In November 2013, Meng Fanqi's life finally became less busy.

For the past six months since his rebirth, he had been busy preparing for the initial stage of his thesis, experiments, and the recently concluded IMAGENET competition.

These things were the core capital that allowed him to negotiate with technology giants when he attended the conference in Australia in December.

To be honest, even for someone who had been reborn, it was not easy to accomplish these things on his own.

As for Tang Huang, he was just a useless ornament, serving little purpose.

The better and more solid the preliminary work was done, the higher the starting point in the industry. This had a great impact on the future path.

Now, with the announcement of the competition results and the publication of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper, the past six months of hard work were finally paying off.

When Meng Fanqi participated in the competition and published the paper on arxiv, he deliberately did not leave his email information, wanting to enjoy a month of leisure.

The championship of DreamNet and the publication of the Generative Adversarial Networks had an unexpectedly huge impact, which made Meng Fanqi extremely grateful for his decision not to leave his email.

Meng Fanqi's deliberate way of announcing the paper did have a certain effect, but the original speed and effect of dissemination were far from being as good as they were now.

The real catalyst was the promotion by this big shot, Ben Gio, on social media.

"Ian found me early today and said he came up with a brilliant idea. I talked to him for a long time and agreed that it was a very genius idea. Unfortunately, someone else had just completed this work. And it can be said that they did it perfectly. They have already published the complete paper and experimental results. (Link to the paper). It's a very amazing result, but it also makes me somewhat worried. As AI capabilities improve rapidly, how to distinguish between true and false information is becoming an issue worth paying attention to."

Ben Gio didn't actually intend to promote it. The issue he was most concerned about in this matter was still AI ethics and the problem of distinguishing between true and false. He hoped that AI technology could benefit humanity, but at the same time, it needed to be controlled and not cause too many troubles.

However, as the three patriarchs of the genre, the papers mentioned by him naturally attracted a large number of cutting-edge scholars and a large number of media outlets waiting for material.

The scholars who discovered the value and foresight of this paper, as well as the enthusiastic media, would continue to recommend and promote each other.

Ben Gio's tweet greatly accelerated the process of the Generative Adversarial Networks technology being noticed by the academic community.

But after the first wave of excitement passed, everyone looked at each other, not knowing who this author Meng was.

Now, the only person who knew Meng Fanqi's contact information was Alex, who had already joined the Google team.

Alex had sent an email to inquire about Meng Fanqi earlier, but unfortunately, Meng Fanqi, as a person from China, was still in the country. If he didn't take the initiative to contact others by email, he wouldn't have seen it because he didn't pay much attention to it.

At first, Alex didn't pay much attention either. There were still thirty or forty days before Meng Fanqi would appear in front of the world in early December when he went to the conference in Australia.

His purpose was just to invite Meng Fanqi on behalf of Google and have a face-to-face meeting before the conference. This matter wouldn't take too long.

But the huge response caused by the Generative Adversarial Networks made him suddenly nervous.

Firstly, this meant that Meng's level and achievements were still far beyond their imagination. As someone who had taken a similar path last year, Alex thought he was the least likely to underestimate the other party's value, but he didn't expect to underestimate it after all.

Secondly, the most fatal point was that although Meng seemed to deliberately hide his contact information, his collaborator, Professor Fu, was a well-known figure in the mathematics field in China.

Alex searched for information about President Fu and suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Through this collaborator, it was very likely that others had already obtained specific contact information.

Even tech giants like Baidu in China might have already gone to this university to have a conversation with him.

Alex recalled the fierce scene last year when Baidu and Google bid for his team, and suddenly felt a bit dazed.

The offensive and defensive situation was different.

Thinking of this, he couldn't wait for Meng Fanqi to respond to his previous email to confirm if he was the person he was looking for.

He also didn't think about why the other party hadn't replied to his email.

He found his mentor, Hinton, and the main person in charge, Jeff, and quickly finalized the general range of specific conditions, preparing a letter of intent.

Once the other party replied, he could directly send the detailed conditions to Meng Fanqi's email.

It contained Google's sincerity, including the position of a researcher, nature of work, specific salary and benefits, as well as solutions for visas and green cards, accommodation, moving expenses, equity, signing fees, and various other matters.Everything was thoroughly considered, and multiple alternative options were provided for his selection.

Finally, there was an invitation.

The letter indicated that Google hoped to have a face-to-face meeting as soon as possible. It could be in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, California, or Google's representatives could travel to Yan Jing, or even in Sydney, Australia, which was the final venue for IMAGENET this year.

Later on, Meng Fanqi, who finally remembered to check his mailbox, was quite surprised.

Alex had been very proactive in responding to him and solving his problems.

However, when his letter arrived, he had not checked his mailbox for almost a week. Meng Fanqi's face turned red, and even he felt quite embarrassed.

Looking at the specific time of the email, Meng Fanqi roughly guessed the situation.

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Perhaps it was because he was in a hurry, or perhaps his published paper had caused quite a stir.

The second email from Alex was no longer in his own name, but expressed intentions and invitations on behalf of Google.

Meng Fanqi briefly replied, formally getting to know each other. Not long after, Alex directly replied with an email with an attachment.

This email gave him a preliminary letter of intent. It was not a very formal letter of intent, more like an introduction, or even a menu.

He was not only passively choosing whether to accept or not, many options were given for him to consider first, and finalize during the face-to-face meeting.

This was the most tense and exciting moment for Meng Fanqi since his rebirth. Everything he had done before was to exchange for the bigger and bigger numbers in these tech giants' letters of intent.

When he received this email, Meng Fanqi understood that the most risky stage had passed. He was about to gain far more resources than he currently had, and his future journey would only become smoother and wider.

The moment he opened the file, he had a vague feeling that his time, his life was accelerating from this moment.

The familiar environment, the rhythm of life and life itself would no longer be the same. A brand new door was opening at this moment, emitting an incredibly dazzling golden light.