"Bicycle OEM?"
Chen Xiaole was a little confused: "I said, Lao Zhou, what kind of bicycle are you doing? Can this thing make money?"
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows: "Why can't you make money? If you have more orders, you will definitely make money."
"The problem is that if you run an Internet company well, you won't make a lot of money. Who is still doing factories these days? Look at the many closed factories on the market." Chen Xiaole knew that Zhulang Company was opened by Zhou Yan, so he was not very capable. I understand why Zhou Yan did not run a good technology company and turned to bicycle OEM.
He thought of a possibility.
"I said, Lao Zhou, you don't want to make our 101 Group's project easier, so bear some costs."
Chen Xiaole came over and whispered uncertainly, "It's not necessary."
He even wondered whether Zhou Yan was not optimistic about this cycling project and wanted to give him a guarantee.
"Why can't we think about it the other way round? If this project becomes popular, I can make money from both sides by opening a factory." Zhou Yan said with a smile.
He patted Chen Xiaole on the shoulder: "This is a project that I personally monitor. How could I not be optimistic about it? I just think this place is profitable."
"Okay." Chen Xiaole nodded: "I will work hard on this cycling project and I won't let you lose money when the time comes."
Zhou Yan smiled, Xiao Le was still not too confident, he smiled and said: "Okay, don't think so much, take advantage of the remaining month to open up the plate a little bit bigger, it's best if all the major universities in Hongcheng can do it Let’s get in touch, sometimes it’s just a reality when playing games. If you develop well, others will also be optimistic about it. Let the data speak for itself.”
"Okay." Chen Xiaole knew that Zhou Yan usually would not change his mind easily, so he stopped trying to persuade him. Although he was still not optimistic about opening a bicycle factory, after all, there was no profit in making bicycles.
The competition is approaching, and time is running out. In addition to working on their own projects, the six entrepreneurial groups also receive professional training arranged by the school, including producing English versions of plans, road show documents, etc. It can be said that they are all working hard. project.
Zhou Yan went to see the project progress of the remaining three groups again. Liao Zihang has now changed his thinking, from the restaurant beverage aspect to the same development idea as Michelle, but at this time Michelle is still looking for franchises. Zhou Yan’s suggestion to Liao Zihang was to incorporate the mature operational ideas of later generations of Mixue. It can be said that as long as the plan is well written, this project can basically win an award. The rest is just the data. The icing on the cake.
Zhou Yan went to see the project of the team led by Fan Zheyuan again. It cannot be said that it is innovative, but it is quite satisfactory. It is in the direction of e-commerce. At this time, it already has the posture of being the leading e-commerce company, and JD.com is a little behind.
Zhou Yan’s suggestion to Fan Zheyuan was to imitate JD.com. He learned that he had set up a logistics team to deliver home appliances throughout the city, combining physical and online services. However, Zhou Yan also knew how much rebates the home appliance city received. Seriously, it is not very easy to deduct the cost from it.
Fan Zheyuan wears glasses and is polite and polite, but he has lost a lot of weight these days. It is obvious that he has been running up and down a lot for this project. After Zhou Yan learned about the progress of the project, he immediately arranged for him and Zhang Long connect.
At that time, in order to earn traffic during Double Eleven, Zhang Long also developed an e-commerce website. It was already small-scale, with hundreds of thousands of orders a day. Although it was not as good as Taobao, it was one of the conditions for Alibaba to obtain the Double Eleven copyright. It is to provide a traffic entrance for this e-commerce website called Qu Shopping, so it has been developing very well recently.
The original delivery service was arranged by established express companies such as YTO and ZTO. Now part of Hongcheng's business is also connected with Fan Zheyuan's team, which is equivalent to directly giving him a long-term order for development. Fan Zheyuan is facing I was surprised that Zhou Yan was the founder of Zhulang. On the one hand, I was also grateful for Zhou Yan’s help.
After all, he really didn't expect to receive assistance other than funding and academic studies after joining the innovation and technology class.
The group project led by Li Qian also used the project from the previous Hongda Entrepreneurship Competition, but what she was doing was in the direction of intelligent management of campus vehicles. Zhou Yan was not very familiar with this aspect, so he couldn't give any suggestions. In fact, it was straightforward. To put it bluntly, it is a question whether Li Qian can lead the team to qualify. After all, the score in the Hongda Entrepreneurship Competition at that time was not very impressive. On the one hand, the project was not very innovative and was old-fashioned. Unless she could be allowed to change the project, it would really A bit hanging.
