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…