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Chapter 517 With the acquisition of Xianzhengda, the artificial intelligence war will start? !
Tuesday, July 2.

On the second day after the Lantern Festival, Pingguo issued another announcement, revising the relevant commission rules.

Finally, the anger of some Huaxia consumers was calmed down.

But obviously, there is no shortage of smart people in this world, and they quickly saw through Pingguo's tricks, "In the final analysis, no, we still have to take it away, but it's just changed from stealing it openly to taking it secretly."

"One is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, let it be!"

Different from the original time and space, in this life, Pingguo users are no longer the mainstream in the Huaxia market.

Wheat grains are.

Since this is the case, it is really difficult for outsiders to say anything.

Besides, there are some smart people in Huaxia. Since recharging through the IOS channel will be exploited, it is completely possible to recharge on the computer, or ask Android users to help recharge.

Basically, the fate of being plucked by Pingguo can also be avoided.

.........

Pingguo's pumping turmoil lasted until March.

After the time entered March, with the melting of ice and snow, the recovery of all things, and the retreat of the "post-holiday effect", the budding development seemed to be on the fast track again.

Friday, April 3.

Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's first 3A masterpiece "Black Myth" has started the first closed beta with deleted files.

Set off a monstrous wave in the industry.

As early as last year, Zhang Shuo had actually tried to play "Black Myth". Whether it was gameplay, plot innovation, or production standards, it had reached the world's first-class level.

It can definitely be called the "light of national tide" of Chinese games.

The sensation caused can be imagined.

And just two days after the internal beta test of "Black Myth" started, on March 3, Dream Fund joined hands with Vision Fund, Lime Group, and Xinghai Group to officially complete the acquisition of Xiangenta.

The purchase price was also previously agreed at US$435 billion.

Among them, Dream Fund, as the main body of the acquisition, holds 45% of the shares and becomes the largest shareholder of Xiangenta in one fell swoop; the remaining Vision Fund, Lime Group and Xinghai Group each hold 15% of the shares.

The remaining 10% of the equity will be jointly subscribed by some investment institutions of Europa.

After the acquisition is completed, the board of directors of Xiangenta will undergo a comprehensive reorganization. The Dream Fund has the power to nominate three directors, and it is agreed that Howard, the president of the Dream Fund, will serve as the chairman.

The remaining Vision Fund, Lime Group and Xinghai Group can each nominate one director.

"In order to complete the acquisition of Xianzhengda, Lime Group and Xinghai Group need to pay 420 billion funds to themselves, and they are required to arrive within three months."

At the meeting, Lin Zhengdong, the senior vice president in charge of the acquisition, reported this.

This also means that -

In order to acquire a 30% stake in Xiangenta, Sprout Holdings needs to pay 840 billion yuan, which is definitely the largest overseas acquisition of Sprout since its establishment.

It is unmatched in the country.

"Completing the acquisition of Xianzhengda is only the first step. The next step is to actively guide Xianzhengda to invest in China, and at the same time use the two platforms of Lime Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical to cooperate." Zhang Shuo instructed.

For example, Xianzhengda plans to invest in the construction of a super chemical plant in Huaxia, then it can enter into a joint venture with Xinghai Chemical.

The latter can obtain an admission ticket to enter the relevant field through a joint venture.

of course.

It's just an entry ticket.

If Xinghai Chemical wants to truly gain a foothold in the field of agrochemicals, it will have to rely on its own R&D investment in the future.

The same goes for lime farming.

Although it is said that through the remote control of the Dream Fund and the Vision Fund, Zhang Shuo can obtain indirect control over Xianzhengda, but it is only a remote command after all.

It is actually very difficult to directly intervene in the daily operation of Xianzhengda.

It is also impossible to really take Xianzhengda as his own.

In the future, a slightly more high-end operation may be to guide Xianzhengda to spin off and sell some of its subdivided businesses, and then let the two strategic partners, Lime Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical, acquire them.

In this way, Xianzhengda will be gradually eaten away.

"Yes!"

Lin Zhengdong nodded with a smile, "After the reorganization of Xianzhengda's board of directors is completed, the first thing to do is to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Lime Agriculture and Xinghai Chemical."

"At the same time discuss, plan, and invest in China."

After cooperating with Dream Fund and Vision Fund twice in succession, Lin Zhengdong has vaguely realized that Dream Fund seems to be very able to take care of Germinal's interests in making external decisions.

This kind of care does not seem to be simply attributed to the fact that Dream Fund is the major shareholder of Bud.

As for the deeper reasons, Lin Zhengdong has neither the ability nor the willingness to delve into it. He just needs to think about how to make good use of his relationship with the Dream Fund to seek benefits for Germination.

that's enough!
In addition to winning Xianzhengda, on the other hand, Xinghai Group's contact with Vale has also made progress, which was also reported by Lin Zhengdong.

