Kechuang Biotechnology's R&D center in Cambridge basically poached Secondmind's R&D team.
At that time, Goldman Sachs and idg Capital rushed to acquire shares in Secondmind after receiving the news. Not only did they try to sell shares to Kechuang Biotechnology at a high price, they were also unwilling to transfer the controlling stake.
Therefore, Kechuang Biotech simply set up a dedicated R&D center in Cambridge and hired all the people there.
Originally, the most valuable things for a small company driven by scientific research were talents and data.
Kechuang Biotechnology does not build cars, so SecondMind’s data is not of much use to them.
By poaching people away, the goal of scientific and technological innovation has been achieved.
And Science and Technology Biotechnology is also attractive enough.
Kechuang Biotechnology is known as the most attractive Chinese employer abroad.
When Chinese Internet companies go overseas, news often comes out that the corporate culture is not adaptable to the local environment.
For example, Byte went to England to set up a branch, but was collectively complained about working overtime, causing a wave of resignations. More than half of the e-commerce team members resigned.
However, Kechuang Biotechnology is not so generous, and its welfare benefits are comparable to those of Apple and Google.
Salary is not the most important thing. The more important reason why Kechuang Bio was able to poach most of Secondmind’s R&D team at that time was that the work content was more interesting and challenging.
It is challenging to adjust the AI platform for engine testing and connect the AI chips and AI algorithms with brain-computer.
After listening to this, Li Wanqing replied without much thought:
"I will definitely try my best to do my best."
This is an answer from a management background with a background in science and engineering, and is not very eloquent. If you are a manager with a business background, your answer will definitely be more absolute.
Of course, even with a background in science and engineering, Ah San would answer: He will definitely develop a top-notch biochip.
Including in Silicon Valley, compared to the Chinese, Ah Sans are more skilled in group-building, expression, and the art of expression.
Li Wanqing continued: "Director Zheng, I have another request. Can you purchase a few more of the latest Beiming-2 biological storage servers?
I want to do some tests to understand the internal logic of the biochip in the biostorage server, and it would be best to reverse engineer the manufacturing process.
Of course, reverse cracking is too difficult and almost impossible. "
The biological storage server produced by Huawei has now reached its second generation, which is Beiming-2.
Compared with Beiming-1, the storage density, read and write latency and data security have been greatly improved.
However, this improvement is caused by Huawei's better understanding of biological storage media, rather than Deep Blue Storage's improvement on the biological storage technology provided by Merlin.
Moreover, biostorage servers are currently manufactured in four regions around the world: China, Russia, America, and the European Union.
There are more than ten manufacturers capable of manufacturing biological storage servers, and Huawei is the first to achieve technical optimization.
Biological storage servers have become another business card of China's high-tech industry. With the spread of technology, China has also relaxed its export controls on this product.
Since the latest Beiming-2 is the latest biological storage technology, it is still subject to certain export controls. So far, only the Lion City has obtained one among the overseas R&D centers of Kechuang Biotechnology.
There is only one, and it is still in use. Li Wanqing wanted to dismantle and analyze it, but he couldn't do it.
In addition, due to its leading position in the field of biological storage, Huawei has announced that it will develop biochips, and its goal is to interface with biological storage media.
Blocked in the field of silicon-based chips, Huawei hopes to break through in the field of biochips.
After Li Wanqing finished speaking, Zheng Li replied directly: "Ask the general department to deploy two stations to the Lion City. You contact the vice president in charge of external liaison and ask him to coordinate with Huawei."
Cooperation in the field of industrial VR makes Huawei attach great importance to the relationship with Kechuang Biotechnology. Huawei is unlikely to refuse such a request.
After finishing the communication with Li Wanqing, Li Miaomiao followed closely and needed to communicate with Zheng Li about some recent developments.
"Zheng Li, Song Zhiwen is now awake. The doctor in London reported that he had a slight concussion and some bruises on his limbs.
Judging from his physical examination report, the power of water elements is limited and the threat to humans is limited.
On behalf of the company, I have expressed condolences to him remotely.
At the same time, he said that he would be given a long vacation and let him rest for two months before returning to work. "
Zheng Li: "Okay, sure. Song performed very well this time."
Li Miaomiao nodded and said: "If Song Zhiwen runs away, it will cause a relatively big public opinion crisis.
