Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2905 Terminal Cooperation Direction

Cooperation between the Internet and smartphones has been an important topic surrounding these two industries in the past few years.

The future belongs to the world of the Internet.

But if the Internet wants to rule the world, it cannot do without smart devices. How can we unify these two elements?

Smartphones are the best platform.

This is also the reason why the mobile phone industry symposium organized by Zhou Buqi can proceed so smoothly.

But it is still in the exploratory stage.

Different people and different companies have different understandings of the cooperation between the Internet and smartphones.

Ziweixing and Astar are originally a family, and the cooperative relationship exists in their genes. The AI ​​chip developed by Ziweixing was originally tailor-made for Astar's products. This is a dedicated chip that basically cannot be used in other mobile phones.

The person responsible for establishing the technical relationship between Ziweixing and Astar is Dr. Li Qingyun, deputy to Chief Technology Officer Dr. Wang Jian.

"As of now, the idea of ​​using the auxiliary programs of AI chips to achieve cooperation with smartphones is not generally accepted in the industry." This is only the third time that Dr. Li Qingyun has met Boss Zhou, so it is inevitable that he wants to show off himself.

Zhou Buqi simply had a disdainful attitude towards those so-called colleagues.

The direction he chose is the most correct one.

There are many Internet talents in China, but their core Internet technology capabilities are not very strong.

This means that smartphones can basically solve everything that the Internet can do by setting up an Internet team, just like Xiaomi, which has a very strong Internet team. Lei Jun even declared that Xiaomi is not a mobile phone company, but an Internet company.

This has imposed certain restrictions on industry cooperation.

The conditions abroad are not as good as those in China, but there are more opportunities to promote cooperation between Internet companies and mobile phone companies. Unfortunately, the smartphone industry has been reshuffled, and the only foreign mobile phone manufacturers that can be ranked are Apple and Samsung, both of which are super giants with no shortage of talents.

But even so, Ziweixing has still established a relatively extensive cooperation with Samsung based on the Internet and smartphones, from cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud database, to artificial intelligence voice assistants.

In fact, the most worth mentioning is the AI ​​assistant.

If you want to play AI well, you must be an Internet company.

Later, when the general AI big model became popular all over the world, a new wave of AI mobile phones emerged in the mobile phone industry. However, mobile phone manufacturers, including Apple, lacked top-tier AI capabilities. What should they do? They could only spend a lot of money to buy services from Internet companies.

You can buy ChatGPT abroad.

If you want to enter the domestic market, you must reach a cooperation with Baidu and purchase Baidu's AI services.

Not only mobile phones, but PCs as well.

For example, if Lenovo wants to launch an AI computer, it cannot rely on its own strength. The domestic version of Lenovo AI computer also needs to go to Baidu to purchase related AI services.

The best AI services are inseparable from the best AI computing.

Even if Nvidia and Qualcomm chips have powerful AI general computing power in the future, general computing power will definitely be weaker than dedicated computing power. The gap between Qualcomm's chip running points and Apple's A series chips has become larger and larger with each generation, and even a generation gap has formed. The computing power of Qualcomm's new chip is only equivalent to that of the previous generation of Apple's A chip.

It's not that Qualcomm's technology level is inferior to Apple's, but Qualcomm makes universal chips that can be adapted to all mobile phones. Apple's A series chips are dedicated chips that can only be used on Apple devices. With such an advantage, Apple is destined to make its products such as iPhone and iPad superior in AI services.

For example, if you ask a question using a Samsung phone and both phones are equipped with Wenxin Yiyan, it may take 3 seconds to give an answer, but if you ask the same question using an iPhone, it may take only 1 second to complete the calculation and give an answer.

This will undoubtedly greatly enhance the user experience of the iPhone.

Zhou Buqi established an AI chip team in Ziweixing's artificial intelligence team early on. In the short term, it can respond to the call of the country and society to conduct chip research and conform to public sentiment. In the long term, it is still an important layout for the AI ​​track.

Apart from anything else, the future general-purpose AI large models, as well as AI mobile phones and AI computers that cooperate with terminals, must be firmly grasped by Ziweixing.

This will be especially beneficial for Estar.

