Turn over from love

Chapter 274 A key person

The meeting time was set for the 6th, which happened to be sunny and a good day for travel.

This time it was not a professional business meeting, it was simply an occasion to get acquainted with friends. The venue was chosen at the yacht club. They planned to take a yacht out to sea for a swim.

It seems that talking about the project is just incidental and not that important, but playing is the serious thing.

Lu Zhou, who was particularly interested in this party, had no choice but to act as casually as possible. Making the entertainment occasion too formal would make him look too hasty, so he only downloaded the project plan to his mobile phone and did not bring any paper documents with him. .

Lu Zhou appeared at the yacht club in casual clothes, pretending that he was just here to meet new friends and have fun.

In fact, his purpose is quite strong.

"Lu Zhou! Here!"

A call attracted Lu Zhou's attention.

The person calling him was Zhang Chen. Standing next to him were two other people. One was Zhang Chen's eldest brother Zhang Zhixuan, whom Lu Zhou had met at Gao Ting'an's birthday party; the other was his target today. I have never met Guo Junhua before. Today is the first time the two of them have met each other.

Lu Zhou quickly walked towards Zhang Chen's place.

"Brother Juan Hua, he is the friend I mentioned who is working on the AI ​​project, Lu Zhou."

When Lu Zhou arrived, Zhang Chen introduced Zhang Zhixuan and Guo Junhua beside him.

"I know who he is, a famous mainland star. I often listen to his songs." Guo Junhua looked at Lu Zhou with a smile, his eyes a little surprised, "I just didn't expect that you were working on that AI project."

Guo Junhua wears a blue sports shirt, a pair of loose black sports shorts, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and a short, easy-to-manage style with a quarter of white hair mixed in. hair.

He was very polite and took the lead in extending his hand to Lu Zhou and introducing himself: "Hello, I am Guo Junhua."

At this time, Zhang Chen was beside him and promptly introduced: "Lu Zhou, brother Juan Hua, he is the current president of Weiguang Technology China District."

Lu Zhou smiled and shook hands with Guo Juanhua politely, "Mr. Guo, I have long admired you!"

"Are you about the same age as Zhang Chen? Just call me Brother Juanhua after him. Even if you look at my white hair, you may think that I am very old. I have reached the age where I need to be called by honorifics. In fact, I am Zhixuan's high school classmate. Today everyone When we go out to play together, there is no need to make Mr. Guo so angry."

Guo Junhua patted Lu Zhou's arm and said with a smile.

Zhang Zhixuan, who was standing next to him, burst out laughing when he heard this and said teasingly: "Although we are the same age, you look much older than me, Uncle Guo."

When Zhang Zhixuan joked with his friends, his mouth was quite embarrassing.

Zhang Chen glanced at his eldest brother with a confused expression, and thought to himself: You are an uncle at your age, how can you complain about your classmates like this?

Guo Junhua shook his head speechlessly at Zhang Zhixuan, "Uncle Zhang, you don't have to laugh at fifty steps."

Lu Zhou smiled next to him.

"My daughter is your fan." The topic turned around and returned to Lu Zhou. Guo Junhua took out his mobile phone and hoped to take a photo with him back to make his daughter happy.

Lu Zhou naturally did not refuse and proactively gave away two VIP concert tickets.

Zhang Zhixuan couldn't help complaining that Guo Junhua was chasing stars today.

Zhang Chen shouted: "Where are my concert tickets?" Lu Zhou joked: "You are not my fan. If you want to watch the concert, buy your own tickets."

Zhang Chen: "Let me go. Regardless of friendship, you and that person are really a match."

Lu Zhou: "Who?"

Zhang Chen: "Ye Fangfei!"

Lu Zhou was ashamed: "What's wrong with her..."

Zhang Chen: "Don't mention it. When I wanted to take my friend to see "The Layden Project", I asked her to go through the back door to get me a reserved seat at Xingda Cinema. She refused and said that I was cheating on the box office."

Lu Zhou laughed.

Zhang Zhixuan, who was walking in front, looked back at Zhang Chen and said, "I wouldn't help you like this."

The four of them got on the yacht while talking and laughing.

They were preparing to go fishing in the open sea. On the way to their destination, the four of them sat on the deck and chatted. The topic naturally turned to the artificial intelligence project Lu Zhou was working on.

"I heard from Zhang Chen that the Intelligent Language AI project that has been hotly discussed in the technology media during this period was invested in by you."

Guo Junhua was the first to mention this topic.

In fact, before coming to this party, Zhang Zhixuan mentioned to him that Zhang Chen wanted to invest in an AI project recently and hoped that he, a professional, could help check it and make a preliminary assessment of whether the project was worth investing in.

This trip, in addition to leisure and entertainment, has a purpose.

"It's indeed my project." Lu Zhou thought to himself, and the topic finally came.

"Xiaochen said that you almost invested all your wealth in this project. Is this true?" At this time, Zhang Zhixuan interjected and asked.

When Lu Zhou heard this, he glanced at Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen spread his hands towards him and said, "Aren't these your exact words?"

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded in response: "It does happen." "The entertainment industry is your area of ​​expertise. Why would you want to invest so much capital in the direction of artificial intelligence that you are not good at? If you want to make money,... Wouldn't it be good to make a few big movies? The Layden Project has been so successful. If you make a second or third movie, the box office will definitely not be bad. They are basically projects that are guaranteed to make money. Investing money in these is not as good as your investment. Is AI more reliable?”

