Chapter 245 What I want is respect!
Qiao Yu of course also saw this news. He even knew a little earlier than those professors. After all, now someone will inform him of all the news that can be related to him.
He didn't need to pay attention at all.
Qiao Yu also studied the time when Microsoft released this announcement. It happened to be twenty minutes after he talked to a Microsoft representative.
The person in charge of Microsoft's negotiations with Qiao Yu was Ranville Chandra, who is a director of industrial research at Microsoft Research Institute.
Just by looking at the name, you will know that this is an Indian-born Microsoft executive.
Jo Yu carefully recalled the negotiation process with Ranville Chandra at that time.
This Indian executive objected to some of his conditions, and then he agreed to his conditions with Google, the leading company in quantum supercomputing. Why are there so many things in your little Microsoft? He ended the conversation strongly.
Of course these are definitely not Qiao Yu's original words. But that's probably what it means.
It seems that Microsoft is still a little dissatisfied with his evaluation. For example, do you think your technology is not worse than Google?
To be honest, Qiao Yu felt a little strange.
After all, he has not paid much attention to the progress of research on quantum hardware.
After all, Qiao Yu has not been in contact with the scientific research field for a long time, and most of the time he focuses on pure mathematics research.
Even if you are interested in brute-force cracking of large prime numbers, the focus is to solve the problem through algorithms and software.
After all, the cycle of studying hardware is too long. It also depends on the industrial strength of the small break ball. The time spent is calculated in ten years.
It's okay for Qiao Yujue to ask him to provide some help, but he definitely doesn't have the patience to study this kind of thing.
It's like a moon landing project, which is always a ten-year plan, requiring several generations of relay. The first generation of astronauts have retired before they have sent their unmanned vehicles to the moon.
When manned landing on the moon really starts, another large number of people are about to retire. Unlike in previous years when we went from zero to the stage, it is difficult for large-scale projects to reflect individual contributions in it.
But the software and algorithms are different. With little investment and quick results, there is no need for a team of engineers to overcome thousands of engineering problems.
Of course, this does not mean that the hardware is not important. But Qiao Yu felt that these things could be left to those professionals to do. What he does is more meaningful - under the conditions of existing hardware, squeeze out every potential of the hardware and give an optimal solution.
This is what an elegant mathematician should do.
You can't let him try and make mistakes stupidly, right? If you delve into the history of human engineering development, you will find that this is a history of crazy trial and error.
And any engineering development is like this, without exception. Aviation, aerospace, chips, electricity and even infrastructure...
As long as you are good at summarizing and summarizing, plus a little luck, you can always find a solution after enough trial and error. I think this is not beautiful even if I think about it.
This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese industrial system can develop to such a scale.
There are many people, and it has spent decades to popularize education. In addition, intra-volume culture, dozens or hundreds of laboratories can be tried and errors at the same time in a project, and it is difficult to not be able to achieve high efficiency.
Although this process has definitely caused a lot of waste of resources. But the overall result is still good.
At least 50% of the manufacturing productivity in the small breaking ball are rooted in this land. It even won the reputation of "Industrial Cthulhu".
Microsoft suddenly released chips at this time, and did not even give it a little preparation time. Qiao Yu could naturally conclude that this was the result of Ranville Chandra's emergency communication with the company's upper-level team after talking to him.
But considering that he had finished negotiations with Ranville Chandra it was almost five in the morning. They still have the energy to hold a high-level meeting and make quick decisions, which forced Qiao Yu to admire the professionalism of these high-tech executives.
Really, if anyone tells Qiao Yu about European and American technology companies in the future, Qiao Yu must spit his face.
At around 4 a.m., she was still on the front line of negotiations. After the negotiations, she had to report, hold meetings, and make decisions...
Maybe Microsoft executives don't know what the streets of New York look like at 4 a.m., but they must know how beautiful the scenery on Redmond is at 4 a.m.
This is much more dedicated than ordinary workers.
