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 have established R&D operations in and around Zurich, Switzerland. What began with Google’s decision to build its largest R&D hub outside the
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