Currently, Jamestown brings food trucks to Levi\u2019s Plaza four days a week, runs a shuttle service to BART to connect the neighborhood to downtown, and funds programming like a rooftop Blue Angels watch party and outdoor concerts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe initially got a bunch of confused looks when we told people we were coming here,\u201d said Prady Modukuru, CEO of Sync Labs, which moved into a fully furnished, 5,400-square-foot office at Waterfront Plaza last year. \u201cBut we\u2019ve found [the North Waterfront] is actually the best place to work on deep AI research. It\u2019s beautiful, peaceful, and quiet. You can\u2019t help but feel inspired.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Modukuru\u2019s AI company \u2014 which allows editors to translate audio into various languages \u2014\u00a0went viral in 2023 for producing a video of Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman talking about Elon Musk in Hindi<\/a>. Although Sync Labs\u2019 customers are mostly in Los Angeles and New York, Modukuru said the proximity to engineering talent and venture capital funding makes it critical to be based in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to push the frontier, you have to be around other people who are doing the same,\u201d Modukuru said. Less than a mile from his office, Anysphere Inc. \u2014\u00a0developer of the popular AI code editor Cursor, which recently surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue<\/a> \u2014\u00a0is valued at $20 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently, Jamestown brings food trucks to Levi\u2019s Plaza four days a week, runs a shuttle service to BART…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,2444,19899,7130,74,19900],"class_list":["post-21987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-north-beach","tag-return-to-office","tag-technology","tag-telegraph-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}