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- Because of pandemic-era closings, San Francisco became somewhat of a ghost town for two years.
- As people left the city and worked remotely, some wondered if San Francisco was dead as a tech hub.
- Now, a race to succeed in the fledgling space of generative AI has founders flocking back.
San Francisco's tech scene is back. After the pandemic effectively shut down the city for more than two years, San Francisco is shifting away from proclamations of a once-great city's demise and towards the good old times, when it was the destination for those trying to reshape the world's technological vision.