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Silicon Valley Showdown: The techbro turf war over AI’s most hardcore hacker house


Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” have attracted the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.

Within a year a Hillsborough city attorney communicated to Nixon a list of neighbourhood complaints against the house: There was too much noise; the sudden influxes of visiting cars screwed up street parking; social media posts were drawing unwanted attention to the sleepy suburb. Before becoming the San Francisco outpost of AGI House, the Twin Peaks property was rented by OpenAI founding member Wojciech Zaremba and Anthropic researcher Danny Hernandez, who called it “Crest House.” Before that, it was occupied by the failed startup commune, Rise. But just several days ago, a mess of Ubers and Lyfts and some 60 parked cars flooded the block and adjoining cul-de-sacs around AGI House for a private event featuring Emmett Shear, the interim OpenAI CEO during Sam Altman’s brief ouster.

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