Chapter 306: Drinking Poison to Quench Thirst
As for why the APP of Mengguo Company can be released and downloaded openly in China.
The reason is very simple.
China needs gold and foreign exchange.
In other words, the three East Asian countries all need gold and foreign exchange.
Sapiens Company is allowed to open up the cultural and entertainment industry to a limited extent, and the three East Asian countries must also give Sapiens Company the same treatment.
You can't allow it unilaterally, right?
There is no such good thing in the world.
Therefore, Zhiren Corporation's eight Internet subsidiaries and eight cultural and entertainment subsidiaries formed a group and rushed into the East Asian region.
The fact that Mengguo used AI to paint also caused unimaginable panic in the painting and comics industry in East Asia within a few days.
Pengcheng.
Penguin's software development center.
Zhou Juncai, head of the R&D center, and several software development programmers are sitting in front of a computer.
A programmer's fingers were tapping furiously on the keyboard.
Soon they broke through the firewall of the Mengguo APP, and then they were completely dumbfounded. This APP did not have any useful content at all.
In particular, the material database and AI program that they really wanted to know about were just empty shells.
The reason is very simple. The Dream Country APP can only operate normally when connected to the Internet. The fundamental reason is that its AI and material library are not in the APP itself, but in the supercomputing center in Luzon.
Otherwise, such a huge database and super artificial intelligence would not be enough to be accommodated with the limited computing power and storage space of personal computers.
The function of Mengguo APP is actually a chat software and email box.
Before, Penguin Company was secretly laughing, earning tens of billions of dollars from Sapiens Company with the help of various games, online dramas, videos, music, comics and novels.
I didn’t expect the retribution to come so quickly.
There is a world of difference between Mengguo's AI painting technology and the crude AI paintings on the market. The gap in computing power and database between the two is too huge.
Fortunately, Penguin's core business is not comics.
The ones who are really in tears are actually the Korean comics operating companies in South Korea and the comics companies in Japan. They have already felt the terror of the Sapiens company.
When AI comics can be updated daily like novels and of very high quality, the demise of traditional comic companies and traditional cartoonists is only a matter of time.
Mengguo Company has 1,200 professional cartoonists in Southeast Asia, and recently recruited another 700 cartoonists in East Asia and Annan.
A large number of comic works are launched online intensively.
The other two cultural and entertainment subsidiaries of the same Zhiren company, which also have comics industry and the same AI painting technology, are also recruiting.
The entire comics market in Asia is now basically filled with comics from Zhiren Company, and is also spreading to Europe and the United States.
Although Europe and the United States are very hostile to Homo sapiens, they have not banned the company online. After all, openness is a two-way process.
If the European and American Internet companies ban Sapiens , then Sapiens will naturally not allow their Internet companies to enter Sapiens territory.
Recently, America's Black Ship has cooperated with Internet companies such as Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia.
The key to this plan is that the Internet of Sapiens is open. Otherwise, not to mention the boomerang, even the javelin would be useless.
Unfortunately, America didn't know the real situation inside the Sapiens company.
With the formalization of the Sapiens Corporation, the previous secretive way of recruiting new humans has now become a semi-public method, rapidly expanding .
It was simply wishful thinking for the Black Ship to incite the employees of the Sapiens Company and create conflicts.
This is also the reason why Zhiren Company dares to fully open up the international Internet.
It is a solid block, there is no need to be afraid.
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In fact, Mengguo Company’s AI technology can be used not only in comics, but also in animation, movies, TV series, novels and games.
Many cartoonists, illustrators, video creators, online writers, and special effects artists have joined the Dream Country system.
Although in the first half of the year, I could only get a basic salary of 500 gold yuan, plus other rewards, it was only about 1,000 gold yuan.
But for these freelancers, it is not bad to work for a smart company with a guaranteed income and high benefits.
Although many people do not have the idea of immigration, and the benefits of external employees are much worse, at least if he himself suffers from a serious illness, he can take a plane to the territory of Homo sapiens for treatment, and the cost is relatively cheap.
Luo Xuan was so enthusiastic that he created 18 episodes in more than a week.
"Mirror Man", which has been released for more than a week, has only been approved for access in some regions. Even in the territory of Homo sapiens, this comic is a second-category work that is only allowed to be viewed by adults.
But its performance was good, with a total of 420,000 subscriptions in one week.
A reward of 1 gold dollar will be given for every 10,000 subscriptions.
In fact, external employees like Luo Xuan who are unwilling to work in Zhiren Company will suffer a great disadvantage. For the same work and quality of works, Luo Xuan will earn at least 50% less, and the benefits are also less.
After all, Zhiren Company has no supporting facilities in China, and can only give these external employees a comprehensive subsidy of 150 gold yuan each month, which includes food and accommodation expenses.
The small house that Luo Xuan rents costs 500 yuan a month, which includes food expenses, water, electricity, and cell phone bills. If one is a little frugal, 150 yuan would be enough.
China is also in great need of gold yuan and foreign exchange. For people like Luo Xuan who have earned gold yuan and have not run away, a special tax-free account will be opened to exchange it for Chinese yuan for free.
Although we know that this is not a solution, according to the latest statistics, the number of external employees of Zhiren Company in East Asia has exceeded 126,000.
And the scale is still increasing.
There are great risks involved in this. After all, the Homo Sapiens company is a ruthless company. Doing business with the Homo Sapiens company is like trying to get the skin of a tiger.
But for the sake of gold and foreign exchange, East Asia can only quench its thirst with poison.
The current sources of foreign exchange in East Asia are the cultural and entertainment industries, sales of precious and rare metals, re-export trade, remittances, wages of external employees, local specialties and handicrafts.
Obviously, these sources of money and foreign exchange are not very reliable. We could have gotten some orders by relying on electronic products and electrical appliances.
Later, because of the cooperation with America, Sapiens Corporation started to engage in optoelectronic chips and new electrical appliance industries on its own. Not only did it lose a market, but it also gained a powerful competitor.
It is most appropriate to describe it as trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice.
Up to now, we can only make money by relying on these small industries and selling resources.
However, the Japanese took a different approach and directly complained to America, their wild father, hoping that America would protect Japan's economy.
Faced with the powerful Homo sapiens company, America naturally does not want to lose Japan, its bridgehead in Asia, so it can only grit its teeth and increase its support for Japan, including selling a batch of shale oil, shale gas and food to Japan at low prices.
It is true that the crying child gets the milk.
South Korea also went to North America to cry poor.
And a certain big country can only bear it on its own.
All parties are now in a fragile balance, trying to find their own position and adjust their strategic direction.
