Chapter 799 DeepMind
In fact, at this time, there was also a start-up drone company in the United States-3DR, which was founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson and Jordi Munoz Founded.
The founder, Chris, is the editor-in-chief of Wired, a famous American technology magazine, focusing on reporting on emerging technologies.
What really made him pay close attention and interest in the field of drones was his 5 children. Once, Chris brought a Lego drone kit home. When his 5 children When a child was deeply immersed in the fun of operating a drone, he discovered that the drone was experiencing some instability.
So, Chris, who is good at solving problems, founded the drone network community-DIYDrones.
He hopes that with this community, geeks interested in drones can communicate with each other and solve some problems faced by drone operations.
The other founder, Jodi, is the seventh user registered in DIYDrones. He won a very good place in the 2008 SparkfunAVC competition with the helicopter model he developed. He is a quite capable person. Tech nerd.
Jody often shares photos, videos, and code of his DIY drones in the DIYDrones community.
These codes seemed to be very advanced and difficult. Chris felt that Jody’s skills were quite good, so they sent private messages on the community. The two became familiar with each other and eventually founded 3DR together.
In the early days when the two founded 3DR, Jodi was responsible for hand-building and selling drones, while Chris continued to run his own drone forum.
At that time, Chris had not resigned from "Wired" magazine, but continued to serve as the editor-in-chief of "Wired" magazine - this situation lasted for three years until 3DR obtained Series A financing.
Although 3DR still has not launched a finished product at this time, because the capital market is optimistic about the prospects of drones and the company was founded in the United States, at the end of 2012 in the original time and space, its number of employees It has reached 350 people, and it completed the A round of financing earlier than DJI, and its valuation was as high as 360 million U.S. dollars. At that time, DJI, which had launched many products before the Phantom 1, was in A The valuation in the round of financing is only US$300 million!
However, Barron still chose to invest in DJI and was not prepared to get involved in 3DR, because he knew that the products that 3DR later launched had many problems, but they blindly increased production, resulting in product backlog. It brought down the company and had to launch the consumer drone market...
In fact, 3DR was very lucky to be successful in DJI, and American capital needs to benchmark against DJI. When the drone industry was planning its layout, their expectations were artificially pushed up.
If we only look at the technical strength, the current 3DR company does not have very leading technology - instead of acquiring or investing in this company, it would be better for Barron to invest these resources in the aerospace he established in London. Seiko.
After all, in the field of consumer drones, DJI has already set an example. They only need to follow DJI's footsteps and achieve better features in some aspects while controlling their production costs. .
Even if it is difficult for Hangyu Seiko to catch up with DJI's drone products, they will be able to fill in the gaps when the European and American markets impose some restrictions on DJI's products in the future.
In addition, Barron also needs a drone project that can be controlled by himself.
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“Your Highness the Duke, Digital Future has just completed the acquisition of DeepMind, and will expand their laboratory in London as planned to complete more projects… ”
After Janine Chang left, Dalula Riley came over and said to Barron.
DeepMind is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence company co-founded in 2010 by artificial intelligence programmer and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis and others. During Barron's previous life, this company would be acquired by Google in 2014 and became the most important part of Google's artificial intelligence business, Google DeepMind. They combined the most advanced technologies of machine learning and systems neuroscience to build a powerful Universal learning algorithm - the initial results are mainly used in commercial fields such as simulation, e-commerce, game development, etc., and will gradually be applied to fields such as medical care.
Since this company is so important, Barron naturally cannot leave it to Google. At the beginning of this year, he had already authorized the Digital Future Investment Company under Caesar Fund to negotiate with them. The matter of acquisition.
Artificial intelligence will be used in a wide range of applications in the future, from intelligent driving to medical care, which are very important to these industries of Barron.
Now, for the field of artificial intelligence, it is still relatively early - Baidu, the earliest company in China to invest in artificial intelligence, did not create a deep learning laboratory until 2013.
The reason why DeepMind can accept the acquisition of Digital Future is not only that they have sufficient application resources to apply DeepMind's research results in this area, but also that Digital Future has promised to continue to invest in DeepMind in the future. ——There is no doubt that the research on artificial intelligence is also a very expensive thing. Just the stack of computing power required for this is not something ordinary companies can handle.
In addition to DeepMind, which has just been acquired, Barron has also established three artificial intelligence-related research centers in London, Silicon Valley and Shanghai. It can be said that he is generous in investing in this area. Of money.
"Honey, are you busy?"
Just after reading the documents about DeepMind's current projects that Dalula Riley brought over, the door of his study was opened There was a knock, and Fan Bingbing stood at the door and asked.
"Wait a moment..."
Barron stood up and said to Dalula:
"There is no need to adjust the DeepMind project for the time being. The current artificial intelligence is still some distance away from large-scale application. , so the most important thing is to make the machine have a higher level of intelligence through the 'training' of those scholars and experts."
While Dalula silently remembered Barron's words, she saw the other party leaving. Looking back, she couldn't help but cast her eyes on Fan Bingbing, who was also looking at her...
Of course she knew the identity of the other party. In addition to being a very famous female star in China, she was also quite famous in Hollywood. .
At the same time, this woman is responsible for some of my boss's industries in China, especially in film and television investment.
Speaking of which, Fan Bingbing’s appearance is indeed something that would be admired by both the East and the West.
When he came to the Magic City, Barron naturally lived in Cavendish Garden, which was the Yan Family Garden that he first bought and later completely repaired and decorated.
Fan Bingbing has just returned to the Magic City from Qindao - the Oriental Movie Metropolis project has been officially confirmed to be located there. Trina Oriental Movie Metropolis Group has signed a contract with Qindao. Fan As an important figure in Trina Television Investment Company, Bingbing also participated in the signing ceremony that just concluded.
(End of this chapter)