Goldigging gals are flocking to Silicon Valley to land rich husbands in AI

Silicon Valley’s latest gold rush is for husbands — specifically husbands who work in AI.Chinese and Chinese American women are flocking to Silicon Valley from across the country and around the globe with the aim of landing a husband who works in AI.“The first tier is Anthropic and OpenAI,” said Qinghua Zhao, founder of 2RedBeans, which bills itself as the largest Chinese dating site in North America.

“If you’re at one of those big companies, especially the AI ones, it’s obvious they’ll be huge the moment they go public.”Zhao, who founded 2RedBeans — whose name symbolize love and longing in Chinese culture — 15 years ago, said clients’ wish lists have become more specific.Her Chinese clients used to just say they wanted to find someone on America’s East of West Coast.

But, in recent years, they’ve gotten increasingly particular.“More are specifying Silicon Valley,” she said.“And within Silicon Valley, they used to look for engineers in general.

Now they’re more explicit: AI engineers are their first choice.”Amy Yang, a former tax analyst at Oracle who now runs “Matchmaker Amy,” a Bay Area-based matchmaking business, has noticed a similar trend.“It’s very common,” she told the Post.“The women who move here from out of town all want an engineer … [and] AI, of course, is better.”One Los Angeles client was considering a six-month stay in San Francisco specifically because OpenAI and other AI companies are there, Yang said.Sue Zhong, 34, was born in China and currently lives in LA.

She has consulted several matchmakers, including Yang, whose package she said costs $1,500 for three introductions, to help find a husband in AI.“I think there are people [in Silicon Valley] who want to change the world,” she said.

“I find that interesting.”A anonymous divorced Chinese businesswoman in her 40s told The Post that snaring a man in AI is a smart investment.“For me, marriage now is a restructuring of assets,�...