Chapter 232 Hornbill
Big7 is the core of the core of Silicon Valley. The reason why U.S. stocks have been rising in recent years is that most of the index gains are contributed by these core companies.

They contributed more than 50 percent to the rise of US stocks.

Even the birth of ChatGPT has given rise to various voices in the market, suggesting that with the development of artificial intelligence today, the world no longer needs search engines.

However, text-generating AI has not replaced artificial intelligence in the short term, and search engines are still the most widely used tools on PCs.

The decline in Google’s stock price is not due to artificial intelligence, but to China’s impact on the Federation.

However, Chen Yuanguang believes that Google is the easiest to kill, and with artificial intelligence, there is indeed no need for search engines.

"The Federation doesn't want the outside world to notice their artificial intelligence strategy, so I will force them to reveal their true intentions." Chen Yuanguang thought on the eve of launching Alpha.

Whether at home or abroad, when a large number of media discuss the wave of artificial intelligence that has exploded in Silicon Valley, all their attention is focused on OpenAI, as if this type of content-based artificial intelligence is the future form of artificial intelligence.

Whether it is ChatGPT or SORA, they are all generating content, and they are just replacing the original tertiary industry practitioners.

In fact, Washington's real bet in the field of artificial intelligence is on artificial intelligence factories.

They hope to empower factories through artificial intelligence and bring manufacturing back to America.

At least the mid-to-high-end manufacturing industry will return to America, while the low-end will go to Mexico and South America.

Hundreds of factories large and small in Pittsburgh are continuously promoting the artificial intelligence of manufacturing through the combination of artificial intelligence and robots.

American calls this plan the "Build Back Better Challenge," which means to use artificial intelligence to give new life to the Rust Belt, which has declined due to the loss of manufacturing.

This is where the federal artificial intelligence strategy really places high hopes, and it is also where America considers itself to be the most powerful counterattack against China.

American never promotes content like this until it succeeds.

"What a comfortable life." Oraz pushed back the back of his office chair, put his feet on the footstool, and looked at the city skyline outside the window, feeling very calm.

An annual salary of US$50,000 is considered an absolute high salary in Kuala Lumpur, let alone coming to Johor, which is simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

As mentioned earlier, Oraz is a senior civilian researcher on Malaysia's cryptocurrency policy. He is naturally very interested in cryptocurrencies, but he did not get involved personally before because he had no money.

Now that his salary is more than enough to cover his daily life, Oraz doesn't want to do it himself. He wants to open a cryptocurrency exchange.

Relying on Alpha Technology and Samad's fame, open a cryptocurrency exchange.

After communicating with Chen Yuanguang, Chen Yuanguang felt that it was possible to do this business, and it was in line with the main business.

Originally, in his vision, BTC should replace the US dollar and become the mainstream currency in the world in the future.

In this case, it is particularly necessary to have an exchange that is large enough.

However, if you want to open a cryptocurrency exchange, you also need to obtain a license. In Malaysia, this type of license is called RMO, and you mainly need to apply to the Securities Commission of Malaysia.

Of course, due to our global business development, you can also apply for this type of license in the Cayman Islands or Hong Kong.

It’s just that Oraz applied in Malaysia because he was familiar with Malaysia’s regulatory policies.

The result was that I submitted the documents, but after waiting for half a month, I didn't even get a receipt.

It was not until Princess Amina was given a portion of the shares that the procedures that had been delayed were completed in just one week.

Oraz knew the power of the rich and powerful, but he didn't expect that their power could be so great and cover almost all areas.

This is a realization I gained after starting my own business, but as an employee, I never had the opportunity to handle these businesses.

After Alpha Technology launched an exchange called Tianping, the number of users grew very fast under the promotion of Samad. In just half a month, the number of registered users exceeded five million.

Because Samad claimed that his future transaction screenshots would only be posted in Libra’s internal community.

For this alone, five million users followed him to the scales.

A conversion rate of ten percent is not high.

