There are indeed brave men under heavy rewards.
Several regional gold medalists came from the top four universities in China, and Meng Fanqi examined some advanced level questions one by one.
Even at the difficult level, they quickly came up with ideas.
Although these students have no actual app development experience, this is when they are motivated.
These things are not difficult for them to learn, and they can get started quickly with just a little experimentation.
There is no need for Meng Fanqi to continue to introduce options or bonuses that can be gradually cashed in the future.
With this basic salary of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a month alone, they are very satisfied.
Go through fire and water, no matter what!
Among the candidates recruited by the company, there are actually many people who meet the requirements, but many of them are hesitant.
After all, at this time, there are still only a few people who can really understand and be all in artificial intelligence, just like those who dared to hoard Bitcoin two years ago.
It requires extraordinary vision and determination.
Most of the decisions they made were due to the high salary, and if they resigned, the transition would take at least a month.
Only two engineers who failed to start an app business could quickly come to work. It has to be said that sometimes it is a blessing and a curse.
After talking for about thirty or forty minutes, Meng Fanqi felt that the level of the two technicians was relatively good.
It’s just that the track selection for entrepreneurship is indeed poor. Although camera apps have a wide audience, the competition is extremely fierce.
Many mobile phone manufacturers are doing this themselves.
If a small studio like this wants to make achievements in camera apps, it may not be possible without some explosive technological breakthroughs or creative ideas.
App-based cameras are like newcomers writing traditional fantasy. They all think they have something special, but in fact no one cares about it.
"I personally think that if you want to do face-related editing, you can combine it with a camera app instead of just making an editing app." Zhu Lei said after the exchange with Meng Fanqi.
Meng Fanqi was stunned when he heard this, a little unsure whether he was telling the truth or simply couldn't let go of his desire to make a camera app.
"If you think about it this way, where do the photos of human faces come from? It's not just a selfie with a mobile phone. If this is a camera app, you can add expression filters and age filters immediately after taking the photo, and users' willingness to download it will definitely be much higher."
emmm....what he said seems to make some sense.
Compared with a certain age editor or expression editor, the concept of 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 humans in images." and "I have a camera that can make you cry and age you."
The latter definitely has a wider audience and will be less difficult to promote.
"Furthermore, our camera app is ready for both platforms. We just need to add this additional function." It is obvious that Zhu Lei and Jiang Shan are obsessed with the camera app for some reason.
Although the two of them came here with the intention of resurrecting the dead, after talking about Meng Fanqi's plan, they discovered that the function he wanted to launch depended on face pictures, so they started to promote their own camera product ideas.
However, there is some truth in their argument. Generally speaking, Meng Fanqi does not care whether his product is an editing software like Meitu or PS or a camera software, as long as its threshold is low enough and it has face editing functions.
"What they say does make some sense. Some of the P-picture beautification software in the past and later generations also have camera functions, such as lightening the face. If there are only P-pictures, but you need to open a separate camera to take pictures, it will indeed increase the number of photos. In addition to the cost of use, unnecessary steps are added." Meng Fanqi thought.
"Then I welcome you two to join?" Meng Fanqi stood up and shook hands with the two of them. He was not worried that these two had other thoughts. The core AI technologies were all undertaken by himself, and there was no one in the company. Understand.
The camera app is just a carrier. Without its core AI technology, their camera products are uncompetitive.
Two senior camera app entrepreneurs led a group of outstanding senior/junior year computer students from top universities, and Meng Fanqi's initial app team was established.
"Your task is also quite simple and clear. I will provide an algorithm function to perform certain calculation operations on the received pictures and return a picture with specific attributes edited. The current tentative version is some common expressions, and age Both.
All the user needs to pass in is the image and the degree of change of a certain attribute. The calculation of the image is not affordable on the user's mobile phone, so we perform this calculation on our own server.
Considering the number of users and the number of uses, this is likely to be a highly concurrent task. You should implement the relevant functions and interfaces first. In terms of high concurrency, I will soon recruit some system people to do this. "
After spending several days dealing with these trivial matters, Meng Fanqi felt a little exhausted.
Starting your own business is indeed much harder than just lying around and splitting the money.
Fortunately, after initially building a team, there are not so many things to worry about.
On New Year's Eve, Meng Fanqi, who finally had some free time, began to formally submit his application for admission to Stanford.
Although a consensus has been reached with the school privately, the formal process still needs to be gone through.
The recommendation letter given by Hinton is also particularly interesting, with only one short sentence.
"I recommend this student to study computer science at your school. He is a genius in the field of artificial intelligence."
Then came his autograph.
Maybe this is how godfathers in the industry write letters of recommendation. One word is worth a thousand dollars.
It doesn’t matter what the content is, there’s no nonsense at all, you just need to look at the last autograph.
Not long after submitting the application materials, Meng Fanqi received a call from Robin Li.
"How are you, mathematician, what are you working on recently?" Of course, Li Yanhong called not for greetings, but to inquire about the possibility of financing a stake in Meng Fanqi's new company.
"Currently, we plan to make a camera-type app first." Of course Meng Fanqi knew that Robin Li would not go to the Three Treasures Hall for any reason. Since the other party didn't tell him, he would keep doing Tai Chi with him and avoid detours.
"Camera App?" Li Yanhong frowned, and now he was completely dizzy. He thought Meng Fanqi was going to start an AI business. What could this camera app do?
However, out of trust in Meng Fanqi's technical ability, Li Yanhong could not hold back in the end. 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 say, first make a simple app to test the waters. It only takes a few people." Meng Fanqi secretly laughed in his heart: "If the product is developed and people pay attention to it, cooperation with Mr. Li will definitely be necessary."
This is not a cliche. Baidu is currently cooperating deeply with the Skynet project. Meng Fanqi can accept Baidu's partial investment, but the proportion will be strictly controlled.
He didn't object to melting a little bit once or twice, but it couldn't be so early.
Because he has no shortage of funds, what he needs more is the platform and the personal connections of the other party.
For example, in the Skynet project, it is much faster to approach the problem through whiteness than going to local officials one by one.
Another example is the mobile payments of Penguin and Ahri. If the two companies are not allowed to take a small share of the shares, their face technology will not be able to remain on the two largest mobile payment platforms for a long time.
But even if you have this idea, it’s too early to talk about financing before the app becomes popular. How much money can you talk about now?
That would be too advantageous for them, and the time would have to be delayed no matter what.
On the other end of the phone, Li Yanhong felt like a mirror after hanging up. He knew that this guy's plan was to figure out the results before negotiating the price.
"Sigh... I still didn't offer enough at that time." Li Yanhong thought wishfully. If he had offered a sky-high price at that time, he might have actually signed him, and there would be nothing like this troublesome thing now.
He never imagined that the reborn person would even sign a one-year contract with Google, so how could he continue to work for him just for a few dollars?
