Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

Its wild.

The sole reasoning I've heard is " Well i didn't really have a choice" but the party you are actively supporting makes everything worse.
 

27 companies from Forbes' 2025 AI 50 list are domiciled/headquartered in California.




Here are the 27 with their HQ cities (all in California):


  • San Francisco (the majority): Abridge, Anthropic, Anysphere, Baseten, Crusoe, Databricks, Decagon, Harvey, LangChain, Mercor, Midjourney, Notion, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Scale AI, Sierra, Speak, StackBlitz, Thinking Machine Labs, Together AI, Writer, World Labs (that's 22).
  • San Jose: Coactive AI, Figure AI, Lambda (3).
  • Palo Alto: Glean, SambaNova, Vannevar Labs, xAI (Elon Musk's company, 4 total here but wait—xAI is Palo Alto).
  • Redwood City: Fireworks AI, Snorkel AI (2).
  • Mountain View: Windsurf (1).
 
The other 23 companies on the Forbes AI 50 2025 list (those not based in California):


United States (non-California) — 10 companies​


  • New York (6): Captions, Clay, Hebbia, Hugging Face, Runway, VAST Data
  • Massachusetts (3): OpenEvidence (Cambridge), Suno (Cambridge), and one more often listed in the Boston/Cambridge area ecosystem, but specifically OpenEvidence and Suno are highlighted there.
  • Pennsylvania (1): Skild AI (Pittsburgh)

International — 13 companies​


  • Canada (1): Cohere (Toronto)
  • United Kingdom (3): ElevenLabs (London), Luminance (Cambridge), Synthesia (London)
  • France (2): Mistral AI (Paris), Photoroom (Paris)
  • Germany (1): DeepL (Cologne)
 

27 companies from Forbes' 2025 AI 50 list are domiciled/headquartered in California.




Here are the 27 with their HQ cities (all in California):


  • San Francisco (the majority): Abridge, Anthropic, Anysphere, Baseten, Crusoe, Databricks, Decagon, Harvey, LangChain, Mercor, Midjourney, Notion, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Scale AI, Sierra, Speak, StackBlitz, Thinking Machine Labs, Together AI, Writer, World Labs (that's 22).
  • San Jose: Coactive AI, Figure AI, Lambda (3).
  • Palo Alto: Glean, SambaNova, Vannevar Labs, xAI (Elon Musk's company, 4 total here but wait—xAI is Palo Alto).
  • Redwood City: Fireworks AI, Snorkel AI (2).
  • Mountain View: Windsurf (1).
Why do you suppose they choose California?

Listing of priorities would be helpful here:
 
Fortunately for red states the technological spillovers they will be receiving are substantial. No flowers or thank you notes expected.
 
That’s just a list of companies soon to move out of California at this point

No one believes California is thriving

They house all the homeless people though. I’ll send Gavy a Thank you note , because ending Homelessness was his campaign promise in like 2015!
 
Why do you suppose they choose California?

Listing of priorities would be helpful here:
There is a famous fake Mark Twain quote: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

I happen to like San Francisco weather. But it is not for everyone.
 
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