"Three days ago, Xinghai Group successfully signed a cooperation memorandum with Vale."

"The cooperation between the two parties mainly focuses on two areas—"

"One is that Xinghai Mining directly acquires some of the copper mines and iron ore interests in Samba that Vale intends to transfer. The investment in this part is estimated to be around 80 billion US dollars."

"Secondly, Vale introduced Xinghai Group as an investor through private placement."

"Generally speaking, the first investment is easy to realize after all, and it is also the focus of the current specific negotiations. As for the second equity investment, the resistance encountered by Vale's board of directors is relatively large."

Without it.

Gein, although Vale is an enterprise of Samba State, its major shareholder is from Wolf Street, a beautiful country, and the latter is usually wary of investors from China.

"Especially when Xinghai Group just participated in the investment and acquisition of Xiangenta, it makes Wolf Street even more afraid."

Some people even yelled out——

"Sprout is a threat to the investment community and will destroy the original market rules."

In human terms——

"Sprout is very strong, yes, but it is enough to only jump around in China. The overseas market is the territory of Wolf Street Capital, so don't go overseas to grab food. Otherwise, we will not be polite if you are blamed."

Before Gein, many overseas acquisitions of Huaxia companies, even if they were successful, were leftovers.

For example, Wanda recently acquired Legendary Pictures.

And what about sprouts?

He successively participated in the acquisition of Hitachi Storage, Dongzhi Flash Memory and Xianzhengda, all of which were taken from the mouths of beautiful Chinese companies, and now he has his eyes on Vale.

The other party naturally refused.

If it wasn't for Vale's current serious debt problem, even if it was the first cooperation, it would probably be enough.

"It's man-made!"

Zhang Shuo is very confident, "If possible, Xinghai Group, this time, it's better to fight alone, and don't invite helpers like Dream Fund and Vision Fund."

Indirect control is always better than direct control.

Not to mention—

With the current development trend of Germinal Holdings, sooner or later, they will have to fight head-on with the capital from Wolf Street on the international stage.

It is not a bad thing to get in touch earlier and adapt earlier.

"At the end of last year, I proposed to reorganize the overseas business department and establish three regional companies at the same time. The purpose is to enhance our ability to invest and acquire overseas." Zhang Shuo added.

"understand!"

Lin Zhengdong nodded, but also felt a lot of pressure.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Zhao, how are the preparations of the three regional companies going?" After listening to Lin Zhengdong's report, Zhang Shuo looked at Zhao Mingchuan, President of the Overseas Business Department and President of Asia.

"Is such that."

Zhao Mingchuan didn't panic, and reported: "Sunshine Holdings has completed the relevant renaming and filing work, and it is also the first among the three regional companies to get on the right track and put it into use."

This is normal.

The focus of Sprout's overseas development has always been on the Southeast Asian market, and Sunlight Holdings was also the carrier of Sprout's overseas business department before.

Basically a seamless switch.

For the overseas employees of Sunshine Holdings, it is nothing more than changing the name of their company and changing the nameplate. Other than that, there are basically no other changes.

Including personnel adjustments.

Because Zhao Mingchuan, the president of Sprout's overseas business department, will still serve as the president of Asia.

"The Prussian company and the New York company have also completed the relevant registration and filing matters, and have also leased the new headquarters building."

"The next step is to use the framework of the headquarters as a hub to integrate the resources of these two regions."

Compared with Xiangjiang Company, the establishment of Prussia Company and New York Company is obviously much more complicated, and the internal integration and running-in alone are enough to make people feel dizzy.

I'm afraid it will take some time to get on the right track.

"Do you have any clues about the candidates for the person in charge of the two companies?" Zhang Shuo asked with concern.

As the saying goes, a snake can't do without a head.

Whether it is the Prussian company or the New York company, if they want to truly form a fighting force, the internal adjustment is still secondary. The key is to choose a suitable and excellent president.

Then it is up to the new president to complete the follow-up matters.

"Yes."

Zhao Mingchuan nodded and said, "In the past two months, with the support of Director Wu, we have had several rounds of contacts with overseas headhunting companies. Basically, four to six candidates have been identified."

The next step is to invite them to Germination headquarters, and the big boss Zhang Shuo will personally interview them.

"very good!"

Only then did Zhang Shuo feel relieved, but he suddenly missed the prestige item "Headhunting Card" that the system rewarded from time to time, so that he could accurately find suitable talents.

It's a pity that since the prestige reached the full level, there is no more.

The system is still pretty stingy.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Shuo looked at Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist who had not spoken much, and asked with a smile, "Did you read the news yesterday? AlphaGo developed by Gu Ge defeated Li Shishi."

"Looked."

Tan Yunsong smiled and nodded, "It's wonderful!!!"

Board games have always been regarded as the touchstone of top human intelligence.

The confrontation between artificial intelligence and human chess players has been staged. Previously, computer programs have defeated humans in games such as three-game chess, checkers and chess.

