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

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research.

Google. Meta. Microsoft.

NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies.

Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Francisco. Over the past two decades, however, many of the world’s most influential technology companies…