The chat with the Baidu Shanghai branch gave Meng Fanqi a lot of inspiration, at least it allowed him to establish a strategy of application before technology. He just needed to deal with the Google advertising algorithm first, and then start his business.

The advertising algorithm is the fastest and most profitable thing to invest in right now, and it must rely on a large platform. It is difficult to achieve the same scale of income by starting a business on his own.

The initial plan for starting a business is to first lower the threshold of application technology, have a sufficient mass base, and let the facial modification algorithm penetrate deeply into people's hearts. This will be more conducive to the company's development and to the launch of his own facial recognition algorithm with discerning capabilities.

"I need to study management knowledge carefully, and I need to hire a professional manager as soon as possible in the next few days."

Meng Fanqi didn't dare to take on too much when starting a business. He could be the chief technology officer in terms of technology, but there was no need to pretend to be something he's not in overall management.

However, being the boss means that there will be a significant amount of expenses for company space, equipment, and hiring personnel.

Although he had some money on hand, due to the large investment in Mi Huoyou, he needed to transfer a sum of money back from his overseas account.

China has strict controls on the transfer of large amounts of overseas funds.

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The normal limit for a telegraphic transfer is only $50,000, and the first batch of funds that Meng Fanqi prepaid has now increased in value to around $4 million after the shares were sold.

After searching for a while, he found that a series of legal and compliant operations were either very cumbersome or extremely time-consuming to do on his own.

Since he was embarrassed to ask Baidu to transfer the money back that he had spent so much effort to transfer out, this time Meng Fanqi sought help from Google.

Strictly speaking, Meng Fanqi and Google currently have a one-year contract, with the first performance date being March 1, 2014.

But at the conference, Meng Fanqi had already handed over many research results with no commercial value to Hinton, which was equivalent to handing them over to Google's brain team.

This included optimization, strategies, and data enhancement methods, all of which were valuable work in the field of AI. They had already been open-sourced at the Sydney conference.

On Google's side, especially Jeff and Hinton, their treatment of Meng Fanqi was not entirely as employees.

Hinton, in particular, treated Meng Fanqi more like a mentor treating a talented junior in a university.

The internal account of the Google Brain team was given to him in advance to facilitate his choice of research direction. It was not a troublesome task to transfer this money into the country.

In 2012, the Google Shanghai branch moved into the Global Financial Center.

The several office floors rented by Google were often more than sixty stories high, which was quite astonishing.

This area was very valuable, with tall buildings nearby. The Global Financial Center's sixty stories high was enough to overlook the iconic Pearl Tower. However, public transportation was not very convenient, but fortunately, there was no clocking in and out for work, so employees could adjust their commuting times.

As Meng Fanqi entered the building, he found that most people were dressed in professional attire. This made Meng Fanqi, who was dressed plainly, feel a bit out of place.

The sixtieth floor was occupied by Google Information Technology Co., Ltd., and the sixty-first floor was occupied by Google Advertising Co., Ltd.

"This is the first time I've seen this unique Chinese homophonic translation of Google." Meng Fanqi had long heard of Google's name but had never had the opportunity to visit.

He had thought that Google had long since withdrawn from the Chinese market, but he did not expect that they still occupied such a luxurious office building in Shanghai.

Inside, there were facilities such as a cafeteria, medical room, gym, and nap room. Perhaps due to the variety of things, the workstations seemed a bit crowded.

Many of the walls were covered with large Chinese characters, such as "diligence," which was clearly a deliberate attempt to integrate into Chinese culture by foreigners.

"'Diligence' doesn't quite have that feeling," Meng Fanqi thought to himself, "If it were a Chinese company, they would definitely have a big 'wolf' character written on the wall."

In 2010, Google's withdrawal from China was grand, but it seems that they have left behind quite a bit of business.

The main focus of Google Shanghai is to help Chinese companies go global.

"After all, search is only a small part. Relying solely on selling search bidding is ultimately unsustainable. It is indeed a very wise decision to switch to selling advertising." Facing the person who came to greet him, Xi Xiaohu, Meng Fanqi couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, Meng Fanqi had never expected that the first person he would meet at Google Advertising would be Xi Xiaohu, a big shot.

Xi Xiaohu graduated from Princeton and joined Google during the startup phase. He is also the core developer of Google's advertising business and has twice received the highest award from Google for his outstanding contributions to the advertising system.

In recent years, he has come to the Google China branch, and due to the internal positioning of Google Yanjing as search and Google Shanghai as advertising, Xi Xiaohu has taken over the advertising business.

"Technically, there's no need for me to come and meet you," Xi Xiaohu could tell that Meng Fanqi recognized him at a glance, so he explained with a smile, "I came to meet you because Jeff has a high opinion of you, and because I heard that you are going to make improvements to our advertising system, so I decided to come and meet you."

Although Xi Xiaohu's smile was bright, Meng Fanqi could tell that he had some reservations about Meng Fanqi's first task after joining Google Brain.

This was understandable. Xi Xiaohu had full confidence in the advertising system he had been responsible for for many years, and he was not the kind of person who would make small changes to the system and platform for short-term profits.

Meng Fanqi thought to himself that Xi Xiaohu probably thought that he was going to use some tricks to profit from the advertising algorithm.

To be honest, if it weren't for the widespread praise of Meng Fanqi's recent papers and Jeff's high praise, Xi Xiaohu wouldn't have given him a good reception. Choosing to improve the advertising algorithm as soon as he arrived was like saying, "I can see that there's a problem here."Meng Fanqi noticed his thoughts but didn't mind, and humbly replied, "I dare not say it's an improvement, just curious, coming to learn."

In Meng Fanqi's view, the slight hostility in Xi Xiaohu's eyes was insignificant. Whether it was a natural reaction or not, everything would be resolved after the experimental results came out.

Speaking of which, he was familiar with Xi Xiaohu not because Xi Xiaohu was the core developer of Google's advertising system AdWords, nor because he had served as the chief technology officer of popular companies such as Didi and Xiaohongshu.

It was because in early 23, Xi Xiaohu was accused of bigamy, and the case was tried in Shanghai.

The rumors about this matter were flying all over the place, and no information about Xi Xiaohu's original wife could be found.

According to Meng Fanqi's analysis of various sources of information, a vague timeline can be deduced. It seems that Xi Xiaohu originally had a marriage in the United States.

During his tenure as the chief technology officer of Xiaohongshu in 15, he also sparked a romance with his senior colleague Wan Yanjing. Later, for some reason, he didn't divorce before getting married again.

A few years later, the vice president of Xi Xiaohu's Penguin Division also couldn't stay and hurriedly resigned.

The specific reasons were vague, and it was unclear whether it was because of this case.

Looking at his upright appearance, it was really hard to imagine that he would have such a story.