Global Monopoly of Technology

To speed up the shooting of the sequel to "Super Marines", Luo Sheng gave Zhang Bowen a phone call and made the arrangements clearly.

In order to quickly prepare for filming and grab time, Blue Star Pictures provided a production budget of $490 million for the "Super Marines" sequel, which is almost three times the previous production cost of $165 million.

According to the convention of triple the box office return of movies, theoretically, the box office of "Super Marines" must reach 1.47 billion US dollars to be able to return to the original. At present, "Frozen", which is the world's largest animated film box office, is only 1.276 billion US dollars. The U.S. dollar has not been beaten since its release in 2013.

Obviously, the producers never thought of relying on this movie to make money at the box office, and more of it was positioning for the announcement of the new products of the Cote d'Azur. Only Luo Sheng could do this kind of thing.

But for the director, this is a super good project. Many works have to compromise for the sake of business. The sequel still chooses to be directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams of the previous film. The producer did not set a business for them. Profitability indicator.

The requirements are very simple: influence, quality, and topic popularity.

A sequel would be considered a big hit if it grossed $1 billion worldwide.

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During these days, Luo Sheng's main focus has been on Cote d'Azur.

Coming to the company early this morning, Luo Sheng participated in the internal executive meeting chaired by Yao Jianhong.

In the conference room, Yao Jianhong was speaking in an orderly manner: "From 2013 to the present, in the past five years, the company has made great progress, and its performance has repeatedly hit new highs. This is worthy of recognition and indelible."

After speaking, Yao Jianhong changed his words: "But it is also undeniable that we could have done better, and our performance could have been higher, so what is the reason? Lao Mei has involved us a lot of energy to deal with it, although in the Overall, we have won, but we have indeed been slowed down by the company's development speed, which is impossible, but the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, step by step, we have to run."

At the moment, Luo Sheng is sitting in the chief position as a melon-eating audience. He basically does not speak. The meeting is also led by Yao Jianhong. He is basically no longer in the company. Been doing the CEO job.

Lao Yao continued: "We have fallen behind in the smart home industry. It's not that the technology is backward, the technology still maintains certain advantages, but it is lagging behind the competitors in building an ecosystem. Since the 51st CES exhibition in January this year, will see,

The major giants are fighting in the field of smart home, while we are entangled by the old beauty and have no time to take care of him, they are trying their best to build their own ecosystem. "

CES is the abbreviation of the International Consumer Electronics Show, which is known as the "vane of the current hot technology development trend".

Yao Jianhong looked at the information in his hand and said: "In the past year or two, the global technology industry has set off a new frenzy of AI technology development, whether it is the major technology giants we are familiar with, or startups from all over the world. They are all competing to tap the application potential of this technology in various fields.”

"Among them, the AI ​​voice assistant is the most eye-catching, and it has been a hot project in the past year. It is no exaggeration to say that the intelligent voice assistant has once again brought unprecedented vitality to the smart home."

The company that pioneered the AI ​​voice assistant and brought it into the public eye was the launch of the intelligent voice assistant "Little Blue" when the Cote d'Azur released the third-generation Azure smartphone in 2009, making the voice assistant enter the technology circle. sight.

Five years later, in 2014, Amazon launched the smart speaker Echo (Aigou), making the smart speaker a hot entity for voice assistants. During this period of time, Azure Coast and Bluestar Technology were both troubled by the old beauty. The trouble is, the main energy is going to the line with the old beauty.

Other competitors took the opportunity to develop wildly.

Today, stimulated by the high profits of Echo, the world's major technology giants have begun to chase after them, such as domestic "Tmall Genie", "Xiao Ai Classmates", etc. The booming development of voice assistants has also made smart homes once again become a Hot areas in the tech world.

On the contrary, the Côte d'Azur, which pioneered the trend and mastered the most advanced AI technology, is quite "cold". The application of Xiaolan is currently limited to Azure mobile phones and ieP education tablets. It has been iteratively optimized for so many years, but it has not been expanded. application scenarios.

Cote d'Azur is taking a break, and other international friends are taking the opportunity to catch up. They also know that Cote d'Azur has always been alone in AI technology, so the major technology giants are focusing on accelerating the construction of their own ecosystems. Intensify efforts to iterate technology and shorten the gap with Cote d'Azur in the field of AI technology as much as possible.

Yao Jianhong, who attended the meeting, said again: "At present, the players with cooperation and ecological research and development in the field of intelligent voice assistants are no more than a few old friends, such as Amazon's Alexa, Google's Google Assistant, Samsung's Bixby and Apple's Siri. , the domestic ones are Xiao Ai of Xiaomi Company."

"From the perspective of the current industry ecological pattern, except our little blue is in the 'on-hook' state, everyone is desperately using various methods to attract third-party smart home companies to join their own ecosystem. The little blue of the Côte d’Azur brought the industry of intelligent voice assistants hot, but it was Amazon who saw the successful introduction of voice assistants into smart home products.”

With that said, Yao Jianhong listed a set of information reports on the current situation of the industry and put them on the big screen in the conference room. Luo Sheng and other attendees also looked at them.

"Since Amazon first launched the Echo, a smart speaker based on the voice assistant Alexa, in late 2014, the popularity of smart speakers has been high and increasing. This is the market data I have compiled. The dominant Amazon has sold at least 20 million Echo series smart speaker products, is this still worth it?”

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when he saw Yao Jianhong's unhappy expression when he saw the sales volume of tens of millions.

No wonder Lao Yao couldn't bear it, saying that the Cote d'Azur must run into the field of smart homes.

Amazon's Echo has reached tens of millions of sales, and it has been able to build a mature ecosystem. Not only does it make a lot of money, but it also makes Lao Yao realize that it may threaten the Côte d'Azur, although the threat is not big.

But we have to pay attention to it. When the opponent really takes off and forms a general trend, it will be difficult to do it. Kodak used to be so brilliant, and it was finally killed by digital technology.

Luo Sheng did not express dissatisfaction because the company was dragged down in a certain field. The development of the company itself is actually quite good. The so-called Baimi has always been negligent, not to mention that this is not the management's neglect, but to deal with the old beauty. The initial suppression was the first priority.

Now that it's hard to relieve this breath, Yao Jianhong ran quickly and entered the arena immediately, it's not easy.

The Cote d'Azur is indeed a big business. It is an unimaginable super giant and a super business technology empire in the eyes of others, but at the same time, it also has many "enemies". Those well-known technology giants in Silicon Valley, as long as they are numbered, which one is not harmonious Does the Côte d'Azur have direct or indirect competition?

It is a competitive relationship, there are lawsuits and disputes, and at the same time, they are cooperating. It is simply a pot of porridge.

It won't be long before he's going to have a fight with Lao Huang. Luo Sheng will never doubt that Cote d'Azur will definitely fight with Nvidia in the future.

As for the smart home sector, although it lags behind in the construction of the ecosystem, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry. Dabai Robot can help the Côte d'Azur fight a beautiful turnaround and announce what is the return of the king.

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