The foreign media are waiting to find fault with us. "
Kechuang Bio's brain-computer connection products are often featured in major overseas media.
Among them, negative news is the main one. The most common one is that a user developed discomfort symptoms after using a brain-computer connection to a mobile phone.
In the past two years, Neuralink's brain-computer-to-mobile phone technology has been launched, so the health problems caused by brain-to-computer connection to mobile phones have been significantly reduced.
What is popular now is the health problems caused by the use of brain-computer connection to VR. A certain user developed a mental disorder after using brain-computer connection to VR. The media has forcibly combined it with the brain-computer connection to VR.
These are not big things, but they are very annoying.
Li Miaomiao continued: "Song Zhiwen, including the team he brought over, gave them long vacations corresponding to their ranks.
In addition, similar to what we expected, after the brain-computer connection VR was launched in the Europa League, the peak sales period in the first two days were affected to a certain extent.
However, the subsequent sales curve has been smooth, and we are still waiting for the recent hot news to dissipate so that we can continue to carry out online marketing and promotion work.
There are two hottest news in the world right now. One is the mysterious appearance of water element in London, and the other is the successful development of life-extending potion.
Basically, more than 90% of the world's news pages are occupied by these two news-related contents.
There are many discussions about the water element, but London has not yet given an official explanation.
And I found something very interesting, flights across London were suspended.
Then I followed this line to collect relevant information and found that not only flights were suspended, but planes were not allowed to pass over the entire London sky.
Yesterday, Stephanie from Goldman Sachs came over to hold a board meeting. She chatted with me privately and told me not to go to London during this period, and not to let my relatives and friends go to London.
I have a feeling that the storm is coming. "
Zheng Li said: "Flight blockade is normal, the simple reason is that if someone in London can use magic, and this person is not under the control of the London government.
So how does he ensure the safety of everyone on the plane after he gets on the plane? "
Li Miaomiao reacted: "No wonder, ordinary security inspection methods cannot detect who can use magic."
Zheng Li waved his hand, and a flame appeared in the air.
In Li Miaomiao's sight, the flames flashed away but were extremely clear.
"Can a flame mage like this burn directly at a designated location across space?"
Zheng Li nodded and answered Li Miaomiao's question. Li Miaomiao continued: "This uncontrollable risk is too high."
"Any mage on the plane has the ability to hijack the entire plane."
"I suspect that the new magicians in London have a lower threshold, which has caused this risk to increase significantly."
"In the past, mages had to exchange magic coins for magic brains. This cost was too high."
Zheng Li said in a noncommittal tone: "Maybe."
After the magic video appeared on London Facebook, the first reaction of England and the European Union was, is there a brand new mage in London?
Has anyone redeemed magic coins again?
But this conjecture was quickly overturned, because the number on the magic forum did not have +1.
After being injected with the magic brain for a period of time, these mages can directly log into the magic forum using their brains.
At the same time, the number in the upper left corner of the magic forum will increase by one. The number in the upper left corner indicates how many mages under the Merlin system there are in Blue Star.
Therefore, when the FB video was confirmed to have no editing or props, the Europa League quickly realized that a new magic system had emerged.
It was this discovery that made them react so quickly.
The entire Blue Star situation is calm on the surface, but there are turbulent undercurrents under the water.
Everyone wants to be in a more advantageous position at the end of the era of change than now.
Few people can see that this technological revolution is an incremental competition rather than a stock competition.
The combination of magic and Blue Star's technological system will bring Blue Star into the interstellar age.
Entering the interstellar age will bring about great material abundance.
Of course, it is unknown how much these riches are related to the people at the bottom.
Incremental competition will give more advantages to latecomers.
Zheng Lili thought for a while and explained in detail: "I have also watched the video before London. I can only tell you that no new mage has appeared in the entire Blue Star this month."
Li Miaomiao asked curiously: "How do you know?"
The vast majority of Blue Star people are interested in magic-related things, but the difference is only in degree.
Not to mention the superimposition of young people like Li Miaomiao and a loyal Harry Potter lover, making her full of curiosity.
Zheng Li continued: "Every magician who becomes a magician through Merlin's magic coin can know the number of existing magicians in the entire Blue Star.
