Tsinghua University has always been a strong institution of higher learning in China, from which countless talents have also emerged, some people to engage in research and development, some people to start a business, but when the Tsinghua Xueba engaged in research and development to start a business, but the United States did not hesitate to block, what is going on?
On December 16 this year, the United States publicly stated that it would add Megvii Technology and other companies to the blacklist of investment, along with Yuncong Technology, one of the "FOUR LITTLE DRAGONs of AI", and DJI, a drone research and development company.
According to the rhetoric of the United States, megvii technology and other companies have a huge technological threat to the United States, so they will prohibit the United States and related companies from investing in them.
Coincidentally, in the same month, SenseTime, one of the giants of artificial intelligence, was also blacklisted, and the "Four Little Dragons of Domestic Artificial Intelligence" were all on the blacklist of the United States.
Megvii Technology is no exception, it is understood that this is a joint venture between Tsinghua scholars, the founders are Tang Wenbin, Yang Mu and Yin Qi.
The three of them were like-minded when they were studying at Tsinghua University, and after graduation, they saw the development prospects of the domestic artificial intelligence industry, and they would meet to start a business, but they did not expect that they had not yet been listed and developed, and they were blocked by the United States.
However, the reason why the United States wants to blacken Megvii Technology is not out of thin air, because Megvii Technology has indeed touched the soft underbelly of the United States in the field of visual information collection, so it will be poisoned.
It is worth mentioning that Megvii Technology, which can make the United States like a great enemy and completely blackmail, has only 1400 R&D teams, although the scale is not large, but the research and development categories and technical division of labor are very perfect and detailed.
It is understood that in addition to the most common technical work, even the research and development team of some high-end experimental topics have joined Megvii Technology.
From 2017 to 2019, The country has given Megvii Technology a total of 200 million yuan in technology research and development subsidies.
Almost all of this money has been used by Megvii Technology to reward and recruit high-end technical talents, and in 2017 alone, Megvii Technology issued salaries and benefits to the company's scientific research team as high as 139 million yuan.
By the second year, Megvii Technology's salary investment reached 420 million yuan.
Moreover, Megvii Attaches great importance to research and development, from 2018 to 2020, Megvii Technology has invested a total of 2.64 billion yuan.
However, what is surprising is that after taking out so much money for research and development, Megvii Technology is still a company that loses money.
From 2018 to 2020, the company's cumulative profit loss is as high as 12.7 billion yuan, and it can even be said that the more Megvii Technology invests, the more it loses.
And the company has invested 2.64 billion yuan for 3 consecutive years, which seems to be a huge amount, but in fact, it is less than half of the investment of peer companies.
What is even more incredible is that even if they invest more in other peers, they have suffered losses of varying degrees.
As the first of the "FOUR AI Tigers", SenseTime, as of June this year, the company's loss in three years was as high as 24.3 billion yuan.
Even Yitu Technology, which has a relatively small scale, has lost 6 billion yuan in 2 years.
In the face of the problem of losses in the whole industry, many people expressed their incomprehension, why the more they invested, the more they lost money.
It turns out that the artificial intelligence industry is currently in the stage of initial rise, it is not like the e-commerce and financial industry, there is money to run everything, in fact, this industry must have money to invest, but also to have technical personnel to support.
Simply put, investing money may not necessarily have a return, but if you don't invest money, there must be no return.
Therefore, this is also why the number of domestic artificial intelligence companies is large, but the number of large enterprises has not been much, precisely because it is necessary to invest a lot of money and technology, which limits most enterprises to stagnate.
These are all a pain that the industry has to experience, the so-called how to see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain, if there is no early investment and loss, the domestic AI industry has no experience and technology to speak of, and it is very difficult to make progress.
However, at present, the United States has blocked all the head companies in the domestic AI industry, which just shows that domestic companies have developed to the point where the United States feels threatened.
Therefore, this also shows that the initial investment of major enterprises is very correct, if the major enterprises can continue to maintain such investment and research and development momentum, it is not impossible to upgrade the technology of artificial intelligence to the world level in the future.