My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 572 - 373: Losing from the Start to the End

Chapter 572: Chapter 373: Losing from the Start to the End

Having roughly understood the cause and effect of the incident from the internet, he watched Kong Jie’s interview video again...

Hu Yifei could only marvel that a good wine needs no bush.

A good product doesn’t need marketing or advertisements—it can become popular as soon as it launches.

This wave of popularity was purely the result of the product’s power fermenting naturally.

However, this pace of becoming popular was somewhat unexpected, so much so that they weren’t prepared at all.

"Go rent another set of servers for emergency expansion!"

He looked at the backend where the number of users climbed incessantly. If they didn’t expand the servers soon, it wouldn’t be long before a crash happened.

The surge in user numbers meant that the earnings potential of this product would also rise tremendously—a truly great piece of news!

Turning around, he noticed everyone else had an exhilarated look, so he struck while the iron was hot.

"Everyone can see that the new product has huge market potential.

But winning the customers’ favor only shows that the product design is excellent. For a Go AI, the most important aspect is still the intelligence algorithm.

Today’s ’World AI Go Tournament’ online preliminaries are truly our main battleground!"

The "World AI Go Tournament" Hu Yifei mentioned,

was initiated by Country Hua Chess Society after AlphaGo became popular, jointly organized with Fusang Chess Academy, South Peninsula Chess Academy, Yi State (Woof Woof) Chess Academy, Europa Go Association, and the Oceanic Go Association—a global Go AI competition.

AI from various countries around the world would compete on the same stage, vying for the title of the world’s strongest Go AI.

The game of Go is a high display of human intelligence, and it also pertains to many areas of artificial intelligence.

Including heuristic game search, machine learning, knowledge-based systems, reasoning mechanisms, fuzzy decision-making...

In fact, Go AI represents a high level of algorithm integration, and it is not an exaggeration to call it an embryonic form of artificial intelligence.

Thus, Go gaming has become one of the forms to validate whether an artificial intelligence model is excellent or not.

In recent years, including BAT, many leading IT companies have taken it as an important research subject.

Originally, Hu Yifei’s plan was to develop the new "Star Array" and then lead the team to make a mark in this competition.

While winning might be unrealistic, if they could stand out and break into the finals, "Cretaceous" would gain a certain level of recognition!

In this era where the internet is rampant, recognition equals market recognition, and the valuation of tech companies is definitely highly correlated with market recognition.

By then, just by bringing in some venture capital and completing a Series A, they could easily overcome this liquidity crisis.

This had been a development model for most tech companies to rise rapidly.

But plans never change as fast as reality, Star Array was not yet successfully developed when the unexpected and surprises arrived together...

One almost plunged the company into an unrecoverable disaster, the other miraculously brought it back to life!

The inclusion of Star Array V5 raised his expectations for this competition even higher.

"Is all the data adjusted properly? At such a critical moment, no one should drop the ball. Ensure that everything is flawless during the competition!"

This World AI Go Tournament was divided into two phases, with the preliminary phase arranged to take place online on the competition platform.

After competing, the top eight would advance to the finals at the Shanghai Digital Convention Center offline.

And today... was the day the preliminaries began!

Checking the time, there was still half an hour before the competition officially started.

"Don’t worry, President Hu, we have checked repeatedly! The simulations are all running smoothly too!"

"Good!" Hu Yifei nodded.

Although the parameters of Star Array V5 were off the charts, way beyond their previous products by a mile, even the tech personnel within the company found it unbelievable.

However, in today’s rapidly advancing artificial intelligence field, others were not standing still either.

The top major factories by investment, by talent, were simply not something Cretaceous could compare with, and nobody knew what kind of secret weapons others had prepared for today.

"I don’t hope for too much; making it to the top eight would be enough for me..."

Half an hour drifted away amidst Hu Yifei’s mixed feelings of hope and anxiety...

...

Tencent headquarters, AI Lab.

"Director Liu, ’Jueyi’s’ parameters have been fully adjusted! All functionalities are normal!"

"Good! Our goal this time is to take the championship! Understood?"

"Understood!" A group of programmers from this big factory, as if injected with adrenaline, double-checked the program one last time.

Director Liu looked at his team of elite stalwarts with satisfaction, brimming with confidence for this competition!

"Jueyi" was a Go AI developed at great expense by Tencent AI Lab and was also the defending champion of last year’s Go AI tournament.

Backed by Tencent Cloud, "Jueyi," on the Tencent FoxGo platform, had defeated more than a hundred professional Go players including Ke and Yang.

Earlier this year, it had been selected by Country Hua Chess Society as the exclusive training AI for the national Go team, making a name for itself as unmatched at the time.

In today’s domestic Go AI circle, "Jueyi" was absolutely the leader, technologically surpassing the other two of BAT by streets!

Recently, "Jueyi" had achieved a new technological breakthrough. In simulation battles against its previous version, it had completed a new version upgrade with a record of 100 consecutive wins!

That was why Director Liu was extremely confident at this moment!