2008: My Workshop

Under the dome is the sweltering workshop in 2008. The gantry mill roared, and the smell of cutting fluid filled the nose. Twenty-two-year-old Li Jiayu stood in front of the machine tool, holding a yellowed CNC program sheet in his hand. In front of him was a batch of scrapped outer rings of automobile wheel hub bearings. Above the dome is the night in 2025 that shocked the global technology community. Dome-R1 is released, completely open source, MIT license. From under the dome to above the dome, Li Jiayu walked for seventeen years. In the past seventeen years, he has solved workwear positioning deviations, written macro programs, slapped foreign engineers in the face, been admitted to Tsinghua University, went to Yunnan to teach, and brought back a girl and three genius students. He made his first pot of gold through quantitative trading and invested all of it in building computing power. He rejected all external financing, insisted on basic research, and adhered to the open source route. Someone asked him why. He said: "Because there are still many people under the dome and there is no way to go." He owed it to his mother - she went blind for him. He owed it to his father—he had bent down for him. He owed it to his uncles in old military uniforms who stuffed envelopes into him during his most difficult time. Above the dome is the legend of the Godfather of AI. Under the Dome is the story of a poor boy who spent two lifetimes paying off his debts.