Yacine: you don't need to live in SF to work on frontier AI
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-16
Yacine (411K followers) quote-replies to a practitioner confessing that choosing not to move to San Francisco — and believing that decision largely shut him out of frontier AI work — is driving him slightly insane. Yacine's blunt take: you don't need to live in SF to work on frontier AI. A notable data point in the ongoing debate over geography and access to frontier AI work.
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