Chapter 255 For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Mr. Qiao, the official launch of Hornbill is very important to us. Previously, the market value of the company in Hong Kong stocks increased by nearly 20%, all based on the premise that we can successfully replace Baidu.

It is not only related to whether our domestic attack on Baidu can be successful, but also related to our subsequent AI overseas strategy. You know the importance of this matter. "Mark reminded.

While the Shenzhou-Guangzhou Armor rocket was making headlines and global opinion was discussing how this rocket technology would change commercial spaceflight, Tencent was preparing to release Hornbill AI, which was built based on Hornbill artificial intelligence.

Previously, they had only conducted large-scale user testing and were still some distance away from a formal launch.

Before the press conference, Mark, Tencent's executive in charge of content, called Jonathan to his office and repeatedly emphasized the importance of Hornbill AI to Tencent.

Hornbill AI helped Tencent's stock price rise by more than 20% just through large-scale user testing. It believes that Tencent will eat up Baidu's market share and Baidu will completely become a second-rate Internet company like Yahoo.

Such expectations are defined by the capital market. Tencent's internal expectations are even higher. They not only want to eat up Baidu's market share in China, they also hope to share Google's global market share with Microsoft's New Bing.

As a Chinese manufacturer, Tencent is unlikely to enter the American market, but they can enter markets outside of America. There is great potential in the vast markets of Europe, South America, Africa, and Australia.

Therefore, Tencent has high hopes for Hornbill AI.

Jonathan said, "Boss, we have done sufficient testing internally. With a large amount of data, the Hornbill performs better than Hornbill did back then."

Jonathan is the direct head of Tencent's PCG business group, which includes a number of businesses including QQ, WeChat, and Sogou.

His English name is Jonathan, and Mark is used to pronouncing it as Qiaosheng, because Jonathan is too difficult to pronounce.

"The most important thing is the content. There must be no sensitive content on Hornbill AI. This is more important than whether it is easy to use or not.

We must not allow him to have too strong a sense of autonomy in the content review mechanism," Mark repeatedly stressed.

Jonathan nodded vigorously. "Although Alpha is unwilling to hand over the source code to us, we have fully communicated with Microsoft and have given full consideration to the content screening mechanism. For some not-so-correct questions, if there are standard answers, we will use the standard answers.

If there is no standard answer, then it will refuse to answer.

At the same time, the current standard answers may become sensitive answers after the caliber is changed. In this case, we have a dedicated review team to make adjustments at any time. "

This is a very common thing. Even if the content is released by the official caliber, it may be deleted after a period of time because of contradictions.

Before the Internet, there was memory, like Baidu snapshots. Anything you posted would be saved in the form of snapshots, and you could still find it from the snapshots.

Soon after, this feature was removed from the shelves. The fundamental reason for its removal was that the correctness of the content is a real-time status at the moment, and there is no consistent standard for it.

"That's good, I trust you to do the job, remember that not making mistakes is more important than anything else.

Hornbill AI has an overwhelming advantage over Baidu in terms of the product itself. Even if the Hornbill AI we launched this time is not perfect, we can slowly iterate it in the subsequent process to make it perfect.

But if something goes wrong this time, Baidu will take advantage of it and remove Hornbill AI from the shelves, and then it will be hard to tell when it will be back online. "After Mark finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something:
"The CEO of Alpha Technology will arrive in Pengcheng this afternoon. Come with me to pick him up.

He will come to our press conference this time to help us stand on the stage.”

"Is it Mr. Samad?" Jonathan was shocked. Samad was the most famous person in Malaysia. No one had ever seen his true face since he became famous so quickly in the past year.

Because Samad started out by trading cryptocurrencies and later launched a cryptocurrency exchange called Libra, and because he has never appeared in public, Samad has always been considered a mysterious figure like Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of BTC.

Tencent actually managed to invite such a big shot to support it, which is really extraordinary, Jonathan thought.

"No, it's Oraz, their CEO. When I was on a business trip to Singapore, I stopped by the nearby city of Johor Bahru and met him. He also had a good impression of China and expressed his willingness to come and support us.

