San Francisco

“We started to get together to build the California Institute for Machine Consciousness. Probably incorporated at some point and fundraise and so on, but at the moment we started doing bi-weekly meetings in Linden Labs in San Francisco.”

“I think at this point, if you are in tech, especially in AI, but if you're in tech and you're not in San Francisco, you either lack judgment or you lack ambition. It's one of the two.”

“Once there is a network effects that are just so incredibly powerful, they can't be broken, really. And we tried with San Francisco, I tried with San Francisco, like during COVID, there was a movement of people moving to Miami. Co-Host (Founder of Smol AI): Yo…”

“Our engineering team is exclusively in person in San Francisco, though we do have some kind of forward deployed engineers and other offices like London”

“We're actually mainly based here in SF. I mean, yeah, the founding mythology is, I think we were a nomadic company in the beginning. So we had hacker house in different places. I think the first one was actually in Burning Game. Then it was in New York, then b…”

“Now we have 90% of our core product development team in San Francisco here. Office in Fideye, we're really only hiring here.”

“Primarily inference that funds the free usage of the platform and then also hiring, of course, headcount. We have an office, you know. That's an SF.”

“The idea is like, let's team up. Get together one day in San Francisco in the next five months and get the hundred most influential open researchers together for conference and for meetings where we share our roadmaps and we talk about common goals amongst the…”