Under the heavy reward, there are indeed brave men.

The top four colleges in China came to several regional gold medal players, and Meng Fanqi examined some advanced topics one by one.

Even at the difficult level, they quickly had ideas.

Although these students have no actual experience in app development, this is the time for them to have momentum.

These things are not difficult for them to learn, and they can quickly get started with a little fumbling.

There is no need for Meng Fanqi to continue to introduce the options that can be gradually cashed out in the future, or what bonuses they have.

With a basic salary of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a month alone, they are very satisfied.

Go to the soup and go to the fire, don't give up!

In fact, there are many qualified candidates, but many are hesitant.

After all, at this time, there are still a few people who can really understand and all in artificial intelligence, which is similar to the nature of daring to hoard Bitcoin two years ago.

It requires a very good vision and a strong will.

Most of the decisions came because they liked the high salary, and if they resigned, it would take at least a month to hand over.

There are only two engineers who fail to start an App business, and they can get to work quickly, and I have to say that sometimes it is indeed a blessing in disguise.

After talking for about thirty or forty minutes, Meng Fanqi felt that the level of the two technicians was relatively passable.

It's just that the track of entrepreneurship is really poorly chosen, and although the camera App has a wide audience, the competition is also extremely fierce.

There are also many mobile phone manufacturers themselves doing this kind of thing.

This kind of small studio wants to make achievements on camera apps, and without a very explosive technological breakthrough or creative brain, I am afraid it will not be possible.

App camera is like a newcomer writing traditional fantasy, thinking that they have something to do, but in fact no one cares about it at all.

"Personally, I think that if you want to do face-related editing, you can combine it with a camera app, rather than just making an editing app." After Zhu Lei and Meng Fanqi finished communicating, they said.

Meng Fanqi was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little unsure whether he was serious or simply couldn't let go of his desire to make a camera app.

"If you think about it this way, where do the pictures of human faces come from? It's not about taking a selfie with a mobile phone, if this is a camera app, you can add expression filters and age filters immediately after shooting, and users' willingness to download will definitely be much higher. ”

emmm.... There seems to be some truth to what he said.

Compared with a certain age editor or an expression editor, the concept of a camera is closer to the daily cognition of the masses.

"Now I have some kind of artificial intelligence technology that can edit the age and expression of a human in an image." and "I've got a camera that can shoot you crying and old." ”

It is definitely the latter that has a wider audience and is less difficult to promote.

"In addition, our camera app is available on both platforms, and we only need to plug in this additional feature." Obviously, Zhu Lei and Jiang Shan are obsessed with camera apps for some reason.

Although the two of them may have come to him with the intention of borrowing the corpse to resurrect the soul, after chatting about Meng Fanqi's plan, after finding that the function he wanted to launch relied on face pictures, he pushed his own camera product ideas.

However, there is some truth in their arguments, Meng Fanqi generally does not care whether his product is in the form of editing software like Meitu or PS or camera software, as long as it has a low threshold and has the function of editing faces.

"They do have some truth in what they said, some P-picture beautification software in the past life and back have also made camera functions themselves, what light face and the like. If you only have a P picture, but you have to open a separate camera to take a picture, it does increase the cost of use and add unnecessary steps. Meng Fanqi thought so.

"Then I'll welcome you two to join?" Meng Fanqi got up and shook hands with the two, he wasn't worried that the two of them had any other thoughts, the core AI technology was all undertaken by himself, and no one in the company understood.

The camera app is just a carrier, and their camera products are not competitive without their core AI technology.

Two veteran camera app entrepreneurs, led a group of outstanding senior / junior college computer students, Meng Fanqi's initial App team was established.

"Your task is also quite concise and straightforward, I will provide an algorithm function to do a certain calculation operation on the received image, and return an image that has been edited with a specific attribute. The current first edition tentatively is some of the common expressions, and the age of both.

The only thing you need to pass in is the image and the degree of change to a certain property. The calculation of the image is not affordable on the user's mobile phone, so we do this calculation on our own server.

Considering the number of users and the number of uses, this is likely to be a high-concurrency task, so you implement the relevant functions and interfaces first. In terms of high concurrency, I will soon recruit some people from the system side to do it. ”

After spending several days dealing with these trivial matters, Meng Fanqi felt a little exhausted.

Starting your own business is still much harder than lying down and sharing money.

Fortunately, after the initial team is set up, there are not so many things to worry about on your own.

On the eve of New Year's Day, Meng Fanqi, who was finally free, began to officially submit an application for admission to Stanford.

Although a consensus has been reached with the school in private, the process on the surface still needs to be followed.

Among them, Hinton's letter of recommendation is also particularly interesting, just a short sentence.

"I recommend this student to study computer science at your school, he is a genius in the field of artificial intelligence."

This was followed by his autograph.

Maybe this is how godfathers in the industry write letters of recommendation, every word is worth a thousand dollars.

It doesn't matter what the content is, it's not a bit of nonsense, and you just need to look at that last autograph.

Not long after submitting the application materials, Meng Fanqi received a call from Li Yanhong.

"How's it going, mathematician, what have you been up to lately?" Of course, Li Yanhong did not call to greet him, but to explore the possibility of financing and investing in Meng Fanqi's new company.

"At present, I plan to make a camera app first." Of course, Meng Fanqi knew that Li Yanhong had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and since the other party didn't know what to say, he would keep playing Tai Chi with him and detouring around the bend.

"Camera app?" Li Yanhong frowned, and he was completely dizzy now. He thought that Meng Fanqi was going to engage in AI entrepreneurship, what could this camera app do?

But out of trust in Meng Fanqi's technical ability, Li Yanhong finally failed to hold back, and in the name of concern, he hinted at the possibility of financing: "If you have any financial problems, you can contact me at any time." ”

"That is, to make a simple app to test the water first, or a few people." Meng Fanqi smiled secretly in his heart: "If the product is made and someone pays attention to it, it will definitely be indispensable to cooperate with Mr. Li." ”

This is not a cliché, Baidu is now deeply cooperating with the Skynet project, and Meng Fanqi can accept Baidu to take a part of the shares, but the proportion will be strictly controlled.

He doesn't reject a little melt once or twice, but it can't be so early.

Because he is not short of funds at all, what he needs is more of the relationship between the platform and the other party.

For example, the Skynet project, through the relationship of whiteness, is much faster than going to local officials one by one.

Another example is the mobile payment of Penguin and Ahri, if the two companies do not take a small stake, their face technology will not be able to survive for a long time on the two largest mobile payment platforms.

But even if you have this idea, it's too early to talk about financing before the app is popular, how much money can you talk about now?

That's too cheap for them, and they have to drag it off a bit.

On the other end of the phone, after Li Yanhong hung up, his heart was like a mirror, knowing that this kid's calculation was to talk about the price after coming up with results.

"Alas... Or the price was not enough at that time. Li Yanhong thought wishfully like this, if he offered a sky-high price at that time, maybe he would have really signed him, how could there be such a troublesome thing now.

He couldn't have imagined that the reborn person even signed Google's sharing contract once a year, how could he keep working for him because of a few dollars?