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Chapter 1211 [Discontinuous Technological Leadership]

When the technology is open source, a new track is opened to everyone. The big AI models developed by others are all built on the basis of your open source technology. Therefore, at the hardware level, it is definitely more appropriate to use the computing power chips provided by Matrix Quantum. Replacing other hardware may cause various problems.

Once this ecosystem has gradually grown in scale, it will be very difficult for others to switch, and they can only use the computing chips you provide. If they switch to hardware products from other brands, they may have to make changes from the bottom up, which will be very costly. In other words, try not to change it if you can.

Fang Hong asked: "How big is the gap between Matrix Quantum's GPU and NVIDIA's?"

Chen Yu replied: "Within one generation. I am confident that we can catch up with the technology by next year, and then we will surpass it."

This answer made Fang Hong very satisfied. It was about a year faster than he expected. However, Chen Yu changed the subject: "But the cost is a bit higher. Even if it is not profitable, the production price is still 35% higher than similar competing products. The market competitiveness is still a bit lacking."

Fang Hong smiled indifferently upon hearing this and said, "It's not a big problem. We don't need to consider selling the display chip made by Matrix Quantum to gamers for now. We can just open source this big model and sell it to those companies."

Chen Yu said: "Corporate companies may not buy it, right?"

Fang Hong shook his head: "They will definitely buy it. I just said at the 'Double Innovation' meeting that we should inflate a technology bubble. This technology bubble will start with the large model of artificial intelligence language. For companies that do this, the capital market will be able to give them a higher price-to-earnings ratio, and the stock price will soar. They can even raise funds by scanning their faces. At that time, companies will not be dissatisfied with whether it is expensive or not, but will worry about whether they can buy it. Maybe they can still make money by then."

Obviously, this series of event factors are not isolated, but interrelated. If Fang Hong wants to push up the stock market, it will cause a linkage effect at all levels, especially the capital market and the entrepreneurial market are highly related.

The Double Innovation Conference has already pointed out the direction for entrepreneurs, and now it has further specified the direction of artificial intelligence and made it clearer.

At this time, Chen Yu said: "There is another question. Will other manufacturers follow suit? After all, Matrix Quantum not only provides hardware, but also makes large models ourselves. Will others worry about not being able to compete and simply give up?"

Fang Hong smiled and said calmly: "That's why we have to skip the first generation and directly open source the second generation. The current competitors on the market can't even match the technical level of the first generation. Releasing a technology that is one generation ahead is a dimensionality reduction attack on them."

“Don’t worry about no one following you. If you don’t do it, someone else will. But if you decide to follow and participate in the AI ​​trend, you can only and have to use my open source technology. Otherwise, others can beat you by using my open source technology. If you don’t use my open source technology, you’d better not try to get involved in the AI ​​trend, otherwise you will lose everything.”

Obviously, the discontinuous technological leadership is a manifestation of scientific and technological hegemony.

Fang Hong smiled as usual and said, "Don't worry. The reputation we have accumulated over the years is there. When the time comes, I will stand up and say a few words. Although I am very strong, I am still willing to reason with you when facing a weaker person like you, and I will not use my power to bully you. As long as you don't get ahead of yourself, the market will still buy into my account."

This is the power of credit. God K’s credit is guaranteed. In a sense, it is more effective than black and white words with an official seal.

It is very commendable for a strong person with absolute strength to be able to calmly and reasonably talk to the weak. However, such a strong person is willing to talk to the weak with reason rather than physics. That is the self-cultivation of the strong person.

However, if the weaker party gets ahead of them, I don't mind talking to him about physics. Talking about reason is self-cultivation, while talking about physics is real strength.

Finally, Fang Hong brought the topic back to the topic and asked, "What is the next generation of technology like?"

Chen Yu immediately introduced him: "The fourth generation is an image generation model based on the third generation architecture. It can generate corresponding images based on text prompts and has the ability to handle various complex and surreal image generation tasks."

"The development process is clear and inevitable. The fifth generation model is visualization, which means that text-generated images are advanced to generated videos. With a simple natural language description, you can create long videos by yourself, and you can achieve detailed scenes, complex camera movements, and multiple characters with vivid expressions."

After a pause, Chen Yu added: "After the fifth-generation AI model matures, I think the film and television industry will be completely reshaped by AI, which means that as long as you have logical thinking ability, you can theoretically create a real movie independently."

“The production cost of movies will drop exponentially, especially for special effects blockbusters that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The fifth-generation model will be able to generate special effects scenes with AI. By then, a production cost of a few million dollars will be comparable to the effects of a top Hollywood special effects blockbuster that costs $2 million.”

Fang Hong had no doubts about Chen Yu's description. To realize what he said was no longer a question of possibility or not, but a question of time. And the time would not be too far away, it would definitely come in the foreseeable future.

Because the technological advancement of AI will increase exponentially, the speed of iteration will become faster and faster.

Once Wensheng video matures, it will not be an exaggeration to say that it will be disruptive to the film and television industry. Actors and stars will lose their jobs, and it will most likely be difficult for real-life superstars to appear in the future. The problem of high actor pay will naturally disappear under the impact of the technological torrent.

This is actually a good thing. Nowadays, the production of a movie requires a lot of manpower, material resources and a behind-the-scenes team, but some leading actors take away the absolute majority of the remuneration. This distribution method is actually very unreasonable, but it has to be so due to market demand.

However, with the development of technology, after the model of the fifth-generation Vincent video matures, actors no longer have a large weight in a movie, and more focus is placed on the film's story itself, which means that the distribution of profits can be dispersed throughout the entire behind-the-scenes production team.

To put it bluntly, the actors' pay is now distributed among the behind-the-scenes production team, and there will not be a situation where the pay of one or two leading actors accounts for most of the production costs.

In the future, the film and television industry will inevitably usher in a productivity explosion. The emergence of the fifth-generation Wensheng video model will further lower the industry entry threshold and truly usher in an era of universal film production. As long as you have logical thinking ability, theoretically everyone can be a director.

It is just like nowadays everyone is a media person and everyone is a self-media. In the past, the disseminators of media and information were in the hands of a few people, but now everyone is a self-media. Hasn't it broken the shackles of tradition? As long as you can access the Internet and have a mobile phone, you can use Toutiao, Weibo and other platforms to spread information.

The emergence of the fifth-generation AI model of Wensheng video will also bring about similar changes.

Of course, it will definitely bring similar negative effects. In this era where everyone is their own media, spam information is rampant. In the future, the video industry will definitely have a large amount of crude and shoddy video content as the threshold is lowered due to the explosion of technology.

But overall, the explosion of productivity will definitely bring more benefits than disadvantages. In the past, the high threshold of this industry also led to the concentration of wealth effect in a small group. Not everyone can be a director, so directors have high incomes. The pay for making a movie is an amount that an ordinary person cannot earn in his entire life.

With the explosion of film and television productivity, the threshold has been lowered, and everyone can make movies. The profits generated by this industry can be distributed to the majority of people. Maybe three or five young people with a good creative story and extraordinary imagination can create a lot of income. For consumers, they can spend the same amount of money as now but consume more entertainment products.

The trend of technological development is unstoppable and cannot be changed by personal will. Even if it can be stopped for a while, it can never be stopped forever.

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(End of this chapter)