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The cooperation between the Internet and smartphones has been an important topic surrounding these two industries in the past few years.

The future is the world of the Internet.

But if the Internet wants to rule the world, it must be inseparable from smart devices. How to unify these two elements?

Smartphones are the best platform.

This is also the reason why the mobile phone industry symposium organized by Zhou Buqi was promoted so smoothly.

But it is still in the exploratory stage.

Different people and different companies have different understandings of the cooperation between the Internet and smartphones.

Ziweixing and Aisida are originally a family, and the cooperative relationship is in their genes. The AI ​​chip developed by Ziweixing was originally tailor-made for Asda's products. It is a special-purpose chip and basically cannot be used in other mobile phones.

The person responsible for opening up the technical relationship between Ziweixing and Asda is Dr. Li Qingyun, the deputy of Chief Technology Officer Dr. Wang Jian.

"From the current point of view, the industry generally does not have this idea to achieve cooperation with smartphones through the auxiliary program of AI chips." This is only the third time Dr. Li Qingyun has met Boss Zhou, and it is inevitable that he wants to talk endlessly. to show themselves.

Zhou Buqi was simply dismissive of his so-called colleagues.

The direction he chooses is the most correct.

There are many Internet talents in China, but the core Internet technical capabilities are not very strong.

This means that for anything that the Internet can do, a smartphone can basically solve it by setting up an Internet team. Just like Xiaomi, it has a very powerful Internet team. Lei Jun even threatened that Xiaomi is not a mobile phone company, but an Internet company.

This creates certain restrictions on industry cooperation.

The conditions abroad are not as good as in China, but there are more opportunities to promote cooperation between Internet companies and mobile phone companies. It is a pity that the smartphone industry has completed a major reshuffle. Among foreign mobile phone manufacturers, the only ones ranked high are Apple and Samsung. They are both super giants and they have no shortage of talents.

But even so, Ziweixing has still established a relatively extensive cooperation with Samsung based on the Internet and smartphones, from cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud databases, to artificial intelligence voice assistants.

In fact, the most noteworthy thing is the AI ​​assistant.

If you want to play AI well, you must have an Internet company.

Later, when general AI large models became popular all over the world, a new wave of AI mobile phones appeared in the mobile phone industry. However, mobile phone manufacturers including Apple lack top-notch AI capabilities. What should we do? Then you can only spend a lot of money to buy services from Internet companies.

ChatGPT can be purchased abroad.

If you come to the domestic market, you must reach a cooperation with Baidu and purchase Baidu’s AI services.

Not just mobile phones, but PCs too.

For example, if Lenovo wants to launch an AI computer, it is simply not enough to rely on its own strength. The domestic version of Lenovo’s AI computer also requires Baidu to purchase related AI services.

The best AI services must be inseparable from the best AI computing.

Even if NVIDIA and Qualcomm chips have very powerful general-purpose AI computing power in the future, general-purpose computing power will definitely be weaker than dedicated computing power. The gap between Qualcomm's chip benchmarks and Apple's A-series chips is getting bigger and bigger from generation to generation, even forming a generational gap. The computing power of Qualcomm's new chips is only equivalent to that of the previous generation of Apple's A-series chips.

It’s not that Qualcomm’s technical level is worse than Apple’s, but that Qualcomm makes universal chips that can be adapted to all mobile phones. Apple's A-series chips are specialized chips that can only be used in Apple devices. With such an advantage, Apple is destined to make Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad superior to others in AI services.

For example, if you ask a question on a Samsung phone and it is also equipped with "Wen Xin Yi Yan", it may take 3 seconds to give an answer. If you ask a question on an iPhone, it may take 1 second to complete the calculation and give the answer.

This will undoubtedly greatly improve the iPhone experience.

Zhou Buqi established an AI chip team in Ziweixing's artificial intelligence team early on. In the short term, it can respond to the call of the country and society for chip research and comply with public sentiment. In the long term, it is still important to the AI ​​track. layout.

Not to mention anything else, future general-purpose AI models, as well as AI mobile phones and AI computers that work with terminals, must be firmly grasped by Ziweixing.

It will be especially beneficial to Asda.

While Samsung uses Qualcomm's general-purpose chips or self-developed AI chips, Asda's mobile phones use dedicated supporting AI chips and AI large models, which can have hierarchical advantages in the experience of AI services.