Li Qian's progress is relatively good. She has written everything in the plan, and even the research data is very good, but sometimes it is too regular and there is nothing eye-catching. No matter how good the progress is, it doesn't matter. Zhou Yan At that time, I asked Li Qian for her opinion on whether to change the project, but if the senior insisted, Zhou Yan could just let it develop.
After generally understanding the progress of the six groups in the innovation and technology class, Zhou Yan stopped caring about this matter.
Back in the office, Zhou Yan picked up the algorithm book and started reading it again.
For such systematic things, Zhou Yan can read quickly, and at the same time he will open the python software on his computer to practice learning.
I don’t know how long I watched it, but there was a knock on the door.
"Enter."
Zhang Long walked in and saw Zhou Yan holding the code book and operating the computer.
Zhang Long was a little surprised: "What's going on?"
"Then I considered changing my major to computer science." Zhou Yan said with a smile when he saw it was Zhang Long.
Zhang Long was even more surprised, but still said with a smile: "Wise choice."
Programmers are really popular these days, and Zhang Long himself is a senior engineer and his boss is also in the computer field. He also has more communication languages, so he naturally agrees with Zhou Yan's decision.
"Which direction do you plan to take? Maybe I can give you some advice." Zhang Long said with a smile.
Zhou Yan's heart moved and he asked Zhang Long: "What are the more popular directions now?"
"Cloud computing is very popular now, and there is also the Internet of Things, but I know Zhou Yan that you attach great importance to big data. Originally, I didn't admire big data very much, but the big data algorithm of Kuaiyong app is very good, which made me change my view. I thought it was Zhou Wan who came up with it, but I didn’t expect it was Zhou Yan. I was surprised for a long time after asking Zhou Wan." Zhang Long said with a smile.
Although Zhang Long’s team is now responsible for operating the Kuaiyong app, Zhou Wan was responsible for the early development work, and she also followed Zhou Yan’s suggestions and ideas, vigorously developed big data algorithms, and adopted an intelligent recommendation model. It can be said that now Zhang Long’s operation was free of pressure because of his luck at that time. It can be said that a lot of unnecessary development work was reduced.
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded: "Big data is indeed very important, but I don't really want to study this aspect. Are there other directions?"
"There is also artificial intelligence, which is also a hot topic of current research. If Zhou Yan is interested, you can consider this direction." Zhang Long said with a smile.
Zhou Yan finally got to the point. He touched his chin and asked, "What kind of things are generally studied more in artificial intelligence?"
Zhang Long also knew a lot. He said directly: "Artificial intelligence can be considered a major category, such as speech recognition, image recognition, autonomous driving, intelligent question and answer, etc."
Zhou Yan: "I am more interested in intelligent question and answer. Are there any outstanding products in this area?"
Zhang Long saw that Zhou Yan was really interested, so he patiently said: "IBM Watson, this is relatively famous. It is an intelligent question and answer system based on natural language processing and machine learning developed by IBM. If you want to study this direction, you can refer to This example."
"Watson..." Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment. He remembered watching a quiz show called "Jeopardy!" and it seemed that this software appeared.
"How are you doing? Which direction are you planning to consider?" Zhang Long asked with a smile.
Zhou Yan smiled: "I feel that I am still leaning towards intelligent question and answer."
"It's good to have decided." Zhang Long also said with some envy: "If I were your age, I might also consider the direction of artificial intelligence. Now it's almost enough to rest on my laurels."
Zhou Yan didn't say anything. People of every era have their own way of living. In Zhang Long's era, instant messaging was the mainstream of research, as well as EMS, search engines, and portals. At that time, the domestic Internet had just sprouted. Really The land is filled with gold.
Even Zhou Yan was a little envious of that era. Basically, those who studied computers at that time benefited from the development of the domestic Internet.
Brother Ma is just one of the outstanding examples, and there are many, many examples including Zhou Hong and Zhang Long.
After being reborn in this life, Zhou Yan also wanted to make his college life more exciting.
"Brother Zhang, I have another question."
Zhou Yan looked at Zhang Long at this time and said, "Is it possible to implement an intelligent dialogue scenario where you can input some programming requirements and then the scenario will automatically generate relevant code for you?"
