Chapter 127 A Good Place to Spend Money

On the way back by car, Pei Qian felt utterly defeated.

He had prepared himself for the possibility of the iCL League broadcasting rights distribution making money, but he never imagined it would make this much!

The money he had spent actually grew legs and ran back to him, bringing interest along with it. Who could withstand that?!

Pei Qian pondered where to spend this money.

There was still a long time before the settlement, so spending it wouldn't be too difficult, but to prevent the same money from growing legs and running back again, he had to think carefully.

Pei Qian first thought of spending the money on Rabbit Tail Live, following the principle of "whoever makes money, spends it."

But then he reconsidered, and it didn't seem quite right.

Because the places where a live streaming platform could spend money were actually quite limited. Hiring more technical personnel and developing more features didn't actually cost that much.

If it earned tens of millions but only spent a few million, it would be a drop in the bucket, not nearly enough.

The real places to spend big money were buying copyrights and poaching big streamers.

But spending money like that would mean that Rabbit Tail Live's popularity and attention would soar again, which was too risky!

From the time Rabbit Tail Live went online until now, it could be said to have had smooth sailing for no apparent reason. With the iCL League and the gpL League in hand, and after other live streaming platforms sent some big gift packages, Rabbit Tail Live had no shortage of attention or popularity, and the content on the platform wasn't lacking either.

In this situation, spending tens of millions more to buy broadcasting rights and poach big streamers?

That was likely to cause a chain reaction.

So, after much consideration, Pei Qian felt that this money still couldn't be spent on Rabbit Tail Live; the risk was too great.

Rabbit Tail Live was currently a critically ill patient who needed to be observed. He couldn't give it a potent medicine; he had to nurse it slowly.

So, where would be the safest place to spend this money?

Pei Qian thought long and hard, and suddenly thought of a good place to go.

Spend it on Otto Technologies!

More precisely, spend it on Otto Technologies' laboratory, and let them research artificial intelligence.

Although Otto Technologies had Aeeis, and researching artificial intelligence technology was beneficial, artificial intelligence technology should already have had a technological breakthrough last cycle!

It had been less than two months since the last settlement. It wouldn't be appropriate to have another breakthrough so soon, would it?

Moreover, the last technological breakthrough was ordained by the system; the system couldn't possibly cheat him.

People couldn't fall in the same place twice, could they?

In this way, spending a lot of money to build a laboratory for artificial intelligence technology, although it would produce some small results and make Aeeis more useful, and even trigger some small-scale chain reactions...

But as long as there were no more breakthroughs or leaps in artificial intelligence technology, there wouldn't be much return on these research funds.

Or rather, even if there were some returns, they probably wouldn't be in this cycle.

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more appropriate it seemed. He said to Xiao Li, "Go to Otto Technologies first."

...

Half an hour later, Pei Qian arrived at Otto Technologies' conference room and told Jiang Yuan, the new head of Otto Technologies, about his idea.

Jiang Yuan's expression was blank, and he didn't react for a moment.

"President Pei, you mean to invest forty million to build another artificial intelligence laboratory for Otto Technologies? Directly poach existing teams with high salaries to research artificial intelligence technology? Or acquire some existing companies?"

Pei Qian nodded, "That's right."

Jiang Yuan quickly said, "President Pei, please reconsider!"

"Currently, the best artificial intelligence technology in the country is Xunkai Technology. Even Aeeis uses Xunkai Technology's technology. They have been deeply involved in related fields for many years. The application of artificial intelligence technology before can be said to be the result of accumulated knowledge."

"Even if we invest heavily in establishing an artificial intelligence laboratory and poaching existing technical teams now, we will only be developing on the existing basis. It is unlikely that there will be any technological breakthroughs. At most, we will optimize Aeeis's current situation."

"In this case, it is almost impossible to recover such a huge research and development investment. The same amount of money would actually have a much better effect if spent elsewhere."

"The key is that the cost-effectiveness is not high, and it is very unnecessary!"

Pei Qian couldn't help but chuckle.

Not cost-effective? Very unnecessary?

That's right, we're on the same page!

Pei Qian could actually say nothing and directly arrange for Jiang Yuan to do it, but after all, Jiang Yuan had just taken over from Chang You and hadn't been the head for long. He was afraid that he wouldn't handle things properly, so he had to give him a few more instructions to strengthen his belief.

Pei Qian said meaningfully, "That's not right!"

"Although we are currently using Xunkai Technology's technology very well, it is not good to use other people's core technology after all."

"Look at our company name, Otto Technologies. Isn't it a joke not to do independent research and development?"

