"I think we should independently develop our own generative AI technology. Adopting the open-source technology of Geek Technology Company is certainly easier.
But it also means that we have to follow Geek Technology Company's semi-open-source agreement. If we have any scientific research results, we will be forced to share them with them for free.
However, we cannot use their scientific research results. In the long run, we will never beat them, and will only become vassals of the third-generation AI Xiaoke!"
At this time, Apple CEO Cook expressed his views.
At this moment, Tesla's CEO Musk couldn't help but express his opinion.
"I also think we should develop our own generative AI technology patents. We have so many companies.
Can't we afford the R\u0026D expenses for generative AI technology?"
The essence of why so many of their companies gathered together was to combine the strengths of multiple companies.
Those with money contribute money, those with people contribute people, and those with technology patents contribute technology patents.
As a result, they only used six months last time to create a new AI technology comparable to the second-generation AI Xiaoke.
At this time, they naturally wanted to follow the technical path of the last time, wanting to bypass the technical patents of Geek Technology Company and develop their own generative AI technology.
"I think we should take a two-pronged approach. First, adopt their generative AI technology, and then independently develop our own generative AI technology.
After all, we can't just wait for them to dominate the market, right? By the time our AI comes out, it will be too late."
At this time, the speaker was EA's CEO, Riccitiello.
Compared to the vast future prospects, EA is actually more concerned about the present.
Because if they can't survive in the present, how can they talk about a broad future?
The reason why EA's CEO, Riccitiello, participated in this meeting was actually to borrow everyone's scientific research results to solve the problems of its own Frostbite game engine.
After all, although Geek Technology Company has open-sourced the third-generation AI Xiaoke, the strongest AI with 200 billion parameter models can only perform text chat functions.
This is naturally unacceptable to EA, because this function can only allow it to play the role of an NPC at most, and there is no way to have game generation capabilities.
Therefore, Riccitiello, the CEO of EA, who felt that it was very difficult to develop game generation functions, participated in this meeting, hoping to gain something.
And this is also the small thought of most of the companies present. It can be said that the more companies participating in the meeting, the more difficult it is to agree on opinions.
Last time, 10 companies were really able to harmoniously and uniformly contribute money, people, and technology patents.
That was still thanks to them having a strong common enemy and a relatively fair profit-sharing cooperation agreement.
But now, as more and more companies participate, the difficulty of coordinating the interests of all parties and satisfying each company has also increased geometrically.
At this time, Microsoft CEO Ballmer, seeing the scene gradually splitting into two factions, immediately stood up and said:
"Everyone, we now have our own views and decisions. If we really want to discuss it further, it will be difficult to reach a consensus.
Why don't we just set up two research and development projects, and then count the things to be researched, and finally make all parties satisfied?"
"This ."
The people present looked at each other, and then nodded in agreement.
This is also the most in line with the current situation. Some people think that they should independently develop their own generative AI technology, then continue to insist.
Some people think that they should follow the open-source agreement of Geek Technology Company and develop their own AI based on the third-generation AI Xiaoke, then they can continue to insist.
Which company wants to invest in which project, then invest in which project, the other project can be invested or abandoned.
This can also be regarded as integrating the strength of multiple companies to tackle the difficult problem of generative AI technology, which is better than investing in research and development alone. Therefore, the next meeting room fell into a vote, in order to ensure fairness and protect those who contribute money,
Those who contribute people, and those who contribute technology patents.
They also directly hired PricewaterhouseCoopers, a third-party accounting firm, to act as an intermediary to ensure the interests of each company, so that everyone did not feel that they had lost out.
As for which companies independently develop?
Currently, almost every one of the twenty or so companies has invested in the project, even if they don't have technology patents and funds, they have invested millions of dollars.
After all, everyone can see the future of this generative AI technology, and they know that it is no exaggeration to call this thing the cornerstone of AGI general artificial intelligence.
And the semi-open-source agreement of Geek Technology Company is really too坑, overseas Western countries cannot always succumb to Geek Technology Company.
Therefore, from a long-term perspective, independent and autonomous generative AI technology must be developed.
Therefore, all the companies present invested in the project, contributing money, people, and technology patents.
The purpose is to use the least amount of money to get higher returns in the future, so they all participated in the project.
Of course, relying solely on the actual research and development funds of these twenty or so companies may still be somewhat insufficient.
After all, if you want to develop your own generative AI and train your own generative AI, you need to build a supercomputing center that is not inferior to the Rong Geek Supercomputing Center.
In this case, they will probably still ask other investment companies, banks, and even listed companies for money to support the operation of the project in the future.
Among them, even if funds are injected in the future, diluting the shareholding ratio, the companies present will never lose money.
This is like a company, as it develops better and better, the founder's shareholding ratio is getting smaller and smaller.
But the actual value of the shares held in hand is getting higher and higher, which is why all the companies present invested in the project.
As for the second cooperation project, accepting the semi-open-source agreement of Geek Technology Company.
Then, jointly develop a stronger version of AI. There is less cooperation, and the number of participating companies is directly reduced by more than half.
After all, they are not interested in working for others for free. The semi-open-source of Geek Technology Company is too坑. They don't want their scientific research results to be easily developed, and in the end, they are used by Geek Technology Company for free.
Therefore, half of the companies present gave up supporting Geek Technology Company's open-source agreement and only participated in the project of developing a completely new independent and autonomous generative AI technology.
In this way, after spending several days, they naturally summoned reporters to hold a joint press conference and officially released the news to the public.
