At two sharp that afternoon.
The livestream came to life.
First came a promotional video.
The camera plunged down from the clouds above a city, swept past ports, factories, office buildings, and data centers, then finally dove into a chip glowing blue.
A steady male voice began speaking.
"From industrial civilization to the information age, humanity has always sought more efficient ways to produce."
Lin Yizhou leaned back in his chair. The very first sentence told him they had nailed the vibe.
The big-tech vibe.
At Source Code Technology's morning launch, Han Luyi had barely bothered with introductions before having Glutinous Rice Ball order food and investigate companies. He hadn't even mentioned how many employees his own company had.
Dingsheng started with industrial civilization.
At this rate, they must have cut the part about Pangu creating the world, or the launch wouldn't end until nightfall.
The promotional video ran for a full three minutes. Onscreen, workers in hard hats inspected equipment, doctors analyzed patient records on computers, bank employees held meetings in front of glass curtain walls, and corporate executives stood before massive data displays, mapping out grand strategies.
What all these people had in common was the confidence on their faces that said, "Our company is about to complete its intelligent transformation."
Finally, the promotional video ended, and the feed switched to the stage.
An enormous wraparound screen stood behind the main stage. The lighting shifted from deep blue to bright blue, and two futuristic-looking characters appeared in the center.
Ling Tai.
This was the name Dingsheng had given its Agent platform. It combined the characters for "intelligent" and "platform," while also drawing on the Taoist concept of the spiritual terrace.
Dingsheng intended to make this Agent platform the centerpiece of its next phase, and had prepared thoroughly for