In an alcohol-free San Francisco house, HF0 uses an AI app to collaborate with founders

• A wave of generative AI founders reportedly found a home at HF0 to develop their ideas.
• The initiative has become a communal hub for founders and former big tech engineers, according to a New York Times report.
• The founder’s efforts have attracted the attention of big venture capital firms, according to the report.

Aspiring artificial intelligence founders have another place in San Francisco to develop their ideas.

In an alcohol-free, work hard, play hard hotel environment, developers can have fun and eat together while building businesses, reports The New York Times.

Hacker Fellowship Zero (HF0) has a program of about three months to help startups develop. It’s steadily attracting AI-savvy developers, but is open to aspiring tech founders in general, according to a Times cover story.

As venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia look to invest in AI, the program’s participants, who have worked for companies such as Google, are more likely to enter the big leagues with their products, according to the report. can also be sold. All recent founding groups that have joined the program have attracted investor interest, according to the report.

HF0 receives replenishment batches of its founders in a corner mansion in San Francisco’s Alamo Square Park. The mansion could also serve as a social hub for engineers and others attending tech soiree, The Times reports.

There, ambitious developers are more than just a daily business task for companies looking to speed up document composition tasks, and consumers looking for an app to feel grounded. The Times reported that it is building tools that will help with both existential problems. His one of those apps, created by a former Google engineer, aims to use an AI assistant to provide cues for The Times’ Yiren Lu’s familiarity with the tool. I’m doing it.

Some of the House’s more recent associates include ambitious founders in other tech areas, such as working on cryptocurrencies, but there’s been an overabundance of such efforts dating back to the pre-FTX demise. The Times reported that it is on the decline because of what happened.

Dave Fontenot, Emily Liu and Evan Stites-Clayton co-founded HF0. Fontnot did not immediately respond to LinkedIn’s message ahead of publication.

The early days of OpenAI’s ChatGPT not only sparked a huge wave of consumer interest in generative AI tools, but they also opened up resources for developers looking to take advantage of OpenAI’s large-scale language model technology.

Read the full story in The New York Times.