I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 540: 385-386: Reactions from all parties! (4000 words)
As he spoke, he was playing with a big toy in his hand, which was a robot toy he got from Boston Dynamics.

This robot looks very rough and its joints feel oily.

This means that this product... has some oil leakage.

holy shit!

He cursed in his heart.

The United States has done a really great job in deindustrialization.

They just come up with some fancy stuff like this.

The elites of Western University gave up manufacturing and embraced the financial industry.

While grabbing maximum personal wealth, it reduced the country's industrial capacity.

What they mean by deindustrialization is not a reduction in production, but a permanent transfer of production to low-cost areas.

Especially among the industrial chain clusters with China as the core.

This can never come back!
Even if you shout slogans, it will be the same even if you shout about bringing manufacturing back to the country.

Your labor costs
For quite a while, they succeeded.

However, financial bloodsucking is very satisfying and has made a large group of people rich, but it is still far inferior to countries that rely on manufacturing.

Over time, the biggest problem is that the ideas and creativity at the upper end of the smile curve cannot be implemented, becoming a very terrible problem of creative nihilism.

And now the problem emerges.

Hillhouse Capital of Southeast University introduced some new elements and ideas into an old concept and old subject matter, and then injected the latest soul product - artificial intelligence, matched it with core computing power, and then exploded with 1+1 which is far greater than 2.

If it is just hype of the subject matter and defrauding money from the financial market, it would be fine.

The key point is that the army of Tokyo University has actually placed an order for this thing!

This is interesting.

Does this mean that in the future, whether it is interstellar exploration or local conflicts on the blue planet, this thing can be used to change the situation?
More importantly, this thing can definitely improve the unsolvable problem of high labor costs in developed countries on the Blue Planet!
Why did Xida move away from industrialization so quickly, causing the related supporting chains to be destroyed?
Isn’t the core reason that labor costs are too high?

Don’t island countries also have high labor costs? Don’t they also retain some industries, and the most critical ones are the automobile heavy industry?
The key point is that the island country does not have an automobile union as powerful as that of Western University!
The good thing about this thing is that it can help workers increase their wages when the company develops.

The bad thing is that if the company is already in a downturn and in a loss-making state, and you are still helping the workers increase their labor costs, then the ultimate outcome of the factory will be closing down!

Moreover, this thing is difficult to stop and has become gang-like.

For example, if you are an employee of Volt Automobile, if you do not join the union, I'm sorry, you may not receive the benefits we have fought for!

When we lay off employees, you will be the first one to be laid off!
What do you do at this time?
You have to pay 10% of your salary to the union and have to join the union.

This becomes a union tax.

Moreover, this thing also hinders social progress and modernization.

Many things cannot be done. For example, the Xida West Coast Terminal has not achieved a large amount of mechanization, so the labor cost is too high, which makes it inefficient.

The Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in the West, has an annual throughput of only 863 million TEUs, which is surprisingly similar to that of Taicang Port in the inland area of ​​the Yangtze River in China!

This is the disadvantage caused by slow manual efficiency.

but. . . .

If robots are used to completely replace human labor, and in turn replace the hateful labor unions, does that mean...

Your own factory can undergo tremendous changes!

Xida University needs unmanned factories much more than Dongda University!

Thinking of this, Musk suddenly became excited. "I want to get involved in this robot, too. Embodied robots are indeed a hot topic in this era, second only to artificial intelligence!"

As he spoke, he began to write an email, ignoring the fact that it was already early morning Eastern Time.

He hopes to let his HR start human resources recruitment!
Secretly set up an independent embodied robot branch in Tesla!

What he needs is not a person in a robot suit!

But it is a real robot!
He hopes that these robots will be able to help customers mow lawns, buy groceries, and even take care of children in the future. But to achieve these functions, the robots must have fully autonomous AI capabilities, unless you are willing to hire someone to remotely control them.

Otherwise, what's the point?

Hillhouse can do it!

He can do it too!

