My Return to Life

No one would take polite words on such a scene to heart.

The reason why Lei Jun came to Shencheng one day earlier was to find some excuses.

Naturally, it's not just to talk about the strategic integration with Dangkang.

Even if the strategic integration of Qingchat and Dangkang Games is only a small step in the first step:

Dangkang mobile game platform announced that it supports third-party account login, and only supports light chat.

For the moment, it is not very suitable to go further immediately.

As an excellent angel investor, Lei Jun actually understands investment strategies better than Fang Nian.

Fang Nian's openness was actually just a temptation, and Lei Jun responded politely, indicating that Lei Jun did not intend to directly mention the real business.

Seeing this, Fang Nian was not in a hurry, and greeted Lei Jun with a smile.

"..."

It is still a little cold in Shanghai in mid-April.

Hot water makes tea, the tea smoke is lingering, and the warm tea is eaten, and the chill is diffused.

It's no less leisurely than Fang Nian alone in a daze.

During the chat, Lei Jun also took the initiative to ask about some frontier situations, but he didn't pay special attention to Nuwa Lab.

"Two days ago, I happened to hear that Mr. Guan was visiting Peking University and Tsinghua University. I heard it was for the affairs of the Frontier Academy. Since the second half of last year, I haven't heard much about the Frontier Academy. How is the development?"

Hearing this, Fang Nian shrugged his shoulders and said bitterly: "The front yard is not easy to set up, and the frontier is not very rich. The reality is far more difficult than the plan."

"Especially I'm somewhat greedy in this regard."

Hearing Fang Nian's words, Lei Jun frowned slightly: "So the frontiers in Xi'an Jiaotong University and the frontier institutes of the University of Science and Technology of China are the smoothest?"

"I can't say that completely, but this single school model will obviously reduce a lot of trouble." Fang Nian said frankly.

"Anyway, it's not something to worry about, just take your time."

Looking at Fang Nian, who looked lazy, Lei Jun's mouth dimpled slightly: "At about this time last year, Mr. Fang and I took the bus from Zhuhai to Yangcheng and talked about many topics. Mr. Fang mentioned the word 'ideal home';

I didn't quite understand it at first, but now I understand it somewhat;

Fang always divides career and business into two parts. In the frontier system, except for frontier angels, everything else to do is career. "

Fang Nian smiled: "I'm just young and frivolous. I don't like to do the same thing twice. It's enough for me to do the Dangkang model myself."

"Lei always thinks too much of me. I do have certain ideals, but at the beginning, I already had confidence in the Dangkang model. I wondered how to get rich. I am only 18 years old. I am sorry for being so young;

Later, when I became really rich, I just wanted to explore a more profitable model. "

"No matter how big Dangkang's model is, the net profit rate is also limited, and it is estimated that 40% will come to an end;

The frontier is different, and the net profit margin may be very high;

For example, some investment projects of frontier angels, I do not understand the profit margin calculation. "

After listening to Fang Nian's words, Lei Jun's thoughts surged in his heart. Thinking in another way, he could understand Fang Nian's change of mind.

Two words echoed on his mouth: "It turns out that it is like this..."

"..."

Maybe Fang Nian really wanted to make some noise at first.

A dangkang cannot be an absolute masterpiece.

Later, when the reality was reflected into the ideal, the mentality began to change, and the direction of pursuit became diversified.

The thoughts in Lei Jun's heart are almost Fang Nian's mental journey.

After all, ideals that cannot be realized are actually just dreams.

Besides, in basic science, although the investment in the early stage is huge, the benefits in the later stage are also huge.

Regardless of whether Fang Nian actively intervenes or not, as long as he follows the grand plan, money will naturally snowball.

Because Fang Nian first set out with ideals, the requirements are relatively harsh. Counting the ten years of experience gained in the previous year, it is almost the peak.

Once this thing really touches a 'frontier' in a certain field, it is a quasi-monopoly.

In the end, Lei Jun wentssip again: "What's going on in Luzhou?"

"Just moved into the newly built research center, so the original plan has been postponed." Fang Nian didn't tell the truth this time, and babbled a few words, "The main reason is to rush to the latest process, and the cost scares me to death, 7000 for a tape-out million yuan."

Although Lei Jun has some understanding of Frontier Luzhou's massive investment in chips, he was still shocked when he heard this figure: "No wonder Fang always said that the cost of filming is a bit scary, and it will be gone after a round trip of 100 million."

Fang Nian said calmly: "That's why I don't recommend Xiaomi to take this risk. Frontier is a pure newcomer in the chip design industry. Maybe three or five tape-outs will be all over the place, and it will really fall apart."

"..."

Lei Jun just smiled slightly: "In any case, we have to wait until tomorrow's meeting to discuss and decide on such matters."