When they first bought quantum computers from Quantum Shield, he went to China to place an order. "

Jonathan now understood that he could make billions of dollars by coming to China and selling the goods to Goldman Sachs. If he were to do this business, he would also have a good impression of China.

"Boss, I've seen rumors online that Oraz is Samad?" Jonathan said halfway.

"Impossible, he doesn't have that aura," said Mark.

Tencent's press conference not only invited Oraz, but also a large number of media, which can be regarded as the largest Internet event after 18 years. Pony himself went to the scene in person, and Tencent executives came out in full force, mobilizing more resources than Yuanmeng Star.

“Jonathan, do your best. You have a heavy task this time. The failure of Yuanmeng Star can be attributed to our late start. There are Yuanmeng Stars in the market that started a long time earlier than us.

I have personally experienced Hornbill AI, and it is much better than Baidu's product 20 years ago. It has no comparable competitor in China, and Hornbill cannot enter the Chinese market directly.

If Hornbill fails, there is no reason for it, it is just that our operations team rested on their laurels for too long.” Before the press conference, Pony himself put pressure on the team present.

To be honest, Tencent is very successful in investment, but it has not had a successful self-developed product for a long time.

Although Hornbill also has technology from Alpha, it can be said to be a joint research and development.

"There are too many people coming. I have a vague feeling that Tencent wants to hold a funeral for Baidu." A media person and his colleagues complained.

"In a sense, Hornbill AI, which is based on Hornbill, can indeed fundamentally destroy the foundation on which Baidu relies for survival.

I just don’t know whether Tencent will adopt a completely free strategy to kill Baidu, or will it adopt a charging strategy similar to Hornbill.”

“Hornbill is really useful. Since I got Hornbill, I haven’t used Baidu for a long time. Not to mention Baidu, I don’t even use Google anymore.

When I write an article, no matter how remote the content is, Hornbill can help me find it.

I was writing a report before and wanted to quote some data from the 1990s. Hornbill helped me find the backup of the page directly.

I later tried to use Google to search, but it couldn't find it at all. I had to go to the Internet Museum to look for historical pages, and I had to do an accurate search to find it. I don't know how Hornbill did it. These Internet companies in China are too unprogressive. They can't even compare to Malaysian companies in the field of search engines."

“You can’t say that, Alfa is not an ordinary Malaysian company, and it is not certain whether Samad is a Malaysian.

But Hornbill is really useful. I talked to my friends and found that anyone who can bypass the firewall can't live without Hornbill.

This thing is about to become a common tool like a ladder.

Apart from charging fees, there are no other disadvantages. I am just afraid that Hornbill will be like ChatGPT and completely stop doing domestic business and simply don't want these domestic users.

That’s when it becomes trouble.”

"Probably not?"

"What can't I do? Tencent is going to launch a Chinese version of Hornbill at this press conference. Tencent is also a shareholder behind Alpha Technology. Maybe the two companies have agreed that the domestic market will be left to me, and Hornbill will completely withdraw from the Chinese market."

Today's press conference has attracted much attention, and it is indeed a bit like what these two media people are joking about.

The entire Internet has been peaceful for too long. Even a product like Douyin, which directly threatens Tencent's status, poses a much greater threat to Tencent than 360. Douyin is almost launching an all-out attack on Tencent.

Tencent fought so fiercely with 360 back then that Zhou Enlai was so scared that he almost ran away to Hong Kong. But when fighting against TikTok, the most they can do is block the TikTok link.

That's it.

After China's Internet landscape was formed, it has been a long time since people have quarreled with each other.

This is a rare fight between giants.

There is no choice but to fight. Hornbill AI is clearly trying to undermine Baidu's roots. Without its search engine, Baidu may end up worse than Yahoo.

Therefore, this press conference is not only because of Tencent’s huge influence in China, but also because everyone is here to watch the fun.

As the lights gradually dimmed, He Yijin (Jonathan), head of Tencent PCG, walked to the stage calmly. He knew that the products released today were of great significance to Tencent's future. Under the focus of flash lights and cameras, He Yijin clearly explained the characteristics and advantages of Hornbill AI.

