Chapter 330 Amazon's Crazy Counterattack
Guangjia Aerospace's lunar cemetery service is aimed at the global market.

Considering the impression of Light Armor Aerospace, this project will definitely be attractive.

The difference is nothing more than the degree of attractiveness and the scale of potential customers.

Before you start, it’s hard to estimate the customer base based on your imagination alone, after all, the number of people who can afford the product is very limited.

After all, the Silicon Valley tycoons who are keen on such services are still too far away from the University of Tokyo.

The wealthy groups in and around Todai are essentially influenced by the ideology of Todai, and they value returning to their roots far more than the stars and the sea.

We are all an agricultural civilization, and the attraction of the stars and the sea is really limited.

Guangjia Aerospace predicts that for the lunar cemetery project, it would be good enough if it could have a double-digit customer every year.

As a result, only half a year after the launch, the number of potential customers from all over the world has exceeded 500.

You have to know that potential customers have to pay one million US dollars. This number determines that the chances of them changing their mind later are very low.

"Li Chaoren's appeal is quite amazing. After he made this decision, many people in the public opinion suspected that he was worried that his grave would be dug up a hundred years later.

Li Chaoren is not the only one who has such concerns. There are many wealthy people in Xiangjiang and Xiangshanao who have made their fortunes by collecting rent.

Many of them have similar concerns.

Someone made a comparison between the 4v TV program before and after, and it is comparable to the famous French joke.

The Corsican monster lands at the port of Jouan
The man-eating devil is marching towards Grass

The usurper enters Grenoble
Bonaparte captures Lyon

Napoleon approaches Fontainebleau

His Majesty will arrive in his loyal Paris today.

The French media's unscrupulous transfer of ideas has been learned by 4V TV station.

Originally, there was a dark myth in China, Wukong, which became popular all over the world and was criticized by 4V TV. Now, Guangjia Aerospace failed to launch a composite rocket last year, and 4V TV will only report this incident from a positive perspective:

"Baojie, let me tell you, a launch failure is a good thing. Even the Light Armor Space launch failed. Can anyone else handle it?"

"If you ask me, it is the failure of the launch that proves how valuable this technology is. It is already very remarkable that China can do something that even the Americans can't do. And I believe that our Chinese pride will definitely succeed. It's just a matter of time."

As a result, the netizens of Tokyo University who have always watched 4v TV stations for fun have lost interest. They originally watched it for fun, but how anti-intellectual can watching 4v TV programs be to create a sense of superiority in IQ?

As a result, you actually started to become serious.

The duck knows first when the river water warms in spring. The hosts of TV shows all know to turn around and sing praises to Dong Da. How could the top 4V billionaires not know this?

These 4V tycoons have similar concerns as Li Chaoren. If they are buried in 4V a hundred years later, the risk of their bodies being lost is very high. So I might as well bury my ashes on the moon like Li Chaoren.

Doing so can also be said to be an indirect contribution to the country's aerospace industry.

"500% of these 30 orders come from 4V, and their concerns are similar to those of Li Chaoren."

Given the general environment, the top 4V wealthy people can only be regarded as ants with larger heads.

"That's great. If the launch plan goes smoothly this year, some orders can be started. If the family members are willing, we can use the official account of Guangjia Aerospace to give them a full live broadcast."

There is a wealthy person who has passed away and has paid a deposit. He is just waiting for the light armor aerospace technology to be available so that he can send his ashes up there.

“Of course, it also serves a publicity purpose.

They would probably be willing to do so.

But I was thinking that we must turn off the barrage by then.

After all, not everyone has a good reputation. For example, when Li Chaoren was sent up, netizens in the live broadcast room must have been cursing him, although there were no ways to directly swear due to platform restrictions.

But don’t underestimate the wisdom of netizens. They will use indirect insults at that time, and if the family members see me, I am afraid it will play a negative propaganda role.”

"Haha, then turn off the barrage. What they care about most is definitely their reputation after death. People around them will deceive them and say how great their reputation is. You have done so much charity and everyone remembers your good deeds.

