Money Likes Me Too - Chapter 47



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Episode 47.

“Baduk?”

When he relayed Park Hyung-do’s words, Yoo Jae-hong’s eyes widened in surprise. Everyone was gathered there.

“yes.”

“Is that possible? Maybe not in chess or Gomoku.”

“If it was easy, I wouldn’t have used the word challenge. It’s Google, right? Just watch, Chief.”

He still looked doubtful.

‘If it’s impossible, it’s better, man.’

The gift you sent was bitter, but the offer itself was sweet.

This is a proposal from Google. It is a company that goes all the way to Finland to build a data center. It is a different level of spending money than the help they gave us, which was limited to building a data center in Jeju Island.

A partnership with such a place. It would be strange if my heart didn’t beat faster.

What about Alpha Duck?

It is a difficult project that even someone as knowledgeable as Yoo Jae-hong would find difficult. It is a field that world-class scholars and geniuses like Jeffrey Compton are challenging. I can’t even imagine how much money I will have to spend. It’s amazing. People really need to play in big waters.

“Anyway, conquering Baduk is exciting news for me as a developer, even though I’m not an AI expert.”

Yoo Jae-hong concluded his speech.

“Chief Han.”

“yes.”

“Since our US corporation is the linchpin of the partnership, we should provide maximum support from the headquarters, right?”

“Yes. I will review the details and report back to you as soon as I receive them.”

Han Jang-soo sorted it out. That’s how the day went by.

A few days later, I received a call from Damien Hassabis.

– Mr. Kang, how have you been?

“Of course. I received the gift you sent me. I am grateful for your consideration.”

No, I wasn’t grateful. That’s just talk.

– It’s not me you should be thanking. It’s Alan you should be thanking.

He said that thanks to Alan’s consideration, he had uploaded the prototype of the AlphaDuck deep learning algorithm to Google’s data center, and that Professor Jeffrey Compton and Alex Murphy had recently joined the project.

He then expressed his desire to have a more concrete discussion with Cocoa as soon as the partnership agreement between Cocoa and Google ends.

– Oh, you know what?

Damien changed the subject.

“What?”

– It turns out that even Google is blocked. When I asked them to buy more GPUs because they were short on them, they said it would be too expensive. I guess I’ll have to talk to Alan again.

“It costs too much?” My ears perked up.

“Could you please explain what that means?”

Damien was delighted with my interest.

– Of course. Cocoa will have a data center, right? Get a lot of GPUs. Don’t rush like Google. Do you know? We can put our Alphaduck on Cocoa.

“That’s a really good idea, isn’t it?”

– Right? As expected, Mr. Kang knew how to understand what I said.

He laughed out loud, saying he knew it the moment he saw it.

I felt good too. I had something to spend my money on. I don’t know what GPU is, but I got some good information. My belief that I should play in the big waters was strengthened once again.

‘GPU······.’

How expensive would it be if a company like Google said it was expensive? I liked it.

The justification is sufficient.

This is a project of KAA, a subsidiary of Cocoa. It is natural for the headquarters to support the subsidiary in both material and spiritual ways. It is not that there is no data center. It is not that they are going to build a new one, they are just going to invest a little. It would be more strange not to do it.

I picked up the phone again. This time it was Hong Jeong-tae.

“Mr. Hong?”

– Yes, sir.

“Are you in Jeju Island right now?”

He was busy going back and forth between Gimpo and Jeju airports.

There was a lot to do as CEO of Help Cloud. Recently, Help Cloud was moved to Cocoa Labs subsidiary and renamed to Cocoa Cloud.

– Yes, I’m already at the scene······.

Hong Jeong-tae’s tired voice flew into Seoul.

“That’s a good thing.”

– yes?

“Nothing else, I have an additional instruction to add. Do you happen to know about GPUs? Since you’re already working, please not only increase the processing capacity of our data center, but also install enough GPU hardware. We’ll need it in the future. I don’t care how much more it costs.”

***

At that time, Lee Jong-seok of KSH Holdings was lost in thought while looking at the monitor.

