Inside a modern office building in River City.
This was River City's Information Industry Park... Information Industry Park was its old name. Over the past few years, it had already been renamed twice.
The first time, it had followed the trend and incorporated "Metaverse" elements. Before long, though, the Metaverse—a concept hyped up overseas—had gone cold.
Even faster than Yuanshen...
The second time was this year, when it jumped on the Large Model bandwagon.
But locals still preferred to call it the Information Industry Park. That was the stubbornness of onlookers.
It was like how, if a place had been a machinery factory at the end of the last century and was nicknamed the Airport, everyone would keep calling that whole area "the Airport" from then on.
Even after River City International Airport was built, the old place was still called the Airport.
And even after the machinery factory had been restructured, gone bankrupt, demolished, and rebuilt into a bathhouse and leisure club.
It still had to be called the Airport...
This showed the stubbornness of River City's people. It also showed that, on this land, the core of many things never changed.
Take Shengxi Technology, for example.
When it was first founded, it had pursued small but refined business ventures, hoping to find a different path in the AI industry.
But after doing it for a long time, it realized that developing cutting-edge technology in a second-tier city like River City was genuinely difficult.
On top of that, the boss had a speculative mindset and always wanted to scam government subsidies.
By now, the employees had given up too. Their main goal was simply to coast through the days, one day at a time.
They were waiting for the company to collapse, collect severance pay, and then look for