Why doesn’t Toronto or Atlanta or New York or Barcelona or Los Angeles or Berlin have a major entrant in the industry? Why not build your AI behemoth in Maui or Bali? These companies are feeding digital data to algorithms running on off-site server farms. In theory, this arrangement should be possible anywhere. In practice, the frontier of ideas is best breached by people who know each other well and work with each other closely and who move between different companies with different cultures and specialties smoothly.
