After leaving the hotel, Yue Xiangdong wasted no time and headed straight for company headquarters.
The news today was simply too explosive. He could not even wait until he got back to report it, and called Shi Potian, the CEO of Chengjiang Technology, on the way.
"Yue, what's up?"
Shi Potian sounded a little surprised when he answered. He knew Yue Xiangdong was attending the launch meeting for the AI chip industry alliance today, but had no idea how the talks with Origin Group had gone or whether they had yielded anything.
"Mr. Shi, I'm on my way back. We need to get the executives together for an alignment meeting right away!" There was urgency in Yue Xiangdong's voice.
At that, Shi Potian's voice grew serious. "What happened? Any news?"
"The industry landscape has changed. We'll go over the details at the meeting."
Yue Xiangdong only gave him the broad strokes. He was not trying to keep him in suspense; what Origin Group had revealed was simply too astonishing to explain in a few words. Rather than give a muddled account over the phone, he might as well explain everything clearly at the executive alignment meeting.
"All right. I'll have my secretary call the meeting now."
Half an hour later, in the Main Conference Room at Chengjiang Technology headquarters.
Besides CEO Shi Potian and vice president of sales Yue Xiangdong, those present included several deputy general
managers responsible for operations, R&D, and finance.
In short, all of Chengjiang Technology's senior executives were there.
"Yue, don't keep us in suspense. Tell us what you saw today," Shi Potian said.
"Origin Group's head of computing gave a live demonstration today. Their Trillion-Scale Model, Glutinous Rice Ball, was running on their own domestically built cluster."
The moment Yue Xiangdong said that, everyone in