430: Chapter 43 makes it possible

Shen Yan listened quietly.

The information provided by An Ran perfectly matched the daily intelligence report from the system.

It even supplemented key personnel information.

"They are moving fast. They have already rented the best office buildings in Silicon Valley and started large-scale recruitment."

"Their goal is very clear: produce the product in the shortest time, seize the market, and then sell it at a high price or push for an IPO."

"This is their usual playbook."

After An Ran finished speaking, she suddenly asked a question.

"Shen Yan, why are you suddenly concerned about this? Are you planning to expand the market overseas?"

Shen Yan smiled without speaking.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

An Ran was also silent for a few seconds, then understood.

"I get it."

"If you need my help with anything, just ask anytime."

"After all, I am also an investor in 'pangu'. The bigger the market, the more dividends I get."

Her words were very direct.

This was also why Shen Yan liked working with her.

Smart, direct, no beating around the bush.

"Okay."

Shen Yan hung up the phone, his gaze returning to the window.

The car had already driven into the city center.

In his mind, a massive chessboard was slowly unfolding.

Vision Dynamics, Blackstone Capital, Kevin Zhang...

You want to use my old ticket to board the passenger ship of capital.

Then I will switch to an aircraft carrier and sail directly in front of you.

He took out his phone and sent a message to Chen Guangke.

"Get ready. Return to the company for a meeting."

Three hours later, at the top-floor conference room of YanHui Technology.

The atmosphere was somewhat heavy.

Shen Yan sat in the main seat, with Chen Guangke and Wu Ya seated on either side of him.

Opposite the long conference table were Dr. Li Bo, the person in charge of the artificial intelligence project, and several core team leaders under him.

Li Bo was in his early forties, wearing black-rimmed glasses, with slightly thinning hair—the typical image of a top technical expert.

At this moment, his brow was furrowed tightly.

On the large display screen in the center of the conference room, the overall architecture diagram of the 'pangu' project was displayed—complex, precise, and full of technological flair.

This was the crystallization of nearly a year of hard work by him and his team.

"Mr. Shen, you mean... you want us to stop all subsequent development of the 'pangu' project right now?"

Dr. Li Bo's voice carried a trace of disbelief.

"We are about to enter the internal testing phase. Stopping at this point, all previous efforts..."

"It's not stopping."

Shen Yan spoke, his voice not loud, but instantly suppressing all discussion.

"It's about changing the path we are taking."

He stood up and walked to the display screen.

He picked up a marker and drew a simple schematic diagram next to the complex architecture chart.

One large circle connected to several smaller circles.

"The architecture of 'pangu', I call it 'Democracy'."

"Vision, hearing, and text—three information sources with equal status, jointly making decisions."

"This is very efficient when dealing with simple emotions."

"But when facing complex emotions, like when someone is saying one thing but meaning another, their language, expression, and tone contradict each other."

"At this time, 'Democracy' will fall into chaos and be unable to determine which information source has higher weight."

Shen Yan's voice echoed in the silent conference room.

"Therefore, its accuracy can never break through a certain ceiling."

Dr. Li Bo pushed up his glasses.

"Mr. Shen, we certainly know about this problem you mentioned. It is a recognized difficulty in the industry, an inherent flaw in symmetric architecture."

"But currently, this is the most mature and only feasible solution."

"Our team is trying to use more complex algorithms to optimize weight distribution, but this requires time."

"We don't have time."

Shen Yan's single sentence blocked all of Li Bo's explanations.

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.

"Just while we were meeting, a Silicon Valley company, holding an architecture almost identical to ours, just secured thirty million US dollars in financing."

"Their staffing and financial strength far exceed ours."

"If we continue down this path, in three months at most, we will be completely crushed on the beach by them using the same product and much stronger capital."

"What?!"

Dr. Li Bo suddenly stood up, his face shocked.

The other team leaders also looked at each other, their expressions instantly turning ugly.

They were purely technical personnel, not sensitive to business matters.

But they understood what Shen Yan said.

This meant that the results of their year of hard work had been stolen by others.

And the thief was richer and faster than them.

Chen Guangke clenched his fist.

"Damn it, it's those bastards again!"

He recalled the experiences of plagiarism and poaching when the company first started.

Wu Ya was calmer. She looked at Shen Yan.

"Mr. Shen, what should we do now?"

Shen Yan did not answer immediately.

He used the marker to write 'Main Core' on the large circle and 'Auxiliary Node' on the small circles next to it.

Then he used arrows to point the small circles toward the large circle.

"We must change 'Democracy' to 'Centralized System'."

"This is our new plan—janus."

"Establish an absolute main processing core specifically for analyzing the most critical information, such as semantics."

"Simultaneously, establish multiple lightweight auxiliary nodes to rapidly capture those fleeting secondary pieces of information, such as micro-expressions, or even changes in breathing and heart rate."

"Finally, the main core will conduct asymmetric weighted judgment based on the information transmitted by the auxiliary nodes."

"Simply put, we will no longer let all information have an equal dialogue, but rather let one 'brain' listen to the reports from all 'senses' and then make the final ruling."

The conference room fell into a dead silence.

All the technical personnel stared wide-eyed at the simple, almost rudimentary schematic on the screen.

But in their minds, it was as if an atomic bomb had been dropped.

This idea...

It was too crazy!

It completely subverted the existing theoretical foundation of Artificial Intelligence!

Dr. Li Bo's breathing became rapid.

He leaned on the table, staring intently at the schematic, his lips trembling slightly.

"Asymmetric... decentralized..."

"Is this... is this simulating the intuition of the human brain?"

"Theoretically... theoretically it is feasible! But how to solve the massive computing power consumption and data transmission latency involved? How can the main core avoid being interfered with by massive secondary information? How to guarantee the capture precision of the auxiliary nodes?"

He rapidly fired off several core technical challenges.

Each one was enough to keep a top team researching for several years.

Shen Yan turned around and looked at him.

"These problems are what you need to solve next."

"I don't care what method you use, or how many all-nighters you pull."

"I want to see the initial model of janus within two months."

"Two months?!" Dr. Li Bo cried out, "Mr. Shen, that's impossible! This is equivalent to starting over, from scratch! Just building the underlying architecture would take at least half a year..."

"Then make it possible."

Shen Yan interrupted him, his tone brooking no argument.