There's now this term called cerebral valley, not the best term, I don't think. Apparently a neighborhood in SF, I think case valley, there is a bit of a concentration of people working on AI startups. 65% of top AI companies have immigrant founders. 70% of full time graduate students related to AI are international students. 18 of 43 of top US based companies have a founder who studied in the US as an international student.
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Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.
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