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Two hours later.

Looking at the cooperation agreement in front of him, now stamped and sealed, Xu Yun couldn't help feeling a little wistful.

Since founding Huadun Biotech, he had signed no shortage of agreements. Some concerned cooperative projects with other organizations, while others covered terms of employment with individuals.

Looking back on all those negotiations, none had ever gone this smoothly.

They had reached an understanding over lunch, agreed on the details an hour later, and signed the contract two hours after that. That was what you called seamless.

More importantly, this wasn't some minor project. For Huadun Biotech as it stood, the support provisions in the agreement might not be quite as dramatic as a lifeline in a snowstorm, but they certainly amounted to a crucial infusion of resources.

Take the augmented-reality technology toolkit from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, for example. Apart from BAT, only nineteen domestic companies—including Hikvision, Goertek, and DJI—had obtained open-source agreements.

Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics' Pancake technology might have seemed like something you could get the right to use simply by paying, but in reality, it had very high standards for its partners. There were only a little over a hundred licensed companies worldwide.

With resources of this caliber written into the contract, Huadun Biotech would save at least a year of development time. A year might not sound like much, but a lot could change in that time for an internet project.

And there was an even more important point.

The supercomputer hours stipulated in the contract came from... Tianhe-3!

Last June.

As usual, the international supercomputer ranking organization TOP500 had released its global rankings right on schedule.

Across the sea, the exascale supercomputer Frontier—capable of one quintillion floating-point operations per second—had held on to first place. Japan's