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Massive Silicon Valley mansions home to AI engineers, also known as “hacker houses,” have racked up dozens of complaints, from sexual harassment allegations to out-of-control parties and rat problems, according to a report.
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mansions → know → report
At some of these modern-day tech frat houses, entrepreneurs pay up to $10,000 a month in rent for a room, looking for close access to industry leaders like Sergey Brin, networking opportunities – and wildly excessive parties, according to a New York Times investigation.
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entrepreneurs → pay → investigation
Sources told the Times that parties featuring psychedelic drugs and sharing of sexual partners are common at these tech houses.
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parties → tell → houses
An eight-bedroom, Mediterranean-style mansion known as “AGI House” – home to start-up founders and engineers at OpenAI and Anthropic – is one of the most prominent AI homes in Silicon Valley.
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mansion → know → Valley
On its grounds, a car flew through the air during a party while horse-drawn carriages brought guests to an Eiffel Tower replica during another “Midnight in Paris” event.
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carriages → fly → event
Google co-founder Brin has given talks at the home while singer-songwriter Grimes – who shares three children with Elon Musk – has performed there, according to the report.
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who → give → report
Other top industry names are involved, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has advised the Residency, a network of hacker houses.
AGI House is connected to a venture capital fund that is backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, according to the house’s website.
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that → involve → website
A representative for Andreessen told the Times that he is not involved with the tech house.
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he → tell → house
Representatives for Altman, Brin and Schmidt did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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Representatives → respond → comment
But police reports show there’s also a dark side to the tech homes.
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reports → show → homes
In December, a woman called police and said she had been trapped at AGI House by a male resident who repeatedly pressured her to have sex, telling her she was old and “would be alone forever,” according to a police report obtained by the Times.
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she → call → Times
The woman escaped unharmed by climbing over a gate.
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woman → escape → gate
Yehong Zhu, a 30-year-old woman and founder of AI startup Zette, lived in four tech houses and initially viewed them as near-utopias.
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Zhu → live → utopias
But in December 2021, she filed a police report accusing a former member of another tech home called Genesis of rape and assault, saying she’s “far from the only one this has happened to.”
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this → file → one
At one house, the parties grew so excessive that the landlord eventually claimed more than $200,000 for damages, including a rodent infestation.
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landlord → grow → infestation
At AGI House, created by former Google researcher Jeremy Nixon, local police have recorded 37 incidents since 2022, including at least 17 related to complaints about wild parties.
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police → create → parties
Less than two miles away, another tech home run by Jimmy Chen – known online as the “Spice King of Zanzibar” – is home to equally lavish events, including an event where women went into the pool dressed as mermaids and a jungle-themed party with a painting of a Mayan mural.
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women → run → mural
Between late 2021 and 2024, police have recorded more than 20 complaints about the house, mostly about noise and parking issues – but also one about a “possible kidnapping” and another noting that Chen had been beaten up at an event.
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Chen → record → event
The house’s landlord wrote in a report that the entire house needed to be sprayed by professionals “as it was found to be infested with rodents.”
Chen said he had paid a damage deposit and hired security guards to screen party attendees, adding that the rats were there when he moved in.
Meanwhile, at AGI House, police were repeatedly called for a welfare check on a male resident, at one point sending an ambulance to the mansion.
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police → write → mansion
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