Yue Xiangdong was the vice president of sales at Chengjiang Technology.
As a leader in domestic computing chips and the first AI chip company listed on the STAR Market, Chengjiang Technology had always played a pivotal role in the domestic chip industry.
Naturally, Yue Xiangdong was no ordinary man to have risen to vice president of sales. He had spent years working his way through the chip industry, previously selling specialty chips before jumping to Chengjiang to sell AI chips when they recently exploded in popularity.
But sales were much the same everywhere: identify the customer's needs, then tell them your products could meet those needs.
It was that simple.
When the authorities suddenly organized some Industry Alliance meeting, even the people at Chengjiang Technology were a little baffled.
If they're setting up an Industry Alliance, why didn't they invite us to chair it?
What's the point of just sending us a notice?
Only after reading the notice carefully did they understand: the authorities were setting the stage for Source Intelligence.
Chengjiang Technology had enjoyed similar treatment before, so they could understand it to some extent.
The Glutinous Rice Ball Series Models were the benchmark for domestic models and had recently made a major splash internationally. The authorities were probably stepping in to lend them some support.
That support naturally came in many forms, and connecting them with industry resources was one of them. In that case, this Industry Alliance probably was not really about studying the industry, but about finding suppliers for Source Intelligence.
Source Intelligence was the only company that could measure up to OpenAI, so its demand for computing power would be substantial. Besides, Source Intelligence was on the US Department of Commerce's entity list. Even if it could scrape together some computing power through various channels,