Ai Is Reviving San Francisco’s Tech Scene. Welcome To ‘Cerebral Valley.’

San Francisco is being called the Cerebral Valley." It was the growth of AI that revived San Francisco’s tech scene.

On a recent Saturday at noon, about 150 Bay Area techies lined up for a marathon coding session at a $58 million mansion in Silicon Valley that serves as a “hacker house” for start-up founders, engineers, and researchers.

AI is reviving San Francisco’s tech scene. Welcome to ‘Cerebral Valley.’

They had gathered to build apps with artificially intelligent language tools like ChatGPT, a new chatbot from research lab OpenAI — part of an explosion in recent months of in-person-only AI events that is reviving the Bay Area tech scene.

The eight-bedroom mansion, located in Hillsborough, about halfway between the headquarters for Google and San Francisco-based OpenAI, is called AGI House, focused on what its website calls “the golden age” of AI. It features a koi pond, pool, Zen garden, climate-controlled wine cellar, and custom water well. According to Zi...

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