Top Student at Their Peak Chapter 704 - 222: The Great Era

For Sundar Pichai, this is obviously news that he finds difficult to accept.

He is not a scientist and does not need to care about how theoretical progress will change mathematics and physics.

But he is a capitalist, or rather an agent of capital, and he needs to care about who holds the more advanced theories, and whether they can bring returns to capital.

Even if returns are not imdiately apparent, at least they shouldn’t bring losses to the capital he controls.

Unfortunately, he may now have to face the worst-case scenario. If this news spreads, losses are almost inevitable.

He is facing a decision now, whether to abandon or temporarily shelve Google Quantum AI team’s research.

Abandoning it would an tens of billions of dollars in investnt are wasted, but that’s not the most terrifying part.

This is over a decade of strategic planning.

Their scientists realized what the quantum computing era represented when quantum chanics began to develop and spawned the quantum computing branch.

It even led to the concept of Quantum Dominance.

Of course, another way is to introduce new theories and develop new technologies. But this involves constructing the entire comrcial ecosystem.

Including corresponding software developnt, exploring application scenarios, and choosing partners. While theoretical innovations may not imdiately impact the market, theories that have already been practically verified can achieve that.

So quickly, Sundar Pichai’s mind ca to the most advantageous conclusion.

"Can new theories help us regain the lead in technology? Or can our current accumulation take advantage of the new theories?"

Thomas Curian imdiately replied, "This requires Professor Martinis to make a judgnt, but as I just said, he did not attend this open report eting. Maybe we will have to wait until he contacts those who attended the exchange eting to have a conclusion.

Of course, even as we wish, regardless of our early accumulation, I an, whether hardware or software, can truly perfectly align with the new theories, we might not necessarily achieve it.

I have already heard an important piece of news. The report eting was urgently stopped by the organizers after Qiao Yu announced two new rsenne Pris."

Thomas Curian did not make his words very clear, but he believed Sundar Pichai would understand what he ant.

They’re all smart people, and at their level, they tend to empathize when it cos to important issues.

After thinking for a mont, Sundar Pichai asked, "Do you think we might be able to hire Qiao Yu as the chief scientist or a technology strategy consultant?

He doesn’t have to co to headquarters full-ti, could be part-ti. Just need to take so commissions and provide feasibility advice for so projects at Google Laboratory."

For CEOs of all high-tech companies, they probably understand the phrase "talent is the first productive force" best.

Especially those technical talents truly qualified to lead.

Besides, Google actually has many Chinese scientists, especially in computer vision, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and deep learning.

Just like soone joked before, the world’s artificial intelligence technology competition is like a match between Huaxia’s native scientists and Chinese Arican scientists.

As for technologies from other countries, they can already be ignored.

Especially Europe, once the cradle of the Renaissance, has fallen far behind in the new technological revolution and productivity competition, to an unbearably visible degree.

Especially in recent decades, Huaxia and Arica have been competing fiercely on various levels.

But the two major powers, East and West, can still proceed in an orderly manner, while Old Europe is declining.

Whether it’s industry or technology, developnt has noticeably lagged behind.

Even if occasionally so erging tech companies develop, a look at the shareholders behind them will reveal that they have little to do with Europe, or are even directly acquired by Arican companies.

For example, in the field of artificial intelligence, erging companies like DeepMind, Nuance Communications, and earlier ones like ARM and Imagination Technologies.

Especially Imagination Technologies, once one of the world’s leading global chip design companies as well as Apple’s dedicated GPU supplier.

The Arican private equity fund that acquired this company is rumored to even have Huaxia assets in the background.

Many tis the world is just this magical.

The village leader and the second in command have a falling out, and everyone else might want to watch the drama unfold, but who would dare imagine that by watching, the family fortune would fall...

This is roughly Europe’s current predicant. Although academically they can still rely on past achievents, in the latest technological fields, Old Europe is not even qualified to sit at the table and eat...

So in so sense, Sundar Pichai’s idea can be considered very appropriate. With the scale of Google, inviting Qiao Yu to serve as a part-ti consultant in technology developnt strategy is not considered beneath their dignity.

If both parties can collaborate, at least in quantum computing, they could outperform the world.

And with a seventeen-year-old Fields dal winner, there seems to be no bottleneck in academic research progress...

If this idea can truly be realized, maybe Google could redefine the boundaries of technology in the near future.

For Thomas Curian, as a senior vice president in charge of technology, there is no doubt that Sundar Pichai’s words expressed his heart.

If they could actually recruit talents like Qiao Yu, it would undoubtedly be the most cost-effective for these executives.