Chapter 91: Data Infrastructure

After the meeting, the group stayed in Sini for a few more days, which was a rare time of relaxation.

Unfortunately, happy times are always short-lived, except for Meng Fanqi and Don Juan, who have taken a leave of absence, the other four are still studying.

During the normal class time this time, it was not easy to come over with Meng Fanqi.

After a few more delays, I have to rush back to school after all, otherwise it is not impossible to hang up three or four subjects.

Meng Fanqi has the intention to bring the people around him, but he will not escort him all the way, so that people don't finish their undergraduate studies, which is unrealistic.

The main purpose of bringing them here this time is to let them see the current situation and potential of the AI community.

Liu Xu, Mai Mang and Qin Hui, who are ready to continue to stay in China, Meng Fanqi naturally has his own arrangements and plans.

The most important thing he hopes a few people will help to do is to build a high-quality Chinese database in China.

This thing is the most critical factor for the success of Chinese ChatGPT in the future.

Meng Fanqi is confident that he can use his ability to collect all the resources of the Western AI community, but he cannot solve the fundamental problem of insufficient high-quality data in Chinese.

This is also the biggest reason that plagued many technology companies in China before the rebirth, and the high-quality Chinese data is far less than English.

And high-quality data is the oil of the AI era.

Huaguo Internet started late, and the accumulation of data is inferior on the one hand, and everyone is busy making quick money on the other hand.

Who would be willing to do this kind of dirty work of throwing money in, collecting data, and labeling data in vain?

In order for Chinese and Huaguo AI to keep up with the pace in the ChatGPT era four or five years later, this matter can only be laid out by Meng Fanqi in advance.

This is a big project that swallows money like a black hole, and the cost of using an employee is 100,000 yuan a year, and recruiting hundreds of people is tens of millions in a year.

There are only piles of ruthless data to be collected, and there will be no revenue in the short term.

In the long term of four or five years, Meng Fanqi said that he had to spend three or five hundred million yuan to enter, and if he wanted to strive for excellence in the quality and scale of data, it was not impossible for more than a billion yuan to enter.

"It's good that I signed a sharing contract with Google, otherwise I really don't know where to get this money."

Meng Fanqi felt a little pressure, and after carefully calculating a few accounts, he realized that the cost of what he wanted to do seemed to be much higher than he imagined.

An update to Google's recommendation algorithm is on the agenda as soon as possible.

"Liu Xu, Mai Mang, Huihui, this is probably the case. In three or four months, I will contact you again, and you will be responsible for helping me get the data collection in China first. ”

At the airport, Meng Fanqi and Tang Juan were going to Shanghai, while the rest were going back to Yanjing.

This time, there will not be too many opportunities to meet in the future, so Meng Fanqi explained the general plan for the future, "For this data collection task, you don't need to think about revenue, don't be pressured." The departments of this company are not built to make a penny, other departments will do part of the revenue, I will bear all the expenses, and the salary will definitely not be less than yours. ”

Let these students help them take care of the data collection first, Meng Fanqi signed Google's big order, and Baidu is not going to go to the United States again.

Just stay in Yanjing, throw in and do a good job of Chinese data infrastructure, don't make a drawing and have to convert it into English, make jokes about squirrel mandarin fish, and have a good mind.

"Do a good job of data infrastructure first, and I'll talk to you in detail when there are other opportunities in the future."

This AI company will definitely have some cooperation with Baidu, and Meng Fanqi is ready to use his own relationship to get more data from within Baidu.

After a few of them have some experience, follow the people in the technical department and exercise between Baidu, and next year there will be other opportunities and tasks for technical cooperation with large domestic manufacturers, and it will not be too late for them to take on a little part.

Of course, the technical aspect will definitely be the sole responsibility of Meng Fanqi.

The main thing is that this data is taken care of by familiar people, and it is more reassuring.

"That's... I have the opportunity to come to Stanford for an exchange. Han Ci didn't give Li Feifei a definite answer a few days ago, and Meng Fanqi didn't know what she thought.

It stands to reason that Yenching University and Academician E have a big enough coffee position in China, but Han Ci knows very well that doing AI and statistics in the circle of should numbers is definitely not following in the footsteps of Meng Fanqi, the leader of the new era of AI, to do AI theory and AI explanatory cost-effective.

Just the pomp and circumstance shown two days ago, without Meng Fanqi's actual performance breakthrough, this mathematical proof is absolutely unpopular, and the door is crowded.

However, her mind was very confused at this time, and she had not yet figured it out at all.

Meng Fanqi didn't say much, he believed and respected Han Ci's own ideas.

Not long after, he and Don Juan boarded the flight back to China first.

This time, in addition to Meng Fanqi and Han Ci, who are famous in the AI academic world, the other four people have gained the most from Don Juan. The remaining three were just strolling around and seeing the world.

As the sponsor of Meng Fanqi's experimental equipment during the competition at that time, and as the person who guided Meng Fanqi on the road of AI in his previous life, although he was a little confused, Don Juan was still qualified to hang his name on the participating team.

And this also won him a ticket to Stanford, even if he did not have a full prize and a good doctorate, the grade of Stanford's school was far better than the schools he originally planned to apply to.

With a friend who knows the roots by his side, not to mention anything else, many inconvenient things can be handed over to him in the future.

Besides, Don Juan still has some specialties in many aspects, or it is not a specialty.

For example, familiarity with two-dimensional elements does not seem to be an advantage at any time.

In addition to going to Shanghai to harvest rice and flicker a wave of shares this time, Meng Fanqi really couldn't think of any use for Don Juan's attribute.

Although there is still no sign of success at this time, the studio of only a few people has been in existence for nearly three years.

At the beginning of 11 years, in a dormitory of Shanghai Jiaotong University, several students who were still studying set up Mi Fuyou Studio.

No one could have imagined that this two-dimensional game company would later be able to directly rush to a valuation of 200 billion yuan with two or three games.

Among all the Internet companies that have taken off in the new century, Mi Fu's uniqueness is not only this.

The most legendary part is that the company has only received one funding round from start to finish.

Everyone often sees news like this, a company has obtained Series B financing with a valuation of tens of billions.

The reason for financing is actually a lack of money to do things. Just like the three founders of Mi Yu who receive a salary of 4,000 yuan a month.

Angel round, A round, B round, C round, and D round of financing actually refer to the order of financing.

The more you go to the back, the more mature the company's products, profit methods, scale, etc., and the smaller the risk. The more money you need to invest in order to get an equal share.

If an ordinary company wants to go public, it is very common to raise four or five rounds, and the scale of financing is not large.

From the end of 11 to 12 years, Mi Fuyo has been tossing and turning for more than a year, but he has not made a single investment.

Since the three founders are all members of the Shanghai Jiaotong University class, in fact, many investors have been interested in Mi Fu.

It's a pity that the two-dimensional culture, not to mention at that time, can hardly be regarded as the mainstream of the market today.

In particular, the concentration of the three founders is too high, and the ingredients are very problematic.