Chapter 1093: Silicon Valley Where Winter Has Come

When Musk finally made up his mind to find Xingkong Technology, he found that he was still a step behind after all.

To his surprise, the first person to react was actually Zuckerberg, who he thought would try his best to prevent Xingkong Technology's virtual reality technology from landing in North America.

By the time his secretary reported the matter to him, this cunning old fox had taken his own Facebook to split up the business of its subsidiary Oculus, laying off more than 2,000 employees, Only the core employees in charge of the main business have been retained, and it seems that they have made a timely stop loss, and they plan to defect to Xingkong Technology when the westerly wind blows across the Pacific Ocean.

Prior to this, when Facebook announced the acquisition of Oculus for US$2 billion in 2014, it was widely regarded by the outside world as Facebook's move to pay for the future.

I have to say, this ending is really embarrassing.

In fact, Zuckerberg was forced to.

Maybe give Oculus enough time to gradually improve the head-mounted virtual reality technology, and maybe one day there will be an immersive virtual reality technology that can achieve 99% somatosensory simulation.

However, when he saw that Xingkong Technology had moved his dream technology to the product launch conference, he knew clearly in his heart that he no longer had the opportunity to take his time.

Instead of letting Oculus drag Facebook to fight a battle that is almost impossible to win and fulfill its ambition to dominate the field of virtual reality, it is more important to keep its core business.

He knows exactly what's really important to Facebook and what's just icing on the cake.

Zuckerberg has a big family business, and he can still afford to pay a mere US$2 billion. Over the years, Facebook has paid more than US$2 billion for the fines imposed on it by various countries.

However, for other virtual reality concept startups in Silicon Valley, it is as bleak as a nightmare. It was as if we had just passed through the early spring of March and stepped into the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, without any preparation, and even without any hope of surviving it.

When the virtual reality concept start-up companies in Silicon Valley were crying and howling, many smart people like Zuckerberg had found Xingkong Technology and started to discuss cooperation.

If the general trend is unstoppable, it is undoubtedly a better approach to follow the trend.

At least when the vast majority of people do not see any other technology that can become a substitute for the "Phantom" system, or that can bypass the patent barriers that Xingkong Technology has set up in virtual reality technology, it is far better to cooperate with Xingkong Technology. The risk of going the other way is much lower.

This situation is the same as that when Microsoft relied on the graphical Windows system to kill the Quartet in the personal computer market.

The only difference is that Xingkong Technology not only holds the world's first neural access operating system based on virtual reality technology, but also holds the patent of virtual reality technology...

It's not just the tech world that's causing the shock, but the global financial circle as well.

While shocked by the advancement of virtual reality technology, almost all financial-related companies are evaluating the possible impact of this new technology.

Since Xingkong Technology, like most companies with good capital and operating conditions, did not choose to go public to collect money, there is no way to give a valuation that meets everyone's expectations through the market.

However, according to the evaluation of major financial companies on Wall Street, the valuation of virtual reality business alone has exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and the future value-added expectations are simply difficult to estimate.

And this is a conservative estimate considering the lack of understanding of the specific business model.

If it is true as many people have speculated, Xingkong Technology intends to take cloud computing as its main business, integrate all future virtual reality networks into one or more supercomputing centers, and use this to promote hard or soft payment projects ...

The value behind this, let alone 100 billion.

It's not even something money can measure at all...

Although Xingkong Technology's product launch can satisfy the curiosity of the general public to a certain extent, for this technology that is about to bring about earth-shaking changes to human society, a mere product launch is obviously not enough.

Many questions have not been answered yet, and reporters all over the world hope to have the opportunity to interview Lu Zhou.

However, no matter how these reporters tried to infiltrate Jinda University, or even avoid the security guards and sneak into the number theory class, they could not find Academician Lu at all.

During this period of time, he seemed to have disappeared, out of people's sight.

Only those who have an unusual relationship with him know that he is retreating for a great work.

At the same time, when the whole world was crazy about virtual reality technology, a paper published in "Mathematical Invention" also aroused strong repercussions from mathematicians around the world.

Through a clever mathematical method, the thesis obtains the hierarchical structure of motive corresponding to the cohomology ring, and combines all the cohomology theories into an abstract geometric object.

As we all know, motivation theory studies the abstract meaning behind numbers.

From this point of view, it seems that Lu Zhou, who has just solved the Riemann conjecture, is not satisfied with this crown that has stood in the mathematics world for nearly two centuries, but has gradually penetrated into the core field of algebraic geometry—namely, research The hidden geometry behind the numbers.

This is not only the pursuit of mathematicians, but has even risen to the level of philosophy and even theology.

If he succeeds, he will undoubtedly be the greatest scholar since the time of Archimedes.

If you want to find a person whose achievements are comparable to his, I am afraid that you will have to wait for a long time in the future.

In addition to this topical paper, what attracted many people's attention was that the reviewer of this paper was actually Perelman, who had quit mathematics for many years.

This hermit who once aggressively rejected a one million dollar prize, and publicly expressed his disappointment with the current mathematics world, actually accepted the invitation to review the "Inventions of Mathematics"?

This is unbelievable in the eyes of most scholars.

Anyone who knows him knows how much he "hates" the "arrogant" review mode of academic journals. Almost every paper is published on Arxiv to communicate with young colleagues in the form of open discussion.

So much so that he has even become a role model in the minds of "folk mathematicians" on Arxiv without his knowing.

Of course, even if the surprises of all of them are added up, I am afraid that they will not be more surprised than Lu Zhou himself.

Not because of my own reviewers.

But on the third day after the thesis was published, when Lu Zhou, who had finished his retreat, came to the office and planned to go to the classroom to teach undergraduates in person after a long absence, an unexpected person stood in his office doorway.

Looking at the expressionless Perelman, Lu Zhou, who was holding the textbook under his elbow, froze for a while and didn't speak for a while.

Perelman: "What's wrong?"

"...It's nothing, it's just that I didn't think much about it." When he came back to his senses, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said, "I think any mathematician in this world will feel that Perelman is standing at the door of his house. So surprised... why don't you send me an email? I'll have someone pick you up at the airport."

"Isn't this a university?" Perelman frowned, but instead gave Lu Zhou a strange look, "Should I send an email in advance when I come to the university to exchange academic questions?"

"Of course not, but when visiting a specific person, I think it is necessary...Of course, I just don't care," Lu Zhou said with a smile, "Can you satisfy my curiosity? What makes you Have you decided to leave the house?"

Looking at Lu Zhou, Perelman answered concisely.

"math."

"When I was researching your thesis, I found a very interesting place. When you abstracted the cohomology theory into geometric objects, you mentioned Motive as the high-dimensional analogy of the Jacobian of the curve. I want to know why you will do."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "Actually, this is not entirely my idea. In the manuscript of Professor Grothendieck's research on Weil's conjecture, I saw something similar, so I got some inspiration—"

"Can you teach me?"

Seeing the frantic expression in Perelman's eyes, Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then said with a smile.

"Yes, yes...but there will be a number theory class in a while, and I'm afraid I won't be able to discuss this issue with you until after four o'clock."

Looking at Lu Zhou sincerely, Perelman said indifferently.

"It's okay, I can wait!"