---- Chapter 393 No one punches a smiling face. In the moment, Johnny and Maggie could only return the
handshake and pleasantries. They had barely sat when Johnny's phone rang. An urgent matter at the company;
he needed to head back. After exchanging quick words with Franklin and Mr. Claremont, Johnny bent toward
Maggie. Seeing his expression, she whispered, "What happened?" He patted her shoulder, voice low and steady.
"Don't worry. I've got it." Reassured, Maggie let him go. Their quiet, easy rapport didn't go unnoticed; several
people thought, not without envy, they're truly close.
Chad and Jake glanced-instinctively-at Franklin. ---- Others might not know, but they did: Franklin was here
because of Maggie. Yet when they looked, they couldn't quite read his face. Johnny left; the lunch went on. Once
the dishes were ordered, the table talk drifted to the next phase of the partnership. At that point Franklin turned
to Maggie and cut in: "I'm especially interested in Point Three-the heterogeneous approach. If fully implemented,
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtboth the perception chip and the endpoint will see major performance gains. "That said, it won't be easy.
Programming complexity, for one; compute may be fast, but data movement remains too slow-problems that
demand heavy tand headcount. "As for the programming issue, your Al-based auto-partitioning is a
direction, but the tech isn't mature enough-it'll create new failures, won't it?" The tech leads, who'd assumed
earlier that Franklin was ---- just making small talk, now realized he had actually read the plan-and in detail.
Maggie, too, was a little surprised. Since he represented Wilson Group, she addressed the points head-on. "You're
right-that's a real risk.
On that step, | can commit compute: we'll provision hundred-billion-parameter-class models. As for toolchain
integration, we..." Once he'd asked, she laid it out thoroughly. Franklin kept pace, interjecting as they went. "In
high-reliability system. development, this is still a gap. Are you planning to route around it with an alternative
path, or...?" They went deeper and deeper. By then, everyone-Chad, Jake, and the Wilson tech brass-understood:
Franklin already had a complete solution in mind for the next phase. And, very clearly, Maggie's approach
matched his almost point for point.
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