OpenAI Expands to Mountain View as the AI Tech Bubble Spills Beyond SF
Kyrannio · x · 2026-08-13
Reports indicate that OpenAI is opening a new office in Mountain View, while Jeff Bezos's Prometheus is moving into Oakland. The original poster suggests this signals the highly concentrated 'AI and real estate bubble' is spilling out of San Francisco. The author predicts that driven by the inflated salaries in the AI sector, non-AI software engineers will be priced out of these tech hubs within the next five years.
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