This can greatly improve the competitiveness of Asda's products in the industry.

This is the direction of cooperation between the Internet and smartphones that Zhou Buqi values ​​most.

However, when facing technical talents, Zhou Buqi always showed full respect and could not dissuade the other person's enthusiasm, so he smiled and said: "What a coincidence, I have a primary school classmate, also named Li Qingyun."

"Ah?" Dr. Li Qingyun smiled slightly. The pressure was relieved instantly and he relaxed a lot. "That's a coincidence. My name is quite popular. Everyone in the company calls me Jerry."

At first glance, he looks like a returnee from overseas.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What are you talking about?"

Dr. Li Qingyun said: "There are three main levels of cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices in the industry. The first level is the simplest one, which is to embed a business link in the terminal, and then the Internet manufacturers and manufacturers share the profits."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "App pre-installation!"

"Yes, the cooperation for mobile phones is mainly pre-installation, which is a one-time payment." Dr. Li Qingyun is not only responsible for mobile phones, but also for the cooperation business between Ziweixing and all terminal devices, including smart TVs. "It's different on TV. For example, the default streaming platform is Youku, so there may be long-term subscription sharing."

"Yeah."

Zhou Buqi is not unfamiliar with this, and he is even the main promoter of this kind of cooperation model.

First of all, it comes from Netflix.

When promoting the cooperation between Netflix and Sony, Sony's handheld game console PSP can be connected to the Internet, so Zhou Buqi's package of cooperation agreements opened up the relationship with Netflix. Netflix developed a version for Sony's PSP, which became the default streaming viewing platform in PSP.

Users subscribe to Netflix in PSP, and Sony can get 50% of the subscription fee for the first half of the year, and a single user can benefit at least $30.

This also includes the cooperation of pre-installing Netflix on Samsung smart TVs when Zhou Buqi was negotiating with Samsung.

Dr. Li Qingyun continued: "The second point is platform optimization in the technical direction. Many apps and mobile phones have not been adapted and optimized for the operating system and terminal platform, so the user experience will be relatively poor. Especially for some small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers, it is very unfriendly to them. Internet companies can provide certain technical solutions for this."

"Small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers have no value in existence."

Zhou Buqi was not optimistic at all.

Back in the company, they are all family members, so there is no need to be vague. This is completely different from what he said at the industry symposium before.

Dr. Li Qingyun said: "There is also a third level, which is to enter the lower-level development and develop the operating system. I heard that Alibaba Cloud intends to promote cooperation with Meizu, and they will make a large investment in Meizu."

"Aren't they cooperating with Tianyu?"

Zhou Buqi was a little amused.

Alibaba is also following the wave of cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices, and has launched a multi-platform operating system that can be used for mobile phones, TVs, and cars. However, the first partner of Alibaba's yunOS chose the copycat Tianyu.

It's really absurd.

At least it would be good to choose to cooperate with a big company like Dell like Baidu did?

Dr. Li Qingyun smiled and said, "The cooperation with Tianyu was not very smooth, but Alibaba did not give up on their operating system, and then they set their sights on Meizu again."

"No, even if we want to invest in Meizu, we have to wait until Alibaba goes public..." Zhou Buqi heard what he meant and glanced at him, "Do you want to do this too?"

Li Qingyun nodded without hesitation, "Well, I think it's a good idea..."

"No." Zhou Buqi interrupted him directly, "This is a dead end. Small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers have no value to survive. After the industry reshuffle, only a few giants will remain in the mobile phone industry. With such a rich Internet talent in China, mobile phone giants can completely form a team and develop their own operating systems with the Android kernel. Astar, Xiaomi, Lezhong, Dianxin, and Hammer, aren't they all their own systems? There is no technical threshold."

Then, he looked at Dr. Wang Jian who was silent on the side, "If we want to make an OS, we can base it on WeChat."

"Ah?"

Wang Jian was slightly startled.

Zhou Buqi said: "We can build a series of our own product ecosystem around WeChat. Since it is an ecosystem, we need an OS inside WeChat to operate it. There is no way out for mobile phone operating systems. If we want to do it, let Aisda do it! In the long run, AI is the most critical direction for cooperation between the Internet and terminal devices. We just need to focus on what we have now."