Had everyone taken a wrong turn in the mobile internet era?
Han Luyi was a little taken aback when he heard that.
You can't blame the era for taking a wrong turn just because you fell behind.
But he understood where Li Yan was coming from. It was precisely because Li Yan had been at a disadvantage in the previous era that he could make the decisive choice to bet everything on AI as a new frontier.
What Han Luyi, and many others, couldn't understand was why Seek Him Technology had started so early yet made such slow progress.
Once Li Yan finished his opening remarks, everyone began eating and chatting quietly with the people beside them.
Han Luyi could tell that Li Yan's speech had left quite a few app founders eager to connect their products to Seek Him's AI platform.
But He Yunshen and Zhao Wenyuan sat on either side of Han Luyi. He didn't get up to network; he stayed where he was, quietly considering what Li Yan had said.
At first, it sounded like a convincing theory. Han Luyi had even used much the same argument to persuade Ryan: value lay in applications.
That wasn't wrong, but there was one premise no one had mentioned.
For the application layer to provide value, the model behind it had to be smart enough and powerful enough.
Unlike in the internet era, model capability wasn't something you could improve simply by throwing money at it.
Back then, it didn't matter if your software was clunky, slow, or inefficient. As long as it ran, you could buy more servers and solve the problem.
But in the AI era, an ordinary model might never be able to solve problems that a high-quality model could.
If a model's capabilities didn't cross a