In early January, the first product of Vision Vision Technology Co., Ltd., the AI camera, was officially put into use.

Time assassins, fake smile memes and the like quickly became popular. It belongs to tap water, and the heat is not low.

Meng Fanqi did not invest in publicity and distribution funds in this matter, but only made a deal with Li Yanhong, in exchange for the recommendation resources of the 91 mobile phone assistant at the current point in time, as well as Li Yanhong's follow-up network support in government projects.

As a mobile phone application platform with tens of billions of downloads at that time, the support of 91 made the start of AI cameras a smooth step.

The price Meng Fanqi paid for this was a promise, promising to confirm a financing with Baidu within this month.

Robin Li doesn't care how much he wants to control the stake in Vision Vision Technology, or how much profit he makes from it.

From his point of view, it is only to draw in the relationship between the two parties by holding the equity of Meng Fanqi's company, and in his opinion, this is likely to be of great benefit to Baidu's AI technology in the future.

For this reason, he would rather exchange Baidu's shares with Meng Fanqi's small start-up company.

Meng Fanqi's App Robin Li saw that the so-called camera is just a carrier, providing users with a choice to take pictures without changing the app.

The real focus is not on that, but on:

This function will rejuvenate the person in the photo, and turn white overnight.

This feature makes the task in the photo cry with joy and burst into laughter.

The AI algorithm hidden behind the App shocked the knowledgeable Robin Li.

At this time, it was only a little more than two months since Meng Fanqi released the generative adversarial algorithm.

During this time, Baidu implemented the YOLO real-time detection algorithm and cooperated with the government. The progress of this matter has been quite smooth, so to speak, at breakneck speed.

But Meng Fanqi, on the other hand, has directly transformed the generative model from a groundbreaking idea into a powerful and controllable editing tool.

Directly on a face in any image, you can edit its specific properties as you like.

Age and expression are just very preliminary attempts, just the simplest of the many possibilities, and they can be said to be a drop in the bucket.

If Meng Fanqi had found a way to modify a certain attribute of an image through an artificial intelligence algorithm, there was so much he could do.

The intelligent coloring of the image, the change of the character's clothing and posture, the compensation of the missing parts, and the adjustment of the overall style of the picture.

Or even directly from scratch out of thin air.

There are so many possibilities, and it doesn't take too long to do so as long as it's willing to put in it.

Since meeting Meng Fanqi, Robin Li has made progress in the field of artificial intelligence, but at the same time, he has felt deeply powerless.

Baidu invests billions of dollars in artificial intelligence every year, and the achievements made are not at the same level as Meng Fanqi's progress in the past few months, and he can only follow behind to study Meng Fanqi's papers and codes every time.

Just a few days ago, the government has put forward the technology that it may need in the next step while the Skynet project is progressing smoothly.

That's a facial recognition system based on a huge population base.

In the government's plan, there is a medium- to long-term need, or vision.

The idea is to be able to directly link the observed candidates with the identity information of the residents through simple images and videos.

For example, in a place like the customs, face recognition + big data can enable police personnel to intercept key personnel while allowing ordinary tourists to clear customs smoothly without feeling.

Or in a department like the police, it is relatively quick to search the database for the face photos of some key people.

Li Yanhong has just begun to think about this matter, and Meng Fanqi's new company has already made this camera app that obviously has some showmanship.

When it comes to faces, editing various attributes is already weightless and effortless.

In less than a week after its release, the app has more than 10 million downloads.

Although it relies heavily on the platform and promotional resources of 91 Mobile Assistant, the quality of the App itself is quite excellent from the perspective of user retention and active behavior.

The number of users exceeding 10 million can only be said to be tepid, and if you want to become a phenomenal app, you have to have tens of millions, or even more than 100 million users.

But even if it's not very popular, the initial server must have been insufficient for a long time.

Fortunately, as Gao Wenhe said, Google settled a part of the share amount at the end of 2013, and Meng Fanqi quickly followed up with another batch of devices.

Rao is like this, Meng Fanqi also had to greatly reduce the free quota and open the mode of paid use.

After all, making an App is not a charity, so those graphics cards are running all the time, and the cost is not low.

Meng Fanqi's pricing is not high, and he is very conscientious.

Slowly there are millions of inputs.

Not long after joining the entrepreneurial team, there were products and revenues, and Xia Yan and several other students who were still studying were elated.

Although this amount of money is not enough for the boss to return the equipment, let alone the purchase cost of the venue, this is just the beginning! The best days are yet to come!

Wang Kai, who was still going through the handover procedures before resignation, burst into tears, Meng Fanqi obviously said that it had been two months, how could he move so fast!

If this continues, he won't even be able to drink hot soup.

After the app surpassed 10 million users, the growth rate slowed down a lot, which was worse than expected.

Originally, though, it wasn't a main course.

In mid-January, Google passed an internal review and released Meng's FaceGAN face generation technical paper, as well as the [none of these people] website.

The repercussions of this incident far exceeded Meng Fanqi's expectations, and within 24 hours, the situation was completely out of Meng Fanqi's control, and even Google's control.

Since Meng Fanqi's rebirth for more than half a year, he has released a number of world-class technological breakthroughs, but the popularity in the United States has stopped in the circle and cannot be called a social event.

But this time, for some reason, the well-known media in the United States reacted to the technology within 24 hours.

These include the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, CNN and many other big-name well-known media outlets.

Meng Fanqi quickly browsed through the reports of these media, and a huge wave was set off in his heart.

Why is generative technology dangerous? 》

"Generative technology is going to cause a huge mess in society, and we're not ready for it at all. 》

What is generative technology and why is it dangerous. 》

Generative Technology: The Security Crisis

"I'm super? Why is the reaction so violent??? ”

In Meng Fanqi's view, the current face generation technology is far inferior to the visual technology that can act on the whole body in the future, such as face swapping or the Fake series.

After all, he still underestimated how shocking the advanced technology could be for the current human race.

As the first author, he has now been @exploded on Twitter.

Journalists, scholars, melon-eating people, and ignorant instigators.

At this moment, Meng Fanqi is at the center of the storm of public opinion and the focus of discussion.

The professional field of AI/artificial intelligence, under the promotion of Meng Fanqi many times, has finally changed from quantitative change to qualitative change, and has become a social topic.