After Samad took the initiative to disclose his strategy, more and more institutions began to learn from him and use similar influencing factors to construct trading models, which caused the influencing factors to begin to be distorted. After his trading capital increased, he began to suffer his first loss.

The occurrence of losses means that the magic is gone, and naturally the number of people willing to follow is less than imagined.

"Hornbill is a question-answering artificial intelligence launched by Alpha Technologies. With Hornbill, search engines can be swept into the dustbin of history."

A long black box popped up at the top of Oraz's iPhone, and he knew that his boss had tweeted again.

Many people, whether they are senior executives in Malaysia or financial institutions outside the country, suspect that he is Samad. Oraz just wants to say that if it were true, I would definitely lie down and not cause any more trouble.

Because Oraz knew that he was just a puppet pushed into the open by Samad, he paid special attention to the movements of his boss, and Samad's Twitter was one of the key contents he paid attention to.

After he clicked on it, he found that his boss had made another outrageous statement, saying that the search engine had been thrown into the garbage heap. Even OpenAI couldn't do it, so how could they do it?
The name Hornbill cleverly combines the characteristics of a search engine with local characteristics, Oraz thought.

Hornbill means hornbill, which is the national bird of Malaysia. The hornbill has the instinct to capture prey accurately, so it is very suitable to be used as the name of a search engine.

Then he thought again that Alpha Technology had launched a new business, and he had to look at Twitter to find out. He smiled bitterly, thinking that he was indeed a puppet.

Oraz opened the page on Twitter. It was no different from other artificial intelligences, still a text box for creating a new conversation.

"I guess I'll just type in the text box and the other party will give the answer." Thinking of this, Oraz directly typed in: Please briefly introduce Alpha Technology.

"There are many Alpha Technologies around the world. Are you looking for:
1. Alpha Technologies in Malaysia
2. Alpha Technologies, California, USA
3. Others. "

Oraz clicked 1, and Hornbill answered very quickly without any lag. In terms of fluency alone, he felt that it was no different from ChatGPT.

It can also automatically provide you with classification services.

“Alpha Technologies is a well-known technology company from Malaysia. In the past”

Hornbill's introduction is very detailed. Its biggest feature is that in his introduction there are labels that will be used in book applications, and these labels correspond to links.

Oraz found that by clicking on these links, he could jump directly to the source page of the content.

In addition to the links corresponding to these numbers, Alpha also provided other links and briefly summarized the content of the links in a few sentences.

It only took Oraz one question to realize that this thing could indeed replace a search engine.

The reason why ChatGPT cannot replace Google is that it only provides processed content, and not everyone needs processed content. Its processing may distort the original meaning or even misattribute content to A.

For example, Baidu is said to be a company founded by Pony Ma.

If you ask it again, it will say, sorry, I remembered it wrong, Ali is the company founded by Xiao Ma Ge.

It doesn't give you the source, just keeps answering. For users who pursue content accuracy, or users who are accustomed to using search engines, the advantages of question-answering artificial intelligence are not obvious.

The biggest advantage of Hornbill is that it can provide sources, give you the fastest summary of what you want to know, and then mark each source for you.

This is its advantage over Google, which is the product of the combination of question-answering artificial intelligence and search engine.

Oraz lay on his office chair and tried again and again. After trying, he came to the conclusion that this thing was better than Google, whether in the English context or in the Malay context.

But the advantage is not big enough to make users defect on a large scale.

It can hurt Google's muscles but not enough to break its bones.

"Oraz, I'm here as a broker to discuss a business deal."

Oraz looked at the phone number named SNEADER on his mobile phone. Before he pressed the answer button, he knew that the other party must be here for Hornbill.

When Schnander's voice sounded, it was just as he expected.

Oraz said: "I don't know the situation. You can tell me the details first, and I will give you an answer after communicating with the boss."

"The whole Hornbill package is worth a billion dollars, including the product and the algorithm, and it could be a little higher if you're willing to accept Google stock," said Schneider.

