A genius tech empire

If the Internet has exploded, then Apple's headquarters is already overcast at this time.

In the president's office.

"Is our siri still not good?" Cook watched the live broadcast with a gloomy face.

A month ago, Extreme Technology came to seek cooperation.After seeing the power of Xtreme Technology's AI assistant, if it hadn't been for this AI assistant that required full permissions on the phone, he had agreed to enter the Apple Store.

After refusing, he organized the company's strongest R&D team, which has been studying for a month.

"No progress." The assistant answered carefully.

"Boo!"

Cook took the table again, and cursed, "Damn it!"

He took a deep breath and forced an ugly smile: "Sorry, I didn't control his emotions."

As he said, regardless of the assistant's reaction, he stared at the live screen closely.

If we say that Apple still wants to struggle, the domestic counterparts of voice assistants have fallen into despair at this time, despair of the ultimate technology AI assistant, despair of the powerful technology of the opponent, despair of the huge gap between the two sides.

Yang Congming didn’t think about the reactions of competitors. He continued: “The research and development and operation of AI assistants require a lot of costs. In order to recover the costs, the company decided to charge for AI assistants, mobile phones and computer versions after careful consideration. The same, domestic 5 yuan a month, foreign 1 US dollar a month. Users can try it for free for one month, and they can stop using it if they don’t think it works."

It's not that Yang Congming is greedy for money. Indeed, as he said, the operation of AI assistants requires a lot of storage, bandwidth and computing power.

If you don’t charge money, the more users you have, the more you lose money. AI assistants are not easy to advertise, and they don’t charge monthly rents.

Because their AI assistants are extremely powerful, opening applications is just one of the skills. Other skills include navigation, weather forecast, scheduling, alarm clock, texting, and Q&A.

Among them, the most important is the question and answer, which is not to open Baidu or Google, but to seek answers from its own knowledge base.

Because it is smart enough, if it is free, it can completely replace Baidu and Google, and then antitrust will come.

However, for fear of charging to frighten everyone, Yang Congming implemented the first month free strategy, and I believe many people are willing to try it.After trying the ultimate AI assistant, I believe that most of them will choose to pay a monthly fee.

In front of the live screen.

"It's still charging? Are you crazy about money?"

"Extreme Technology is waiting for the bankruptcy, and it's 5 yuan, I don't think it is too much for 1 yuan."

"Domestic charges are really unrealistic. I have to consider the 15 yuan membership fee for video sites for a long time."

"The one in front is how poor it is, it is enough to save a meal, and I can't even pay for a meal."

"I don't have money and want to enjoy good service, poor B."

"Who does poor B say?"

"saying you."

"Did you not notice? The domestic fee is 5 yuan, and the foreign country is 1 dollar. It means that foreign charges are higher than domestic fees. Extreme technology is OK."

"Yes, unlike some American imperial consciences, it is more expensive at home than abroad."

“Users who purchase Extreme VR don’t need to pay attention to the AI ​​assistant’s charges. Here, I would like to say that the AI ​​assistant of Extreme VR will be free forever.” Yang Congming continued, “Extreme VR will be launched globally in one week and sold domestically. The price is 8,999 yuan, plus 1,000 to buy a pair of induction gloves, 1,500 yuan separately, plus 50 to buy a 6-button handle, and 80 yuan separately. The unified price abroad is 1,350 US dollars, plus..."

The press conference of Extreme Technology is over, but the influence of the formation continues to ferment.

Most VR products are priced below 6,000 yuan. These VR manufacturers breathe a sigh of relief. Extreme VR is so expensive, and only those who don't lack money can afford it. Their products still have a market.

The most affected are search engines.

Beijing Haidian Baidu Building, a small meeting room.

Sitting in the conference room are Baidu's top management team, Baidu President Li Yanhong, Chief Technology Officer Huang Haifeng, and the head of the mobile ecological business group Shen Dou.

Several people, Cheng, spread out on the seats in a decadent state, a few wisps of white smoke curled up from their hands, and were finally sucked away by the grille holes in the ceiling.

After sorting up the data, the daily activity and search volume of Baidu search has fallen to two-thirds of the previous one, and Cheng has fallen quickly.The stock market responded accordingly. Within seven days, the stock price dropped 50%, and the market value instantly evaporated by 20 billion US dollars.

In the mobile Internet era, Baidu, which is seriously behind Alibaba and Tencent, has now ushered in the invasion of the basic disk and has fallen into the edge of life and death.

"Let's talk, what can be done?" Li Yan Hongqiang cheered up and straightened his body.

Sitting across from him was Shen Dou. He looked complicated and said, "Maybe we still have salvation."

"What way?" Li Yanhong asked again.

"The ultimate AI assistant is charged. According to the habits of Chinese people, they may not be willing to spend money on this service."

Li Yanhong's eyes lit up, "Yeah, why didn't I expect it." Then his heart was filled with sorrow, and Baidu's life and death depended on the kindness of the enemy.

In his view, the acquisition is the kindness of Extreme Technology or Yang Congming. If Extreme Technology uses a free strategy to drag Baidu down, it will not be too late to implement fees.

"In case, I mean in case, our search engine can't stand it, we can still fully enter the research and development of the driverless car to think of Baidu's brain."

Artificial intelligence, Baidu's ranking in the world is still high, Huang Haifeng is full of self-channel.

"Have you forgotten the ultimate artificial intelligence? If they also enter the field of driverless cars and urban brains..." Shen Dou broke Huang Haifeng's last illusion.

"Xuezhi Technology started to develop cars more than a year ago." Li Yanhong made a knife.

"I can only hope that the extreme fees can't attract all users?" Huang Haifeng said unwillingly.

As a technical officer of Baidu, there is nothing to say about losing strategically to competitors, but technically, losing to the extreme, and it is a company that has been established for less than two years.

"It seems so at the moment." Li Yanhong leaned in a chair tiredly.

In Google, the situation is good because the U.S. has banned the entry of Ultra AI assistants. However, in the market outside the United States, there is no country where the entry of Ultra AI assistants is prohibited. Whether it is a local or Google search company, the market is declining. After the festival.

The reason why the progress has been so fast is because over the past year or so, the marketing branches established in countries around the world have gained a deep understanding of the local area, which has saved a lot of effort in the promotion of AI assistants.

Yang Congming is excited every time he sees the total number of downloads. These are all potential users in the future.