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According to start-up tracking website PitchBook, investors have already committed $10.7 billion in funding for generative A.I. start-ups in the first three months of this year, a thirteenfold increase from the same period last year. Thousands of tech workers who were recently laid off by major tech firms are eager to join the next great thing. Additionally, a lot of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is open source, which means that businesses publish their work and permit anyone to expand on it. This fosters a sense of community. In San Francisco's Hayes Valley district, often known as "Cerebral Valley" since it is the A.I. scene's hub, "hacker houses," where people build start-ups, are mushrooming. And someone hosts a a technology-related hackathon, meet-up, or demo every evening. A couple of entrepreneurs arranged a "emergency hackathon" in March, days after the wellknown start-up OpenAI released a new version of its artificial intelligence technology. The event attracted 200 participants, with nearly as many more on the waiting list. The same month, Clement Delangue, the head of the company, hastily scheduled a networking event on Twitter. A.I. start-up Hugging Face boss brought two alpacas and more than 5,000 people to San Francisco's Exploratorium museum, earning it the moniker "Woodstock of A.I." The event's co-organizer Mr. Delangue and operations manager Madisen Taylor said it had a similar sense of community as Woodstock. "Peace, love, building cool A.I.," she murmured. When the activity is seen as a whole, it is enough to deter people like Ms. Fischer from creating a business that applies artificial intelligence to the hotel sector. She and Mr. Fulop became immersed in Bend's 350-person tech sector, but they missed San Francisco's creativity, hustle, and connections.

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The Bay is unique, according to 32-year-old Ms. Fischer. for IT professionals over the previous six years, claimed that the San Francisco tech industry, which had been relatively quiet during the pandemic, started to change last year along with the A.I. surge. She observed people meeting their co-founders, securing funding, winning over customers, and possible hiring at nightly hackathons "I've seen people come to an event want to test and pitch people in the course of one night," the speaker added. The cers, a covert organization Ms. Yip, 42, oversees, has 800 members and cial robotics. Its weekly events have grown in popularity and frequently sell out in under an hour. "People definitely try to crash," she added. a different A.I. company founders are featured in the speaker series "Founders You Should Know," which is attended by primarily engineers looking for their next job. According to Ms. Yip, more than 2,000 people applied for the last event's 120 openings. In January, Bernardo Aceituno relocated his business, Stack AI, to San Francisco in order to participate in the Y Combinator startup incubator. After the threemonth program was over, he and his co-founders had intended to base the business in New York, but they chose to remain in San Francisco. He claimed that the network of business partners, financiers, and IT talent became Cerebral Valley this year," he declared at a demo day in April.

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Additionally, the A.I. boom is bringing back the founders of other categories of tech firms. Early in the epidemic, the financial technology start-up Brex declared itself "remote first" and shut down its 250-person office in San Francisco's SoMa district. Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the company's founders, left for Los Angeles. But Mr. Dubugras, 27, was intrigued to see how Brex would do when generative A.I. started to gain traction last year. might use the technology. He said he soon realized he was losing out on the coffees, casual talks, and sense of community that were happening around artificial intelligence in San Francisco. In May, Mr. Dubugras relocated to Palo Alto, California, and started working from a new, more compact office that was close to Brex's previous location. The company only paid a fifth of what it had him to tutor him in the subject.

The concentration of knowledge is at the might use the technology. He soon understood that he was missing out on the coffees, chit-chat, and camaraderie happening around bleeding edge," he stated. In Bend, where they could mountain bike or go skiing during their lunch hours, Mr. Fulop and Ms. Fischer said they would miss their lives there. However, launching two start-ups calls for an extreme fusion of urgency and attention. Ms. Fischer participates in multiday gatherings where attendees remain up all night working on their projects in the Bay Area. And every time Mr. Fulop passes a coffee shop, he bumps into investors and engineers that he is familiar with. In addition to San Francisco, they are thinking of moving to a suburban area with good access to wildlife, such Palo Alto or Woodside. "I'm ready to

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