While several people were chatting with each other, they were jokingly talking about entrepreneurship.
Not far away, a few kilometers away, there was a rather handsome middle-aged man in trousers and a white shirt, who was dressed very smartly and concisely. He had just returned to his CEO's office.
If we talk about entrepreneurship, this Internet senior can be said to be the leader. He is a true self-made technology entrepreneur who raised his first money with his own hyperlink technology.
Although Baidu’s subsequent search, library, Tieba and other functions and products all destroyed its good cards.
But let’s just say that around 2000, the perseverance and vision to quit working on Wall Street and Silicon Valley and return to China to start a business alone were indeed unique.
Li Yanhong pays attention to making decisions before taking action, and rarely acts on a whim.
Before founding Baidu in 2000, he spent five years returning to China every year to carefully examine the domestic Internet situation and environment.
Whether he later focused on independent search engine websites and listed them in the United States, or proposed the concept of frame computing and launched an open platform for data and applications, it was all the result of his careful consideration and repeated consideration.
At the beginning of this year, Robin Li established the Baidu Deep Learning Research Institute to elevate the status of AI to a core technology that the company needs to innovate and develop. Although it is the first among all domestic manufacturers, it is actually the result of more than two years of his investigation. .
As early as 2012, when all major domestic manufacturers were still skeptical about AI-related technologies, Baidu had already verified the effectiveness of AI algorithms in speech recognition and image recognition.
"AI-related algorithms and technologies will definitely bring huge value to our various technical fields." Li Yanhong made this judgment firmly after carefully reading the results presented by the Baidu team.
"Baidu has algorithmic capabilities, a solid technical foundation for search and retrieval, and a massive amount of big data and a powerful computing platform. These are what AI needs most. It can be said that Baidu has the right time, place and people!"
"We are bound to build the world's top AI research institute!"
Following Li Yanhong’s morale-boosting slogan, China’s first AI research center was established in January 2013.
But nearly a year has passed, and Robin Li is not very satisfied with the current situation and progress of the institute.
He flattened his boss's chair and lay on it, closing his eyes and meditating.
His brows wrinkled involuntarily.
As if he felt this, Li Yanhong gently rubbed the area above his nose and between his eyes with his left hand.
Although it was relieved, it still could not solve the lingering worries in his heart.
"The results of the institute cannot be said to be bad, but they cannot keep up with new international breakthroughs every year." Li Yanhong let out a sigh of relief and felt a little tired.
Asking himself, he felt that he started early in this direction and invested heavily.
Why is it that every year, there are always outrageous and exaggerated technological breakthroughs, far beyond the achievements of whiteness?
Last year, AlexNet spent 200 million yuan on its own, but still failed to win over the Hinton team at Google.
This year is better, he is an unknown Chinese student, and his school, Yanjing Electric Power University, is near the Baidu Yanjing headquarters.
But it seems that this kid deliberately refused to accept contact!
Li Yanhong became more and more irritated when he thought about this, and his brows that were slightly relaxed were frowned again.
"This should be considered a good thing." Li Yanhong comforted himself in his heart, "It shows that this guy has some confidence and is not arrogant or impetuous, so he can protect his own information and not be anxious to contact the industry."
"If you don't have any real skills and just get lucky, most of them will want to sell it for a good price as soon as possible."
Li Yanhong sat up slightly and reached out to press a button on the phone in front of him. Not long after, his secretary knocked on the door gently and came in.
"Mr. Li, what's the matter?"
"Is there any news from Professor Fu of Yanjing Electric Power University?" Li Yanhong asked. This was the only reasonable communication channel on paper.
"There is no new news. Last time he replied that the students did not want to be disturbed and reported to you once." The secretary hurriedly flipped through his notepad and added, "He said he would convey it on his behalf, but I guess at most Mentioning it casually, or mentioning it in conjunction with other similar situations, may not have much effect.”
"As for the scarf, we have also sent someone to contact the student himself, but he doesn't seem to use the scarf very much. There has been no update since the last clarification article."
"However, we went to coordinate the registration of his scarf's mobile phone number two days ago." The secretary said hesitantly, "Considering that the other party didn't seem to want to contact us, we didn't make the decision to contact you. We thought we'd wait for you. We’re done here, and it’s up to you to make the decision.”
This secretary has been with Robin Li for some years and knows what to do. She arranged to try all public contact channels.
But because there are certain risks involved in obtaining someone else's private mobile phone number through some means, she will leave it to Robin Li to make his own decisions and will never go beyond it.
"Give me your mobile phone number." Li Yanhong only paused for a second or two before making a decision quickly.
He's willing to maintain politeness and grace, but ultimately he'd rather get things done.
As time goes by, every second that passes increases the risk that you will not be able to win this talent.
Now that the decision has been made, Robin Li never hesitates in doing things.
He took the notebook from his secretary, took out his cell phone and started dialing.
"Hi, hello." Meng Fanqi has actually received a lot of calls from various companies' human resources or headhunters recently. Apart from these people, he usually doesn't receive any calls at all. "Which company are you from?"
Deeply aware of the dangers of information leakage, if it weren't for the fact that he was still somewhat curious about domestic quotations during this period, he would have turned off his mobile phone long ago.
"Meng Meng, that sounds very hot." Li Yanhong smiled, "Let me introduce myself, I am Li Yanhong from Baidu. I shouldn't need to say anything else, right?"
"Mr. Li? I've admired him for a long time." Meng Fanqi was actually not that surprised that Robin Li would come to see him. As the only domestic company to bid with Google last year, Robin Li should be the only senior executive of a major company who understands the value of his results at this point in time.
"But I really didn't expect that Mr. Li personally called me to contact me."
"If we don't do this, how can we highlight the sincerity of our whiteness?" Li Yanhong said in his heart. Sure enough, this kid knows his own value. "Are you still near the school now?"
"Nearby."
"If you are nearby, let's meet and chat directly. It's only a few steps away." Li Yanhong stood up directly and flipped through his schedule. "Are you free today? Come to our headquarters, or make an appointment nearby. Can."
