**Stringlight Research Institute, FinTech and Strategic Decision Center.** The circular main screen no longer displayed abstract resource deduction models, but had switched to a more concrete yet even more magnificent battlefield—a real-time global high-end computing power trading and distribution map. Countless points of light flickered across the Earth model, representing supercomputing centers, large cloud service clusters, and emerging heterogeneous computing pools scattered worldwide. Connecting these luminous points were data streams of varying thickness and fluctuating brightness, symbolizing computing tasks and bound capital flowing across the globe at this very moment. On one side of the screen, real-time quotes for various computing resources, utilization rates, energy consumption metrics, and performance benchmarks for different architectures—CPU, GPU, TPU, as well as Stringlight's self-developed "String Core" series AI acceleration units and preliminary carbon-based computing prototype units—scrolled down like a waterfall.
**Mozi** stood before the screen, his silhouette outlined by the flowing data light, appearing exceptionally upright. His gaze was serene, like a deep pool reflecting the foundational elements of this digital world that he was personally redefining. Today, he would place a heavy piece capable of altering the global technological and economic landscape—officially releasing and promoting the "**Stringlight Computing Power Index**."
This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but a crucial step that had to be taken after years of careful planning and accumulation of strength. Its foundation was deeply rooted in the miracles created by **Xiuxiu** and **Yue'er**.
The successful mass production and continuous optimization of High NA EUV lithography machines by Xiuxiu's team, along with the resulting "String Core" series chips that maintained leading performance, provided the hard power guarantee. These chips not only drove Stringlight's own "**Stringlight Cloud Brain**" supercomputing center to unprecedented computing power density and energy efficiency, but more importantly, they were penetrating and reshaping the global high-end computing supply end at an unprecedented pace. Whether for top research institutions conducting cosmic simulations and drug design, tech giants training hundred-billion-parameter large language models, or classified national projects in climate prediction and nuclear fusion simulation, dependence on "Stringlight architecture" computing power was growing daily. This dependence stemmed from its undeniable performance advantage—a result of natural market selection.
Meanwhile, Yue'er's continuously deepening mathematical theories, which had begun touching upon the "**Quantum Langlands Program**," though seemingly distant, were subtly optimizing computing resource scheduling, task allocation, and even the ultimate efficiency of computation itself through the core algorithms of the "**Oracle**" AI. Her theories provided potential, revolutionary underlying guidance for "how to use computing power more efficiently"—a soft power, yet a more profound dimensional strike.
With the most advanced computing production tools (lithography machines and chips) in hand, possessing the largest supply of efficient computing power (Stringlight Cloud Brain and alliance clusters), and having initially mastered cutting-edge theories for optimizing computing power usage (Yue'er's mathematics and the "Oracle" AI), Mozi realized the time was ripe. Computing power, once attached to specific hardware and viewed as an IT cost center, was undergoing a profound paradigm revolution under his impetus.
He clearly saw that computing power, like coal and steam during the Industrial Revolution, electricity and petroleum in the electrification era, was irrefutably becoming a **new generation of core commodity** and **strategic foundational resource** driving society forward. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence, every decoding in life sciences, every design and discovery of new materials, even complex financial model deductions—all were backed by massive computing power consumption. Future national competitiveness, corporate survival space, and the pace of technological development would all be tightly bound to the ability to acquire and utilize computing power.
However, unlike electricity, petroleum, and other relatively mature commodities with clear physical forms and standardized pricing units, the high-end computing power market had long existed in a fragmented, opaque state with chaotic pricing mechanisms. Computing tasks varied wildly (some requiring high clock speeds, some massive parallelism, some low latency, some high memory bandwidth); hardware architectures differed (x86, ARM, GPU, specialized ASICs); performance measurement standards were inconsistent (FLOPS, TOPS, specific benchmark scores); energy costs varied enormously. This made computing power, as a commodity, extremely complex to evaluate and trade, lacking a recognized "anchor" that could comprehensively reflect its performance, efficiency, scarcity, and market supply-demand.
A market without an "anchor" is inevitably inefficient and fraught with risk. Users struggled to assess whether purchased computing power was worth the price; suppliers found long-term stable capacity planning difficult; capital hesitated to enter due to valuation challenges. This severely constrained optimal allocation of computing resources and healthy development of the entire digital economy.
The "**Stringlight Computing Power Index**" was the "guiding star" Mozi crafted for the global high-end computing power market. What he intended to grasp was the **pricing power of global high-end computing power**.
This index was far from a simple price-weighted average. Driven by the core "Oracle" AI, it integrated dozens of dimensions—massive real-time trading data, hardware performance benchmarks (with Stringlight's self-developed chips and architecture as important references), task execution efficiency assessments, energy consumption costs, even "strategic weight" predictions of specific computing power's impact on future key technological fields—calculated through a continuously self-optimizing algorithmic model into a comprehensive authoritative index.