In the history before the Go man-machine battle, the most famous man-machine battle was the chess match between Kasparov, the world chess champion, and the chess artificial intelligence program "Deep Blue".

In 97, the chess artificial intelligence defeated the top human for the first time, and in 06, the human defeated the top chess artificial intelligence for the last time.

Since then, chess, the top human intellectual game in European and American traditions, has suffered a crushing defeat in front of computers.

Go has become the last piece of high ground in the human intelligence game.Go AI has struggled for a long time, and the top AI cannot even beat slightly stronger amateur players.

This also seems reasonable.

Because if artificial intelligence enumerates all situations violently, the number of changes that Go needs to calculate far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe that has been observed.

This huge number is enough to discourage any brute force.

And humans can skip brute force with some hard-to-replicate algorithm and see the essence of the chessboard at a glance.

later--

Artificial intelligence researchers resorted to the ultimate killer - "deep learning".

Deep learning is a popular subject in the field of artificial intelligence, which can complete very complex tasks such as handwriting recognition, facial recognition, driving autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, recognizing voices, and analyzing bioinformatics data.

AlphaGo is developed based on the research and development of deep learning technology.

In order to test the level of Alpha Go, Gu Ge challenged the Go world champion and top Goryeo player Ri Sedol in March 16.

Ri Sedol accepts the challenge.

As a result, Alpha swept Li Shidol with a score of 4:1 and won the final victory, which then sparked massive discussions on the Internet about whether Go is dead or not.

And there is no doubt that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is the ultimate beneficiary of this man-machine war.

Before the Go man-machine war, artificial intelligence was still so cloudy to ordinary people.After the war, people have learned through various reports that artificial intelligence has penetrated into everyone's work and life.

Intelligent services will quickly connect to catering, travel, tourism, movies, education, medical care and other life service areas, covering users' food, housing, transportation and play.

In the future, artificial intelligence is completely comparable to a full-time human secretary.

The biggest victory of AlphaGo is to create a global science popularization for artificial intelligence, which also represents the declaration of high-tech enterprises' "ambition" for artificial intelligence technology.

In the past, artificial intelligence was just an intelligent exploration that existed in the laboratory; while in the future of science and technology, artificial intelligence will be the foundation and a powerful driving force for the development of business and society.

This human-machine battle also made Guge famous and established its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence in one fell swoop, and was even praised by many media as "the light of human technology".

Various praises followed.

"I'm curious, how did Alpha win?" Zhang Shuo asked humbly.

"Is such that."

As a top scientist in the field of artificial intelligence in the world, Tan Yunsong is naturally concerned about Alpha, explaining: "The traditional artificial intelligence method is to build all possible moves into a search tree, but this method is not applicable to Go. .”

"Alpha combines advanced search trees with deep neural networks that pass a chessboard description through 12 processing layers containing millions of neural-like connections."

"In the game, Alpha has two brains, one neural network 'decision network' is responsible for choosing the next move, and the other neural network 'value network' is to predict the winner of the game."

"In layman's terms, one brain is used to make decisions about how to move, and the other brain is used to predict the final winner of the game."

"Before this, in order to train Alpha, Guge completed a lot of deep learning and consolidation learning in advance, and even used the cloud platform to complete a lot of research work."

"On the other hand, Li Shishi, this is the first time he has played against a machine. He can't study the opponent's chess record and chess style first like playing against a human. All he can do is play against himself."

But even under such circumstances, Li Shishi still moved back a round through a stroke of magic.

From this we can see——

Although artificial intelligence is very powerful, it is by no means as magical as some media touted it.

It is also impossible to really kill Go!
"So it is."

Zhang Shuo basically understood that he had dabbled in the knowledge of artificial intelligence, and then asked the last question: "How does this Alpha compare with our Xingling?"

Xingling is the artificial intelligence that Fertile Research Institute has been secretly developing.

"If it's just in the field of Go, then Xing Ling is definitely not as good as Alpha. But when it comes to the real level of artificial intelligence, it's really hard to say because there is no comparison." Tan Yunsong replied cautiously.

AlphaGo is specially trained for man-machine battles, so naturally there is no comparison.

"Then let me put it another way, can you get a glimpse of Gu Ge's research and development progress in the field of artificial intelligence from the level of AlphaGo, is it ahead of us, or not?" Zhang Shuo did not give up.

Without it, artificial intelligence represents a budding future.

To some extent, Xingling, the secret weapon, is the biggest "national tide light" that Germination has been planning for a long time.

Once it comes out, it will reshape the development wave of the entire era.

It is the Dinghaishenzhen of the next outlet.

"Judging from the level of AlphaGo, it should be half a catty." Until this moment, Tan Yunsong showed a little bit of his self-confidence and pride in the field of artificial intelligence.

(End of this chapter)