Chapter 120: Aggrieved?

A week later, Pichai took a flight to Hangzhou, China. Apparently it was Liu Fan who asked for him, but let him fly over. Pichai was somewhat resistant at first, and even felt that it was Liu Fan who gave him power.
But Liu Fan gave him a reasonable explanation: Rice is too unsafe.
Pychai thought about it, it seemed not very safe.
After the meeting, the two had a business blast for a while, and the start atmosphere was harmonious.
The atmosphere gradually changed until Liu Fan began to cut into the theme. "Mr. Pichai, this time Huawei released the latest autonomous system, what do you think?"
"I can't comment right now," Pichai said with a smile. "Mobile phone systems require long-term market testing. I believe that only time can answer this question."
"But at least the consumer's intuitive feelings can be used as a reference." Liu Fan shook the wine glass. "Although Huawei mateRD has been sold for less than a week, consumers and evaluation agencies should have a hands-on experience with Mr. Pichai. See it all. "
当然 "Of course, I have seen a lot of related reports. But I still think that time, Huawei's system will take a long time to prove itself."
"So how much time does Mr. Pichai plan to give Google reaction?" Seeing that Pichai has avoided the first issue on the first question, trying to suppress the gas field and want to gain more initiative, Liu Fan naturally also added Putting a lot of pressure on the other party, business negotiation, is originally a matter of seeing who can better control the other party's pain points.
This question from Liu Fan asked Pichai's mind. For Pichai, one of the questions I have been thinking about these days is how much time Google has to make a comeback. Google is now facing a crisis, but it is still early to fall. After all, Google has accumulated for so many years, but it must be improved after Google.
However, Pichai controlled his emotions well in front of Liu Fan. "Mr. Liu Fan seems to have a wrong understanding of us. The Android system has a strong market and customer base. I believe that Huawei can develop an independent system. Happy, but I don't think Huawei's system will be our concern, at least not at the moment. "
Liu Fan took a sip of red wine, placed the glass on the table, and suddenly sighed, "Mr. Pichai, when you chose to cooperate with Apple Qualcomm, you should have never imagined the current situation, right? But now Qualcomm I lost a lot on mobile phone AI chips, but there is still a market on traditional chips, so life is pretty good.
Apple relies on the IOS system and the hardware strength accumulated over the years. Although the sales of mobile phone terminals have fallen significantly, it will not hurt the core of the enterprise. But what about you Google? I have n’t had time to make any achievements in the hardware market and the software market is in crisis. Do n’t you know what your two allies have plans to do? "
Liu Fan's poking this time is another pain point of Google, that is, when Google is facing such a dilemma, companies like Apple Qualcomm, even if everyone had a deep friendship or deep cooperation before, there was no Who would pull Google, even Pichai could perceive that a bunch of people were waiting to eat Google's giant beast.
This is the relentlessness of the capital world.
Seeing Pichai being silent, Liu Fan continued to add a yard, "It seems that your stock has changed a bit recently."
With a flicker in his eyes, he finally couldn't help asking directly, "What is Mr. Liu Fan asking me for this time?"
Liu Fan leaned forward, his mouth slightly raised, "You have recently found a home for DeepMind, and sold it to us Mulong Technology."
Pichai frowned slightly. He thought about a lot of reasons for Liu Fan to find himself, but he didn't expect him to buy DeepMind. The first reaction of Pichai was difficult to accept. Now Mulong Technology is recognized. Although the world's number one AI company, DeepMind lost to Mulong Technology, but still has a great advantage compared to other AI companies, and is in the second place in the world.
If you sell DeepMind to Mulong Technology, who can compete with Mulong Technology in the future?
"Mr. Liu Fan may be one step late, we have basically negotiated the DeepMind transaction now," Pichai said politely.
"As long as you don't sign a contract, there is still room." Liu Fan smiled. "Actually, no matter who DeepMind is sold to, it means almost the same to Google in terms of artificial intelligence. What you bring should be the most important to you, and Google must not be short of money right now. "
那么 "So what can Mr. Liu Fan bring us?"
凡 Liu Fanmi narrowed his eyes: "AI + virtual reality."
"Mr. Liu Fan has a big appetite, and wants DeepMind, but also our virtual reality technology?" Pichai smiled unconsciously.
"Mr. Pichai is not quite right, we are the most likely company to use AI technology to push virtual reality technology to the next era. I am here to send you such a big gift from Google. Are we greedy? If Mr. Pichai wants to understand this, I'm really sorry, maybe I'm reckless, then I'll go to Facebook. "
There is a crack in Pychai ’s inner defense. If you lose AI, lose the system, lose search and maps, lose driverlessness, and now lose virtual reality again, Google will really be uncomfortable.
Pichai was stuck in a long struggle, and Liu Fan put further pressure on Pichai after dinner. He took Pichai to visit the technology of Mulong Technology. After shopping for an afternoon, Pichai Chay was shaken abnormally.
In fact, in the shopping malls, it is normal for companies to compete with each other and surpass each other. For a company such as Google, some aspects have been surpassed by increasing investment to catch up, even if it has not. It's okay, because there is such a large market in the world, no one can eat up all the markets, sometimes the technology is a little behind, and it can make up from other aspects, even if it is benevolence, business can still be done.
This market balance requires several major prerequisites. The first is that no company has absolute technological leadership, the second is product balance, and the third is resource stability.
For the simplest example, if Huawei's mobile phone system is better than Apple, the screen and body are better than Apple, the chip is better than Apple, the application is more than Apple, the price is cheaper than Apple, how many people will buy What about Apple?
After visiting the wooden dragon technology, Pichai can't help but find that he has a strange hunch. He feels that the wooden dragon technology has surpassed the entire market for more than one generation. If the wooden dragon technology takes this technology to cooperate with its competitors , Can Google withstand competition pressure from all sides?
And Mulong Technology has always had a big killer, that is, the price, their things are better than others, but the price is always cheaper than others! Although Mulong Technology has already won a lot of lawsuits because of this matter, but this kind of lawsuit will be played slowly. It will not necessarily produce results in ten years.
After two days of continuous negotiation ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Pichai and shareholders finally made up their minds, Google decided to sell DeepMind to Mulong Technology, and at the same time reached in-depth cooperation with Mulong Technology on AI + virtual reality.
On the surface, it is cooperation, but Pichai is very helpless. In the cooperation, Google not only needs to provide technology, but also provides the market and provides data. However, Mulong Technology only needs to provide technology, and everyone's core technology is Without sharing, Google appears passive in the entire collaboration.
The last thing Pichai won was the cooperation of Mulong technology on more Google products. For Google, they are now nothing more than stabilizing their market by Mulong technology. Slowly increase the development of artificial intelligence.
For Liu Fan, he wanted Google's virtual reality this time, because Mulong Technology's virtual reality has reached the time when it can enter the market, but the technology is still immature, and Liu Fan is afraid to use it directly for education. It takes commercial time to test and improve. And Liu Fan needs data.
But in the process he encountered market problems, and Google can help him solve the problem, plus the current situation of Google, he can get the maximum advantage in the negotiations with Google. If you talk to Facebook, you won't get so many benefits.
As for Liu Fan's acquisition of DeepMind, there is another use.
When signing the cooperation agreement, Pichai's strong smile made it difficult to conceal the depression in his heart.
Liu Fan looked at Pichai's expression and couldn't help but said, "We at least always guarantee basic fairness and fairness. If Mr Pichai still feels aggrieved at this moment, you can imagine that China Huaxia recently In the unfair market, how many injustices have you endured because of technological backwardness ... "