Part 1 · Travelogue
From Utah to Chiang Mai
A founder's geography — and what the move from a small Utah town to a city built inside a five-hundred-year-old moat reveals about how the next decade of AI will be shaped.
A standing series
Asia Desk
Soraya Halim's dispatches from the cities that are quietly building the next decade of artificial intelligence outside the United States and Europe — Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Singapore, and the regional architecture underneath them.
4 entries so far · ongoing
Entries in the series
Part 2 · Dispatch
Inside the Chiang Mai AI Scene
A regional dispatch from the small city that has, in the last several years, quietly become one of the most distinctive AI-founder ecosystems outside of San Francisco — and what it would mean for the field if it stays that way.
Part 2 · Feature
From Utah to Chiang Mai — a Founder's Geography
A new visa, an old moat, and a generation of founders who decided not to wait for permission. The Chiang Mai cluster is small. The forces that built it are not. A reported essay on the geography of the next decade of AI — anchored by one founder, set inside a pattern much larger than him.
Part 3 · Interview
Conversations: Andrew Rollins on Building Web4OS
A long-form transcript interview with the twenty-four-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS. We sat with him over several afternoons in Chiang Mai. What follows is, with light editing, the conversation.