It's just a little money!
It's done!

It's not just Musk. More and more companies are involved in embodied robots.

Some companies that have been unable to raise funds and are about to go bankrupt, such as Boston Dynamics and UBTECH, have launched C or even D rounds of financing!

These companies, based on Hillhouse’s embodied robot dog, have become popular in the capital market!
In the past, we begged financial institutions for financing, but we couldn’t get any money.

Now, it’s the financial institutions that are begging these robot companies to pay them!

Many of these companies are in a semi-confused state.

Although making robots does not cost as much as pharmaceutical companies making innovative drugs, it is easy for a small team to spend several million dollars a year.

After all, those who do this kind of thing are all highly educated talents, and such people are really expensive!

Although the financial industry is well developed at Xi’an University, the recent hot topics have always been artificial intelligence-related AGI and large models, as well as driverless technology.

There is basically not much hot money flowing into other channels.

And now, because of Hillhouse's robot dog and because this robot dog was purchased by the military, it directly boosted the robot-related industries in the United States, which was something Gao Huaijun did not expect!

In Gao Huaijun's previous life before his reincarnation, the concept of robots did not become popular until 2024, when it gradually came into focus and became the core leader of the market.

This is six years ahead of schedule!

It is conceivable how terrifying the influence of Hillhouse Capital, a world-leading technology company, is!
You know, the financial industry loves to create concepts. Concepts that are popular in the financial circle will gradually be implemented in industries within a few years and then develop into cutting-edge technologies that lead the world trend.

The direction that money focuses on must be the easiest outlet for money to make money.

And now, Hillhouse has forcibly opened up a new track in just one month from an unpopular industry that has no money-making effect, and allowed the practitioners in this track to get a piece of the pie. This is a very terrifying thing.

When Gao Huaijun learned about the great guiding role played by Hillhouse Intelligent Innovation BU in the embodied robotics industry, he was also stunned. "Mr. Gao, it seems that our Hillhouse Intelligent Innovation BU is still very much at the forefront of the times. I went to Hillhouse Intelligent Innovation BU some time ago, and Mr. Wang Xingxing complained to me that his office was crowded recently, and many government officials came to chat with him."

"He said he is just a soldier now, what can he talk about? Gaoling GO1 robot dog currently has 1000 military orders, 500 scientific research orders from universities, and only 300 other scattered orders."

"The total sales volume is 2000 units, which is just over million yuan in sales."

"It's not even enough to cover the costs, let alone expand the factory in other places."

Feng Xiaochen covered his mouth and said with a smile.

The establishment of Hillhouse Capital's AI Innovation BU has been controversial within Hillhouse Capital.

Many people, especially those at Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicle BG, feel that this is a turbulent time for Hillhouse. It is also in the process of self-commitment at Xida University and no one knows when its capital chain will be broken. There is no need to engage in something that cannot make money.

They are even mentally prepared to shrink their business and lay off some of their employees directly. This is the normal response of a normal company to deal with such an emergency.

However, Gao Huaijun did not play according to common sense!
At such a point in time, such a small BU was established and resources were given more attention.

This is equivalent to resource expansion.

I really don’t know what Gao Huaijun’s corporate strategic thinking is.

But now, the stunning performance of Hillhouse Capital's AI Innovation BU has severely shocked the dissenting voices within Hillhouse Capital.

All of a sudden, the noise disappeared!
Although the sales volume of more than 400 million is not much, it is enough to barely maintain the short-term operation of Hillhouse Capital BU.

Moreover, due to the popularity of the robot dog of Hillhouse Capital BU, many self-operated flagship stores and franchised T1-level ecological stores have brought samples to their own stores for display. The original intention was to display samples and create a gimmick to attract people to the store.

But I never expected it!

What a good guy!

The popularity of this thing has suddenly gone too far!

Many people went to the store specifically to see the Hillhouse GO1 robot dog!
The traffic of many self-operated flagship stores and franchised T1-level ecological stores has skyrocketed tenfold in recent times!
This is not just a display sample, it is simply the God of Wealth for every store!

