Story
The Bay Area’s AI geography is tightening again
Labs, capital, compute buyers, and talent are clustering even as the products become globally distributed.
City dossier · Reviewed
San Francisco
A DGTLPPL place dossier connecting companies, people, events, and reporting in San Francisco.
A DGTLPPL place dossier connecting companies, people, events, and reporting in San Francisco.
Essential coverage
Feature
San Francisco’s second AI city
The current cycle is less about a neighborhood than a network of labs, meetups, houses, and compute buyers.
Research
The geography of the current AI company
Company headquarters and event calendars show a dense Bay Area core with important European and global nodes.
News brief
OpenAI schedules DevDay for September 29
The developer conference returns to Fort Mason in San Francisco.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 08: San Francisco after the model race
A city shaped by labs, startup batches, conference calendars, and the infrastructure of ambition.
Film
South of Market, between releases
A city film about the ordinary geography around extraordinary claims.