‘No matter how you look at it, it’s crazy, crazy.’

Aside from the short-term portfolio (which also had an incredible return), Kang Si-Hyeon had a separate real portfolio.

First, Netflix.

It was the stock that Kang Si-hyeon had already entrusted to him before he left Banpo Center. At that time, there were 100,000 shares. Now, there are more. Around 500,000 shares? When I first bought it, it was 2-3 dollars per share, but now it’s close to 50 dollars.

Tesla is the same.

It was $19 when it was listed, but it skyrocketed a while ago and is now well over $200. It’s crazy.

If you get just one right, you’ll be called a shaman. It’s not just Tesla or Netflix. It was a terrifying portfolio that would make even Warren Buffett, who hates IT stocks, cry.

It’s not for nothing that I, an expert, absolutely follow Kang Si-Hyeon’s words.

‘Again?’

This was Kang Si-Hyeon’s reaction every time she went up.

‘Yes, that’s right.’

‘Fuck, I understand. Oh, and Mr. Lee Jong-seok. There’s one more thing.’

A new subject came out of his mouth. It was not long after he had mentioned a project called Alphaduck or something.

Lee Jong-suk opened his mouth.

“Kyungjun.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Is Bitcoin doing well?”

Lim Kyung-jun shook his head. His face looked tired.

“Once you sell it, you have to hide your tail more firmly. There’s no progress. The chart is also a mess.”

The price of Bitcoin, which was hit by a series of bombs, fell for a while and then rose again, staying at around $500 per coin. The trend was slightly downward.

It wasn’t yet time to buy.

‘The time will come within this year’

The goal was over 3 million BTC. There was no need or reason to rush. Time and money were on his side.

“If you don’t plan on spending money right now, I’ll spend some.”

Lee Jong-suk said.

“Why? Are you in a hurry to buy something?”

Lee Jong-suk pointed down with his finger. Then yes, he is referring to the representative office below.

“What is it this time?”

I’m already excited to see what creative choices they’ll make.

“Nvidia.”

“Oh, there!”

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“know?”

“Of course I know. We’re a graphics card company.”

Lim Kyung-jun thought that it was almost like a coin miner, even though it was a graphics card. If he had not known about Bitcoin, he would have had no idea what Nvidia did.

Lim Kyung-jun tapped the keyboard. The terminal turned on. The screen displayed Nvidia’s current chart.

As expected.

The stock price, which had once threatened to hit $10, had plummeted and was now hovering around the $4 range. It was an ordinary stock. Lim Kyung-jun frowned.

“But why all of a sudden? Is there something?”

Lim Kyung-jun asked.

“You ordered a GPU from the Jeju Island data center, and you told me to buy the stock because you liked it.”

“Really? But why GPU? Are you running a mining farm or something?”

“No way. I heard that it’s necessary to upgrade AI, such as Alpha Duck or something.”

I didn’t know the details.

“So how much do you want to buy? A thousand? Two thousand?”

Lee Jong-suk laughed.

“The initial quantity is only 10,000. This guy.”

“What did you say?”

“And these aren’t the mining graphics cards that you’re thinking of that cost a few hundred thousand won. They’re computational chipsets that cost a whopping ten million won each. If you buy all of them, you’ll end up with more than a Google data center right now.”

***

Several months passed. Spring came.

[ Cocoa Cloud, ‘AI’s Brain’ 10,000 GPUs, 100 billion won worth of new upgrades ······ In friendly global competition with Google. ]

‘As expected, Google’s gift had a deep meaning.’

There is a saying in the Talmud:

If you give money to your children, they will only eat one or two meals, but if you teach them how to fish, they will eat for the rest of their lives.

This is the case.

At first, I felt bad because I just gave him 40 billion won. But in the end, he showed me how to spend more than that.

Thanks to you, spring has come to my heart too.

And that’s not all.