The flow of people is the flow of money.

Although most of these people are here to watch the fun, as long as 10% or even 5% can stay and spend money, that would be an incredible number!

Now that Hillhouse Capital has committed suicide, people are in a panic.

Many consumers, who were originally very satisfied with Hillhouse's products, were also drawn into this atmosphere, and many were caught in a situation where they wanted to buy but did not dare to buy.

After all, they are truly patriotic, but they are also realistic and rational enough.

Most of the consumers are men, and their money doesn't just come from the wind.

They are also afraid that Hillhouse will suddenly go bankrupt, and then the products they bought will not be able to be maintained and repaired in the future!

Now, with the Hillhouse GO1 robot dog, those people who were waiting and watching have returned one after another in this craze and atmosphere.

Hillhouse's high-end mobile phone products have been affected, but low-end mobile phones and other electronic technology products, as well as Hillhouse Auto's various series of models, have not been greatly affected.

So when this emotion goes away, the original consumers will return.

Originally, Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicle had some complaints about Hillhouse Intelligence.

Now there was a sudden 360-degree reversal, which was unexpected even for Gao Huaijun himself.

It seems that men are interested in the beauty of machinery and the novelty of cyberpunk.

There is really a lack of resistance!

"The current staff size of Hillhouse Capital BU needs to be expanded. The GO1 robot dog is still too crude in my opinion," Gao Huaijun said calmly.

Iteration!

Must iterate quickly!
This is Gao Huaijun’s expectation for the GO1 robot dog.

The current GO1 robot dog is mainly derived from Yushu Technology’s original technical reserves.

Many plates and details are rough.

More importantly, it is not very consistent with Hillhouse AI's AGI model.

The key is the ability to accept instructions. The current instructions can only make some simple instructions, and are unable to make concrete and complex instructions. The ability of direct conversation is okay, but once the language is complicated, especially with a bit of dialect, it will not work.

If humanoid robots cannot easily receive and understand instructions, it will be difficult to truly apply them in scenarios where they are suitable for use.

If you need to write commands in advance and put them on an assembly line, it's fine, but if it's a nursing job, it's totally unacceptable.

You can't expect those old men and women to speak authentic Mandarin.

They have the pepper-salt-flavored Jiaopu from the Sichuan and Chongqing areas, the Hakka Pu'u from Hu Jian, and the Yuepu from the southern Guangdong area.

These all require further research and development by Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team and Hillhouse's innovation team.

However, this requires data training, and it is hard to say whether the computing power in the graphics card is sufficient. Taiwan and the power supply will be cut off soon, and there may be problems with the graphics card if you don’t have it.

However, the computing power of Hillhouse’s own GPU is one level lower than that of those manufactured by Taiwan Electronics.

The language model is still far from complete and cannot be integrated right away like Hillhouse Auto’s car computer.

At present, it seems that Hillhouse is finally qualified to sit at the table.

In terms of sports technology, it is much better than Boston Dynamics, and in terms of receiving commands, Boston Dynamics can't even see the taillights of Hillhouse Capital BU.

What GO1 now calls access to an open big model is actually the language model receiving instructions and then calling the function that encapsulates the robot's pre-trained actions. There is no essential difference between this and using a remote control handle to adjust fixed pre-trained actions.

There is still a long way to go to realize a truly multimodal unified model, achieve understanding, decompose tasks, automatically plan, and automatically write control codes to complete tasks.

In this regard, Gao Huaijun plans to set up a cross-disciplinary research and development team at Hillhouse Research Institute.

The core is to conduct further research on the multimodal unified model.

It can be said that China has almost no experience in these cutting-edge disciplines.

But in the beautiful country, it is impossible to share such hidden things with you.

This is also a product of the underlying logic that changes the times and the direction of history.

A magical artifact among magical artifacts!
(End of this chapter)