Chapter 799 DeepMind

In fact, at this time, America also had a start-up drone company - 3DR, which was founded by 2 Anderson and Jody Munoz.

Founder Chris is the editor-in-chief of the famous American technology magazine "Wired", focusing on reporting on emerging technologies.

What really made him pay close attention to and interested in the field of drones was his five children - once Chris brought a set of Lego drone kits home, and when his five children were deeply immersed in the fun of operating drones, he found that the drones were not stable.

So, Chris, who is good at solving problems, founded the drone network community - DIY Drones.

He hopes that with the help of this community, geeks who are interested in drones can communicate with each other and solve some problems faced by drone operations.

Another founder, Jody, is the seventh user registered in DIY Drones. He once won a very good ranking in the 2008 Sparkfun AVC competition with his own helicopter model. He is a very capable technical geek.

Jody often shares photos, videos, and codes of his DIY drones in the DIY Drones community.

These codes looked very sophisticated and difficult. Chris thought Jody's skills were quite good, so they sent private messages in the community, and the two became familiar with each other, and eventually founded 3DR together.

In the early days of the two founding 3DR, Jody 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 3 years until 3DR received Series A financing.

Although 3DR still did not launch a mature product at this time, because the capital market was 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 had reached 350, and it completed its Series A financing earlier than DJI, with a valuation of up to US$360 million - at that time, DJI, which had launched many products before the Phantom 1, was valued at only US$300 million in the Series A financing!

However, Barron still chose to invest in DJI and was not prepared to intervene in 3DR because he knew that 3DR's later products had many problems, but they blindly increased production, resulting in product backlogs, dragging down the company, and had to withdraw from the consumer drone market...

In fact, 3DR was also very lucky to appear in DJI to achieve success, and American capital needed to benchmark DJI, and when they were laying out in the drone industry, their expectations were artificially pushed up.

If only from the technical strength, the current 3DR company does not have very advanced technology-rather than acquiring or investing in this company, Barron might as well invest these resources in Hangyu Seiko, which he established in London.

After all, in the field of consumer drones, DJI has already demonstrated, they only need to follow DJI's footsteps and achieve better features in some aspects, while controlling its production costs.

Even if Hangyu Seiko finds it difficult to catch up with DJI's drone products, they can fill in when the European and American markets impose some restrictions on DJI's products in the future.

In addition, Barron also needs drone projects that can be under his control.

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"Your Highness, Digital Future has just completed the acquisition of DeepMind. Next, it will expand its laboratory in London as planned to complete more projects..."

After Zhang Junning left, Talulah Riley came over and said to Barron.

DeepMind is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence company co-founded by artificial intelligence programmer and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis and others in 2010.

In Barron's previous life, this company will be acquired by Google in 2014 and become the most important part of Google's artificial intelligence business. Google DeepMind combines the most advanced technologies of machine learning and system neuroscience to establish a powerful general learning algorithm. The initial results are mainly used in commercial fields such as simulation, e-commerce, and game development, and will be gradually applied to fields such as healthcare.

Since this company is so important, Barron naturally cannot leave it to Google. At the beginning of this year, he had instructed Digital Future Investment Company under Caesar Fund to negotiate the acquisition with them.

Artificial intelligence will have a wide range of applications in the future, from smart driving to medical care, which are very important for Barron's industries.

Now, it is still a relatively early period for the field of artificial intelligence. Baidu, the earliest Chinese company to invest in artificial intelligence, did not establish a deep learning laboratory until 2013.

The reason why DeepMind was able to accept Digital Future's acquisition is that in addition to having sufficient application resources to enable DeepMind to apply its research results in this area, Digital Future also promised to continue to invest in DeepMind in the future. There is no doubt that research on artificial intelligence is also a very expensive thing. The computing power required for this is not something that ordinary companies can handle.

In addition to DeepMind, which he has just acquired, Barron has also established three AI-related research centers in London, Silicon Valley and Shanghai. It can be said that he is not stingy with money for this investment.

"Honey, are you busy?"

Just after reading the documents about DeepMind's current projects brought by Talulah Riley, his study door was knocked, and Fan Bingbing asked at the door.

"Wait a minute..."

Barron stood up and said to Talulah:

"There is no need to adjust DeepMind's 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 "cultivation" of those scholars and experts."

While Talulah silently wrote down Barron's words, she saw the other party's back leaving, and she couldn't help but put her eyes on Fan Bingbing who was also looking at her...

Of course she knew the other party's identity. In addition to being a very famous female star in China, she was also quite well-known in Hollywood.

At the same time, some of her boss's industries in China, especially in film and television investment, were in charge of this woman.

Speaking of which, Fan Bingbing's appearance is indeed admired by both the East and the West.

When Barron came to Shanghai, he naturally lived in Cavendish Garden, which was the Yan Family Garden that he first bought and then thoroughly renovated and decorated.

Fan Bingbing had just returned to Shanghai from Qindao. The Oriental Movie Metropolis project had been officially confirmed to be located there. Tianhe Oriental Movie Metropolis Group had signed a contract with Qindao. As an important figure in Tianhe Film and Television Investment Company, Fan Bingbing also attended the signing ceremony that just ended.