While Samsung is using Qualcomm's general-purpose chips or its own AI chips, Asda's mobile phones use dedicated AI chips and AI big models, which gives it a hierarchical advantage in the AI ​​service experience.

This will greatly improve the competitiveness of Aisda's products in the industry. This is the direction of cooperation between the Internet and smart phones that Zhou Buqi values ​​most.

However, when facing technical talents, Zhou Buqi always showed full respect, not wanting to discourage the other party's enthusiasm, so he smiled and said: "What a coincidence, I have a primary school classmate, also named Li Qingyun."

"Ah?" Dr. Li Qingyun smiled slightly, and his stress was instantly relieved. He relaxed a lot. "That's quite a coincidence. My name is quite popular. Everyone in the company calls me Jerry."

You can tell at first glance that he behaves like a returnee.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What are you talking about?"

Dr. Li Qingyun said: "There are three main levels of cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices in the industry. The first level is the simplest one, which is to embed a business link in the terminal, and then the Internet vendors share the profits with the manufacturers."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's the pre-installed App!"

"Yes, the cooperation on mobile phones is mainly pre-installation, which is a one-time payment." Dr. Li Qingyun is responsible not only for mobile phones, but also for the cooperation business between Ziweixing and all terminal devices, including smart TVs. "It's different on TV. For example, the default streaming platform is Youku, so there may be long-term subscription revenue sharing."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi is no stranger to this; he is even the main promoter of this type of cooperation model.

First up is Netflix.

When Netflix and Sony were first promoted to cooperate, Sony's handheld game console PSP could be connected to the Internet, so Zhou Buqi's package of cooperation agreements opened up a cooperative relationship with Netflix. Netflix developed a version for Sony's PSP and became the default streaming media viewing platform in PSP.

If a user subscribes to Netflix on PSP, Sony can get 50% of the subscription fee for the first six months, and a single user can benefit at least $30.

This also includes the cooperation between Zhou Buqi and Samsung to pre-install Netflix on Samsung smart TVs.

Dr. Li Qingyun went on to say: "The second point is platform optimization in the technical direction. Many apps and mobile phones have not been optimized for the operating system and terminal platform, so the user experience is relatively poor. This is especially unfriendly to some small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers. Internet companies can provide certain technical solutions for this."

"Small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers have no value in existence."

Zhou Buqi was not optimistic at all.

Now that we are all family, there is no need to be ambiguous. This is completely different from what he said at the industry symposium before.

Dr. Li Qingyun said: "There is also a third level, which is to enter the lower-level development and develop the operating system. I heard that Alibaba Cloud intends to promote cooperation with Meizu and they will make a large investment in Meizu."

"Aren't they cooperating with Tianyu?"

Zhou Buqi found it a little funny.

Alibaba is also following the trend of cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices, and has launched a multi-platform operating system that can be used for mobile phones, TVs, and cars. However, Alibaba's first partner for yunOS was the copycat mobile phone company Tianyu.

It's really a bit absurd.

At least it would be nice to choose to cooperate with a big company like Dell, like Baidu did?

Dr. Li Qingyun smiled and said: "The cooperation with Tianyu was not very smooth, but Alibaba did not give up on their operating system, and then they set their sights on Meizu."

"No, even if we want to invest in Meizu, we have to wait until Alibaba goes public..." Zhou Buqi understood what he meant and glanced at him, "You want to do this too?"

Li Qingyun nodded without hesitation and said, "Well, I think it's a good idea..."

"No." Zhou Buqi interrupted him directly. "This is a dead end. Small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers have no value to survive. After the industry reshuffle, only a few giants will remain in the mobile phone industry. With such abundant Internet talents in China, the mobile phone giants can form a team and develop their own operating systems with the Android kernel. Astar, Xiaomi, Lezhong, Dianxin, and Hammer all have their own systems. There is no technical threshold."

Then, he looked at Dr. Wang Jian who was silent on the side and said, "If we want to make an OS, we can base it on WeChat."

"what?"

Wang Jian was slightly stunned.

Zhou Buqi said: "We can build a series of our own product ecosystem around WeChat. Since it is an ecosystem, we need an OS inside WeChat to operate it. There is no way out for mobile phone operating systems. If we want to do it, let Aisda do it! In the long run, AI is the most critical direction for cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices. We just need to focus on what we have now."