Starting from a top student and marching towards the sea of ​​stars

Chapter 170 I have two good news, which one do you want to hear first?

After these few months of study and research, Ning Chen's level in various subjects has improved significantly.

Ning Chen believes that his previous bottleneck in materials science no longer exists, and he can make further progress in the research of iron-based superconductors.

Ning Chen decided to restart research on iron-based superconductors when he comes to his laboratory tomorrow.

At this moment, Ning Chen suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, it's time to see how far Xiaozhi has evolved now."

When Ning Chen went to Yan University, he never turned off his computer, just so that Xiaozhi could continue to study, increase his experience value, and strengthen his various abilities.

For this reason, Ning Chen also had to bear a large electricity bill, because the configuration of Ning Chen's computer was very high and the power was much higher than that of an ordinary computer.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen formed a connection channel with the computer through the system to test Xiaozhi's ability.

After Ning Chen concentrated his attention, he saw that the system interface refreshed Xiaozhi's panel interface.

[Artificial intelligence: Xiaozhi]

[Grade: E grade (9682/10000)]

[Ability: voice chat, intelligent search, question answering (E-level)]

"Is it finally time to upgrade? It's really not easy!"

Seeing that Xiaozhi's experience bar was very close to full, Ning Chen couldn't help but sigh.

Thinking back to the beginning, when Xiaozhi used his old-fashioned notebook to study, he could only gain a few experience points every day.

After replacing it with better equipment, Xiaozhi's experience value growth rate accelerated a lot.

According to Xiaozhi's current rate of experience accumulation, it won't be long before Xiaozhi can upgrade. Ning Chen is really looking forward to seeing what changes in Xiaozhi's abilities will occur after upgrading.

At this time, Ning Chen keenly noticed a change in Xiaozhi.

"Xiao Zhi's problem-solving ability has improved from the previous F level to E level. And this time it is not limited to mathematics. It seems that he can answer questions in various categories."

Thinking of this, Ning Chen asked Xiaozhi a few questions, and the answers he got made Ning Chen very surprised.

"I didn't expect that Xiaozhi has evolved to such an extent."

After many days of continuous training, Ning Chen felt that Xiaozhi's abilities in various fields were almost at the level of a university undergraduate.

This level of artificial intelligence is at least one level higher than the previous ChatGPT.

Ning Chen remembered that in his impression, the original version of ChatGPT was an artificial intelligence that often made mistakes even in elementary school math problems.

Even after several optimizations, it is difficult for ChatGPT to achieve a passing score on high school mathematics questions.

If Ning Chen publicly announced Xiaozhi to the world now, it would probably cause a huge shock to the whole world.

Of course, Ning Chen would not make such a stupid move. With such an excellent artificial intelligence, Ning Chen would definitely keep it for himself and use it secretly.

With Xiaozhi's help, Ning Chen prepared his subsequent research plan on iron-based superconductors.

Early the next morning, Ning Chen came to the laboratory and began to work on a new phase of research.

After a while, Xu Zhou also arrived at the laboratory. When he saw Ning Chen suddenly appearing in the laboratory, Xu Zhou was unprepared.

"Ning Chen...when did you suddenly come back?"

"I came back yesterday, what happened?" "As expected, I came back yesterday, and I went to the laboratory today. This trip to Yanda was not in vain. I even sent an article "Science" back. Are you going to exchange and study? Are you still working on a project?"

Ning Chenxin said that he also submitted an article for "Cell", but he didn't know whether the paper could be published successfully.

But compared to the results of these two papers, Ning Chen felt that the various knowledge Ning Chen learned during this period was a greater gain.

"Of course it was an exchange of study. I also went to some laboratories for internship for a period of time and published a paper by the way."

"By the way? This is a work from "Science"! Is it really so easy to post it?"

"Fortunately, the experiment went smoothly at that time. Teacher Xu, you should have made a lot of achievements in the past few months, right?"

Hearing Ning Chen's question, Xu Zhou smiled mysteriously:
"It really made you guess. During your absence, I did make some achievements. And I just learned two pieces of good news that I wanted to tell you. Ning Chen, these two pieces of good news , which one do you want to hear first?”

Ning Chenxin said that if there was good news or bad news, he still had a choice.

But both are good news, so how do you choose?

"Then let's hear the first good news first." Ning Chen said helplessly.

"Okay, the first good news is that I am going to be promoted to professor and doctoral supervisor."

Hearing Xu Zhou's words, Ning Chen couldn't help but laugh excitedly.

"Really? That's great, congratulations to Teacher Xu!"

"Well, although the process has not been completed yet, it is basically finalized. It won't be long before I will be your official instructor."

At Xu Zhou's age, he is considered very young and promising to be a professor and doctoral supervisor.

"Teacher Xu, this is such exciting news, why don't you treat me to eating in the cafeteria for a year?"

"No problem, I'll treat you this time instead. But after you promised to treat me to eat in the cafeteria for a year, you immediately went to Yanda. Did you do it on purpose?"

Ning Chen said in his heart that he had forgotten about this incident a long time ago, and quickly changed the subject:

"Teacher Xu, what's the second good news?"

"The second good news is great. Piati's manager Xu just replied to me, saying that they have completed the testing and verification of our two results."

Ning Chen knew that since Xu Zhou said this was good news, it must be that one of the two results was accepted by Piati and he wanted to continue the patent transfer cooperation.

"Teacher Xu, which achievement has Piati finally decided to choose?"

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. After testing and verification, they felt that these two negative electrode materials have a lot of application space. Since these two negative electrode materials have various advantages and applicable directions, Piati finally The decision was made to cooperate with us on both outcomes.”

"Then...what's the specific price?"

"Based on the previously agreed price, the annual patent licensing fee for each patent is 1000 million. The patent licensing period of the first contract is three years. After the contract expires, we will choose whether to continue cooperation based on the situation."

Upon hearing this price, Ning Chen was immediately stunned.

The three-year licensing fees for the two patents add up to a total of 6000 million.

Because these two achievements were made by Xu Zhou and Ning Chen while they were at Shengzhou University, according to the regulations of Shengzhou University, the school will receive 20.00% of the patent income, and the remaining 80.00% will belong to the scientific research team.

Xu Zhou and Ning Chen had previously agreed that each of them would share half of the income from these two patents. In other words, Ning Chen would receive 400 million yuan in pre-tax income!
Ning Chen felt that with his current consumption level, the money would be enough for him to spend for a lifetime.

Thinking that he had suddenly achieved financial freedom, Ning Chen couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.

(End of this chapter)