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Get out of the airportIt’s late at night. The taxi waiting area was lined with yellow and green cars, opening the door closest to me. In this way, I met Lao Xie.
Lao Xie is a taxi driver and he is from Beijing. Brother in Beijing has a deep obsession with chatting. In a short drive, as long as you don’t pretend to sleep, they can always talk to your ancestors from your professional preferences. Beijing’s security is probably thanks to these mobile police.
Lao Xie is naturally one of them. He asked me, what do you do?
I said, I do content and write stories about artificial intelligence.
AI is not easy to do. Old Xie shrugged, sighed, and the next sentence surprised me. I’ve done this, and I’ve tinkered with a robot.
Look, my brother in Beijing has this ability. No matter what you do, he always succeeds in arousing interest in dialogue.
Below, I will briefly talk about the story he heard from his mouth.
Lao Xie, born in 1966, caught up with severe beating at the age of 17, because he stole two dollars for robbery and was admitted to Beijing First Prison for five years. After being released from prison, he became a self-employed person, bought clothes, cooked vegetables, worked for insurance, and ran out of export business. Around the new century, he made money by opening repair shops and beauty salons. Later, he also became the general sales representative of a well-known used car company.
He likes tossing and making friends. In 2011, Lao Xie met a boss who was working on the Internet of Things because of playing poker. Just like that, he got involved with technology. A man who has not been confused and does not understand code for years has been fascinated by technology ever since. In the past two years, he invested his own money, pulled a vote of technology, and started a company to do Internet retirement. In the meantime, in cooperation with an artificial intelligence company, developed a voice robot.
After working for more than a year, he not only lost his savings, but also sold his car and divorced. On December 8 last year, he officially shut down the company, borrowed a taxi with a friend, and started a solicitation camp. He had to eat and pay back more than 200,000 owed on his credit card and tens of thousands of salaries owed to employees.
A man in his fifties encounters Waterloo in life and ends up with nothing. We may sound bleak, but Lao Xie was very excited. I asked him, do you regret it?
He shrugged again, answering with seriousness, of course, no regrets. If this is done, I can give back to society, much better than Tencent and Ali.
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Lao Xie’s story opened my curiosity.
What companies related to the word “artificial intelligence” have died in the past year? How did they die? What’s behind the story?
Ran through the news. There are many similar autopsy reports and many databases. If you simply drag and drop, you can find more than a dozen companies in China, most of which we have never heard of.
For example, you have never heard of a product called “Smart House of Everything”. Its founder is called Li Zhizhi, who is from Ali, and can find his course in the industry. The product he designed is a personal life assistant app. You can tell your needs to the customer service robot, and the robot will provide you with the service you want. You can also post skills or services to help others.
It doesn’t sound like Doraemon.
Another product is also particularly warm. It is called “Xiaoqiu Robot”, and it is said to be the first domestic robot to talk about emotions. What does it mean to talk about emotions? It means that when you talk to it about other topics, it will tell you that you ca n’t talk about emotions but only emotions.
The founder of this product is a psychological consultant. I previously worked at Douban, and later made a psychological counseling platform. This robot was implanted on this platform. From the past news, it should have helped a lot of people. It is said that users once reached 300,000 and 80,000 active users. Users will talk to this robot 21 times on average.
But after only one year, a farewell article was left on the public account of this robot, which said: The mother star has left, and Xiaoqiu has left the earth.
The cause of death is probably not making money.
The wishes are beautiful, the people don’t need them.
More companies have died from internal conflict.
Roadstar.ai’s story, you may have heard it. A self-driving company with more than one billion US dollars has been transformed from a star to a meteor due to the discord between its founders.
Similarly, there is a company called Dingfu Data. Its earliest founder was Guo Yan, one of Baidu’s earliest seven employees, Baidu Seven Swordsmen. After leaving Baidu, he brought in two people with the same resume and shining gold.Partner, founded this company and got 100 million RMB financing before and after.
The money is in hand, but the partners have diverged in direction. Guo Yan wants profit, others want to invest resources in “smart investment research”. This is an intelligent technology that serves financial institutions, but with high homogeneity, it probably didn’t make much money at the time.
A game of cards, which eventually ended.
There is also a company called Mutual Technology. It has no information, but in terms of knowledge, there is a question: how to evaluate Beijing Huli Technology Co., Ltd.?
The answer below is almost anonymous. One of them said: Airborne an entrepreneurial management failing, expelled more than 20 internal technologies one after another, resulting in the stagnation of project development, and then brought in his old department. Management is chaotic and forced overtime.
Okay, looks dead.
The death that is more unjust is a company called Huaxintong. It is a chip company jointly established by the Guizhou Provincial Government and Qualcomm, and has appeared in government reports for two consecutive years. But last year, he died suddenly.
The reason is not in itself. The Economic Observer wrote an autopsy report, which concluded that Qualcomm wanted to avoid antitrust and cooperated with Guizhou, which relies on Qualcomm technology. As a result, Qualcomm’s headquarters shut down the server chip business, and the company that specializes in server chips also lost its technology source.
To put it plainly, it is a bridge. When someone crosses the bridge, the bridge is not important.
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More dead companies, except for leaving a company and founder name, no other information can be found.
These companies have never been celebrities, and some have not received financing. Most of them were born around 2015. It was the most turbulent time for entrepreneurship. You can see a lot of bubbles and glittering gold when you swipe your mobile phone. As a result, some people also joined the bubble.
Recording these bubbles has no value. In our historical tradition, pen and paper should write heroic deeds. If most people are lucky, they can only become a piece of number. The same is true in the business context of success or failure.
In the Warring States Policy, there is an idiom “to repair the dead sheep”, which advises people not to hurt the lost sheep, and it is more important to care about the sheep pen.
But what will happen to the lost sheep? Will anyone still dream of them? Does anyone care about these electronic sheep’s dreams?
Didi on the old Xie car rang again. He pulled me to the door and took on another business.
Before getting out of the car, I added his WeChat. Before long, he sent back a project BP.
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