Meng Fanqi did not expect Li Yanhong to propose a meeting so straightforwardly.

After inquiring, he realized that Li Yanhong was currently in the headquarters of Baidu, located outside the Fifth Ring Road.

Meng Fanqi had forgotten about this. Despite being in a remote location, there were actually several major companies based here.

"Mr. Li, I cannot refuse your kind invitation. Let's meet outside instead of visiting your company." Meng Fanqi had already decided to go to Silicon Valley and focus on the development of Google. There was no need to see anything inside Baidu at this time.

In his opinion, Li Yanhong would not be able to offer better conditions than Google to persuade him to join.

Therefore, the purpose of this meeting for Meng Fanqi was to confirm the possibility of cooperation.

When it comes to discussing cooperation, it's better to do it outside.

Meng Fanqi was facing a big shot of this level for the first time.

He was already at a disadvantage in terms of momentum, and he didn't have the courage to go to the enemy's headquarters.

After hanging up the phone, Meng Fanqi didn't waste too much time and hurried to the agreed meeting place with Li Yanhong.

Before long, a black Mercedes S600 slowly stopped by the roadside.

Li Yanhong in the back seat rolled down the window and waved to Meng Fanqi, exuding confidence and elegance.

Meng Fanqi approached slowly and recalled that these past two years were the time when Li Yanhong successively became the richest man in China.

With a net worth of billions of dollars and a car worth over two million, he was actually being low-key.

"Mr. Li, should I sit in the back?"

"Come on up." Li Yanhong moved over and patted the seat next to him.

"So, Meng, can you tell me about this DreamNet?" Li Yanhong didn't waste any time and went straight to the point.

"How did you come up with this method? What impact do you think it will have on the world?"

"Mr. Li, do you want to ask something more specific?" Meng Fanqi smiled and said, "Why beat around the bush right from the start?"

"Hahaha! If you're willing to say, that would be even better." Li Yanhong appreciated Meng Fanqi's confident and playful attitude, "To be honest, I have already instructed my team to try their best to reproduce your results. We are trying to find some clues from the generative adversarial network you published."

"I'm not afraid to tell you this. The best result we have achieved so far is only comparable to last year's AlexNet. I can't imagine how you achieved these results."

"I'm just an ordinary undergraduate student. It's unique for you to come in person." Meng Fanqi hadn't been in contact with these companies for a while, except for not planning to join them, he used this simple and direct method to screen for sincere people.

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"Mr. Li is my senior and also from a computer science background. Our communication is between technical personnel, so I'll speak directly with the paper."

Meng Fanqi took out the paper on DreamNet from his bag. The manuscript had already been submitted and would be presented in detail at the conference in December.

There was no point in hiding it for another month. It was better to show it to Li Yanhong directly.

It didn't make much difference to Meng Fanqi, but it saved Baidu's team at least a month of development and exploration time, which meant saving a lot of money.

Just the salaries of a dozen or so researchers, which amounted to several hundred thousand yuan.

"So straightforward?" Li Yanhong's eyes lit up. He didn't expect this undergraduate student to be so efficient and directly took out the paper.

During this period, even Li Yanhong himself, let alone the dedicated researchers, was very curious about how these results were achieved.

Without wasting any more time, he quickly flipped through the paper. "Not bad, I have always been puzzled by the fact that deeper networks cannot achieve better results. According to reason, deeper layers and additional parameters should always make the model's learning ability stronger."

"This is a simple and elegant solution..." Li Yanhong exclaimed as he read the method section, "I originally expected to see very complex structures and designs, but I didn't expect your approach to be so simple and clear."

"If it's not necessary, don't add unnecessary complexity. I believe that simple and effective methods are the best and most versatile."

"Have you ever thought about how AI technology will impact human society?" Li Yanhong's car had arrived near a inconspicuous small clubhouse near Baidu's headquarters.

Li Yanhong often had important guests visiting, and he didn't want to go to Baidu's headquarters or there were many places he didn't like to go.

He had prepared some inconspicuous small bases in the vicinity, with shops that might sell wooden carvings and tea. But inside, there were one or two decent-sized rooms upstairs for meetings and negotiations.

The materials and colors used for decoration were simple and restrained, and there were not many customers in the shop. Perhaps this small shop was not originally intended for business.

This might be the style and taste of the richest man in the country?

Li Yanhong led the way into the shop, and Meng Fanqi followed closely behind.

After a few steps, they arrived at the back of the shop, and unexpectedly, there was a small garden hidden inside.

There was a small artificial waterfall on the side, with the sound of flowing water, quite elegant.

"The impact of AI on future industries may mainly be divided into three aspects." Meng Fanqi admired the scenery while answering Li Yanhong's previous question.

"From the perspective of ordinary people, it may be a bit unclear. But from the perspective of technical professionals, I think there are three main tracks: visual images, language and speech, and recommendation systems.""What field are you planning to specialize in?" Li Yanhong had assumed that Meng Fanqi was a technician specializing in a certain area, but he didn't expect his technical vision to be quite broad.

"Why must I focus on a specific field? If I set a framework for myself in advance and confine myself within it, it would easily limit my thinking." Meng Fanqi smiled, "Only children choose from multiple-choice questions, as an adult, I want it all!"

Li Yanhong subtly furrowed his brows. The content of a field is so vast, just image technology alone can be divided into categories, detection, segmentation, super-resolution, and many other major directions.

Although the undergraduate student in front of him had impressive achievements, if this was his attitude towards work, it wouldn't be very good.

However, he didn't show it, instead, he led Meng Fanqi quickly into a room in the backyard, "Come, sit."

"This is my first time having a direct conversation with a big shot like Mr. Li." Meng Fanqi took his seat calmly, but to be honest, he was still nervous. "I'm a bit rusty, I hope you don't mind, Mr. Li."

"Not at all." Li Yanhong didn't show any condescending attitude throughout the conversation, he completely maintained an equal interaction, which actually surprised Meng Fanqi a bit, "This is also my first time specifically contacting such a young undergraduate student, which shows how much potential and value your achievements have."

"Let's skip the recruitment part and talk about cooperation." Meng Fanqi smiled, causing Li Yanhong's expression to falter slightly.