Thinking of this, he directly placed a large number of orders. Anyway, he was not short of money. He simply changed all three underground floors of the library into photon supercomputer rooms, so that he could cope with it for a long time.
In addition, a large number of data centers need to be built in the country to deploy primary artificial intelligence. Five have been built across the country before, but they will not be enough in the future.
So this time he plans to build 10 more, and these 10 will not be together with the original primary artificial intelligence, but scattered in other places, mainly to spread risks.
This is only the current construction goal. In the future, as robots are gradually used more widely, a large number of such data centers will be established to meet society's demand for primary artificial intelligence computing power.
Just after Zhao Yi finished all this, the laboratory heard that the materials for making vocal cord modification drugs had been collected, and the laboratory had begun production, which would take three days.
This is good news for Zhou Jinyu. She has been staying at home these days, either playing games or playing musical instruments, which makes him a little annoyed. He hopes that she will go out to learn vocal music quickly.
If he listened to it once in a while, he still thought it sounded pretty good, but if he listened to it every day, he would be a little bored, but he couldn't say anything and let her go to other places to play. Anyway, the house was quite big, and she was not willing.
The most important thing is that Lin Hexia is still there to help him fight, which makes him feel that his family status has been challenged. Moreover, Zhou Jinyu is still teaching Lin Hexia to play musical instruments. Naturally, it is even more miserable at the beginning stage.
After the medicine was made, Zhou Jinyu quickly used it. It was much better to go out to learn vocal music than to make those musical instruments at home. At least he could be clean for a long time.
In addition, I just hope that the recording studio at home can be completed as soon as possible, so that even if they play music at home, they will automatically go to the recording studio instead of staying in the villa where they live.
He now fully understands why those who play music must stay away from densely populated areas and rent warehouses in the suburbs. No one can stand the ding-ding-dong-dong noise every day.
Especially in this kind of practice state, the music played is not particularly proficient. Even if it is proficient, you have to strive for variety. After many attempts, the performance is not good, and it is far worse than a regular concert.
In fact, even if it is a regular concert, long-term listening will make the ears tired. It is okay to listen to it occasionally. This is why he is more annoyed. He actually knows these instruments. He learned a lot at the beginning, but he himself is not willing to play them. .
In terms of actual operation level, he is not necessarily better than Zhou Jinyu. After all, he is not particularly interested in it and rarely plays by himself. But in terms of music theory, he is not even a bit better than Zhou Jinyu.
In order to be able to create a perfect intelligent music creation system, we had to have a clear understanding of all aspects of music, from syllables to global music styles.
Of course, after understanding this music knowledge, it needs to be turned into measurable, aesthetic, and evaluable data. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the artificial intelligence at the time to distinguish the good and the ugly.
Because artificial intelligence itself does not have its own aesthetic tendency, it is a blank sheet of paper. All concepts and aesthetics require artificial training. Only by telling it these things can it make its own judgment.
Things are much better now, because artificial intelligence is appearing in an increasing proportion of people's daily lives, allowing them to obtain information about social life and make their own aesthetic judgments.
Therefore, although the artificial intelligence music creation system on the spot does not completely follow Zhao Yi's music aesthetics, it will be affected to some extent, and there must be certain preferences in creation.
Later, due to the increase in relevant data, the traces of Zhao Yishi were gradually faded, allowing the intelligent music creation system to become more and more diversified, and to express more freedom and diversity in music creation.
It is also because the intelligent music creation system has provided Qingning Entertainment Records with a large number of music albums. Especially after the use of intermediate artificial intelligence, the quality has been greatly improved compared to before.
Qing Ning Entertainment Records has completely secured its position as the number one music giant in the country. It controls 90% of the domestic music market and accounts for 95% of the music volume.
Nowadays, students who graduate from domestic music schools will basically join Lime Entertainment Records. Unless they are particularly confident individuals who are not short of money, they will plan to go it alone, or other companies will offer more attractive conditions. Join other companies.
But it is undeniable that the quantity and quality of Qing Ning Entertainment Records' music are indeed not comparable to other companies. Although it is not necessarily guaranteed that every album will be amazing, no matter how bad it is, it will still be above the level.
The most important thing is that there are basically no junk songs in the albums they release. Every song in the entire album is of a certain level, which is something that other music companies cannot do.
Music sometimes requires more talent and inspiration than literature. Other companies cannot produce high-quality music on a large scale like Lime Entertainment Records.
