Yoevan Khemlani had already begun building his AI company in Singapore when he realized that all his customers were looking somewhere else. Khemlani had started Interfaze, a startup offering a specialized AI model for backend tasks like web scraping, with a team of four in 2025. “As we were training the model, a lot of our customers who were exploring or trying the product were moving to the U.S., already based in the U.S. or selling to the U.S.,” Khemlani tells Fortune.  And so Khemlani moved to the San Francisco Bay Area last May, drawn by the U.S.’s huge customer...