"..."

Fang Nian smiled in agreement.

After drinking tea for half the afternoon, Lei Jun didn't mention anything serious in the end, Fang Nian was still a little puzzled.

Of course, Fang Nian would not take the initiative to ask.

In commercial communication, information is also a very important 'chip'.

Fang Nian guessed in his heart that Lei Jun was more likely to come for the capital market.

Although the strategic integration of Qingchao and Dangkang can be slowed down, this does not mean that Lei Jun himself has to slow down.

Even Shunwei Capital, which focuses on the domestic industrial chain, has raised another fund and invested in an impact fund. It makes no sense for an angel investor like Lei Jun to do nothing.

It was Fang Nian's nonsense that Luzhou delayed the filming plan. In fact, as early as Monday night, the team heading to Wanwan had already returned to Luzhou.

A prepared, full-mask tape-out is not a time-consuming task.

Already coordinated and ready to start the process when we arrive.

With TSMC's rich experience, this is considered slow.

Full test results are expected next Tuesday or Wednesday.

…………

…………

Friday the 15th at ten o'clock in the morning.

Fang Nian rushed to Nuwa's laboratory in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.

In addition, Yu Dadong, Chen Mingyong, Shen Wei, Huang Xiujie, and Lei Jun also hurried over.

This time, the meeting of members of the Nuwa Alliance was held in Nuwa's laboratory.

The actual coordinator, Lu Weiyu, was still in Chang'an, so Shi Xinrong was in charge of coordination.

Anyway, it's not Fang Nian's turn to watch the meeting process or something.

After exchanging pleasantries, we entered the topic.

Sitting in the center of the long conference table, Fang Nian made a gesture: "It's also a coincidence, the research and development progress of the laboratory in the past two days is not bad, and the unstable version of version 3.0 has been produced."

"It just so happens that I have experienced it in advance, so I will briefly demonstrate the key functions for you. I am not that professional, sorry."

"..."

There was a friendly smile in the conference room.

Of course you don't mind.

Fang Nian briefly demonstrated some upgraded features of version 3.0: "The KuaFu browser is officially embedded in version 3.0, and in principle replaces the original UC browser;

Added some more experiential functions, such as bookmarks, multi-tab switching, etc..."

"Of course, the more important thing is that the KuaFu browser supports HTML5, and also supports calling flash videos with video tags through HTML5. It also supports flash for the time being, but it will completely give up supporting flash in future versions."

While talking, Fang Nian opened a video in the browser and played it.

Simultaneously displayed video playback on the projection.

Next, Fang Nian demonstrated some major changes in turn.

It mainly includes some changes in operational fluency and operational experience.

for example:

Optimization of notification center;

The software function optimization of the camera is aimed at mainstream camera modules;

email optimization;

Optimization of text messages and phone calls;

etc……

It also supports the transmission of data between WiFi and computer, directly getting rid of the shackles of cables, of course, this is based on LAN;

Fang Nian also mentioned that the next version will make more in-depth use of cloud service features to optimize this function.

Finally, Fang Nian concluded: "As I said just now, the next version is to make in-depth use of the characteristics of cloud services;

It's also what I said before, after this version, Nuwa Lab's research and development of the Nuwa system has entered the second stage..."

"That is, optimization at the user experience level."

After a short pause, Fang Nian put down his phone and talked eloquently: "Version 3.0 is a centralized upgrade of various functions and features, and it is also a relatively complete removal of third parties;

Everyone has also seen that some relatively novel optimizations and upgrades have even been carried out at the level of gesture operation;

Except for some common protocols that cannot be bypassed at the bottom layer, the degree of autonomy of 3.0 is close to 100%. "

After Fang Nian's voice fell, the conference room fell into silence.

Everyone had different expressions on their faces, but basically there was a certain amount of shock mixed in.

From the establishment of Nuwa Lab to the launch of version 3.0, which is almost 100% independent, it took only 8 months.

What kind of fairy progress is this?

Do you want to be so awesome.

then……

Yu Dadong was the first to ask a question: "Mr. Fang, how much has the Nuwa Lab invested in the research and development of the Nuwa system so far?"

"According to incomplete statistics, around 400 million." Fang Nian replied with a smile.

If the statistics are complete...

The planning investment has exceeded 1 billion, but several hundred million are still in the laboratory account, such as part of the subsidy funds for the nuclear high-tech project.

Because the thing in the confidential laboratory is also called the Nuwa system.

In addition, some investments that cannot be accounted for in detail are in academic research projects in universities.

In other words, the excellence of the Nuwa system is not due to the Nuwa laboratory, but the collective efforts of the software development industry in Chinese universities.

It's just that this power has become quite concentrated because of Nuwa's laboratory.

