To accelerate the filming of the sequel to "Super Marines", Luo Sheng made a clear arrangement for Zhang Bowen with a call.

In order to quickly raise the filming and grab the time, Bluestar Pictures provided $490 million in production budget for the sequel to "Super Marines", which is almost three times the production cost of the previous $165 million.

According to the practice of three times the box office of the movie, theoretically, the box office of "Super Marines" will only be able to make a profit if it reaches $1.47 billion. Currently, the world's largest animated movie "Frozen", which currently earns only $1.276 billion, has not been broken since its release in 2013.

Obviously, the producers never thought of making money by relying on this movie with box office. They were more of a positioning for promotion and distribution of new products under the Costa del Azure. Only Luo Sheng could do this.

However, for the director, this is a super good project. Many works have to compromise for business. The sequel is still chosen to be directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, the predecessor of the film. The producers did not set commercial profit indicators for them.

The requirements are simple: influence, quality, and hot topics.

The global box office of the sequel is considered a great success as long as it reaches $1 billion.

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During this period, Luo Sheng's main focus was on the Costa del Azure Company.

When I arrived at the company early this morning, Luo Sheng participated in an internal executive meeting hosted by Yao Jianhong.

In the conference room, Yao Jianhong made an orderly speech: "From 2013 to now, the company has achieved great development in the past five years and has achieved new highs in performance. This is worthy of recognition and indelible."

As he said that, Yao Jianhong changed the subject: "But it is also undeniable that we could have done better and had higher performance. What is the reason? The United States has involved a lot of our energy to deal with it. Although we won in the overall situation, it has indeed slowed down the company's development speed. This is impossible, but the development of technology is changing with each passing day, and we have to run."

At this moment, Luo Sheng sat in the chief position as a listener and basically did not speak. The meeting was led by Yao Jianhong. He was basically no longer a company. The CEO title is more of a name, while Yao Jianhong, the executive vice president, has been working as CEO.

Lao Yao continued: "We are already behind in the smart home industry. It is not because we are behind in technology. The technologies are still maintaining certain advantages, but we are lagging behind competitors in building an ecological system. Judging from the 51st CES exhibition in January this year, major giants are fighting in the field of smart homes. We are working hard to build our own ecological system while we are being entangled by the United States and have no time to take care of it."

CES is the abbreviation of the International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, and this exhibition is known as the "barometer of the development trend of popular technology today".

Yao Jianhong looked at the information in his hand and said: "In the past one or two years, the global technology community has set off a new craze for the development of AI technology. Whether it is the major technology giants we are familiar with or startups from all over the world, they are all competing to tap the application potential of this technology in various fields."

"AI voice assistants are the most eye-catching among them, and have been a hot project in the past year. It is no exaggeration to say that smart voice assistants have once again brought unprecedented vitality to the smart home."

The company that pioneered AI voice assistants and brought them into the public's vision was the Costa 1999 when it released its third-generation Azure smartphone, and launched the smart voice assistant "Xiaolan", which made the voice assistant begin to enter the tech circle.

Five years later, in 2014, Amazon launched the smart speaker Echo, making the smart speaker a popular physical carrier for voice assistants. During this period, the Costa del Blue and Blue Star Technology were both troubled by the United States, and their main energy was to go against the United States.

Other competitors took the opportunity to develop wildly.

Nowadays, stimulated by the high profits of Echo, major technology giants around the world have begun to compete for it, such as the domestic "Tmall Elf", "Xiao Ai Classmate", etc. The vigorous development of voice assistants has also made smart homes a popular field in the technology circle again.

On the contrary, the Costa delle of the Blue, which has created the trend and mastered the most advanced AI technology, is quite "cold". Xiaolan's applications are currently limited to Azure mobile phones and ieP education tablets. Over the years, it has been continuously iterating and optimizing, but it has not expanded the application scenarios.

The Costa delle is stopping and resting, and other international competitors are taking the opportunity to catch up. They also know that the Costa delle has always been alone in AI technology, so major technology giants are focusing on accelerating the construction of their own ecosystems, and at the same time, they increase efforts to iterate technology to shorten the gap with the Costa delle in the field of AI technology as much as possible.

Yao Jianhong, who attended the meeting, spoke again: "At present, players with cooperation and ecological R&D patterns in the field of smart voice assistants are just a few old friends, including Amazon's Alexa, Google's Google Assistant, Samsung's Bixby, Apple's Siri, and Xiao Ai, the domestic ones."

"From the current industry ecological pattern, in addition to our Xiaolan in the 'hang-up' state, all companies are trying their best to use various methods to attract third-party smart home companies to join their ecosystem. Although Xiaolan from the Costa delle of Blue has brought the smart voice assistant industry to the industry, it is Amazon that has successfully introduced the smart home products of voice assistants."

As he said that, Yao Jianhong listed a set of information reports on the current status of the industry and put it on the big screen in the conference room. Luo Sheng and other participants also looked at it.

"Since the end of 2014, Amazon launched the smart speaker Echo based on voice assistant Alexa for the first time, the popularity of smart speakers has been high and has increased. This is the market data I have summarized. The data shows that Amazon, which has the first-mover advantage, has sold at least 20 million Echo series smart speaker products. What's wrong?"

Seeing this sales volume of tens of millions, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smiled hoarsely when he looked at Yao Jianhong's unhappy expression.

No wonder Lao Yao couldn't bear it, saying that the Costa del Blue had to run in the field of smart homes.

Amazon's Echo has reached sales of tens of millions and can already build a mature ecosystem. Not only does it make a fortune, but it also makes Lao Yao realize that it may threaten the Costa del Azure, although this threat is not great.

But we must not ignore it. When the opponent really takes off and forms a general trend, it will be difficult to do it. How brilliant Kodak was once, it was finally killed by digital technology.

Luo Sheng did not show dissatisfaction because the company was pulled down in a certain field. The company's development itself was actually quite good. There was a negligence in the so-called "Hundred Secrets". Moreover, this is not the management's disregard for the initial suppression, but the first priority is to consider when dealing with the suppression of the United States.

Now that I finally recovered from this, Yao Jianhong immediately ran and entered the field quickly. It was not easy.

The Costa delle is indeed a big family and a super giant and a super commercial technology empire that others think of, but at the same time, it also has many enemies. Anyone who is familiar with the technology giants in Silicon Valley, who are not directly or indirectly competitive with the Costa delle?

It is both a competitive relationship, a lawsuit and a cooperation, and it is simply a mess.

In a short while, he will soon have sex with Lao Huang. Luo Sheng will never doubt that the Costa del Blue will definitely fight with Nvidia in the future.

As for the smart home sector, although it is behind in the construction of the ecosystem, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry. Dabai robot can help the Costa delle to fight a beautiful turnaround and announce what the return of the king is.
Chapter completed!