Ten minutes later, Lei Yijun gritted his teeth and agreed.
"If it's too difficult for President Lei, we don't have to cooperate," Chen Yansen said with a teasing smile.
"It's not difficult. I have faith in Orange Technology's R&D capabilities. Purchasing the patent license for the Yuxi development platform is definitely more than worth the money."
Lei Yijun rolled his eyes and replied, the pain of the expense written all over his face.
Logically speaking, with Xiaomi Technology's capital and technical reserves, they could poach a batch of engineers from the labs of Qian Du, Google, and Microsoft, assemble their own R&D team, and develop their own intelligent voice system in a year or so.
But if they did that, they would first miss the golden window for the smart voice market. Second, the performance of a self-developed voice system would be a complete unknown.
