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> We are actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join our team as members of our technical staff in the Bay Area.

It's funny that after all the talk of remote work, tech globalization and the SF/Silicon Valley exodus in the last few years (including much of it from Musk himself), we end up with pretty much all mainstream AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Scale AI, Midjourney, and now this one – primarily hiring in-office in the Bay Area.

The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California, whether people like it or not.

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> The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California

If your definition excludes the likes of the entire semiconductor industry for example.

That guy definitely likes it being those 100 sq miles

Where is the semiconductor industry based? Who do you think designs all the current industry leading CPUs and GPUs?

Hillsboro, Oregon?

Not just Intel either. Nvidia, Apple, etc have big design teams in the area, and ASML and other major players in the semiconductor space have a large presence as well.

Or Microsoft and Amazon

Especially for startups / small orgs I think it can be critical to work closely with the first or specific employees in person as much as possible.

Midjourney is not entirely based in SF, it's a global remote team without an in-person office.

Musk tried but probably couldn't make it in Texas.

All hat but no cattle?

As opposed to all needles and no high?

no high? SF is a mecca for research chemicals, VCs love em!

It's just that liberals and conservatives alike are both opposed to his projects that have anything to do with transportation around here.

Well, he hasn't actually completed or shown the ability to complete transportation projects in a timely manner.

I wouldn't want Musk half-building something in my city and then just abandoning it

The Texas stuff is working really well. And if I recall, he was expanding California investment at the time he was moving the HQ of Tesla. And Tesla's engineering hub is here in Palo Alto. Overall, I'd say everything there is chugging along.

If it were truly working well, I'd expect Musk's brand new company to HQ there.

I should clarify: working well for Tesla. The AI talent is in San Francisco. There's no single all-things place in the world.

So basically he still can't make it work outside CA.

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