103: The Mi 3 is "secured" this time!

"Hey, why was this update mandatory? Why do I feel like little star isn't as smart as before after updating?"

"I don't know. Mine was also a mandatory update this morning. The app says it fixed a major bug, but I don't really feel any difference; it can still hold continuous conversations in some scenarios."

"Do you guys think this little star has developed self-awareness?"

"Hahahaha, has the person above watched too many movies or read too many sci-fi novels? How could this crappy speaker have self-awareness? You've got to be joking!"

"Are you obsessed with The Matrix? There isn't even a true artificial intelligence yet, and you're saying it can awaken? If you're going to say that, I'll say AlphaGo came out of the computer today and slapped my dog, Da Huang."

"Stop talking about that useless stuff. Have you guys noticed that little star has opened a training platform? In the future, you can actually train her according to the personality you want."

"Aside from everything else, now I don't even touch my phone to turn on the fan at home; I just let little star do it for me. It's just that there are still too few Red Star devices. I urgently need a machine that can automatically open and close curtains and windows,"

"I always find I've forgotten to close the curtains when I go to bed at night, and I'm too lazy to get up."

"Good idea. Have you seen the recent news? Another gas tank explosion. Can Red Star release a device to automatically close gas tank valves? That way, we can check if the valve is closed at any time."

Watching the netizens' discussion about this mandatory update, Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that they hadn't noticed anything.

In just a few days, that computing power shouldn't have caused the main body of Xiao Ai to undergo an iteration.

This also served as a reminder to Chen Chen that his personal security level must be raised another notch, and that the things provided by the system really shouldn't be used recklessly!

One slip-up could easily land him in prison or make him transmigrate (kick the bucket) again.

But what he didn't know was that the FBI, based on materials submitted by the joint laboratory of Fruit and the University of Pennsylvania, had already raised Cheng Wenfei's threat level by another notch.

They felt that Red Star was able to develop classmate xiao xing so quickly entirely because of Professor Cheng, an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, and they were still bitter about letting Cheng Wenfei leave the USA back then.

Dami Company.

On the morning of the 18th, Lei Jun pushed all his appointments back; he wanted to see the launch and sales of the mi 3 generation with his own eyes.

While Red Star hadn't released the red star 3rd generation yet, he planned to use this time to seize as many users as possible.

Once the red star 3 was released, it would definitely divert a large portion of the mi 3's target users.

To this end, Lei Jun directly had Lin Bing prepare 400,000 units in stock.

This number might not seem large, but for Xiaomi, it was actually quite a lot. These weren't produced only after receiving user orders; they were manufactured in advance and stacked in the warehouse so they could be shipped to users immediately once sales began.

Xiaomi was so pressured by Red Star's competition that they didn't dare play the hunger marketing game anymore. No stock? Fine, I'll go buy Red Star's.

Anyway, the products from both companies are about the same.

Buying from either is just buying.

"President Lei."

Seeing Lei Jun walk into the operations department, Wang Huateng hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"Mm, how are the preparations?"

"Don't worry, President Lei. 200,000 units of the Qualcomm platform and 200,000 units of the Nvidia platform mi 3 are ready. As soon as sales open, we can ship the phones immediately."

"We are ready for battle."

Lei Jun patted Wang Huateng, signaling him to sit down, while he stood behind him, ready to watch the sales data.

In Lei Jun's view, the first sale of the mi 3 was truly a battle. He had specifically requested 200,000 units of the mi 3 equipped with the Nvidia Tegra 4 processor, wanting to see how the market would accept it, and also planning to sneak in a victory while Red Star hadn't released a new phone yet.

The order signed with Nvidia was for 2 million units. The reason Lei Jun was able to get the Tegra 4 at a very low price was the condition that he order at least 1 million units.

This was Old Huang's bundled sales; if you wanted it cheap, you had to buy at least 1 million units.

Lei Jun felt that Nvidia's Tegra 4 had very strong performance, on par with the snapdragon 800, though it was a bit harder to optimize. However, compared to Qualcomm's snapdragon 800, the price was significantly cheaper.

In his own words, it was extremely "cost-effective."

So with a wave of his hand, he directly ordered 2 million units, which made Old Huang so happy he gave Lei Jun another discount.

This was also a key reason why Xiaomi could obtain mobile components at relatively cheap prices: only by taking goods on a large scale could they get more favorable prices.

As the clock hand slowly pointed to ten o'clock, the "Reserved" on the mi 3 purchase page changed to "Add to Cart."

Before long, more than half of the 400,000 mi 3 generation units had been ordered by consumers.

"Sigh!"

Lei Jun sighed. When the da mi 1st generation was being snapped up, consumers were so frantic; sales time was measured in seconds.

Since Red Star's resurgence, Xiaomi had never seen what "sold out in seconds" looked like again.

At this time, the people arranged by Shen Rou also purchased some mi 3 generation units, including 3 from the snapdragon 800 platform and 5 from the Tegra 4 platform.

Lei Jun stared at the sales data for a full seven minutes. It wasn't until he saw that the snapdragon 800 platform mi 3 was sold out and there were still 100,000 units of the Tegra 4 platform in stock that he moved his body again.

"300,000 units in 7 minutes."

Lei Jun muttered the figure to himself. He was already quite satisfied with such sales results; after all, Nvidia's Tegra 4 hadn't been tested by the market yet. This result in the first few minutes showed that many consumers were still relatively confident.

Moreover, with the snapdragon 800 platform sold out, some users who didn't manage to buy the Qualcomm platform would turn around and order the Tegra 4 platform mi 3.

It would definitely sell out.

Lei Jun wasn't worried about this at all.

"Classmate Xiao Wang, go to the Social Media Platform immediately and announce our sales data. Say that 600,000 units of mi 3 were all sold out within 8 minutes."

"Allocate another marketing budget to buy some trending status."

"No problem, President Lei. I'll get right on it."

After saying that, Wang Huateng notified Xiaomi's marketing department to immediately coordinate with the Social Media Platform's PR.

Soon, the trending topic #600,000 mi 3 generation Units Sold Out in 8 Minutes# appeared on the Social Media Platform, and its popularity kept rising.

Looking at the trending status of the mi 3 on the Social Media Platform, Lei Jun laughed and said, "It's in the bag!"

At this time, Chen Chen, who was even more concerned about the mi 3 sales than Lei Jun, looked at the official sales data released by Xiaomi and also showed a satisfied smile.

"It's a sure thing!"