"If you want to calculate the time and planning just now, it shouldn't be very convenient." Meng Fanqi politely declined, "At this rate, the Baidu press conference is almost on the 6th or 7th, and I still have to go to the International Computer Vision Conference during that time, so I can't go to the press conference." ”

"Okay. I forgot about it. Li Yanhong was stunned for a moment and said with a smile, "You have released new technologies one after another, and after DreamNet, it is a generative adversarial network, and then a real-time detection algorithm, and I forgot that DreamNet has not been officially announced." ”

In Robin Li's instinctive feeling, the achievements based on DreamNet have reached the point where they can be launched at a technical conference and officially put into commercial use. This residual network must have been a long time ago, right?

At this moment, after Meng Fanqi finished speaking, he reacted, it turned out that this year's IMAGENET-2013 competition seminar had not yet started.

"Okay, then you're busy. Your demonstration of algorithms in Australia is actually a kind of propaganda on our side. "Li Yanhong thought about it for a while, this is not bad." I won't talk to you more, and I'll contact you when I have a situation. ”

"Mr. Li, wait a minute, I want to ask you for something." Seeing that Li Yanhong was about to leave, Meng Fanqi suddenly thought of the matter of automatic driving, so he asked out loud.

"You say."

"Can I advance a portion of my income if it's convenient?" If you want to enter the market to disrupt autonomous driving, you need to rely on your own technical understanding and technical influence to make money. At this stage, what Meng Fanqi lacks most is the principal. "This part of the money can be deducted from the revenue of the share later."

The hundreds of thousands of BTC I bought before were really not enough, even if I borrowed money from everywhere at the beginning, it was far from enough.

"Are you in need of money now?" Li Yanhong was a little surprised.

"It's not particularly urgent, but there are some investment insights that really need to start the principal." Meng Fanqi originally planned to integrate the two quarters of Baidu's share and Google's revenue in the middle of next year.

But now that he heard Robin Li's information, he concluded that it would be profitable to buy some stocks related to autonomous driving first.

The lack of this money is not very urgent, but it will be a loss if you don't get it.

"How much do you need?" Li Yanhong thought about it for less than a second and decided to agree. However, the amount of the advance needs to be discussed again.

"The more the merrier, preferably no less than eight figures." Meng Fanqi probably knew the situation of whiteness at this time.

The revenue in the fourth quarter was more than 9.5 billion, and the annual net profit was more than 100 billion.

It is no exaggeration to say that judging from the actual harvest of more than 4 billion yuan invested by Robin Li this year, there is no problem with this real-time detection algorithm worth hundreds of millions.

It's just that R&D and buying technology are not the same calculation method, and Meng Fanqi is not good at opening his mouth.

"In this way, I will advance 20 million to you in the next two days, and I can also advance between 15 million and 20 million at the end of the year." Li Yanhong has been thriving in the past two years, and because he pays attention to scientific and technological research and development, he has been very conservative in the capital chain, and there is no problem.

With the high quality of Meng Fanqi's research results, Li Yanhong is even willing to allocate hundreds of millions of yuan every year for him for research and development. He would be more than happy to be able to generate a few residual networks for whiteness to generate adversarial or real-time detection.

It's a pity that Meng Fanqi insisted on joining Google and going to Stanford for further study.

Even so, Robin Li is still willing to make it convenient. "Baidu will give you a formal email every quarter based on the financial report, informing you of the quarter's share. After these two advances, the dividends will be deducted here first, and the normal payment will not resume until the deduction is exhausted. ”

"No problem, I understand." Meng Fanqi can be said to be satisfied with this situation, "Thank you Mr. Li for your understanding." ”

"How to do this thing specifically, what are the precautions, or what else do you want, you will talk to Secretary Liu later." Before leaving, Li Yanhong advised, "I will tell her about this, and she will contact you at that time." But don't talk about this matter to the public, try to keep it secret. ”

Li Yanhong has the right to do this kind of operation, but if it really wants to spread it, it will be more troublesome internally.

Meng Fanqi nodded yes, indicating understanding.

He does have some additional needs, first of all, he doesn't want to get this part of the money at home.

Whether it is the entrepreneurial tide of autonomous driving or the large-scale inflow of funds, the speed in the United States is about half a year faster, and the U.S. stock market has no limit on the price limit, which is also more exciting and exaggerated.

For a person like Meng Fanqi who has a technical insider and can release technology to influence some industries, the room for operation is much larger.

Secondly, it is because the large-scale flow of funds in this area in China is quite cumbersome and inconvenient if Meng Fanqi is to operate it personally.

In addition, now that he is in China, it is inconvenient for him to apply for a bank card or an account in the United States, and this also needs some help from Baidu.

Later that day, Meng Fanqi received a call from Secretary Liu, which shows that Li Yanhong is still quite concerned about Meng Fanqi-related matters.

After taking away many of Meng Fanqi's documents, Secretary Liu promised that he would handle Meng Fanqi properly within two days.

This is also thanks to Meng Fanqi's wit, when he applied for an Australian visa before, he also handled the US visa at the same time.

This makes whiteness much easier for people in the United States to operate.

In this case, although it is not possible to get the physical bank card quickly, you can send the card number and security code to Meng Fanqi first.

Most of the basic payment and consumption functions can be used.

In the short term, since this matter was handled by Li Yanhong's secretary, there was no risk, but Secretary Liu still reminded that after Meng Fanqi went to the United States a few months later, he would also ask himself to quickly open a new bank account and transfer the money in the temporary account given by Baidu.

to avoid any unnecessary disputes in the future.

At the same time, Meng Fanqi also asked Baidu to handle a U.S. stock account for himself.

In this way, Meng Fanqi will soon be able to use the funds in advance.

"In the future, we still have to prepare early and get things done." Meng Fanqi reflected for a while, he didn't think about opening a U.S. bank account and a U.S. stock account before, but he was troublesome and always procrastinated.

With Robin Li helping him this time, the handling and security of the account will not be a problem, and it will be good to transfer the money away in a few months.

If it was someone else, Meng Fanqi really couldn't let go of this heart.

"The opportunity is still reserved for those who are prepared, and I almost missed this best opportunity to buy the bottom."

Meng Fanqi shook his head and sighed, and then began to search for enterprise information related to autonomous driving on the Internet.