In order to increase the value of each song, they have to release albums by mixing good and bad. An album with three good songs is considered conscientious. Often an album has 12 songs, and only one song is included. I can still hear it.
One thing should be mentioned here. Each album of other companies has 12 songs, while the album released by Lime Entertainment Products has 10 songs. At first, it aroused a lot of discussion, thinking that the company was a bit lazy.
However, as the albums they released became more and more popular, everyone found that even if the album they released had 10 songs, it was much more conscientious than the 12 songs released by other companies.
Of course, it is not that there are other companies that want to do this. After all, even if they reduce two garbage songs, they can save a lot of costs, but they are criticized by consumers and their market performance is not very good.
The consensus reached by consumers is that if every song in the released album is above the horizontal line, then everyone will accept it if it is less. After all, good songs must require higher costs and energy to produce.
As for those garbage songs, even if they are just plucked from the trash heap, the cost is very low, and they still want to reduce the volume. This is a bit intolerable, and it is normal for them to be criticized.
With the increasing number of high-quality music in our country and the influence brought by our country's economic improvement, even Chinese music is rapidly increasing in popularity overseas.
This is the inevitable result of the improvement of national power. There is no big difference between humans and other animals. They all have the phenomenon of being strong. Whichever country is strong will have strong cultural export capabilities.
This is because our country has not published its domestic GDP statistics to the outside world. If our country publishes its own GDP data, the influence it will bring to our country will be much stronger than it is now.
Of course, although our country does not have official data, it often appears in various overseas survey agencies, because our country is now a presence that cannot be ignored in the global economic system.
Many survey agencies infer my country's economic development based on my country's various economic data. Although it is not necessarily accurate, it can still reflect my country's economic strength to a certain extent.
In fact, it can also be reflected from other aspects, such as the quantity and quality of the world's top 500 companies, and it is more reliable than those complicated calculations.
Last year, the number of our country's companies among the world's top 500 companies was as high as 235, and they were all ranked very high. The top 10 companies all belonged to our country. This is a manifestation of our strength.
This is because his first-tier companies are dispersed. If a first-tier company participates in the Fortune Global 500, the size of a single company will be too large.
Therefore, most of the companies that can be listed on the Fortune 500 are subsidiaries of first-tier companies. This is also due to the fact that these subsidiaries have the right to independently calculate their income. Otherwise, they would not be listed on the Fortune 500.
Officially, because subsidiaries have the right to independently calculate operating income, their headquarters' annual operating income is not outstanding, which prevents the names of many first-tier companies from appearing in the list of top 500 companies.
The most typical example is Baiwei Food Company. According to the headquarters' operating data, the annual income is actually very small, at least according to the data disclosed to the public, because the income is retained in the subsidiaries.
The overseas fruit planting bases belonging to the headquarters currently do not bring them much income, so the headquarters' income performance is very average, and naturally its reputation is not that great.
Although the operating accounting income is retained in the subsidiary, the headquarters has absolute rights in terms of the overall business layout, and also has the right to allocate the operating profits of the subsidiary. It also has great rights in personnel matters.
This is a way to ensure the authority of the headquarters, and it is also conducive to the headquarters to carry out more investment projects and improve the layout and development of related industries. If it does not have these rights, then the headquarters will really be a decoration.
Among the many subsidiaries of Baiwei Food Company, there are more than 10 beverage and alcohol companies listed on the Fortune Global 500. In addition, there are many companies that are not small in scale but have not reached the Fortune 500 standards. subsidiaries.
On the contrary, the number of subsidiaries of Shangtong Trading Company that are listed on the Fortune Global 500 is relatively small. Although they have the largest assets and the largest operating income, they also have the largest number of subsidiaries.
This means that revenue is too dispersed. Except for subsidiaries that need to emphasize brand advantages, other businesses are relatively dispersed, because only in this way can they penetrate into all aspects of the national economy.
They have truly realized that "when gathered they are like a ball of fire, when scattered they are a sky full of stars." Their presence may not be very strong at home and abroad, but they are closely related to people's daily lives.
This is why Shangtong Trading Company has huge assets and huge annual operating income, but the people have no impression of this company and regard themselves as water that has seeped into the sand.
The reason why some of its subsidiaries are still on the Fortune Global 500 list is that their brand management is also very successful, which leads to the fact that many of their subsidiaries still have very strong revenue.
