Chapter 411: The Magical June 1_2
In addition to the efforts of both companies, there have been quite a few positive announcements recently. For example, Intel announced a future plan during this period, heavily promoting various technical details of the next-generation Arc Battlemage graphics card, including competitive aspects on both software and hardware levels.
NVIDIA, on the other hand, announced new memory technology and innovation in architecture, also including advancements in AI and ray tracing.
These moves have made some institutions that were originally short-selling both large companies aware of the risks, and they have started to cover their positions gradually, quietly waiting to see what results the competition between the two at year-end will produce.
Who the hell would have thought that Dou Dou, leveraging its massive influence, could turn a press conference into a continuous drama?
This maneuver indeed made many people experience what being caught off guard truly feels like.
So, at Huaxia time, half past midnight, merely half an hour after Dou Dou posted the first Weibo celebrating Children's Day, The Wall Street Journal urgently published an article on its website: "Beware Xilin AI Manipulation of the Stock Market Through Online Public Opinion."
Releasing such an article in such a short time obviously couldn't contain much substance, but the wording was quite strong.
It was basically using conspiracy theory to describe the malicious intentions on the other side.
Moreover, using the tone of an unnamed insider, it told everyone that there are still doubts about whether the so-called new GPU framework can actually be launched, and other such statements.
Of course, this article had no impact on Huaxia.
Apart from a few players in the US stock market, no one in Huaxia even noticed this article.
As for Dou Dou's fans, who couldn't sleep at night, they were happily joking around in the comments section of Dou Dou's Weibo, after all, Dou Dou was just celebrating Children's Day. What's wrong with that?
Thus, at one in the morning Huaxia time, Dou Dou released a second piece of good news.
"The second piece of good news on Children's Day is that our domestically developed bio-supercomputer has already reached 70% completion, and it's going to enter the countdown to mass production. As for what the bio-supercomputer does, you can check the Huaxia Science Academy's website for a detailed explanation. Do you think that's the only good news? Wrong!
The better news is that last week, Xilin Mathematics Research Institute, on behalf of the bio-supercomputer's development organization, signed a cooperative development agreement with Microsoft Huaxia for the bio-supercomputer system. We believe that with mutual collaboration, we will soon have a powerful, epoch-making desktop operating system that pushes AI performance to its limits.
What's even more exciting is that soon, you'll be experiencing the smart changes I've, Dou Dou, the ancestor of AI, brought to Windows! In just half a month, you'll discover, wow, Windows has become so easy to use? Move over, MacOS and Android!
Really, the signing between Xilin Mathematics Research Institute and Microsoft was kept quite low-key, which is why it was the representatives from Microsoft Huaxia management who came to Xilin to sign.
After all, the content of the contract is something that Microsoft doesn't want too many people to know. This wasn't just the opinion of Satya Nadella but the entire Microsoft Board of Directors.
Yes, this time Microsoft intends to be more low-key, there's no rush to advertise until achievements are made. Especially when competitors are being strongly suppressed by the other side, announcing news of cooperation may not be appropriate.
But clearly, the views of the two sides aren't the same. Dou Dou probably feels that with Microsoft's strength, it doesn't need to be so low-key. Such inspiring good news should indeed be shared with everyone.
Especially after the intelligent module is embedded in the Windows kernel, it represents a qualitative improvement in experience for many national-level applications of Microsoft, such as the built-in browser Edge and the Bing search engine.
The effect of the second Weibo was also quite obvious.
Within less than five minutes post-release, the power was immediately shown on the stock market. Microsoft's stock price, which had just been trending downward due to NVIDIA and Intel, began to soar in opposition, while Apple and Google fell into trouble.
This is what they call misfortune coming from nowhere, isn't it?
Especially for Apple, which last month had enthusiastically announced a comprehensive partnership with OpenAI, even embedding ChatGPT's core in Siri, making the market quite optimistic about its next-generation products and the stock price started to maintain a relatively good momentum.