[Nvidia smiles at ‘good news from East Asia’ with 2,000 GPUs ordered from Naver Data Center, stock price rises surprisingly (Part 1)]

The bad news of the stock price increase was unfortunate, but it also dragged Naver into the competition. In the end, it was a fight over money. As competition intensifies, costs increase. It was a welcome thing.

Partnership negotiations with Google have gone well.

Alphamind, our Cocoa corporation that will collaborate with Google Brain, a subsidiary of Google, has also been newly launched. [Cocoa Brain]. At the same time, the Jeju Island cloud data center has also been remodeled.

It is comparable in scale to the country’s leading IDCs.

But in terms of GPUs alone, there was no one to compare it to. It was similar to Google, so it was the largest in East Asia, not Korea.

“Is this the end, sir?”

Only one manager was crying.

It was the same day that Damien Hassabis visited Korea. It was the first day he decided to tour our center.

I went down to Jeju Island. I was with Director Han.

“Cheer up. This is your first time in Korea. Are you going to show me your shit-eating face?”

Said a word.

Jeju Airport, the weather was sunny.

“Mr. Kang!”

Damien Hassabis grinned as he walked out of the arrivals hall. He recognized me immediately. He must be an AI expert, because his facial recognition is almost supercomputer-level.

“Hello. Welcome to Korea.”

It’s time to show off our proud data center.

“Wow, wonderful.”

It was a word that never left Damien’s mouth throughout his tour. He especially couldn’t move from the cabinets filled with 10,000 GPUs.

The tour is over.

As we sat down, a simple snack of green tea and fruit was placed in front of us.

“It was truly amazing. Honestly, it exceeded my expectations.”

“I guess you really didn’t expect it.”

He laughed at what I said.

“To be honest, yes. Of course, I did not doubt Mr. Kang’s investment instincts. But that’s the way things are in the world. There are many people who criticize the words of those who dream.”

One manager suddenly blushed.

“Then my plan will go smoothly, right?”

plan?

“Let me tell you a funny story. Only Mr. Kang should know.”

After saying that, he looked back at President Hong and Director Han. Their eyes were filled with worry. I made a promise.

“There’s no one to talk to here. Feel free to talk.”

“Okay, let’s talk.”

It was a voice that seemed determined.

Soon, he came up with the idea of ​​putting the prototype of AlphaDuck, which was being tested at Google, on Jeju Island as well.

“The important thing is competition.”

Within a few months, Google’s AlphaDuck was learning Go records while playing against real professional Go players. It lost at first, but its skills improved over time. Now, it is said to be on a winning streak.

It was faster than I thought.

So the idea was Cocoa. What if two Alphaducks had trained in different environments and competed against each other? Wouldn’t they grow faster? That was the idea.

“Is that even possible?”

A manager asked.

“Of course, going to a country other than the United States is not completely burden-free. But isn’t Professor Compton’s algorithm already Cocoa? Sharing that level of burden is a true partnership.”

There was no reason to oppose it coming out like this.

The data center is already built. It costs a lot to maintain. And it costs more to fill it than to leave it empty.

The calculations are complete.

“Let’s do that.”

“As expected, Representative Kang is refreshing. It’s just as I expected.”

Damien laughed heartily.

Some time passed.

Alphaduk really came to the Jeju Center. Research personnel also came. Everything went smoothly.

A manager came in.

“CEO Hong just reported from Cocoa Cloud. He said that Alphaduk testing has been completed and that it is ready for actual operation. He said that he needs to hire a professional Go player to play a match. What should we do? It may be difficult for the Go Association to cooperate.”

“Is there a reason why you think that?”

“that is······.”

One manager said this:

In the meantime, Alphaduk’s skills have improved noticeably.

The person who is currently competing against AlphaDuk in Google is Lin Hui, a 2nd Dan. He is the winner of the European Go Championship. However, even he has not won a single game these days.

So, you can’t recruit just anyone, it won’t help Alphaduk’s stamina increase, and he won’t even consider a skilled knight who could help him because of his pride, that’s the gist of it.

“great.”

I answered.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”

It seemed like I would have to spend money again.

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