561: Shuguang Technology is a money trap!

Over the next 24 hours, news of Artificial Intelligence Dawn predictably dominated headlines across Global newspapers or appeared in prominent news sections.

This was because the release of Artificial Intelligence Dawn held immense significance for humanity.

Even media outlets that had previously adhered to a policy of "not reporting Shuguang Technology news unless absolutely necessary" covered the relevant news this time.

As a result, the news of Artificial Intelligence Dawn unsurprisingly caused a Global sensation, astonishing countless people around the Global and surprising them with the power of Artificial Intelligence Dawn.

Naturally, this was accompanied by a continuous stream of forums and interview news releases from experts at various renowned universities across the Global.

The vast majority of these forums and interview news releases analyzed the current state of Artificial Intelligence technology.

They analyzed the future prospects of Artificial Intelligence technology, explained the technical roadmap of Artificial Intelligence Dawn, and detailed its differences from other Artificial Intelligence technologies.

They also discussed what Artificial Intelligence Dawn could do now, what it could do in the future, and whether the future world would undergo significant changes as a result.

It could be said that with the emergence of these news stories, the topic of Global media discussing the prospects of Artificial Intelligence and exploring Shuguang Technology's Artificial Intelligence technology seemed to become an enduring subject.

Of course, at this time, hundreds of millions of people across the Global were no longer really paying attention to the Global media, which was now frantically reporting on Artificial Intelligence Dawn and the astonishing achievements of Shuguang Technology, much like when the first generation of Shuguang Smart Phone was launched.

They were reporting on Artificial Intelligence Dawn breaking 300 million total users and officially surpassing 100 million paying users within 24 hours.

At this moment, hundreds of millions of people across the Global were immersed in the power of Artificial Intelligence Dawn, awestruck by its capabilities.

Because no matter what question you asked it, it could always provide a knowledgeable answer; whether it was knowledge from books or current events, it seemed almost omniscient and could always engage you in conversation.

It could be said that this Artificial Intelligence Dawn was like an omniscient confidant, speaking with a highly realistic tone and always finding topics to discuss, making you constantly want to chat with him.

Along with this situation, countless people across the Global painfully discovered that the money in their wallets was rapidly depleting, even if they had purchased a membership.

Theoretically, they could use it for one hour a day, but when you actually used it, you would find that you always had endless topics to discuss.

After all, it could handle anything from minor daily matters to recent situations you encountered, or even mathematical problems and helping you write an essay.

In such circumstances, many people naturally overspent significantly, ultimately paying a service fee of 0.3 Xia Yuan for almost every topic they asked.

What was even more infuriating was that the damned Shuguang Technology did not prompt you whether you needed to pay when you used the service; instead, it directly deducted from your account balance.

Although users knew they would be charged before using it, because there was no reminder each time, they felt little impact until their account balance reached zero.

Only then did they realize with shock that, damn it, they had unknowingly used up tens or even hundreds of Xia Yuan that they had deposited in advance!

Upon learning this result, they truly felt like spitting blood, thinking that the charges for Shuguang Technology's Artificial Intelligence Dawn were too expensive, and the charging model was too much of a rip-off.

Of course, if you asked them if they would still use Artificial Intelligence Dawn so "unrestrainedly" if they had a chance to start over, an estimated half of the Global's population would say that if given another chance, they would unhesitatingly spend their money to experience Artificial Intelligence Dawn.

So, despite many people cursing Shuguang Technology and finding its Artificial Intelligence charging model to be a rip-off, they all still expressed that Shuguang Technology's Artificial Intelligence was truly amazing!

Facing this situation, other companies across the Global naturally salivated with envy, almost going crazy with it.

Because they only needed to roughly think about it to know how much money Shuguang Technology had earned.

In less than 24 hours, Artificial Intelligence Dawn had acquired over 100 million paying users, a truly astonishing number.

While it was certain that many of these people were just trying it out and might not become monthly subscribers.

However, considering the severe overspending phenomenon among many current users of Artificial Intelligence Dawn, this 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' situation actually meant Shuguang Technology was making a huge profit.

So, at this moment, Shuguang Technology's competitors across the Global were all looking at Shuguang Technology with envious drool, unable to help but calculate how much money Shuguang Technology had earned.

But unfortunately, Shuguang Technology did not disclose how much money it had earned, although as a publicly listed company, Shuguang Technology would certainly release its financial reports during quarterly earnings.

However, now was not the period for quarterly financial reports, so Shuguang Technology naturally had the right not to disclose its corresponding financial income.

Therefore, at this time, although many people speculated that Shuguang Technology must have made a large sum of money with Artificial Intelligence Dawn.

But because there was no specific data, how much it earned remained an unknown.

However, it was certain that the most profitable entity was definitely the Shuguang R&D Center, which was responsible for developing Artificial Intelligence Dawn.

After all, they were the ones who actually held the patent for Shuguang Artificial Intelligence technology and the Shuguang Xinghai Supercomputer.

Shuguang Technology was only responsible for daily management, operations, and server-side work, and in this, neither its voice nor its share of profits was significant.

So, if asked who was the most profitable, people might immediately answer Shuguang Technology, but anyone who knew a little about the relevant information would know it was the Shuguang R&D Center!

However, Lin Chen at this moment had no time to count how much money he had made, because he was about to be overwhelmed with work.

He currently had three highly urgent and important tasks; the first was the invitation to the "Focus Interview" program.

CCTV invited him to appear on television two days later to discuss his views on the current state and future of Artificial Intelligence technology in front of hundreds of millions of people nationwide.

The second, naturally, was to select a location and site to establish the "Akashic Records - Human Knowledge Base Center", which would require massive storage equipment, many auxiliary facilities, and a large amount of capital.

Fortunately, he had now earned a large sum of money through Artificial Intelligence Dawn, so there was no financial pressure.

As for the third task, it was the expansion of the Shuguang Supercomputer.

Of course, its essence was actually for Lin Chen to quickly develop a "new type of large-scale cloud computing architecture" that utilized multiple Shuguang Xinghai Supercomputers for collaborative computing.

After all, Lin Chen thought that with the high usage price and restricted usage times, plus a single Shuguang Xinghai Supercomputer with a computing power exceeding 100 million, it would be sufficient.