Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 935: Building The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Pei Qian suffered a huge blow on the way back.

He might have been prepared to make money from the broadcasting rights of the ICL league, but he did not expect to make so much money!

The money that he had spent was now sprinting back to him with interest. Who could stand that!

Pei Qian was considering where to spend this money.

At the moment, there was still a long time before settlement. It would not be too difficult to spend it. However, he had to consider it carefully in order to prevent the same sum of money from growing again.

Pei Qian’s first thought was to spend the money on Bunny Tail live-stream based on the principle of ‘whoever earns the money will spend it’.

However, on further thought, it did not seem to work.

That was because the places that live-streaming platforms could spend money on were actually very limited. They could hire more technicians and develop more functions. These actually did not cost much.

If he only spent a few million yuan after earning tens of millions, that would be a drop in the bucket. It would not quench his thirst at all.

The only places that could really spend a lot of money were things like buying copyrights and poaching big broadcasters.

However, this meant that the popularity and attention of Bunny Tail Live-Stream would increase again. The risk was too high!

Everything had been going smoothly for some reason ever since Bunny Tail’s live-stream was released. ICL league and GPL league were in their hands. Bunny Tail’s live-stream did not lack attention or popularity After the other live-stream platforms gave some huge gifts. The content on the platform was not too lacking either.

Under such circumstances, would he spend tens of millions to buy the broadcasting rights and poach popular live streamers?

It would probably cause a chain reaction.

Thus, Pei Qian decided that he could not spend the money on Bunny Tail Live-Stream after much consideration. It was too risky.

Bunny Tail Live-Stream was akin to a critically ill person at the moment. He had to observe for a while and make sure that he did not use any strong drugs. He had to slowly recuperate.

Where would it be safest to spend this money then?

Pei Qian thought about it and suddenly thought of a good direction.

Otto Technologies!

More accurately, he would spend it on Otto Technologies’ laboratory so that they could research artificial intelligence.

Otto Technologies had AEEIS, and there were benefits to researching artificial intelligence technology. However, artificial intelligence technology should have had a breakthrough during the previous cycle!

It had been less than two months since the previous settlement. It was not appropriate for him to make another breakthrough, right?

What’s more, the last technological breakthrough had been decided by the System. The System would not cheat him, right?

One could not fall at the same place twice, right?

That way, he could spend a lot of money to build a laboratory for artificial intelligence technology. He might be able to produce some small results and make AEEIS more useful. He might even trigger a small chain reaction...

However, as long as there were no more breakthroughs or leaps in artificial intelligence technology, these research funds would not have much returns.

Or rather, even if there were some returns, it would most likely not be during this cycle.

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more he felt that it was appropriate. He said to Xiao Li, “Let’s go to Otto Technologies first.”

...

Half an hour later, Pei Qian arrived at the conference room of Otto Technologies and told Jiang Yuan about his thoughts.

Jiang Yuan’s expression was blank. He could not react in time.

“Boss Pei, are you saying that you want to invest 40 million yuan to build another artificial intelligence laboratory for Otto Technologies? Do you want to directly poach a high-priced team to conduct research on artificial intelligence technology? Or acquire some ready-made companies?”

Pei Qian nodded. “That’s right.”

Jiang Yuan quickly said, “Boss Pei, please think twice!”

“At the moment, the best artificial intelligence technology in the country is Xunke Technologies, including AEEIS which is also using Xunke Technologies. They have been in the relevant fields for many years. The application for artificial intelligence technology could be said to be the result of accumulation.”

“Even if we spend a huge sum of money to build an artificial intelligence laboratory and poach a ready-made technical team, we will only be developing on the existing foundation. It is unlikely that there will be any breakthrough in technology. We will optimize AEEIS’s current situation at most.”

“Under such circumstances, it’s almost impossible to recover such a huge investment in research and development. The same amount of money would be much better spent elsewhere.”

“The key is that the price-quality ratio is not high, and it is very unnecessary!”

Pei Qian could not help but chuckle.

Was the price-quality ratio not high? Was it unnecessary?

That’s right, great minds think alike!

In fact, Pei Qian could have arranged for Jiang Yuan to do it without saying anything. However, Jiang Yuan had just taken over Chang You’s job after all. He had only been in charge for a short while. Pei Qian was afraid that he would not be able to handle things well. Thus, he had to give Jiang Yuan a few reminders to strengthen his beliefs.

Pei Qian said meaningfully, “You’re wrong!”

“We might be using the technology of the Xunke Technologies well now but it is not good to continue using other people’s core technology.”

“Look at our company’s name, Otto Technologies. How can we not research and develop our own?”