Netizens won’t tolerate this. I can imagine how lively the barrage will be, so it’s better to turn it off.

If we put the old generation of wealthy people in Hong Kong, Hongshan and 4V into the current evaluation system, there will be no one who does not have black spots.

When the moon goes to space, netizens will curse at the moon, which will give a very bad impression to the family members.

For netizens, there is no way to say anything in the live broadcast room, but they can post on Weibo or complain on Zhihu. "Chen Yuanguang said.

In the current value system of the University of Tokyo, the greatest common denominator is wealthy people who made their fortunes in the manufacturing industry, and it would be best if they could also achieve certain technological breakthroughs.

Of course, marketing is also very important. For example, the founder of Haidilao fled to Singapore, and both the person and the company fled to Singapore, but no one criticized him among netizens. Companies like Nongfu Spring are all in China, but they were also criticized.

It’s the Lunar New Year at the University of Tokyo. America has ended its New Year holiday and everyone is ready to start doing things.

Amazon fired the first shot, and Amazon couldn't stand it anymore. Microsoft was rapidly eroding Amazon's market share using the new generation of Hornbill search engine technology.

Even though there was no hope, Microsoft was still able to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in Bing. Now, New Bing, which is based on the Hornbill underlying architecture, is going to team up with Google and Amazon to become a truly intelligent assistant, so they are investing even more in New Bing.

Microsoft even announced plans to reboot Windows Phone at the end of last year.

They hope to build an AI phone by integrating technologies such as Windows mobile operating system, New Bing, and question-and-answer artificial intelligence to create an AI phone that far surpasses its competitors.

Microsoft is ambitious and has become the only giant among the Nasdaq Big7 whose market value has increased instead of decreased by taking over the market share of Google and Amazon.

In the past six months, New Bing's market share in online shopping has climbed to 20%, and its market share in California is close to 50%.

Moreover, the more elite the class, the more accepting and adaptable they are to using New Bing for shopping. After experiencing New Bing, these people are almost unwilling to go back to using Amazon.

Temu and Xiyin, which were originally owned by Pinduoduo, also had a significant impact on Amazon, but this impact was controllable.

The relationship between them is not a zero-sum game. After using Temu, users will still use Amazon. At most, they can only eat up a very small part of Amazon's market share.

But New Bing is different. The more users use it, the more they get used to it and they will never open Amazon again.

This kind of customer loss is irreversible, and judging from the data, the speed at which users are leaving Amazon and switching to New Bing is accelerating. As an artificial intelligence shopping application, New Bing has already formed a word-of-mouth effect.

The best customer group is the middle class, and the departure of this group of people is fatal to Amazon. Amazon has previously countered New Bing from various angles in an attempt to prevent New Bing's expansion.

This includes prohibiting New Bing from scraping data from Amazon applications, prohibiting Amazon merchants from supplying goods to New Bing at the same time, Amazon building its own logistics and refusing to cooperate with New Bing, etc.

But these measures can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Microsoft's expansion into online shopping continues and is accelerating.

In the second half of last year, Microsoft's expansion targets were America and a few European countries. This year, Microsoft's expansion has set its sights on all developed countries in the world.

"Over the past few years, the White House's trade rebalancing plan has achieved certain results. Our trade deficit with the United States is decreasing, and the goods we purchase from other countries are increasing.

Amazon has always been the staunchest supporter of the White House's trade rebalancing plan. We have increased the share of merchants from Mexico and Southeast Asia by raising the threshold for sellers.

In 2022 alone, Amazon kicked tens of thousands of sellers from the University of the Sun Yat-sen University out of the Amazon market on the grounds of falsified reviews.

Of course, these sellers soon moved to Walmart's online shopping platform.

“Since Microsoft entered the online shopping field last year, Microsoft’s New Bing has no store concept.

For users, every shopping behavior is a black box. They have no idea whether their products come from China, Mexico or somewhere else.

Only after receiving the goods and checking the express delivery number can users know where their goods come from.