For the first time, it would provide global high-end computing power with a clear, transparent, dynamic, and highly valuable "price discovery" benchmark. Any computing provider's quotes (whether Stringlight itself or other cloud services), any computing purchaser's procurement decisions (whether research institutions or enterprises), would inevitably be benchmarked against the "Stringlight Computing Power Index." When the index rose, it meant strong global demand for high-quality computing power or tightening supply; when it fell, it might reflect weak demand or efficiency gains from new technologies.
What did mastering pricing power mean?
First, **powerful market influence**. The Stringlight Research Institute could actively guide and regulate the global computing power market's direction—smoothing violent fluctuations, even preventing computing power speculation bubbles to some extent—by adjusting its own computing supply (e.g., releasing or tightening external service quotas of "Stringlight Cloud Brain"), or by issuing derivative financial products based on the index (such as computing futures and options).
Second, **immeasurable strategic advantage**. When global technological development was tightly dependent on computing power, and computing power's value scale was defined by the "Stringlight Computing Power Index," the Stringlight Research Institute naturally became one of the rule-makers of the digital age. Through index weight design, it could invisibly encourage or suppress certain technology routes (e.g., assigning higher weights to more energy-efficient architectures), thereby guiding the direction of global computing power R&D and investment.
More importantly, this was a crucial step in anchoring **capital power to the foundation of shaping future civilization**. Mozi deeply understood that financial capital's ultimate power lay not in its vast numbers, but in its ability to define value and guide resource allocation. When the "Stringlight Computing Power Index" became a globally recognized standard, every cent of capital flowing into computing R&D and infrastructure would have its efficiency and returns re-evaluated under this new value scale. Capital would flow more efficiently and precisely into fields truly capable of expanding humanity's computing boundaries and utilization efficiency—such as Xiuxiu's carbon-based chips, Yue'er's new algorithms, even more distant quantum computing. This far exceeded the leverage and systemic influence of his personally investing through the "Stringlight Fund."
"The time has come," an assistant reminded softly at his side.
Mozi gathered his thoughts, straightened his collar, and slowly walked toward the small podium ahead. Below, only a handful of core members and invited top partner representatives were present, but this release would instantly reach every corner of the world through Stringlight's controlled global information network.
His voice, through amplification equipment, clearly echoed through the decision center and across the globe via network.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today not to announce another technological breakthrough, nor another round of capital expansion. We stand here to jointly witness and participate in the foundation-laying of a new era."
"Computing power, once hidden behind code and viewed as a tool, has stepped onto history's front stage. It is no longer a cost, but capital; not merely a tool, but soil; not only driving algorithms, but shaping civilization."
"Yet a market without standards and vague in value cannot bear such a historical mission. Today, the Stringlight Research Institute officially releases the 'Stringlight Computing Power Index'..."
He clearly elaborated the index's composition, significance, and goals. Without aggressive claims, only calm and firm statements, as if stating an approaching, undeniable fact.
As his voice fell, beside the global computing power situation map on the circular main screen, a brand new, dynamically changing number—the **Stringlight Computing Power Index (XGCI)**—lit up, with complex component curves and weight analysis below. Almost simultaneously, major global financial information terminals, tech media headlines, and cloud service provider console alert systems received this information, triggering varying degrees of shock, analysis, and commotion.
Mozi calmly accepted the limited applause from below and the tidal wave about to erupt across the network. He turned again to gaze at the massive screen, watching the index number he had personally launched beginning to pulse.
A profound and vast emotion surged within him. This was no longer the thrill and sense of achievement of stirring capital markets in his youth, nor the "unity of knowledge and action" satisfaction of later using capital to support Yue'er and Xiuxiu. This was a grander sense of mission—participating in the creation of history.
He clearly realized that what he was doing now was not winning more pieces on an existing chessboard, but participating in drawing the chessboard itself—setting one of the most basic value coordinates for technological competition and civilization development over the next century or even longer.
In the electrical age, whoever controlled grid standards and electricity prices controlled industry's lifeline. In the information age, whoever controlled internet protocols and key infrastructure controlled information's flow. And in the intelligent age about to fully unfold, whoever controlled computing power's definition and pricing power would hold the key to unlocking the future.
He guided capital power from virtual economic gambling, from empowering physical industries, one step further, to the level of shaping digital civilization's foundation. This was both the ultimate application of power and an unprecedented weight of responsibility.
The index on the screen fluctuated slightly, reflecting the global market's initial, instinctive feedback. Mozi's gaze penetrated the screen, as if seeing countless investment decisions, R&D direction adjustments, even national-level technology strategy revisions about to be made based on this index.
He knew that from this moment on, the rules of the game for global high-end computing power had been completely rewritten. And he, armed with the "sharp weapon" provided by Xiuxiu and the "principles" revealed by Yue'er, stood at the center of this new rule system.
The path ahead would inevitably bring more challenges, games, even countermeasures. But at this moment, only clarity and determination filled his heart. What he was participating in was a great process of shaping the future, and the capital in his hands was one of the most important carving tools of the era. The feeling was heavy, yet infinitely honorable. The wheel of history, with what seemed like a light push from him, was rumbling toward a brand new direction.