After a short pause, before everyone could speak, Fang Nian said casually: "Actually, these are the general optimization plans of version 3.0. It seems that the biggest change of version 2.0 is efficient and excellent cloud services. Version 3.0 also has a special function... ..."

Having said that, Fang Nian paused, cleared his throat, and shouted in standard Mandarin: "Xiaowa Xiaowa."

"Hey, I'm here." A naughty, sweet and lovely female voice suddenly sounded.

All eyes in the meeting room instantly fixed on the engineering test machine on the table in front of Fang Nian.

Fang Nian continued, "Call Lei Jun for me."

After a second or two, a female voice said, "Okay."

Then the dialing page was displayed on the projector, and then, Lei Jun's cell phone rang.

The classic ringtone of the Xiaomi mobile phone sounded so harsh to everyone in the conference room at this time.

Everyone, including Lei Jun and Huang Xiujie, who knew what the Nuwa Lab would do for a long time, thought at this moment:

Like riding a horse and dreaming.

"Of course, this feature is not yet mature, such as now..."

Fang Nian's voice sounded again, waking everyone up.

"what?"

"Oh……"

"right."

"..."

Including Lei Jun, they just subconsciously burst out a few modal particles from their mouths.

Fang Nian smiled slightly, and said, "Xiaowa, Xiaowa..."

"Look, at this time, there may even be a sudden pop-up to interrupt the call."

"Or for example, if I really want to hang up this call, but I can't..."

Next, Fang Nian briefly demonstrated other functions of the voice assistant.

"Open the light chat..."

"What kind of person is Lei Jun..."

"I want to eat Cantonese food at noon..."

"..."

Throughout the process, rollover incidents occurred from time to time.

The understanding ability of voice assistants has not reached the level of excellence in human dialogue.

Of course, the calling of embedded function modules has basically stabilized.

In addition, it must be said that the ability to recognize Mandarin is not very strong, so Fang Nian specially tried to ask questions with a little Xiangchu accent.

Everyone in the meeting room could understand it, but the artificially retarded Xiaowa obviously couldn't understand it.

After finishing the debugging, Fang Nian said calmly: "This is a special major update of Nuwa 3.0. The scientific name is artificial intelligence-level voice assistant. I call it artificial mental retardation."

"According to the report of the laboratory, it is based on big data technology, a kind of voice assistant support software realized by taming algorithms, which can realize human-computer interaction through voice, and can understand the user's intentions. The database provides services, anyway..."

At this point, Fang Nian paused for a while, and joked: "If you want to listen, I can still play for five minutes."

Everyone subconsciously smiled.

Then he gradually recovered from the shock.

They inadvertently glanced at the screen on the projector. According to the online time adjustment, the mobile phone showed that it was 10:39 am on April 15, 2011.

Did not travel to the future all at once.

Although there are a variety of sci-fi films that have implemented functions that are even more inconvenient than this low-level artificial mental retardation, at the moment, when even Apple has not yet integrated Siri, Nuwa 3.0 is second to none.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was rather strange.

After a while, Huang Xiujie was the first to speak: "Mr. Fang, I have a question. What did you mean when you said you would release the 3.0 stable version separately?"

"Is...is Frontier going to produce its own mobile phone?" Yu Dadong took over the conversation.

Facing everyone's eyes, Fang Nian smiled and shook his head: "No, Qianqian has no intention of making a mobile phone by itself."

Then he said relaxedly: "I think all the bosses may have misunderstood. Nuwa Lab just wants to imitate WWDC, and Apple's Global Developers Conference will start organizing Nuwa Developer Conference based on Nuwa Lab this year. For example, it is called nwKF ...

Anyway, the name doesn't matter, that's what it means. "

"The plan is to hold it in late May every year to release the latest software and technology of Nuwa Lab on the Nuwa system. Now there just happens to be a gimmick of artificial mental retardation. It's okay if it's a good start."

After listening to Fang Nian, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Fang, if you don't make it clear earlier, you can decide on this matter." Yu Dadong shook his hand and said with a nonchalant expression on his face.

Huang Xiujie and others also responded one after another.

Instead, he finally came to Lei Jun, and he asked a question with a serious look.

"Mr. Fang, Nuwa 3.0 will be released separately at the developer conference of Nuwa Lab. Will you follow Apple's example and open the update download before and after a new product is launched?"

This is very tacit understanding.

Hearing this, Fang Nian's expression was as usual, and he said calmly: "Of course not, Nuwa Lab still only releases the stable version internally, and let your manufacturers release it by themselves."

"but……"

"It needs to be explained that in this way, Nuwa Lab will definitely put important functions at the annual developer conference, and will steal your software gimmicks, or selling points, in advance."

"..."