Short All-In

Lin Yuan exclaimed, "Musk, whether from an ideological or behavioral standpoint, has always been a traditional conservative."

"Although he appears unconventional, if you look at him, he never gets involved with those LGBTQ demons and monsters. The spirit of a tech fanatic, isn't that the pioneering spirit of the cowboys in the West, riding horses with guns blazing?"

As for making money globally, globalization and conservatives are not inherently contradictory.

After globalization, conservatives can also collect tech taxes through hard-core technology, rather than by controlling media and taking a 'luxury goods' approach, relying on packaging to collect tech taxes.

Therefore, the biggest divergence between Musk and that group of people lies in the choice of path for the empire's future.

He insists on the straightforward approach of developing the West, while the other group employs a strategy of division and disintegration from a cultural perspective.

So, the final problem becomes dividing camps based on ideology."

Lin Yuan stopped looking at the cards on the plastic board, "If Musk wants to turn the empire back from the wrong path, he must unite all forces whose ideologies do not have major conflicts, and first suppress those demons and monsters."

This makes sense, which is why when Silicon Valley tech forces, represented by Facebook, pledged their allegiance, the Mar-a-Lago Old Boy faction readily accepted.

Therefore, Musk cannot start anew on issues like OpenAI.

Because starting anew would offend people like Bill Gates.

And this group, represented by Bill Gates, does not have fundamental conflicts of interest with Musk. Because for technology companies, the essential nature of how Eagle Country's system changes does not affect their ability to make money.

What Musk wants is the empire's own strength, while his opponents aim to disintegrate their rivals. In fact, there is no fundamental contradiction between them on the issue of globalization.

So, I know the answer."

After Zhang Yan's guidance, Lin Yuan had already analyzed the answer – to unite the tech forces, Musk could not slap people like Bill Gates in the face on issues like OpenAI. Therefore, Lin Yuan needed to be the bad guy.

"Since that's the case, I'll give him a hand."

"What?" Zhang Yan was a bit confused, "He played you, and you still want to help him? You can't be serious."

Lin Yuan, however, had a mischievous smile, "Of course, I'm going to help him well."

Zhang Yan instinctively sensed Lin Yuan's ill intentions, "Senior Brother, are you being sarcastic?"

"No, I'm not a narrow-minded person. Isn't Musk trying to unite various forces to kill off those LGBTQ demons and monsters? Isn't he trying to revive the empire's ambition? I'll create some external pressure for him.

People can't be taught by people, but they learn instantly from events.

Musk made a mistake. Why do I have to be the bad guy to promote open source? As long as a powerful opponent is created externally, it will force the people around him to improve, won't it?

It's the catfish effect."

Zhang Yan understood the catfish effect, but she didn't know what Lin Yuan specifically planned to do. "Senior Brother, what exactly do you want to do?"

"I'm just idle anyway."

Lin Yuan sighed and looked around. For his personal safety, he couldn't even leave the main gate. Moreover, there were people constantly staking out the surrounding high points. This even meant he and Zhang Yan had to close the curtains and turn off the lights to do anything.

And they couldn't make too much noise, because the floors above and below had already been cleared out and occupied by security teams.

"Given how much trouble they've gone to protect me, I'll return the favor."

"Are you going to hand over something incredible to the country?"

Lin Yuan thought for a moment, "Let's not. It's too much trouble, and I don't want to deal with all sorts of experts and scholars. I'll just look around the domestic AI circle and find a reliable partner to collaborate with."

According to Lin Yuan's idea, the best way to give Musk some external pressure was to slap OpenAI.

Giving this effectively 'CloseAI' a good few slaps would not only get revenge for Musk's previous trickery but also actually help the other party.

Moreover, Lin Yuan could also make a huge profit in the process. Because currently, the AI on The Other Shore has formed a complete industrial chain, which includes companies like OpenAI that develop large language models, and also hardware GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA.

Although OpenAI is currently only valued and not yet listed, NVIDIA's market capitalization has already exceeded 3 trillion US dollars.

Slapping OpenAI hard could easily affect other companies in the AI industrial chain. Therefore, Lin Yuan planned to short NVIDIA.

With this in mind, he immediately contacted Musk, stating that he wanted to completely withdraw from Tesla, that he no longer wanted the billion-dollar worth of Tesla stock, and demanded immediate cash out, as cashing out these stocks would be a lengthy process.

Considering Lin Yuan's contribution to Tesla's takeout service, and Musk's guilt for having tricked him, he readily agreed to give Lin Yuan a billion US dollars in cash.

However, a billion US dollars in cash cannot be transferred all at once. This level of cash is not something that can be done with a simple online bank transfer. Musk needed to enter into a very complex equity subscription agreement with Lin Yuan, then pay taxes, and then there was the issue of how the funds would enter the country.

Lin Yuan couldn't wait that long. He directly asked the other party to open a stock investment account for him on Wall Street and put as much money as possible into it.

Stock investment? Musk didn't understand why Lin Yuan suddenly developed such an interest, as both of them were clearly not people who liked to dabble in finance. When people like them dabble in finance, there's only one goal—to use finance as a tool to make some money.

"Lin, do you have any inside information?"

"Yes, I'm going to short NVIDIA."

Lin Yuan had no intention of hiding it from the other party.

"What? Are you crazy? NVIDIA's stock currently has no room for shorting. What exactly are you thinking?"

"Literally, I just want to short NVIDIA."

"Alright."

Musk was too busy to dwell on it with Lin Yuan. He quickly opened an account for Lin Yuan and put about 100 million US dollars into it. Since all of this was done in Eagle Country, it didn't require too many formalities.

Musk considered it as giving Lin Yuan 100 million to play around with at a casino. Yes, in his opinion, the stock market was a casino.

Then Lin Yuan actually took all the money to borrow and short NVIDIA's stock, and even added ten times leverage.

"Crazy?" Musk completely failed to understand Lin Yuan's insane behavior, because even he, upon entering a casino, wouldn't inexplicably bet 100 million all at once.

Due to the ten times leverage, for every point NVIDIA's stock rose, Lin Yuan's losses would be magnified tenfold.

Musk was well aware of the Old Boy's upcoming national policy. The Old Boy would definitely continue to support the AI industry, as this was the core concept of Eagle Country's technological hegemony. So he felt that Lin Yuan was bound to lose money. He even wondered if Lin Yuan was giving up on himself, deliberately using his money to vent his anger.

Forget it, Musk ultimately let him be.

As for Lin Yuan, he began to look for suitable partners.