AI Startups Boom In San Francisco Amid $100 Billion Google Mistake San Francisco’s AI startup scene is blowing up thanks to the ChatGPT craze and backing from investors like Y Combinator, Bessemer, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Mark Benioff's Time Ventures and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures. Meet the players who are shaking up the tech mecca.