Zhang Long fell into deep thought after hearing Zhou Yan's words. After a long time, he said to Zhou Yan: "This idea is very good, and it is also a direction for the realization of artificial intelligence."
"But if there is such a product that can identify programming needs, maybe many people who rely on programming to make a living will be unemployed." Zhang Long said with a smile.
"Is it possible to achieve this with the current technical conditions?" Zhou Yan asked.
Zhang Long smiled and shook his head: "You shouldn't think like this. The best we can do now is to innovate in programming methods and software to achieve technological breakthroughs. All technical conditions are false. It's just a matter of how much money we spent to study this algorithm." , if you really invest in it, you can always research something, just like today's image recognition. If you had this idea ten years ago, if you really put in the effort to do it, you can do it. Someone thought of it, and then went to Done, the Internet is quite simple sometimes.”
"If you look at the Scan project, it's a very typical example. The technology is not difficult. It just combines QR code and mobile phone recognition technology, but no one thought that you would take over this patent cake."
Zhou Yan nodded.
Zhang Long can be said to be a senior and elder in the Internet field. If he says there is no problem, then there really is no problem. It is just a matter of spending some money and energy. Thinking of this, Zhou Yan suddenly felt a lot more enlightened.
"Actually, you can look for some foreign papers. Foreign research on artificial intelligence is actually ahead of our domestic ones. Maybe you can find some ideas." Zhang Long said.
"Will do."
When the topic ended, Zhang Long said with a smile: "Originally, I came here to report on my work, but now it's just a chat."
Zhou Yan nodded: "How is the situation on WeChat?"
"Penguin discovered that Kuaiyong was promoting WeChat and has unilaterally withdrawn all promotion of Kuaiyong." Zhang Long said rather casually.
It is conceivable that Zhang Long doesn’t care much about this. After all, the size of Kuaiyong app is there now. Unless Penguin can create a mobile application market similar to Kuaiyong app, otherwise it will only watch Kuaiyong snowball. It’s getting bigger and bigger. With Kuaiyong’s current traffic, the suspension will obviously have little impact on Kuaiyong’s promotion.
"Finally we took action." Zhou Yan said with a smile.
"No."
Zhang Long shrugged: "The reflex arc is long enough."
He took a sip of water and continued: "Don't worry about this aspect, but Pony talked to me on the phone. He already knew that Wechat Technology was our work, and there will be no shortage of follow-up measures. In addition, we must be prepared to litigate. Prepare."
"Sue us for plagiarism?" Zhou Yan chuckled.
"Definitely, although the underlying architecture is different, QQ can definitely make a fuss about the content."
Zhang Long smiled and shrugged: "Penguin has fought many similar lawsuits over the years, but they were all defendants. This time, we are the defendants."
"Just sue him. It's not his Nanshan Pizza Hut that has the final say in Hongcheng." Zhou Yan said nonchalantly.
They are all instant messaging, and there must be similarities. However, when Zhou Yan asked Zhou Wan to develop WeChat, he had already avoided some problems as much as possible. If a lawsuit were to be filed, Penguin might not necessarily be able to take advantage.
"Litigation is also a small problem. It's almost the same as QQ Computer Manager and 360. Maybe we don't even need to hire a lawyer. 360 will probably find one for us." Zhang Long said with a smile.
If we really talk about the hatred value, the hatred between 360 and Penguin can be said to be full. The two companies have been in love and killing each other this month, and they have been involved in several lawsuits. When it comes to the software that Zhou Hong wants to get rid of from the bottom, QQ can be Ranked first, Baidu can only be ranked second.
Zhang Long: "What I'm more worried about is that Pony may take this opportunity to completely end it and shift its focus to mobile phone terminals to build a real mobile QQ instead of a web-side shell version. Then the competition will be fierce." ”
"This is unavoidable." Zhou Yan shrugged, and then asked: "About how many users do we have now?"
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"There are about 80 million users." Zhang Long said.
"not bad."
Zhou Yan nodded, quite satisfied, and asked again: "Do you know how many QQ mobile phone users there are?"
"According to October's data, it's almost 200 million." Zhang Long said with a smile.
Zhou Yan twitched the corner of his mouth: "There is no comparison."
"It's ready. QQ connects the mobile terminal and the web terminal. It's normal to have such data. You have to know that we have only been online for about half a month, and it is already very good to have 80 million data." Zhang Long said.
"There's still a bit of a gap." Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head.
