Late at night, Qiao Yu was busy.

The main consideration is the time difference between the fund owners and the distrust of the work efficiency of foreign executives.

Sacrifice some rest time in the early stage to discuss profits with the other party more at ease in the future.

Qiao Yu always felt that to be justified, at least one has to give something first.

A little bit of rest time is within an acceptable range.

Of course, if cooperation can be reached in the future, it is time for the opponent to sacrifice rest time to cooperate with him.

At this time, Qiao Yu was having a talk with John Martinis, the head of Google’s Google Quantum AI team, through remote video.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai handed over the task of recruiting Qiao Yu to senior vice president Thomas Curian.

Thomas Curianze asked John Martinis again for this matter.

It’s not that Google doesn’t pay enough attention to Qiao Yu. In fact, it’s because it attaches too much importance to this that it is decentralized layer by layer.

There is no way, Sundar Pichai cannot come forward to talk to Qiao Yu directly.

Although this seems to be very important, it also means there is no room for buffering.

If the talk fails, there will be no room for maneuver. Unless the board of directors directly fires Sundar Pichai and then a CEO will come back to talk.

If it were someone else, Sundar Pichai would not worry about this. After all, the operational stability of a large company like Google is far more important than an ordinary technical talent.

Especially changes in senior working positions such as CEO will directly affect the company's stock price decisions.

But Qiao Yu’s current technology is so worrying. The members who can enter Google’s board list are all representatives of real capitalists.

These people are not interested in technology, but in capital.

This is also the reason why Google has been planning quantum computer research. In fact, it is not just Google, but capital-led technologies are all studying these things.

After all, finance is the main battlefield of capital. Whoever grasps future quantum hegemony will be invincible in the financial battlefield.

You should know that the price-to-earnings ratios of these technology companies are basically maintained at more than 30 times, and the higher is even more than 50 times. This is where the real money is made.

The most important assets of these technology companies are those intellectual property rights protected by law. Several office buildings absolutely cannot support trillions of market value.

Once the first-mover advantage is not maintained, the blow will definitely be intolerable to the capital market.

Not to mention that what Qiao Yu currently masters may also change the overall pattern of the financial market and even directly affect the current normal operation of the financial market.

This is definitely intolerable by the board. Sundar Pichai is aware of this.

So until the irreversible time, he naturally would not come out to talk to Qiao Yu in person. But speaking of this, he did give Thomas Curian extremely high authority.

Simply put, there are four words: no matter the cost.

However, for those who can take the position of senior vice president in a large company like Google, these four words obviously need to be discounted.

If it can be completely free of cost, then the CEO can come forward and discuss it himself.

In this case, the agreement cannot be reached, which is the conditions offered by Qiao Yu, and the board of directors cannot tolerate it.

If you really want to talk to Qiao Yu about a condition that the board of directors thinks it is impossible to accept, it is that he will take the blame for Sundar Pichai.

So this matter was delegated to John Martinis. Scientists went to talk to mathematicians, which was very reasonable.

Of course, for such a high-level technical tycoon, Thomas Curian will definitely not say the four words "no matter how much".

He was afraid that John Martinis would really cost no matter what the price. So what he told John Martinis was that he could talk about the current maximum salary and welfare structure and standards of Google to increase by about 10%.

Sincerity is full, but there is also a limit. As long as the negotiation is completed, the treatment will not be too outrageous. It will basically be similar to what he and Sundar Pichai discussed before.

The treatment composition of important Google scientists is mainly based on bonuses and long-term incentive stock options. Compared with those incentive measures, wages and other things are just a little more important.

Of course, Qiao Yu can have more flexible working conditions, and Thomas even hinted that John Martinis could allow Qiao Yu to use Google X Labs.

If this could not attract Qiao Yu to join, Thomas believed that the board of directors would not blame him.

And after experiencing this period of panic in the capital market, the capital tycoons behind it also agreed.

Whether it is IBM, Microsoft, Intel, or Nvidia, the price tags that everyone can offer are almost the same.

Obviously this is a challenge for John Martinis.

The bosses are unwilling to offer higher prices, which means that he needs to rely on his personal charm to gain opportunities to work with Qiao Yu in the future.

In a sense, John Martinis, Zheng Zefeng, and those professors who want to join Qiao Yu's project team have similar ideas.

If you want to stand at the forefront of the scientific community, you must naturally follow the latest theories. Not to mention that the academic community itself has always had a tradition of genius worship.

Especially mathematics, the worship and pursuit of geniuses is the first among all disciplines, and the only one that can match it is theoretical physics. But if you can play theoretical physics, mathematics will definitely not be bad.

This can be seen from the textbooks. Whether at home or abroad, just find a university to collect old textbooks used by students.

As long as it is a non-mathematics major, mathematics-related textbooks are definitely the latest, and many people's advanced mathematics textbooks are even brand new.