"Hornbill AI is not only an artificial intelligence, but also a search engine," He Yijin emphasized. "While providing accurate information, it can also directly provide the source of information, allowing users to see the reliability of search results at a glance. This innovative function undoubtedly increases users' trust in search results.

What’s even more impressive is that Hornbill AI can also crawl the content of mobile apps and integrate these scattered information into a unified page to display to users. This function not only greatly improves the efficiency of users’ information acquisition, but also broadens the diversity of information sources.

Tencent has high hopes for Hornbill AI. In the domestic market, Baidu has always been the leader in search engines, but Tencent hopes to break this pattern through Hornbill AI.

We are confident that Hornbill AI will provide users with an unprecedented search experience. We expect it to beat Baidu in the search engine market and become a new industry benchmark."

"Hornbill AI is jointly created by us and Alpha Technology. Now, please invite Mr. Oraz, CEO of Alpha Technology, to come to the stage and say a few words." said He Yijin.

Why invite Oraz? To prove that he is Hornbill's legitimate successor.

Hornbill can't enter China, but we Tencent are the yellow flag!
"Thanks to Tencent for the invitation. Hornbill AI, jointly created by Alpha Technology and Tencent, will serve Chinese users well, provide them with first-class search engine artificial intelligence, let them experience the most advanced artificial intelligence technology, and completely change the landscape of the Chinese search engine market.

Alpha Technology's technological iterations will be synchronized to Tencent as soon as possible to help them update Hornbill AI. "After arriving in China, Oraz was deeply moved that it is not easy to survive in a small country.

Malaysia is already the core area of ​​the entire Southeast Asia and is considered an economic center. Even so, Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, cannot be compared with Pengcheng, and there are three cities like Pengcheng in China.

Especially after China recently live-broadcasted the entire process of the Shenzhou-Light Armor from launch to recovery, it caused a huge shock to Oraz.

To be precise, it caused a huge shock to knowledgeable people throughout Southeast Asia.

It turns out that technology has advanced to this point. Starships are large and massive, with a rugged beauty. The Shenzhou-22 and Huitian-1 space recovery devices have a delicate beauty. The short clip of Huitian capturing the Shenzhou-22 became the most popular video on tk and YouTube shorts.

YouTube shorts is a short video platform launched by YouTube, which is embedded in YouTube.

After Oraz finished speaking on stage, He Yijin came out to make a final summary.

“Thank you Mr. Oraz, and thank you Alpha Technology for providing technical support to Tencent.

In the future, Hornbill AI will not only be limited to China, we will promote Hornbill AI to the world, compete with search engines such as Google and Bing, and let the world see the strength of Chinese technology, just like the recent Shenzhou-Light Armor. "

He also mentioned the Shenzhou-Guangzhou A-class spacecraft, mainly because the display this time was a bit too intuitive compared with perovskite batteries, topological semimetals, and room-temperature superconductors.

Previously, the media and self-media told you how great the technological breakthroughs were, and then slowly you saw related products around you, and you felt they were pretty cool. This step-by-step process led to psychological expectations in advance, and the results were not that good.

This live broadcast was very sudden. It told you that the electric drive was successfully launched and recovered in a completely new way. It was right in front of you. The impact was undoubtedly huge.

Of course, many overseas self-media also stated that the live broadcast was a video released by China and was shot with special effects.

Shenzhou-Guangzhou A-class missile is a hot topic worldwide, and it continues to be a hot topic and has not stopped because the event has ended.

The technical cooperation agreement signed between China and Russia has further fueled the spread of the craze.

“We believe that Hornbill AI will completely change the landscape of the search engine market and lead a global information search revolution. Tencent is standing at the forefront of this revolution, ready to meet future challenges and opportunities!”

After users experienced the launch of Hornbill AI on the same day, traditional media may be more conservative, but self-media are not polite at all:

"For Whom the Bell Tolls? Baidu!"

(End of this chapter)