“In the short term, the profits might not be huge, but in the long term, it is absolutely necessary to build a laboratory and develop independently.”

“Our goal is to develop all the core technologies on our own and not be controlled by others!”

“What’s more, artificial intelligence technology is the future. It’s also related to many of Tengda’s businesses. It doesn’t matter how much money you invest in this direction!”

“You have to remember this in your work from now on. Sales are superficial. The core technology is real, understand?”

This impassioned speech made Jiang Yuan’s blood boil.

“Understood, Boss Pei!”

“I was indeed short-sighted.”

“I’ll immediately make arrangements then. If I can poach a research team, I’ll poach a research team. If I can directly invest or buy a research team, I’ll do it. In short, I have to observe the specific situation.”

Pei Qian nodded. “Yeah, just do it!”

...

Pei Qian came to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, intending to have a cup of coffee and rest after settling both matters.

The Bunny Tail Live-Stream had made Pei Qian feel a little tired. The saga had finally ended.

The broadcasting rights for the ICL league had been distributed. Long Yu Corporation would still continue to spend a lot of money to promote ICL league in the future, it was not a solo broadcast after all. Its popularity would be divided by other live-stream platforms. Bunny Tail Live-stream should be safe in the short term.

It was about time to see how the other industries were doing.

...

At the same time, the Vice Presidents of the various live-stream platforms had already returned to their respective companies and were preparing to broadcast ICL league.

These Vice Presidents had already spoken to their technical team when they were discussing the contract. They had been rushing to prepare the live-stream and various publicity materials for ICL league for the past two days.

Tomorrow would be Thursday, and there would be a popular focus battle at night. All these live-stream platforms requested their teams to work overtime so that they could arrange all the preparations for the live-stream before tomorrow night.

The competition on Friday was not very good after all. If they missed the popularity of this match, the next focal battle would be Saturday. They had missed a lot of popularity for nothing.

At the same time, Long Yu Corporation was also arranging for teams to be connected to various live-stream platforms. Both parties had to make the best use of their time to copy the function of Bunny Tail Live-Stream: to display real-time data during the competition.

These data were originally available in the backstage platform. However, they had to be retrieved in real time and displayed in a certain graph. The specific packaging had to be developed for a period of time before it could be completed.

However, there was no hurry. This season had just begun after all. A week earlier or a week later would not have much impact.

Zhao Xuming did not expect this function to bring much popularity to the ICL league. It was just a defensive measure.

Others would think that the ICL league was not professional enough if the GPL had it but the ICL did not. Thus, even if people would accuse them of plagiarism, this function had to be done.

The only small problem was that the live-streaming time of various live-stream platforms was actually slightly different. This greatly delayed the development process.

Bunny Tail’s live-streaming had the fastest speed. It was thirty seconds faster than other live-stream platforms. Other platforms might also have a few seconds of delay in broadcasting the competition because of the internet delay, animation, and other problems.

However, it was very difficult for this data to change with the progress of each platform. That was because the official ICL league was only giving live-stream signals to the various platforms. The data in the game were all in their own backstage. It was difficult to match the time on both sides perfectly. It was more troublesome to do it.

For example, when a player took the head of a big shot, his economy would skyrocket by 1,000 yuan. However, the real-time data has not been updated yet. That would make him appear very stiff.

Bunny Tail Live-Stream did not have to consider this problem at all because only Bunny Tail Live-Stream had this function. There was no need to consider other platforms at all. It could be done with Bunny Tail Live-Stream.

However, it would be more troublesome for Zhao Xuming to make this function for all the platforms that were broadcasting the ICL league.

Zhao Xuming pondered for a moment. In fact, there were only two solutions: either ignore the time difference between the platforms and forcefully give them a discount, or spend a lot of effort to make this data follow the live-stream images of the platforms.

Zhao Xuming felt that he had to follow the latter after discussing with the technical team.

That was because Bunny Tail Live-Stream was 30 seconds different from other platforms. If they forced a compromise, 15 seconds would be enough to finish a relatively fast team battle. The equipment and economic data might not be changed in time. Instead, it would make this function look very amateurish.

Thus, he could only choose the second plan and spend more effort to develop this function so that the data would be consistent with the live-streams of various platforms.

That would slow down the development process. However, Zhao Xuming thought about it and felt that it was worth it.

Zhao Xuming heaved a sigh of relief after settling down.

After so many twists and turns, the ICL league was finally on the right track!

All the live-stream platforms were broadcasting it one after another. The popularity of the league was steadily increasing. Accumulate audiences and popularity for as long as they could do to publicize smoothly so that they would definitely be able to promote IOI’s local server in the future!

It would be able to sound the horn for a full-scale counterattack when IOI’s mobile game was released in the future!