This number hasn't changed in many days, at least a month. "
Li Miaomiao: "I understand, why did Merlin do this?
Let everyone know the number of magic brains used on Blue Star?
Is it easy to supervise? "
Zheng Li: “I guess it’s to make the Blue Star people realize that they can cooperate.
Do you know Deep Blue Storage? "
Li Miaomiao nodded: "That's natural.
When Deep Blue Storage came out, everyone in the investment circle was paying attention to see if there were any new investment opportunities. "
We must know that the global commercial storage market alone exceeds 100 billion, and the memory chip market accounts for one-quarter to one-third of the entire semiconductor market.
It’s just that this track is relatively saturated, and too much capital needs to be invested to barely squeeze in.
Mature players in the market such as Samsung, Hynix, and Micron dominate the market.
Yangtze River Storage also relied on more than 20 billion yuan of investment from the Chinese state to barely enter this track.
This is a good track, but it is too mature and involves high investment and high risks.
The emergence of biological storage means that this track will face a reshuffle, and turbulence breeds opportunities.
Buy on divergence and sell on consensus.
"At that time, companies such as Goose Factory, Rice, and Ali were all looking for investment opportunities in the field of biostorage. At that time, Mr. Ma from Goose Factory came to ask us if we wanted to invest in the project they were interested in."
Compared to Ali, Goose Factory is more willing to invest in other companies with its core investment partners.
To be precise, Goose Factory is willing to work with its partners to make the pie bigger, while Ali prefers to invest together with venture capital institutions.
Zheng Li: “Deep Blue Storage’s biological storage technology comes from Merlin.
Need to use magic coin to purchase. "
Li Miaomiao was shocked and said: "This must require a lot of magic coins. Is China so rich?"
Zheng Li: "10 magic coins."
Li Miaomiao had seen the ownership structure of Deep Blue Storage: "China and Russia issued 5 magic coins? Did they purchase this technology?"
Zheng Li shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific details.
There are many technologies in it, including not only biological storage, but the most expensive one costs 500 magic coins. "
Li Miaomiao opened her mouth wide: "So expensive!"
She knew the financial reports of Kechuang Biotech very well. In the financial reports disclosed by Kechuang Biotechnology, the price of the magic coin they obtained was hundreds of millions of dollars.
The research and development costs for Magic Coin disclosed by Apple in its financial report are even higher.
Li Miaomiao knew that this thing could not be bought with money.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many Internet giants.
Resources, luck and talent are all indispensable.
Zheng Li explained: "But it's worth it. For example, our brain-computer connection technology sells for 50 billion yuan. Do you think Amerika will buy it?"
Li Miaomiao said without hesitation: "Definitely."
"Even if we need cash, Microsoft and Apple will even join forces to buy our brain-computer connection technology."
"No, Apple alone has 200 billion yuan on its books, and Apple will buy it as a family."
Zheng Li: "So I guess that Merlin wanted to let the Blue Star people know the approximate number of magic coins owned by the entire Blue Star.
Allow them to cooperate and pool their efforts. "
Li Miaomiao: “This is too difficult.
The conflicts of interests between Blue Star countries have a long history, and it is difficult to reach an agreement.
I would like to ask first if the technology Merlin has developed is many years ahead of Blue Star Technology? "
Many of the things Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao revealed cannot be disclosed to the outside world according to Hua's regulations.
It’s just that Zheng Li doesn’t care much about the regulations of China or even Blue Star.
Now he can do whatever he wants.
Zheng Li said directly: "Yes, it is much ahead of Blue Star's technology."
Li Miaomiao smiled and said: "This is the truth, America and the Europa League would rather maintain the status quo.
Nor is it willing to join other countries in mastering technology that is decades ahead of Blue Star Technology.
Especially China, they are absolutely unwilling to return to the same starting point as China.
It seems that Merlin belongs to the mage of the righteous and lawful camp. "
Zheng Li: "Maybe."
Zheng Li only knew that he did prefer order, and even bad order was better than no order.
Whether Zheng Li was in the Mage Alliance before or now in Blue Star, he is an individual who occupies a large amount of social resources, that is, a high-level person in the traditional sense.
I have always been at the top and cannot understand the psychology of those at the bottom who want to watch fireworks.
