Evolutionary Superstar

Forget that Lin Haoren couldn’t refuse such a request; Su Xiaoran didn’t give him much of a choice either.

After all, she had already brought her stuff and unpacked.

"Suit yourself," Lin Haoren shrugged helplessly.

Su Xiaoran smiled with crescent eyes after receiving Lin Haoren’s permission.

"Yay!" She made a victorious gesture.

Seeing Lin Haoren busy himself in the kitchen, Su Xiaoran watched him dreamily by the dining table with her chin resting on her palms.

She couldn’t tell what dishes he was cooking at first, but as the ingredients came together, she vaguely understood.

Using premium ingredients was rather extravagant.

Actually, she was quite a frugal person. She didn’t spend much on food, nor did she have a big appetite before.

However, Lin Haoren’s home-style cooking had raised her expectations, and now, she wasn’t sure if she could go back to the way she ate before.

Her taste buds had been corrupted by him.

"Are you so free to watch me cook?" Lin Haoren casually asked, not minding Su Xiaoran’s presence.

It was fine when he didn’t mention it, but since he did, Su Xiaoran remembered she actually had things to work on. Today’s filming had left a shadow on her heart.

"Brother Lin, I’ll go practice my scenes," she said.

"Mm, go on," Lin Haoren acknowledged.

After Su Xiaoran retreated to the bedroom to practice with her script, Lin Haoren continued to dutifully prepare meals.

However, his mind wandered elsewhere.

To protect what rightfully belonged to him, he definitely needed to get patents on Lumi’s core AI technology.

Unfortunately, getting patents on Lumi’s core AI technology would likely expose Lumi’s existence to Xeraphis AI.

Others could also read his patents and make attempts at creating their own versions of Lumi, even if they don’t have the source code.

As such, Lumi’s core AI architecture couldn’t be patented.

However, patenting a bunch of ordinary Lumi-derived AI technology. This option could avoid alarming Xeraphi’s AI, but fully escaping its notice wouldn’t be possible.

Unfortunately, this was a necessary step if he wanted to acquire a legal monopoly and raise a large amount of capital through cooperative dealings with other AI technology companies.

It would be best if he could acquire a controlling stake in an existing AI technology company. That would save him the trouble of starting one himself.

However, if that wasn’t possible, it was also fine to settle for generating large capital through licensing fees and royalties.

The capital he could acquire from such an option wouldn’t be small.

AI, robotics, and biomedicine—These were the three major technology fields. Not only were they huge money pits, but their potential profits were equally enormous.

With the endless possibilities from the Reputation Store, Lin Haoren could exchange for future tech from any of these three major fields.

In other words, he didn’t need to invest a single cent in research.

Besides development costs, it was pure profit.

Any company with leading technology in any of these three major technology fields represented unicorn potential.

On the surface, Lumi was just an item Lin Haoren had purchased from the Exchange Store for 5-million Reputation Points.

However, the AI technology behind it was valued in the billions of yuan in short-term profits, while long-term profits numbered in the hundreds of billions.

With that much money, how could he not buy himself into acting roles?

Even if his acting was terrible, the exposure from his participation in films and dramas was guaranteed, and a steady source of Reputation Points would be secured.

That is the raw power of capital.

Unfortunately, Xeraphi’s AI stood between him and long-term profit options. As such, he could only consider short-term profit options for now.

Of course, there was also one more problem for him to consider—the origin of Lumi-derived AI technology.

Lin Haoren didn’t need to be the foremost master in the field of computer science, but having absolutely zero knowledge of it was unacceptable.

Adaptive AI Inference Optimization, Low-Latency AI Response System, Contextual Memory Management, AI Model Compression Method, Dynamic Neural Network Routing, AI Error-Correction Framework, Adaptive Training Algorithm, Multimodal Data Fusion System, AI Inference Caching, and Autonomous Model Optimization.

Lumi derived 10 ordinary AI technologies in these areas after Lin Haoren gave her the task.

Unfortunately, the patent fees weren’t as cheap as he had imagined.

According to Lumi’s research, the overall fees were estimated to be roughly 50,000 yuan per patent. With 10 patents, he needed at least 500,000 yuan.

That was more than twice his accumulated savings.

Although Lin Haoren believed he could gather 500,000 yuan in a week or two, he wasn’t considering patenting all 10 AI technologies at once.

That would likely alarm Xeraphi’s AI as well.

After all, anyone would be a little suspicious if there were suddenly 10 technology breakthroughs in the field of AI.

Lin Haoren decided to patent one AI technology at a time. That was the safest choice.

Which AI technology should he patent first?

"Master, I suggest we patent AI Inference Caching first. Although the tech’s profitability is the lowest, it is also minimally disruptive."

"AI Inference Caching, huh?" Lin Haoren contemplated.

AI Inference Caching mostly reduces redundant computation.

Although this AI technology wouldn’t suddenly make an AI technology company’s product vastly better, it would save it some money.

"How much can I earn if I license the AI technology to one of three major AI technology companies?"

"Master, if negotiated well, AI Inference Caching technology can earn roughly 50-150M yuan in upfront licensing fees and 1-3% annual royalties."

"What was the annual revenue of the current Big Three?"

"Last year, the annual revenue for Tianyu Intelligence, Haotian Technology, and Zhiyuan AI was 370 billion yuan, 305 billion yuan, and 280 billion yuan, respectively."

Lin Haoren sucked in a deep breath after hearing these numbers.

He was shocked by these colossal titans.

Even if he negotiated poorly and sold the licensing rights to Zhiyuan AI for a 50 million yuan upfront licensing fee and a 1% annual royalty, just that 1% annual royalty would be around 2.8 billion yuan!

It would only take one year to become a billionaire! He had never seen so much money in his life!

"This is... crazy."

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