Although Baidu tried its best to publicize, this direction is destined to be a relatively niche field, and it is impossible to have the same popularity as entertainment news.

Even if Robin Li's press conference on Friday can give such a breakthrough result, this popularity and attention are completely incomparable to the Alpha Dog Go incident.

However, at this moment, the target group of Baidu propaganda is not the ordinary people who eat melons, but corporate executives and cutting-edge entrepreneurs with vision and foresight.

For those who have a heart, this publicity is completely sufficient.

The sound of this volume was already deafening to them.

For example, Google, which has long extended an olive branch to Meng Fanqi.

Google has published papers at most of the top conferences in the past, so there will always be people in attendance, but four of the attendees this time were people who didn't plan to attend.

They are the three members of Hinton's team and Jeff, Google's number one technology guru.

It's also funny to say that Jeff was in the middle of a game negotiation with Hinton and his two students, Alix and Elijah, at this time last year, and is now on the same page.

It stands to reason that Jeff and Hinton will be enough for this negotiation, with Jeff in charge of the company and Hinton in charge of the specific academic and professional aspects.

It's just that Hinton's health has always been bad, and this time he insisted on coming again, and the two students couldn't rest assured.

Last year, things were a bit bad when the Lake Tahoe was in talks with Google and whiteness, when the air was thin and cold and dry, and Hinton was often sick in that climate, but he didn't want to be seen as "old and decrepit" by people at the big tech companies.

This affects both the image and the outcome of the negotiations.

In order to prevent himself from getting sick, he thought of a solution: put the mattress between the two beds, he found some long and strong support like an ironing board and added it between the two beds, then took a few towels to soak it and cover it, and at night he slept in such a "tent" to ensure that there was enough moist air.

At that time, Yu Kai was originally responsible for negotiating bids, but after the price exceeded 2400w US dollars, Yu Kai's authority was not enough, and another senior executive of Baidu took over the work.

Yu Kai was in Lake Tahoe, but he couldn't participate in it, and he was anxious.

Yu Kai had nothing to do, and would visit Hinton's room from time to time to get a little idea of the direction of the auction, but what he didn't know was that his occasional visit also caused some panic in Room 731.

Hinton didn't want anyone else to see his unique humidification chamber, so every time before Yu Kai arrived, Hinton had to turn to his two students, Alix and Elijah, to hurriedly tear down the humidification tent and restore the room to its original state.

In a company of just three people, Hinton jokes, "That's what two vice presidents do."

There is also an interesting anecdote in the middle, that is, once when Yu Kai left Hinton's room, he actually forgot his bag in the room.

According to what Meng Fanqi later learned from interviews, Hinton and the two students claimed, "I know what information may be in it, and I may be able to tell them how high the price Baidu is willing to pay." But they knew it wasn't right, so they didn't. ”

Meng Fanqi was skeptical about this.

Speaking of which, during the negotiations last year, what was even more dazzling was Alix, who named AlexNet, after all, this network and algorithm are the key to opening the door to the era of deep learning.

But in fact, it was another of Hinton's students, OpenAI's chief technology officer, Elijah, who was even more dazzling.

In 22-23 years, the GPT series, which continued to swipe the screen and revolutionized the production methods of hundreds of millions of people, are all products of his direct leadership.

Of course, now he is not a chief technology officer worth tens of billions of dollars, and at the moment he is just a Google researcher under Mr. Hinton, who has just joined the company for a few months, and is basically the same position as Meng Fanqi's upcoming position.

In terms of income, I'm afraid it will have to be a lot less, after all, the results of the three-person team, and the mentor is the long-established AI godfather, and the cake will be divided a lot.

At that time, the Hinton team was acquired by a one-time buyout, with a total price of 4400w US dollars, which was divided into the hands of two students, which was estimated to be a one-time income of about ~1200w.

After the acquisition of employment, the salary will not be too high.

Meng Fanqi will definitely not be satisfied with the benefits of acquisition, he knows very well that every time he proposes something will become a model in the future, and only a sharing contract can satisfy his appetite.

In the early morning, as soon as the sky was cloudy, Meng Fanqi had already woken up, thinking about these negotiation-related matters. While trying to recall the relevant information, he was a little nervous looking up some special English words.

Although in his previous life, he went from taking the postgraduate English entrance examination to reading various AI papers, his English has improved a lot, and his spoken English is quite fluent. But when it comes to business negotiations, he is quite reluctant to deal with such a very professional content as a formal contract.

"Time is too rushed, this time it really miscalculated." Meng Fanqi sighed secretly in his heart, he thought that there was no obstacle to reading technical papers, and his English level should be completely sufficient.

It wasn't until I just woke up and had nothing to do, and when I flipped out some of the business contracts that I had downloaded for reference, I realized that I was completely overestimating myself.

"When we settle down next year, we really have to hire a lawyer and an investment advisor. Professional things have to be done by professional people to worry. Meng Fanqi shook his head.

"Alienation is assignment, prejudice is damage, negligence is negligence." When Meng Fanqi was anxiously searching for rare words in this regard, he only heard Han Ci's voice faintly coming from behind. "There are a lot of legal words that have specific meanings, and you have to find out where you have time to learn them."

Meng Fanqi looked back, only to realize that Han Ci in the back seat didn't know when he woke up, and stood up at the moment, lying on the back of the chair to see what he was doing. "How can you be so familiar with this legal English vocabulary?"

At this moment, I found that Meng Fanqi was actually far inferior to my own Han Ci in such fields, and I was in a good mood. "It's not very familiar, it's still far from the professional level, but it's much better than a three-legged cat like you."

Meng Fanqi, who was still grinding his gun, didn't know that at this moment, Google's nervousness was only a lot more than his.

"What's going on over there with Whiteness?" Waking up early in the morning, Jeff quickly noticed the promotional video released by Whitescale last night. In the field of AI, there are not many tech giants that have direct competition with Google at this stage, so Jeff is very concerned about whiteness, Microsoft and Facebook.

After watching the video content a little, Jeff didn't care too much, and the same opinion as some professional netizens, he felt that the whiteness just adopted some unfair comparisons.

But at breakfast, Alix's words suddenly alerted him, "That Meng's school seems to be quite close to the Baidu headquarters." ”