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There's a lot at stake in the artificial intelligence race, fortune, world domination,

the future of humanity itself. And although it may feel like it's everywhere, the reality is

that the AI race is primarily playing out in just a couple of places, hubs that offer AI

entrepreneurs, advantages from the capital to the talent that have drawn many a tech founder

over the years. That helps explain why so many AI companies, patents, job opportunities,

and a whole lot else, are concentrated in Silicon Valley in a series of other very expensive,

mostly coastal US cities. Says Mark Murrow, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro.

And then in places like Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, are account for huge portions of this.

For generative AI, chat GPT and other applications, so-called large language models,

we're talking about 60% in just 15 places.

And how worried are you that we're going to keep seeing this kind of concentration?

Is more and more AI startups and development projects pop up?

I'm quite concerned about the concentration dynamic. We call it a winner-take-most geography.

And I think until proven otherwise, that is the standard way that technology economies evolve.

And for some of it is highly valuable. It's an efficient way for places to innovate,

key assets, R&D, finance, deep pools of workers need to what's called clustering.

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