"OpenAI is going house hunting. The world-leading AI company is reportedly looking for a massive corporate campus of at least 500,000 square feet to house its ever-growing workforce of insanely well paid engineers and support staff. What's more important than OpenAI's desire to expand, though, is the company's choice of where to do it. OpenAI is looking not in the trendy, vibrant heart of San Francisco, but deep in the dull, gray corporate expanses of Silicon Valley."
"That bucks a major trend in the AI space-and signals a broad and impactful change to the industry. Corporate hermit crabs For generations, America's most successful tech companies have followed a familiar pattern: start in some tiny, inappropriate space, then expand to a massive office park in Palo Alto or Mountain View. Hewlett Packard famously started in a garage before expanding to ever-larger campuses. Apple did the same, and now controls most of Cupertino from a bizarre, insular spaceship of a building."
OpenAI is seeking a corporate campus of at least 500,000 square feet to accommodate a rapidly growing workforce of highly paid engineers and support staff. The company is targeting suburban Silicon Valley rather than central San Francisco. The move contrasts with a mid-2010s trend of newer tech firms favoring urban headquarters and recalls the older pattern of massive suburban campuses occupied by established firms. Silicon Valley history shows companies repurposing predecessors' campuses as they scale. The relocation choice could reshape local real estate, commuting, corporate culture, and signal renewed consolidation of tech operations into large centralized campuses.
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