Recently chatted with a few friends who came from the U.S., several feedbacks:

The crypto world is concentrated in New York, AI is concentrated in California, traditional finance is leaning towards crypto, and internet entrepreneurs are going into AI.

AI entrepreneurs look down on the crypto world; it’s a bit strange that many developers doing ZK are turning to AI.

Some well-known crypto VCs in the U.S. have a shocking lack of DPL, really becoming big targets and bag holders, sincerely paying for ideals.