Chapter 59: A $10 Billion Valuation?

Apple's stock price fell 1% in the opening hour, wiping out $8.2 billion in market value. Apple's stock price is still fluctuating, falling for three days in a row, and finally stabilized. It fell nearly 4% for three days. For any company, this decline is very large, especially for a giant like Apple.

The last time there was such a big drop was when Apple announced that it would charge Apple tips. This sudden drop is reminiscent of smart assistants.

Apple's system is closed source and cannot support smart assistants, and will no longer have an advantage in the next mobile phone market. Apple's mobile phone is the most profitable of many businesses. All Apple's stock prices have shown a downward trend. Although the decline is not very large, the impact has already come out.

This impact has caused an uproar in the market, and many media have launched reports on this topic.

"Are Army Ants Formed? "--New York Times

"Rising Giants? "—The Wall Street Journal

"Aggressive Army Ants! "—The Times

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Countless reports are overwhelming, all discussing the threat of army ants.

It was lively outside, and the Apple headquarters was not calm. A researcher with a hook nose and a beard looked at the screen code on the computer with a gloomy face.

It's been a week since they hacked back files from Army Ant's database.

This week, he was trying to figure out a way to crack this folder. Tried for so long and only made little progress today.

He didn't expect that the Army Ant Company was so difficult to deal with, and it even encrypted the data, which made him want to break his scalp.

The company's recent stock market is not very good, and he is constantly urged to crack the data package and get the source code of the intelligent assistant, otherwise he will definitely be scolded.

"OK."

The man sitting in the computer chair finally smiled. Not long after, the man's smile froze on his face, and when he saw a pile of garbled characters, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Snapped……

The computer screen was black, and the several computers next to it were all black. This scene made the man's pupils shrink.

"Fuck!"

The man shouted angrily and punched the keyboard. Don't think about it, the people from the Army Ant Company planted a virus in the data packet, and he was tricked.

With the computer black screen, the office area also began to riot.

Army Ant Corporation.

Chen Mo smiled when he heard Mo Nv's report.

He has asked Mo Nu to implant the tracking virus in the data packets. As long as the data packets are cracked, the computer will be useless when the virus spreads. This is just a small lesson for them.

Standing up from his position, Chen Mo put on his lab coat and walked into the laboratory.

Chen Mo is very calm here, but the domestic network is not calm. With the popularity of intelligent assistants, more and more interesting things have also burst out from the Internet.

In Weibo, someone posted about their girlfriend quarreling with the smart assistant, and then smashing the phone in a fit of rage. After the video was uploaded to the Internet, it attracted a lot of onlookers and laughter.

Xiaodie's chat function is also reflected in a short video.

This is not a case. Under the official Weibo of Marching Ant Company, it has been occupied by a group of complaining people.

"I've never seen such an arrogant smart assistant. Every time I scold it, it doesn't speak back and asks me to smash it. It bullies me and doesn't dare to hit it? Don't say it, I just bought a new phone."

"Product quality problem, army ants, you pay for my mobile phone. I scolded it, and it told me to put it in the water. I forgot that it was not a butterfly eye."

"It seems that I'm not the only one injured. Fortunately, it's just that the screen burst and can be replaced."

"Brothers, top me up, my phone is Nokia..."

Although the style of painting is clear and funny, many people see the main point.

With such a flexible voice interaction function,

This undoubtedly tells everyone that Army Ant's artificial intelligence is already at the forefront of research.

Artificial intelligence is the main development trend of future technology.

Whoever makes a major breakthrough in this field will rule the future market. The artificial intelligence market has been researched a long time ago, and all the many technology companies have invested a lot of money in the research of artificial intelligence.

Many market evaluation companies began to evaluate the value of Army Ant, and finally Morgan made a valuation of 10 billion US dollars.

This valuation shook financial markets. But many disagreed with Morgan's estimate, saying it was too low.

Not to mention the army ant system and butterfly eye mobile phone, just the existence of intelligent assistants, the market value has exceeded 10 billion US dollars.

Entering the global market in the future, even if only 50 million mobile phone users pay to use the smart assistant, the annual revenue of Army Ant Company will be 12 billion Chinese coins.

This is only the lowest estimate. There are billions of smartphones in the world. To be a little optimistic, the future of Army Ant is unlimited with smart assistants, and there are many derivatives of smart assistants.

$10 billion is just a minimum valuation. For the army ant company that has not yet developed, the market value of the army ant company will definitely be comparable to those of the giants when it develops in the future.

The rise of army ants has caused a huge sensation in China.

All kinds of reports on the army ants are overwhelming, and for a while, the army ant company once again became the focus of everyone's discussion.

Less than a year after its establishment and only two product launches, Army Ant has become one of the domestic technology giants, which can be called a legendary rise.

Never before has a technology company risen so fast.

In the eyes of the storm, the army ant company was busy at this time. After the intelligent assistant came out, the army ant company once again ushered in the opportunity to expand.

Zhao Min was sitting in the office dealing with a whole pile of documents, and she had a headache at this time.

After the intelligent assistant came out, the army ant company ushered in the biggest development period. This time, we have to expand or not. The popularity of the company has reached a peak, and the scale of the company must be expanded in order to operate better.

But here's the problem, scaling too fast and the company is prone to problems.

There are various reports outside saying how powerful the Army Ant Company is. No one knows better than Zhao Min. Now the Army Ant Company is in short supply of talents, and the speed of talent training cannot keep up with the speed of the company's development.

When the Butterfly Eye mobile phone was released last time, the company has already deployed in major cities in China.

Now that the scale is expanding, the talents cannot keep up. In order to develop faster, the competent managers of the headhunting company have been recruited and sent to major cities to set up branches.

Moreover, preparations for national recruitment have already begun to recruit talents. The army ant company, like a large machine, must have a combination of various small gears in order to operate.

"Trouble." Zhao Min put down the document and knocked on the head, letting out a deep breath.

Smart assistants are selling like crazy. During this period, the company's revenue is almost a daily income. More money, more trouble.

Not long after Zhao Min put down the document, Xiao Yu walked in: "Sister Zhao, Mr. Yu Chengnan, the CEO of Huawei Terminal Company, wants to see you, and is now in the reception room."