From this point of view, we can see how unpopular mathematics is. Coincidentally, human nature often makes people yearn for things they don’t understand...

This is probably the reason why various beliefs are prevalent in human society. Anyway, it is enough to push things that you don’t understand to God.

Advanced mathematics happens to belong to such a god's realm. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just know worship. There are always people with abnormal IQs that will guide humans.

This is like everybody in modern society has a smartphone, but there is no need to care about the series of technical principles in the smartphone at all.

Fortunately, John Martinis felt that he had a very pleasant conversation with Qiao Yu. He even thought Qiao Yu was very humorous.

In fact, it is not easy for a Chinese teenager to make a pure American feel that humor is not easy. After all, there are huge differences in cultures between the East and the West.

"Haha, John, do you know where we agreed? That is, we all think that the rewards without giving are meaningless.

It’s like none of us pray that God bless us to make a lot of money. Money itself does not bring us any satisfaction.

What we pursue is nothing more than the value created by scientific research. It’s just a pity that these values ​​need to be measured by money. Do you agree with my point of view?”

After preliminary communication, Qiao Yu looked at the screen and gave his own opinion easily.

In the video, John Martinis smiled and answered: "Of course, Dr. Joe, I actually agree with you very much."

"It seems that we have reached an agreement. So the question is, do you really think that technology that can affect the global market value of tens of trillions of yuan is only worth the conditions you put forward?

This is very unrealistic. My research is very cutting-edge, and it can be said that it determines the future development pattern to a certain extent. If Google really wants to hire me as a scientific consultant...

Well, if you provide effective guidance for your quantum computing projects in the future, the conditions you give do not reflect the sincerity you should have."

After hearing Qiao Yu's words, John Martinis smiled and said, "Okay, then what do you have to ask for? Of course, my power is not that great.

But your request is not much beyond my authority, and I think we will definitely reach a cooperation. Please believe me and Google, I came with sincerity.”

Qiao Yu had obviously thought about how to deal with it, and immediately replied: "In fact, if you really want to sign a strict intellectual property agreement as you said, I don't think it's realistic.

You should also know that I recently applied for a project on quantum computing and has passed the review, which means that all relevant technical information will be strictly regulated.

So even if I promise, no one can say good about the future development. Moreover, I am in China, even if I sign a contract, I cannot fully guarantee your interests. So I have an idea of ​​the best of both worlds. Do you want to hear it?"

"Of course." John Martinis said immediately.

In fact, even if Qiao Yu doesn't talk about this, he will also mention it later.

Google even regrets creating the concept of quantum hegemony before.

With the current relationship between Dongda University and Xida University, if Qiao Yu really made some achievements in this area, how to effectively avoid censorship is a troublesome thing.

Of course, if Qiao Yu cooperated, there would naturally be ways to bypass those reviews. In order to achieve this goal, they were even willing to spend a lot of money to lobby for those people in the white house.

In order to ensure that some deals are reached with China at a higher level, this has also received support and commitment from many bigwigs.

There is no way, it is difficult to hit the industry without fighting hot wars. After all, this world is material after all. People need to buy various goods to meet their daily needs.

But it is too simple to crack down on the financial industry, it only needs to destroy the confidence of investors.

Therefore, in order to ensure that investors' confidence will not collapse due to new technologies, they are even willing to share technology with China and make concessions at some other levels.

Although John Martinis did not know much about the operation details, he still understood how to operate the general direction when he reached his level.

He has now begun to think that if Qiao Yu really has a way to bypass higher-level scrutiny, maybe he should persuade the senior management and offer better conditions.

"It's actually very simple. I only provide you with theoretical guidance and give you the correct theories. The specific technical research work will be handled by your engineers.

Of course, given that I have only paid some correct theories, I will not continue to raise the price in a greedy way. You can just follow what you just said.

But what you need to know is that there may be more than Google's guidance on this theoretical aspect. But I think this is also good for you. Only with competition can there be progress, what do you think?"

These words made John Martinis frown.

As a scientist in charge of a large project, John Martinis certainly knows how difficult it is to transform theory into technology.

To be honest, he really doesn't have much confidence.

And shouldn’t theory be free? If they don’t buy it, Qiao Yu will not publish a paper?

"This... to be honest, Dr. Qiao, I don't quite understand what you mean. After all, there has been no such precedent."

"No, no, you understand. To put it bluntly, I can provide Google with the extremely detailed mathematical derivation of Qiao Yu modal space that guides quantum simulation computing.

At the same time, I will also help you train a group of engineers who can understand this theory thoroughly. As for remote training, or you can send people to my project team in China for training.

These people will become the main force in Google's research on quantum simulation computing. I guess you must be wondering why you can't wait for me to publish a paper, and then your people can understand this theory thoroughly.

But unfortunately, on the one hand, the publication time of the relevant papers is still far away. At least in the past two or three years, I have no plan to publish the paper. After all, there are still many things to be improved.
To be continued...