"In the short term, the benefits may not be great, but in the long term, building our own laboratory and doing independent research and development is absolutely essential."

"Our goal is to independently develop all core technologies and never be controlled by others!"

"What's more, artificial intelligence technology is the future and is related to many of Tengda's industries. It's not too much to invest more money in this direction!"

"You must keep this in mind in your future work. Marketing is all imaginary. Core technology is real. Understand?"

This passionate speech made Jiang Yuan's blood boil.

"Understood, President Pei!"

"It was indeed my shortsightedness."

"Then I will arrange it immediately. If we can poach research groups, we will poach research groups. If we can directly invest in or buy research teams, we can also do that. In short, we must carefully investigate the specific situation."

Pei Qian nodded, "Well, just go ahead and do it!"

...

After finishing all the matters on both sides, Pei Qian came to Maoyou Internet Cafe, intending to have a cup of coffee and take a rest.

The Rabbit Tail Live matter had made Pei Qian feel a little tired recently, but it was finally coming to an end.

The broadcasting rights of the iCL League had all been distributed. Although Longyu Group would continue to spend a lot of money to promote the iCL League in the future, it was no longer exclusive broadcasting, and the popularity would be shared by other live streaming platforms. Rabbit Tail Live should be safe in the short term.

It was about time to see how other industries were doing.

...

At the same time, the vice presidents of various live streaming platforms had also returned to their respective companies and began to prepare for the broadcast of the iCL League.

As early as when they were negotiating the contract, these vice presidents had already greeted their technical teams. They had been working hard these days to prepare the iCL League's live broadcast room and various promotional materials.

Tomorrow was Thursday, and there happened to be a popular focus battle in the evening. These live streaming platforms all asked their teams to work overtime to arrange all the preliminary preparations for the live broadcast before tomorrow night.

After all, the game on Friday was not very good-looking. If they missed the popularity of this game, the next focus battle would have to wait until Saturday, missing a lot of popularity in vain.

At the same time, Longyu Group was also arranging a team to connect with various live streaming platforms, seizing all the time to copy Rabbit Tail Live's function: real-time data display during the game.

This data was originally in the background, but it needed to be retrieved in real time and displayed in a certain chart form. The specific packaging would take some time to complete.

But there was no hurry, after all, the season had just started, and being a week earlier or later wouldn't have a big impact.

Zhao Xuming didn't expect this function to bring much popularity to the iCL League. It was just a defensive measure.

If gpL had it but iCL didn't, others would think that the iCL League was not professional enough, so even if it was criticized for plagiarism, this function had to be done.

The only small problem was that the live broadcast times of the current live streaming platforms actually had subtle differences, which greatly slowed down the development progress.

Rabbit Tail Live's speed was the fastest, thirty seconds faster than other live streaming platforms, and other platforms may also have a few seconds of delay when broadcasting the game due to network latency, stuck, and other issues.

But this data was difficult to change with the progress of each platform, because the iCL League official actually gave each live streaming platform only live broadcast signals. The game data was all in their own background. It was difficult to perfectly match the time between transmitting these data to each platform, making it more troublesome to do.

For example, a player just got a big head, and the economy soared by 1,000 yuan, but the real-time data has not been updated, which would seem very rigid.

Rabbit Tail Live didn't need to consider this issue at all, because only Rabbit Tail Live had this function, and there was no need to consider other platforms. Rabbit Tail Live was the standard.

But Zhao Xuming wanted to make this function for all platforms that broadcast the iCL League, which was more troublesome.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xuming felt that there were actually only two solutions: either ignore the time difference of each platform and forcibly give a compromise time, or spend a lot more effort to make this data follow the current live broadcast screen of each platform.

After discussing with the technical team, Zhao Xuming felt that he still had to do it according to the latter.

Because Rabbit Tail Live had a 30-second difference from other platforms, if a compromise was forced, 15 seconds would be enough to finish a relatively fast team fight, and the equipment and economic data might not change in time, which would make this function seem very unprofessional.

Therefore, he could only choose the second solution, spending more effort to develop this function, so that the data was consistent with the current live broadcast screen of each platform.

In this way, the development time would be slowed down, but Zhao Xuming considered it and thought it was worth it.

After settling these tasks, Zhao Xuming also breathed a sigh of relief.

After so many twists and turns, the iCL League has finally been completely on the right track this time!

Various live streaming platforms were broadcasting one after another, and the popularity of the league was also steadily increasing. As long as the promotion can be carried out smoothly in the future, accumulating viewers and popularity, it will definitely play a good role in promoting the domestic server of ioi in the future!

When ioi's mobile game is launched in the future, it can sound the horn for a full-scale counterattack!