The 0th World
"AI no longer creates dividends. It creates stratification." — Anthropic, 2026
AI in 2026 isn't about tools anymore. It's about who gets to stay in the economy.
🌍 Anthropic's founder just predicted the rise of "World Zero" — 10 million people globally, with 7 million packed into the Bay Area and 3 million scattered across the rest of the world. 50% GDP growth, a fully self-contained economy, structurally decoupled from everyone else. For the first time, the top no longer needs the bottom. This isn't inequality. It's a clean break.
⚔️ Same week, the video AI war went white-hot — Google's Gemini Omni squared off against ByteDance's Seedance 2.0. On one side: full multimodal firepower — text, image, video, world models, unified. Physics simulation indistinguishable from reality. On the other: brutal cost compression — short-form video production slashed by 99%. The barrier to video creation just got kicked through the floor from both sides.
One predicts the next decade of social structure. The other rewrites this month's production stack. Both landed in the same week. That's not a coincidence.
Twitter threads won't get you there. So this weekend, we're putting the Bay Area's sharpest builders, researchers, and investors in one room — and going deep.
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🎯 THREE DEEP DIVES
▸ Inside "World Zero" What are the 7 million in the Bay Area actually building? Who are the 3 million scattered globally? Is there still an on-ramp? Unpacking Anthropic's prediction across economics, cognition, and geography.
▸ Omni vs Seedance 2.0: The Video AI Showdown Full multimodal firepower vs ruthless cost compression — who's actually rewriting the rules? Head-to-head against Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Kling. Where the next $100B in video is being built.
▸ From Prediction to Product Every major release further entrenches World Zero. From technical concentration to capital concentration — where the real moats are forming.
🔥 BONUS: Live Showdown Two builders. Omni vs Seedance, side by side. 30 minutes. One shippable video each. No slides. Output or it didn't happen.
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👀 WHO'S IN THE ROOM
· Teams shipping AI agents, video, and infra · Super-individuals and operators moving fast · Early-stage Bay Area investors · Researchers tracking AI's social impact
Bay Area builder density. You know the vibe.
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📋 DETAILS
🗓 Sunday May 24th
🕜 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
📍 Visible after enroll
🎤 Talks · Live Demos · Panel · Reception
🎟 Free with RSVP — 100 seats only
🤝 Hosted by GPTDAO Sponsor：Clockwise
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Stop reading about it on X. Come build with the people doing it.
RSVP now — last event filled in 6 hours.