Zhang Zhixuan had a mature and steady smile on his face, and there was a temptation hidden in every question he asked.

Lu Zhou didn't feel uncomfortable at all. In terms of business acumen, Zhang Zhixuan was obviously much sharper than Zhang Chen. He exuded an aura of sophistication that had been in the shopping mall for a long time. He was obviously not someone who was easy to fool.

But it doesn't matter, after all, Lu Zhou didn't intend to fool anyone today.

Facing these questions, he behaved quite calmly, smiled and said:
"Making money in the entertainment industry is no longer very challenging for me. If it was just to make money, I might choose to continue to play in my comfort zone. But I don't just want to make money. I happen to have a different personality. Pursue."

"I think AI must be the direction of future development, it's just a matter of whether it comes sooner or later. If our future technology can keep up, then I believe the AI ​​social life concept in the movie "Project Layden" will be more realistic in reality. It’s also achievable.”

"My current personal talent can only make a small contribution in music, and I cannot make any technical use of AI, but I can contribute money, so I invested in the development of the Smart Language project."

"Although I personally am not good at AI technology, I have a professional technical team behind me. At present, our Zhiyu project has made considerable development progress in the industry."

As he spoke, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone, opened the project plan he had prepared long ago, showed them the data showing actual results and progress, and explained each one in detail.

After reading the internal development progress of the entire Zhiyu project, Guo Junhua raised his eyes and looked at Lu Zhou thoughtfully.

"Your development speed is quite astonishing."

He was surprised.

Some time ago, a lot of dynamic reports about the Zhiyu project suddenly appeared in the technology circle. He paid a little attention to it, but at that time he did not think that these project teams with little reputation could come up with any real tricks. .

Moreover, the product has not even been developed yet, and they are doing gimmicks online to warm up the product. It is obviously just to speculate on concept financing.

In addition, the development direction of this project was somewhat similar to a small branch project of Weiguang Technology Headquarters in recent years, so he was not very interested.

But now after reading their plan, it was really beyond his expectation.

This project is not simple and requires some focus.Guo Junhua came to such a conclusion in his heart.

"I personally think so too. We have a very solid professional team, and the entire project has been progressing relatively smoothly from the beginning to the present."

Facing Guo Junhua's recognition, Lu Zhou was not modest.

He knew that this was not the time to be humble. He had to build up his confidence and show the charm of their Zhiyu project and team in front of Guo Junhua as much as possible.

"With this development speed, I guess your current capital chain can't keep up, right?" Guo Junhua asked with a smile.

Guo Junhua is worthy of being an insider in the industry, and he knows everything at a glance.

Lu Zhou was not afraid to reveal anything, and said truthfully: "There is indeed some shortage of funds, so now we are considering introducing capital."

Guo Junhua nodded when he heard this.

Zhang Chen also took Lu Zhou's mobile phone and was thinking about the project plan. The font was not large, and it was a bit difficult to read under the sway of the yacht. He even felt a little dizzy looking at it.

"Lu Zhou, can you send me this plan? I'll study it later." Zhang Chen simply stopped reading and decided to talk about it later.

Lu Zhou: "Yes."

As a few people chatted, the yacht unknowingly arrived at the fishing area.

Negotiations ended and fishing began.

After the four of them had fun, they returned to the shore. Lu Zhou left alone first, while Zhang Chen, Zhang Zhixuan and Guo Junhua took the same car and went in another direction.

In the car, Zhang Chen asked Guo Juanhua enthusiastically: "Brother Juanhua, after talking to Lu Zhou today, what do you think of his AI project? Does it have great potential? Is it worth investing in?"

Guo Junhua was wiping the dust on his glasses with a tissue. He thought for a moment before replying: "Judging from the information he provided today, there is indeed something going on."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen looked at his eldest brother Zhang Zhixuan excitedly, "It seems that my judgment is correct. I heard what he said at the time and felt that his project could be done."

"But..." At this time, Guo Junhua suddenly came to a turning point. He put on his cleaned glasses, smiled, and then said:

"The authenticity of the information he provided has yet to be verified. If the information is high-quality, it is easy to fall into a trap if you invest without doing a good valuation. Moreover, the real technical difficulties in this direction of their research and development will be in the later stages. It is difficult to overcome it. It’s simple. It’s hard to say whether this project will be successful based on the domestic development level.”

The passion that had just been ignited in Zhang Chen's heart was extinguished by these words.

Zhang Zhixuan answered: "Are there many people working in their AI direction in China?"

Guo Junhua: "There is not much exposure in the media, but it stands to reason that big companies will invest in it. There are also many similar R&D projects that have to be cut in half without being exposed."

Zhang Chen leaned on the back of his chair and asked, "Then do you think Lu Zhou is worth investing in?"

Guo Junhua pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose, raised his lips and smiled, "You have to judge for yourself whether it is worth it. I can only tell you that this project done by Lu Zhou is quite avant-garde. As for how high the success rate is, we need to know more Only with more information can we make an assessment.”

Zhang Chen: "Okay. Then I'll take a look after I slowly understand it."

Guo Junhua gave a low "hmm", took out his mobile phone to browse recent technology project reports, found the one about Zhiyu, and forwarded it to his reporter at the global headquarters of Weiguang Technology:

[Check out this project]
(End of this chapter)