Because they also know that brand establishment is also very important. Highly recognized brands themselves have advertising effects. Therefore, although they emphasize decentralized operations, brand management is also their top priority.
They will not really break the business into pieces just because they want to erase their own existence. That would really be putting the cart before the horse. In their business layout, branding and individualization have equal status.
For example, their supermarket business may have dozens of supermarkets in a county, and all of these dozens of supermarkets may be owned by them. There are both super chain brands, local chain brands, and even individual ones. supermarket.
Moreover, these supermarkets operate in different ways, and even compete with each other, and sometimes engage in price wars, making it difficult for outsiders to figure out that these supermarkets are all owned by Shangtong Trading Company.
Only in this way can we maintain the vitality of the terminal economy as much as possible, and have a strong competitive relationship with each other. Otherwise, the people will see only a few brands, which will not only reduce the smoke and fire, but also make people have a sense of monopoly. Worry.
Moreover, this competitive relationship is also very beneficial to reducing business operating costs, and is also beneficial to the suppliers and manufacturers behind these channels.
Otherwise, the front-end sales field is monolithic, and other links will basically not have much bargaining power, which will damage the operations of all links over time.
Therefore, in Shangtong Trading Company, the following businesses are basically in a fully competitive relationship. Unless the headquarters has drawn a red line, they will kill their brother companies.
The reason why the headquarters drew red lines was because they were afraid that the subordinates would fall into vicious competition and end up with no one making any money, so they formulated a lot of rules to standardize competition.
The headquarters is not opposed to competition, but at the same time it must avoid falling into vicious competition and create a good business environment. Otherwise, the ultimate damage to the interests of the entire Shangtong Trading Company will be its own.
Facts have proved that their business strategy is very successful. In the eyes of ordinary people, my country's retail terminal industry is very prosperous, and various companies and services are emerging.
If you can't look at Shangtong Trading Company from a higher level, you will fall into a puzzle, and you will have a foggy view of the entire system, and it will be difficult to figure it out.
Even Zhao Yi didn't know which of the shops he saw while walking on the street belonged to Shangtong Trading Company and which belonged to other companies, and others had no idea about it.
Not to mention them, the fellow operators under the Shangtong Trading Company may not necessarily know these things, and even their person in charge may not necessarily know them. Even some businesses, only the headquarters knows whether they belong to them. industry.
It can be said that it is impossible to build such a complex business system without the participation of artificial intelligence to assist management. It is estimated that the entire system will fall apart before it even starts.
In terms of quantity and quality of Fortune 500 companies, Polaris Company has the best external performance, and many of its businesses have the strength of Fortune 500 companies.
Although they have also gone through some decomposition and dispersed their businesses into various subsidiaries, they are not too dispersed. This is based on the operating characteristics of their industry.
Many industries only have two subsidiaries at most. Too many subsidiaries are too scattered, which is not conducive to the management of the brand and the sustainable development of the industry. After all, if the profits are not enough, it will be difficult for R&D to keep up.
This results in the strength of their subsidiaries, and the number of companies that can be on the list is naturally very large, and the ranking is not low, with many companies entering the top 200.
Topping the list is Shenlong Automobile Company. Although many domestic brand cars are owned by subsidiaries, their overseas businesses are owned by the parent company.
Their overseas business alone has an annual operating income of more than 1 trillion yuan, almost monopolizing the global mid-to-high-end automobile market. This performance is not surprising.
Moreover, the domestic market has begun to explode in the past two years. Although it still mainly sells mid- to low-end brand cars, the operating income is not low at all, but the profit margin is too low.
The net profit margins of domestically sold brands are generally below 10%, but the net profit margins of mid- to high-end car brands operated by their headquarters range from 15% to 40%. The higher the high-end brand, the higher the net profit margins. .
Among them, their President high-end car has the highest net profit margin, but it cannot be copied by other car companies because it uses too much high technology. It is impossible for them to develop similar products in a short time.
These technologies may seem unattainable to others, but within Zhao Yi's companies, the costs are generally not very high. The costs are basically spent on technology, especially material technology.
Cornerstone Materials has natural advantages in material research and development that other companies do not have. Not only is the speed of research and development fast, but the cost of research and development is unmatched by other companies.
As mentioned before, graphene is still being explored in other countries and does not yet have the ability to prepare on a large scale. However, at Cornerstone Materials, the large-scale graphene manufacturing technology is very mature and the cost is very low.
