'Almost all of the ~100 people doing incredible AI work are in SF,' says founder Ivan Burazin
arthurcolle · x · 2026-11-03
Ivan Burazin (Controller) argues that maybe only 100 people are doing truly incredible things in AI right now, and almost all of them are in San Francisco. Visiting other places after SF makes them feel like they're regressing — they aren't, but SF's growth rate is so fast that everywhere else looks like it's going backwards.
His conclusion: if you're optimizing to win, being in SF makes the most sense right now.
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