, we've already sent someone to contact the student himself, but he doesn't seem to use the scarf much. Since the last clarification article, there has been no update. ”

"However, his scarf registered a mobile phone number, and we went to coordinate it two days ago." The secretary said with some hesitation, "Considering that the other party doesn't seem to want to get in touch, we didn't make any claims to contact us. I think I'll wait until you're done with your side and then make a decision. ”

This secretary has been following Li Yanhong for some years and knows how to do it. Open contact channels, she has arranged to try.

But like this, through some ways and means, she got someone else's private mobile phone number, due to a certain risk, she will leave it to Li Yanhong to make her own decisions, and she will never go beyond it.

"Give me my phone number." Li Yanhong only paused for a second or two, and then quickly made a decision.

He was willing to maintain politeness and demeanor, but he still preferred to get things done.

As time goes by, every second that passes increases the risk that you won't be able to win this talent.

Now that it has been decided, Robin Li never inks on things.

He took the notebook in his secretary's hand, took out his mobile phone and started dialing.

"Hey, hello." Meng Fanqi has actually received a lot of calls from human resources or headhunters from various companies recently, except for these people, he usually can't receive any calls at all, "May I ask which company is it from?" ”

Deeply aware of the harm of information leakage, if it weren't for the fact that he was still a little curious about the domestic quotation during this period, he would have turned off his mobile phone a long time ago.

"Classmate Meng, it sounds hot." Li Yanhong smiled, "Let me introduce myself, I am Li Yanhong of Baidu, I don't need to say anything else, right?" ”

"Mr. Li? Look up for a long time. Meng Fanqi was not so surprised that Li Yanhong would come to him. As the only domestic company to bid with Google last year, Robin Li should be the only senior management of a large company who can understand the value of his results at this point in time.

"But I really didn't expect that it was Mr. Li who personally called me to contact me."

"If we don't do this, how can we highlight the sincerity of our whiteness?" Li Yanhong said in his heart Sure enough, this kid is clear about his own value, "Are you still near the school now?" ”

"Nearby."

"If you're nearby, let's just meet and talk, and there's not a few steps in total." Li Yanhong stood up directly and flipped through his schedule, "Are you free today?" Come to our headquarters or make an appointment near us. ”