But Qiao Yu is still not sure what the motivation for prompting Microsoft to make this decision.
Is it because he said that Microsoft's quantum technology is not as good as Google, and he directly stimulated the other side, so he wants to prove it? Or do you want to grasp the negotiation conditions?
If it were the former, Qiao Yu really didn't mind.
After all, the internal competition between the two super technology companies in the empire has nothing to do with him, just watch the excitement.
As far as he knows, when Google announced that it had achieved quantum hegemony, IBM's president also poured cold water on it.
But if it were the latter, Qiao Yu would be really unhappy.
He has been living a smooth life in recent times and has not encountered any setbacks. It is unreasonable that he was demonstrated by Microsoft.
Especially, he has negotiated well with other companies from the perspective of strength. Microsoft suddenly jumped out like this. If there is no response, it will be difficult to talk to others.
This made Qiao Yu start to be alert, and he would still have to hold more aces in his hands in the future. You can't throw all the ace out at once.
In this way, when someone jumps out and provokes his authority, he can also keep up immediately.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter this time.
He also does not think that the quantum chip that Microsoft is about to release will bring great changes to the world's quantum computing development pattern.
This is a very simple truth.
If it was so powerful, when he announced the new progress in quantum simulation computing at the report meeting, it directly affected the stock prices of a number of high-tech companies. Why didn’t he announce it quickly at that time?
But he talked to him first and then chose to announce it when he was not satisfied. This was a bad idea, which was enough to show that Microsoft itself was not so confident about this product.
So Qiao Yu is too lazy to look at the papers published by Microsoft scientists in recent years, just like those professors. After all, he is not interested in hardware research.
However, Qiao Yu naturally has his own channels to inquire about the news, such as Peter Schultz.
This German mathematician happened to cooperate with Microsoft Research Institute. Although it has nothing to do with the research on quantum chips, Qiao Yu feels that these cutting-edge research are all in common.
Qiao Yu does not believe that Microsoft does not use quantum computing to intervene in the proof of mathematical theorem. Fortunately, this time is still very suitable.
Although the United States is only seven o'clock in the morning at this time, China's time zone is only six hours faster than Germany. Even considering the unique summer time in the West, this time should be the time for lunch in Germany.
Of course, the premise is that Peter Schultz is indeed in Germany.
But Qiao Yu feels that friends don't need to worry about so much, let alone Peter Schultz has a vague tendency to regard him as an idol...
Idols don't need to worry about the jet lag when facing fans. So Qiao Yu raised his hand and took out his cell phone and dialed it to Peter Schultz.
Facts also prove that Qiao Yu's analysis is correct, because after only two rings, Peter Schultz answered his phone.
This is enough to prove that the cold German mathematician was very happy to receive his call at this time.
"Hi, Joe, this is the first call you have made to me on your own initiative, and I am honored." "Haha, Peter, if you want to say that, I may harass you at any time in the future! For example, the time I finish breakfast is usually when you sleep soundly." "Okay, Joe, what's wrong?"
Obviously, Qiao Yu's joke made Peter Schultz unable to withstand it.
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There is no way. Although the time difference is mutual, he can also find time to harass Qiao Yu, but he knows how difficult it is to get Qiao Yu's phone.
This guy seems to like to enable the phone's non-disturbance mode very much. If he chooses the wrong time, he will not be able to harass Qiao Yu even if he plays it.
"Did you notice the latest news released by Microsoft? They said they were going to release a brand new quantum chip - Majorana today, and they also said that new technology can subvert the world's quantum computing landscape. Do you know this new product?"
"Huh? Why are you suddenly interested in this? Are you still planning to make hardware?"
"Not me interested in hardware, well, you may not know yet. Microsoft took the initiative to talk to me about cooperation in quantum simulation computing. They wanted to hire me as a technical consultant. Do you know this?"
"Uh... I know." Peter Schultz responded with a little hesitation.
Qiao Yu probably knows the reason.
After all, it involves not only cooperation, but also gossip about him...
