Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

The piece outlines a city of just over 400,000 residents that hosts R&D centers for tech firms such as Apple, Anthropic, Disney Research, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI. It notes that few locations outside Silicon Valley have such a concentration and that over the past two decades these companies have built influential technology in that hub.

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