Chapter: 6158

After a pause, Helena continued, "I want this model for personal use, and won't engage in any commercial activities with it; that means I won't affect your original market at all... I only want a completely identical replicated copy for myself to use, which is equivalent to sending you a copy, plus hardware and 20 years of maintenance fees... shouldn't be too costly, right?"

Howard asked coldly, "How can I be sure... you won't use it for commercial purposes?"

Helena smiled and said, "This is what I'm going to specify next. You'll pay me $1 trillion, but I'll sign a contract with you, agreeing that half of this amount will be returned to the Rose Shield family over the next 20 years at an annual rate of $25 billion;"

"If you break off my upgrade maintenance in between, I'll stop paying back these funds."

"If I use your AI model for commercial purposes, you can immediately terminate our contract and file a lawsuit against the Nordic royal court seeking full reimbursement of $500 billion;"

"All our cooperation will be written into the contract, and all will be legally protected."

Howard said irritably, "Oh, I'll give you $1 trillion, then you'll put it in trust with the current American financial market's mid-year interest rate. Each year's interest would be at least tens of billions!"

"And once compound interest is calculated, this becomes a astronomical number! You're essentially borrowing my chicken to lay eggs for 20 years and then returning the chicken to me, where will I get back those 20-year eggs?"

Helena said generously, "Why not? You'll still give me $1 trillion, with half of it generating interest each year that I won't take a single penny from you;"

"In the first year, I'll calculate the actual interest generated by $500 billion and return it to you along with 25 billion in principal. And so on, until the 20-year contract is fulfilled."

"She smiled and said, 'As for this, you'll pledge 20 years to me, and all the eggs produced in those 20 years will belong to you. The chicken itself will also be gradually returned to you over a period of 20 years. Isn't that fair enough?'"

Howard listened and felt slightly more at ease.

However, as soon as he thought about just the cost of one pill being $500 million, he still felt a twinge of pain.

Just then, Howard suddenly exclaimed, 'I forgot something! The hardware for AI models is very expensive! Most of the costs are based on... on Intel's production hardware! Intel's stock price skyrocketed because of AI fever, and the hardware prices have been rising straight up! It might be that this model will require tens of billions of dollars in hardware costs...'"

Helena smiled and said, 'Don't worry, if you calculate this cost, I'll give you another $100 billion. I'm a very generous person.'"

Howard's face was slightly unsure upon hearing this, and she knew that Helena was also subtly mocking herself.

Then Helena added, 'Actually, the majority of the institutions involved in Intel as major shareholders are also related to your family, Rosenthal. And you also hold many circulating stocks on the secondary market, and you obtained these shares at a very low cost early on. When Intel's value rose to over $10 billion, you had already made a fortune;'

Howard had just received Helena's concession of $100 billion, and his heart was relieved. Now that he heard Helena revealing her true intentions, he quickly explained, 'We're doing business... we're making money from Intel... but we can't mix this with the other deal, Your Majesty.'"

Helena nodded and said, 'However, I'm giving you $100 billion in hardware costs, which is related to Intel. When the time comes, you'll definitely need to purchase the AI model's hardware from Intel. As an Intel shareholder, you'll go to Intel and make a large-scale purchase, which in itself is equivalent to left hand not right hand;'

'Firstly, even if the external cost needs $100 billion, you won't actually spend that much money.'"

"And as an Intel shareholder, you'll still get a share of the profit from this order;"

"Three, this order will definitely drive up sales and stock price for Everwise, and increase its value. You can benefit from it through your institutional holdings, or directly gain profits from your secondary market shares in the US. At any stage of the American market, you'll be able to make a profit. Finally, when you calculate the actual cost, it might even be less than 10% of $100 billion."

At this point, Helena summarized: "I don't care about the specific costs right now. My final offer is $400 billion, plus a free 20-year upgrade and maintenance package for the AI model. If you're okay with that, we can sign the agreement right away."

Saying so, Helena pulled out a printed contract template and handed it to Howard, saying: "The contract template is already ready. All we need to do is fill in the specific numbers and clauses regarding interest payments. Mr. Rockefeller if interested, we'll proceed; otherwise, I'll leave now."

Howard heard this and knew that Helena had already prepared everything beforehand. JrNovels.com