San Francisco is on the brink of another Gold Rush of epic proportions, with Anthropic preparing to IPO as soon as this month and OpenAI expected to follow in 2027. One estimate suggests Anthropic’s IPO could make roughly 4,250 employees millionaires, nearly 80% of its 5,300-person workforce (on paper, at least, until their stock lockups expire). OAI staff have already gotten a taste of what’s to come, with more than 600 current and former employees reportedly selling $6.6 billion in shares, some cashing out $30 million apiece.

However, unlike your average multimillionaire, venture capitalist or charmingly eccentric tech founder (Elon Musk, however autistic, still included), many of these prospective fortunes belong to engineers and researchers who have spent the better part of their adult lives behind computer screens. They are not necessarily selling products or engaging with the media, just perfecting their technical skills (and probably indulging in some anime stuff).

And as we recently reported, gorgeous women have been flocking to San Francisco in droves, with some arriving to work in AI. Add the gold diggers, the occasional reported honeypot scare, and a fresh batch of extremely rich, potentially romantically clueless bachelors, and what do you get?

A class of Dario-at-the-AI-summit types, unleashed into a sea of Alice Huangs, Brooke LeBlancs, and Aellas (woah).

In classic SF fashion, an entire cottage industry has sprung up to cash in on the newfound romantic desirability of AI employees, promising to help them get some action or optimize for long-term relationships — all for a fee, of course.

Take Domo Vang, a dating coach whose clients include men at Anthropic, OAI, Nvidia, and Google (according to her home page).

Vang charges men $500 for consultations, $1,000 for “diagnostic dates” assessing one’s romantic shortcomings, and $10,000 for private coaching.

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