"Since we had not fully reached an agreement, they suddenly issued an announcement saying that they would release this product. I think they might be provoking me. What do you think? So I want to ask, how much do you know about this quantum chip?"
"This...well, actually, I have many friends at Berkeley. If you read the email... the condition you put forward, to be honest, is indeed a disaster for Berkeley."
"When did you get this news? Peter, your friend didn't tell you that I have forgiven them because of the reaction of Berkeley.
And the condition was removed from the cooperation conditions. I only asked them to recover the benefits sent to Professor Frank over the years. This requirement is not too much, right?
And it was not because of this and Microsoft that I didn't agree to. But it was something else. Peter, isn't I a person who likes to take off his anger in my eyes? "
"Ah? Well...I'm sorry about this. In fact, Professor Frank, that's yours... Alas, forget it. I don't know much about Majorana.
But as far as I know, this chip is currently used in the laboratory to do some AI collaborative work. Including when we were doing condensed mathematical research, we also tested using this chip to do some mathematical verification work.
By the way, this includes the problem of high-dimensional space optimization for generalized modal axiom systems. And the main application of Majorana is currently in this area. You should know better than me that before there is no corresponding algorithm for the ecosystem, quantum chips can do not have much to do at present.
However, there are still many applications in vision planning. The laboratory is also trying to rely on Majorana to generate various synthetic data, try to do real random training, and train complex AI models.
Of course, what I said above is actually still in the research stage, and in fact, there are still many technical obstacles during our use. For example, memory overflow, resource limit oversight and algorithm incompatible often occur.
But Majorana is indeed a superior place. At least in order to overcome the defects of resolving the relationship, this chip is definitely the best. Of course, if you don’t consider that this chip currently only integrates eight qubits. ”
Peter Schultz revealed the situation of the chip he knew without reservation.
This efficiency is obviously much higher than that of professors who went to find the papers published by Microsoft, and also allowed Qiao Yu to quickly grasp the key points. "You mean that this chip is not useful at the moment, right? At least it is not very useful in the current business scenario, and it is not much advanced compared to Google's technology.
Then Microsoft's choice to release this chip at this time is to challenge my authority in the field of quantum computing, right?"
Obviously, Peter Schultz did not keep up with Qiao Yu's thinking pattern again.
What he wants to express seems to be that although the quantum chips of Microsoft's generation represent the latest technological direction, they will not pose a threat to Qiao Yu's quantum simulation computing for the time being.
But what Qiao Yu understood was a completely different meaning...
Okay, for Peter Schultz, Microsoft is a partner after all...
So after a moment of silence, Peter Schultz couldn't help asking, "Jo Yu, I don't understand you anymore. What do you want?
If it's money, I think Microsoft should be generous to you. If it's power? I think it's too early to pursue these at your age...
If it's academic competition, there's no need for Microsoft to be an academic institution. You don't need to rely on academic achievements to prove yourself. In fact, I believe you know this better than anyone else.
If it was because of your family affairs, you had already chosen to give up the trouble of Berkeley, which was equivalent to the fact that this matter was over, so I was really curious, Qiao Yu..."
At this point, Peter Schultz strengthened his tone and asked again: "What do you want? "
Peter Schultz felt that this was not just his doubts. He felt that Qiao Yu might not have thought about this question clearly.
Otherwise, there would not have been so many messy thoughts.
But obviously he made a wrong judgment, because Qiao Yu's answer was simple, straightforward and justified: "Do you still need to ask?" What I want is respect! ”
After saying that, it seemed to be to take care of Peter Schultz's mood. Qiao Yu also explained seriously: "Peter, you grew up in a normal family, so you definitely don't understand what the child who grew up in a single-parent family is like me is.
Sensitivity, fragility, suspicion, even inferiority, paranoidness, etc., people's stereotypes about children from single-parent families are real. So I care much more about self-esteem than ordinary people. Can you understand me?"
(The end of this chapter)