I disagreed with @rabois during the bet, but I don't think you're remembering this correctly.
SF had literally become a ghost town because of covid. The biggest indicator was that EVERY graduating Stanford student was going to NYC and the recent grads were moving there too. There was real risk that the talent networks that sustained the industry for so long had been permanently severed and would not be recoverable which actually could have ended the cycle of booms and busts.
Anthropic did nothing to save the city. It was OpenAI specifically being the nexus of AI and also requiring everyone to be in office in person in SF that flipped the bit.
@saranormous This is why image and video models were always a danger zone. Diffusion was basically a game of more GPUs and Meta / YouTube care a lot about this.
@RealAZKicks@moinnadeem Yes. You agree with my comment. Except I'm claiming almost everyone that's sharp is rational so when they seem not to be, there's usually a hidden agenda.
@rsg@deedydas Hmmm... You didn't let me into Sunflower though! That one actually had a product idea, users, and substance.
We've got nothing but a cool name, so we're more valuable because it's pure play
@itsnotbernhard Having worked for @ericwu01, I'm a fan of any space related to real estate Eric is working in as long as I get to invest in Eric's company
@Winterrose@ItzSuds@jnconkle@SamLichtman13 Google? They own Ant, SpaceX, Waymo, Deepmind, GCP, TPUs, Search, Android, Gmail, and how much am I missing that I forgot about and still use?