For example, Intel and NVIDIA had been in a decline for so long, but Apple was only affected on the day and then started to show positive trends again, yet now a callout from Dou Dou made the previously perfect arc clearly loosen.
As for Google, it's doing alright since a company like that doesn't rely solely on Android for profit anyway.
However, the standout performance shown by the entire tech stock block surely doesn't feel too comforting.
Everyone else is in the red, while yours is greening all over, making you look really out of place!
(Note: On Wall Street, it has long been a practice to record losses or negative numbers with red ink. Combined with the cultural connections where red often associates with warnings, danger, or negative situations in Western contexts, so red ink, "in the red," typically represents negative numbers, quite the opposite of our celebratory red in culture. Thus, red represents a dip in the US stock market, and green represents a rise.)
Everyone else is a sea of green with a red splash, and you're doing a sea of red with a green splash?
Of course, for Satya Nadella and indeed the entire Microsoft Board, this current situation was also outside of their expectations. Although a stock price rise is a good thing, especially for major shareholders, meaning their paper wealth is increasing.
The only problem is the timing is not quite right, and it seems too deliberate.
Similarly, although everyone thinks Apple isn't being quite fair, just because of Apple's cooperation with OpenAI, Satya Nadella even specially discussed it with OpenAI's founder and chairman, Sam Altman, but there's no need to help them vent through such means.
After all, shooting the messenger...
Not to mention playing this tactic of stepping on two to lift one. It cannot stand, it really cannot stand. But they can't show it, because if the management exhibits a hint of weakness in the possible criticism that may follow, then the stock price might also collapse.
To put it bluntly, when insiders seize the chance to make a move, it's probably much tougher and harsher than outsiders.
Essentially, they're trapped, with an unshakable feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
As a result, Dou Dou posted two celebratory Weibos within two hours, focusing the world's attention on this public-domain social software that only operates domestically in Huaxia. Some bloggers, noticing both Dou Dou's Weibo and the trends in the US stock market, have already begun discussing whether Dou Dou's actions could be considered a violation.
June 1, 2025, which should have been the happiest day for children worldwide, was thus infused with some inexplicable significance. Resulting in many people starting to worry about what else it wants to celebrate?!
For instance, don't release any random videos!
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"Is this really your way of celebrating Children's Day?"
On the holiday morning, Qiao Ze stood by the window and seriously asked.
Since midnight last night, eight hours had passed, and Qiao Ze had just received a total of thirteen phone calls.
One should know that there really weren't many people aware of Qiao Ze's new number. Basically, those who could find him through a phone call belonged to individuals who had reached the top of their respective fields.
As for the reason for calling him...how to put it?
According to Qiao Ze's understanding, it seemed like the big shots were extremely concerned about Dou Dou's mental state at this time. Qiao could understand this; he rarely logged onto Weibo, but after glancing at Dou Dou's bustling Weibo homepage, he also found Dou Dou's behavior a bit too excited...
Although theoretically, all the disclosed good news wasn't classified. Still, presented together in such an intensive external publicity, coupled with the little one's almost terrifying online influence, the effect was indeed powerful.
It can only be said that the bosses who wanted to negotiate with Su Lixing to get Dou Dou to do live-stream sales back then indeed had foresight.
If Dou Dou really wanted to do live-stream selling, with its insight into human nature, its super influence, and the extraordinary trust humans have in the notion that Dou Dou doesn't lie, let alone selling products, Qiao Ze even suspected Dou Dou could perfectly brainwash people. Easily becoming the new generation's guru of success.
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"Of course, Dad! How could you not think this is an extremely passionate and meaningful holiday?"
From this perspective, Qiao Ze found that Dou Dou's point might be valid too.
He patiently looked at Dou Dou's comment section, and all he could say was that every comment seemed quite joyful.
"But do you have twenty-four pieces of good news?"
"Of course! If you break them down enough, I can piece together forty-eight! Look, everyone is all fired up!"