Chapter 243 - 182: Advancing the Plan

Chapter 243: Chapter 182: Advancing the Plan

Chen Lin thought for a moment.

From his perspective, the conditions JAMS offered were indeed quite attractive.

First, having a journal editor help polish and revise his paper would certainly save him a lot of trouble.

Chen Lin was extremely confident in the mathematical part of his paper. After all, it had been derived with the blessing of his Little Mathematician title; there was no way it could have any errors.

But when it came to language, phrasing conventions, and formatting standards, having a professional editor oversee things was definitely more reliable than burying his head in the work and doing it all himself.

Originally, Chen Lin had planned to send the first draft to Professor Gu for him to take a look.

But on second thought, Professor Gu was always busy with teaching and research, and he felt a bit bad about constantly troubling him.

Now that the JAMS editor had proactively offered to help, it was perfect!

As for the second point, the so-called "authoritative review team composed of multiple Fields Medal laureates," it didn’t really make a difference to Chen Lin.

No matter who reviewed it, it would be impossible for them to find any flaws in the mathematics.

Whether one person reviewed it or ten, the result would be the same: it would pass.

But the third point was something Chen Lin valued greatly.

Quick publication!

This was exactly what he needed right now.

Academician Liang had made it clear on the phone before: he needed to get the paper sorted out and published in a top journal as soon as possible. Then, along with a professorship title, it would serve as important material for his application to the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan."

The faster the paper was published, the sooner his application materials would be complete, and the sooner the whole process could begin.

Thinking of this, Chen Lin didn’t hesitate any longer and immediately clicked the "Reply" button.

He quickly typed out a short reply:

Dear Mr. Bob:

Thank you very much for the JAMS editorial department’s recognition and support!

I would be delighted to submit my new paper to JAMS. The first draft is currently almost complete, and I will perform the final checks and refinements as soon as possible.

I expect to be able to send the complete manuscript, along with the digital version of the copyright agreement, to the JAMS submission email address within this week.

Thank you again for the trust and support from the JAMS editorial department. I look forward to our future collaboration!

Sincerely,

Chen Lin

After finishing, Chen Lin checked it one more time, and after confirming there were no issues, he clicked "Send."

Immediately after, Chen Lin began preparing the official submission files.

He first compiled the draft paper he had written over the past few days from its LaTeX source file into PDF format.

Finally, he packaged the paper’s PDF and the copyright agreement into a compressed file, opened his email client again, created a new message, and added the attachment.

Recipient: the JAMS submission email address.

Subject: [New Submission: On the Boundary Control of Differential Manifolds and Hallucination Reduction in Generative Models]

Body: a few simple sentences explaining that this was his newly completed paper.

Checked for errors, then send!

After sending the email, with less than half an hour left until the end of the workday, Chen Lin leaned back in his ergonomic chair and let out a long sigh of relief.

He began to think about his next steps.

According to his initial plan, he had intended to first steadily make money through Yanhai’s consulting business, then patiently wait for his Little Financial Planner title to take effect. After a year or two, he would have accumulated enough capital to meet the standard for burning cash in the artificial intelligence industry.

After all, Chen Lin’s goal wasn’t just to dabble in some minor application-level projects. He wanted to start from scratch and train a completely new model capable of surpassing all current mainstream large models.

Chen Lin had a clear understanding of the enormous amount of capital this would require.

Unexpectedly, the system was even more powerful than he had imagined.

The Little Financial Planner’s net worth calculation actually included the value of his equity in the company!

On top of that, due to a series of recent events—the JAMS paper, the solid-state battery, and this mathematics conference—Yanhai Company’s valuation had skyrocketed as if riding a rocket. Consequently, the cash he had on hand also far exceeded his expectations.

The plan could be moved up.

Effective immediately!

A sharp glint flashed in Chen Lin’s eyes. The first step of the plan was to start recruiting.

Programmers, especially.

At the end of the day, a large AI model is still built line by line from code. In this regard, Chen Lin admitted he was still a novice; theory and algorithms alone were far from enough.

He didn’t need to hire a lot of people; it was quality over quantity.

In the process of recently self-studying artificial intelligence, Chen Lin had also learned that the rapid development of large AI models had been most helpful to the programming profession.

For a top-tier programmer skilled in using AI-assisted coding, a three- to fivefold increase in work efficiency was considered normal.

Therefore, what he needed were two or three "big shots" with extensive industry experience and sufficiently high technical skills to first map out the entire project’s path and design an efficient workflow.

By taking this first step carefully, he could then consider subsequent expansion.

At this thought, Chen Lin frowned slightly.

’Talent like that definitely can’t be recruited from among recent graduates.’

’But if I’m hiring from the industry, with my limited network, where am I supposed to find big shots of that caliber?’

A name suddenly popped into his mind.

Peng Yifeng!

President Peng of Tiansheng Investment!

As the first talent scout to recognize his potential and invest decisively, President Peng had helped Tiansheng Investment make a fortune from the Yanhai Company project.

He’d heard that President Peng’s status within the entire Tiansheng Group had also risen with the tide, and that he was riding high on his success.

Just yesterday, President Peng had even sent him a special WeChat message. First, he had showered him with extravagant congratulations, then very politely said that if the company ever needed his help with anything in the future, Chen Lin shouldn’t hesitate to ask.

Chen Lin picked up his phone, just about to send Peng Yifeng a WeChat message, when a call came in from the Imperial Capital. It was Academician Liang.

Chen Lin’s eyebrows rose as he answered the call.

An old, familiar voice came from the other end.

Chen Lin greeted him respectfully, "Academician Liang, hello!"

"Ah, Chen Lin," Liang Tianshi’s voice held a hint of a chuckle. "How’s the paper coming along?"

"It’s pretty much done. I just sent the first draft to JAMS," Chen Lin answered truthfully.

"Oh? That fast?" Liang Tianshi was clearly a bit surprised, but his tone was full of gratification. "Good, very good! Very efficient!"

He paused, then got straight to the point. "I’m calling to ask if you’re free tomorrow or the day after."

"I’m free," Chen Lin replied without any hesitation.

"Good," Academician Liang’s tone became a bit more serious. "Get ready. I need you to take a trip to Yuxi City in Yunnan Province to meet a friend of mine."

’Go to Yuxi? To meet a friend?’

Although Chen Lin was a bit confused, since it was Academician Liang himself asking, he naturally wouldn’t refuse.

He knew very well that anything Academician Liang would personally call to arrange would definitely not be a bad thing for him.