According to a survey conducted by a professional third-party agency, more than 80% of the products on New Bing come from Dongda. New Bing's unique black box mechanism is helping Dongda products regain the American market."

The densely packed congressmen sitting on the black walnut chairs nodded frequently, obviously thinking that what Bezos said made sense, with arguments and evidence, and rigorous logic. Microsoft, you still say you are not tg?

Of course, Microsoft has a long history of doing this. In the early years, it was criticized by Americans for providing free operating systems to the University of Tokyo.

Faced with New Bing, which is powered by artificial intelligence, it is unrealistic for Amazon to rely on technological research and development to launch the same artificial intelligence shopping software to compete with it. Amazon does not have the technical reserves.

They tried to cooperate with Alpha Technology, but Alpha Technology refused.

For Alpha, only monopoly can bring the greatest benefits.

After the monopoly, all data is concentrated in one pool, and data is more valuable than money.

What Alpha needs is means of production, not green paper.

Under such circumstances, the ultimate weapon Amazon could come up with was to directly eliminate New Bing through administrative intervention.

Is there any better way than to accuse you of tg?

Whether it is the donkeys or the elephants, they are all talking about the fact that Southeast University is developing too fast. We must curb this trend and ensure the security of the supply chain. It is too dangerous for all goods to come from Southeast University. We must cultivate more countries to provide goods to America.

What does it mean that Microsoft is going against Washington?
Amazon has clearly found a good breakthrough.

The investigation report conducted by a third-party professional business investigation agency held by the bigwigs of the Elephant Party is also powerful enough.

Microsoft's current CEO Nadella was clearly at a loss when faced with such accusations.

He knew that Amazon was going to take action, and that Microsoft would take longer to get involved in Washington than Amazon would.

But because this was a carefully planned surprise attack, before Nadella came to the hearing, he only knew that it would be detrimental to Microsoft, but he didn't know the specific reasons.

He was speechless after listening to this, and after Bezos finished speaking, Nadella said at the right time: "I'm sorry, this is an absolutely unreasonable accusation.

New Bing uses artificial intelligence technology from Malaysia and has nothing to do with Todai.

We have never interfered with New Bing's data feeding, and have not provided any data that favors Dongda products during the underlying model training process.

This is the spontaneous behavior of artificial intelligence.

I want to ask, is there a possibility that, at the same price, the quality of Dongda’s products is naturally better?”

Although Bezos is not an old Chinese and does not understand Chinese, the thought that flashed through his mind can be described by an idiom: treason.

How dare you have such an idea? The Elephant Party members thought.

"I'm sorry, I think Microsoft has made a serious mistake!" Bezos interrupted Nadella before he could finish his words.

Can't wait even a minute.

"As we all know, New Bing's technology comes from Hornbill of Alpha Technologies. Hornbill's source code has not been open sourced to Microsoft. At the same time, Alpha Technologies is backed by Dongda Capital.

Nadella's statement is not true. They have no way to judge whether Hornbill's underlying code has any natural bias towards Dongda products. "

“It definitely doesn’t exist!” Bezos can interrupt, and Nadella can also interrupt: “We have clear constraints in the contract terms, and the artificial intelligence model itself needs to ensure absolute neutrality.

Later, during the technology delivery process, we conducted a data audit on the model.

No matter from which angle it is tested, it shows no natural inclination towards Dongda products! "

Nadella was extremely angry because Bezos was going to destroy New Bing.

"I want to remind Nadella and Microsoft that even if what you said is true.

Since Hornbill is a Malaysian technology, its underlying logic really only considers the quality of the product, and this is the biggest problem.

We need to consider more than just the quality and price of the product.

We also need to consider supply chain security.

If all the goods come from Dongda, how can the security of the supply chain be guaranteed?
AI clearly doesn’t measure that.”

Bezos glanced at the congressmen in the audience nodding their heads with thoughtful expressions. He knew that he had made a decisive shot.

How can Malaysia's artificial intelligence think about supply chain security from America's perspective?

This alone is enough for New Bing to make corrections.

Only considering the quality and price of goods is the biggest mistake in America.

(End of this chapter)