At the same time, the agreement also includes a non-compete agreement, which prohibits Samad and his companies from entering the search engine-related field for a period of time in the future. "

One billion dollars is a high price for a product that has only been on the market for less than half an hour.

This is because of Samad's past achievements in the field of encryption algorithms, which led Google to subconsciously believe that the artificial intelligence algorithm contained in Hornbill is very valuable.

“So you’re here on behalf of Google?” Oraz said.

It was already night in New York, and Schnander felt a little uneasy looking at the night sky, because he knew that this madman Samad might really destroy the search engine.

After receiving the call from Google, Schneider tried the Hornbill himself. His judgment was similar to that of Oraz, that it would not hurt the bones but hurt the tendons.

But this is artificial intelligence. With the speed of product iteration of artificial intelligence, it is now severely damaged, but who can guarantee that it will not shake the foundation of Google in the future?

With the abilities that Samad has demonstrated, how can you guarantee that Hornbill won't evolve to that point?

Shi Nander was very worried about this scene. The big7s had been badly beaten by topological semimetals. If Malaysia's technology companies could also shake the survival foundation of the federal big7s, would the federation still be able to play?

Will anyone listen to what we say in the future?

There are now a lot of people who don't listen all over the world.

Of course, what’s even more terrible is that Snider himself holds a lot of Google stock.

It would be best if an agreement could be reached today. In this way, after tomorrow's opening, Google's stock price will not fall but will rise sharply.

"I'll report this to the boss," Oraz said.

There was a pleading flash in Shi Nande's voice: "Please now."

Five minutes later, Oraz did not call, but sent a text message: "The boss does not accept it, not because of the price."

Chen Yuanguang will definitely not accept this and still hopes to rely on search engines to openly build data centers in Malaysia.

His goal is to build data centers in every state in Malaysia to increase Alpha's computing power.

The global deployment of Hornbill can provide Alpha with sufficient data to train its intelligence.

This concerns the fundamental interests of Alpha Technology's future, so how could it be sold as a package to Google?

Not to mention any non-compete agreement.

"Alpha Technology refused, and Schneider's response was that it had nothing to do with money."

After hearing this, Pichai slammed the table. He was still in the Google campus at 11 o'clock in the evening because of the sudden impact of Alpha Technologies.

Google has grown into a giant today, with multiple business sectors including YouTube, Android, cloud computing, and the Google Play Store, but similar to Baidu, their main source of profit is still the search engine.

This segment contributes more than half of the revenue.

So this is a top priority for Google. Even if Hornbill only shows capabilities that threaten them, they cannot accept it.

Just like when ChatGPT came out two years ago, Google was facing a formidable enemy just like it is today.

"We can do Hornbill purely from a technical point of view, but I think the most difficult thing about Hornbill is that it maintains a good balance between intelligence, accuracy and reaction speed.

Unlike other artificial intelligences, Hornbill values ​​accuracy the most. The content they provide feedback must be accurate and have a source.

Just like a debater preparing a speech for a debate, he must find evidence for every point.

If you want to do this, you have to sacrifice time, because you need to use your computing power to integrate content and crawl page content.

You can't store all the pages on your server. There is too much content. A large amount of content is created on the Internet every day, and your storage will soon not be able to keep up.

Temporarily crawl the page, analyze the page content, integrate the analyzed content, and then reply to the user, marking the source of each key point.

Hornbill's balance between the two is something we cannot achieve.

We just estimated that if we want to achieve the same effect, we need to spend at least three times as long as Hornbill." The feedback given by the technical director of the search engine department was not optimistic.

In the past, Internet businesses were updated too quickly. After the arrival of the artificial intelligence wave, everyone believed that the new technology would beat the old giants to the ground. Google also thought so, but they did not expect that they would be the first to be killed.

But it’s normal to think about it, the moat of the search engine is not as good as that of the operating system.

Pichai rubbed his face and said: "Can't we increase the computing power?"

(End of this chapter)