On Wednesday, Zhao Wenyuan rode a shared bike from his long-term rental apartment to the Source Intelligence Research Institute.
He swiped his card and went upstairs.
They called it a research institute, but it was really just one rented floor of an office building.
There was no lab or server room. The only thing the place had going for it was the network.
Liu Yu had been particular when choosing the office. The building's provider offered a dedicated business line with a static IP and symmetrical gigabit speeds. There was also a separate electrical room where they could run a dedicated circuit and temporarily install a few small servers.
A batch of desks and chairs had arrived yesterday. Zhao Wenyuan and Liu Yu had spent most of the day arranging them with the movers before the office began to look like an office.
An office where everything still needed doing.
Zhao Wenyuan felt as though he were starting a business for the second time.
But this time was different. This time, he had every reason to be confident.
When he entered his office, a stack of résumés sat on the desk.
PhD, PhD, PhD, bachelor's degree.
Oh, the last one was applying for an administrative position. Liu Yu could interview that candidate.
Zhao Wenyuan checked his watch. It was just past nine.
The first interview was scheduled for ten.
He took out his laptop and skimmed the latest project updates.
The next phase of Tangyuan Model's training still had to wait until they solved Operator Adaptation and large-scale cluster communication, but the model team had plenty to do in the meantime.
The company was integrating the Heavenly Craft model with Tangyuan Model, making Heavenly Craft one of the "expert teams" Tangyuan Model could call on.
Lu Mingzhou, the CFO, was