There are so many Fortune 500 companies, which means that our country has had a significant impact on the daily lives of foreign people, and they have a high probability of coming into contact with these brands in their lives.
As a result, many people have a better understanding of our country and naturally have more love for our country's culture. Then, our country's other cultural products will naturally have a strong influence.
Not to mention music, after he allowed Chinese education companies to launch online Chinese teaching business overseas, the development speed has been rapid. Now the number of online learners in the world is as high as 10 million.
So many people choose to learn Chinese online, in addition to the low fees for online teaching courses launched by Chinese education companies, because learning Chinese is beneficial to their employment and helps them obtain higher salaries.
The Chinese learning courses launched by China Education Company are much cheaper than hiring a Chinese teacher or going to a specialized school to study. A basic Chinese course only costs 1,000 yuan.
After purchasing these courses, students can study for one year. If they understand the basic Chinese courses, they can simply communicate in Chinese and understand not very complicated Chinese information.
However, if you want to communicate fluently in Chinese and have certain expressive skills, you need to purchase their intermediate Chinese course. The cost of this course is not very high. It only costs 5,000 yuan and takes two years to study.
The intermediate course involves the teaching of many Chinese idioms and sayings, as well as more advanced Chinese expressions. After studying this course and understanding it, you will basically have no obstacles in daily communication, and you can also understand Chinese news and books. .
The advanced Chinese course is very difficult. If you understand the advanced Chinese course, you will be truly proficient in China. It involves Chinese culture, history, politics, etc. The difficulty is not comparable to the previous two.
Moreover, the study at this stage is no longer a general education, and the cost is very high. The course purchase cost is as high as 50,000 yuan, which has exceeded the cost of Chinese education courses in many universities.
This course itself is not for ordinary Chinese learners, because the advanced courses definitely exceed the level of Chinese graduate students in universities in other countries, so the high fee standards are justifiable.
Anyway, for Chinese education companies, the early stage can strengthen the influence of Chinese culture, but in his opinion, there is not much need in the advanced stage, and the audience is also very small.
Ordinary people don't have the patience to study another civilization so deeply. Unless they want to become experts and scholars in this field, the price is high. The low price makes this course worthless.
Most of those who purchase advanced courses are Chinese teachers from universities in various countries. Only they are willing to spend such expensive fees to improve their Chinese cultural level.
Of course, they are willing to spend huge sums of money to purchase this course because the brand of China Education Company is so well-known that it is even considered the best Chinese education institution.
If a company that is responsible for national compulsory education and is deeply involved in higher education cannot say that their Chinese education is professional, then no other institution would dare to say this.
Since a large number of advanced courses are concentrated in research institutions, in order to avoid the repeated use of these resources and reduce their own income, Chinese education companies have imposed time limits on advanced courses.
According to their calculations, if someone with a certain basic knowledge of Chinese wants to complete an advanced course and have a certain depth of understanding, it will take 2 years. This still requires hard work, and free-range learning takes a very long time. .
Therefore, if you purchase this course, you only have 2 years of study time. If the time passes, you cannot continue to study and need to purchase it again. The purchase cost is halved, and the duration is still 2 years.
If you haven't learned it yet and still need to buy it, then I'm sorry. The price will be doubled to 100,000 yuan from the original 50,000 yuan. This is a punitive charge for lazy people.
Because in the eyes of Chinese education companies, if you can't finish the course in two hours, it must be because you haven't put in the effort. The fee is doubled to strengthen their sense of urgency and not to procrastinate just because you have money.
In addition to these formal Chinese courses, Chinese education companies have also launched many other value-added services, such as intelligent sparring, where students can communicate with artificial intelligence to deepen their ability and understanding of Chinese.
These Chinese online education businesses can bring 30 billion yuan in revenue to Chinese education companies every year, but this revenue can make Chinese education companies the largest Chinese education company in the world.
These businesses are almost zero cost for Chinese education companies. Since these incomes do not need to pay domestic taxes, because these incomes are ultimately subsidized into the domestic education system, the profit margins are very high.
Moreover, due to the popularity of Chinese online education, the sales volume of tablet computers of Polaris and other companies has increased a lot, which can be regarded as a joint operation effect.
There are many others. For example, the number of overseas sales of Chinese books has also increased to varying degrees, which has also increased Tianwen Bookstore's overseas operating income. (End of chapter)