Build Club in Sydney to be a hub for Australian AI entrepreneurs [Video]

Annie Liao left her secure investment job to go all-in on AI. A Sydney-based former banker and strategy consultant, Liao quit her role in venture capital to start Build Club – a permanent space for the world’s best AI engineers to collaborate and launch their start-ups.

The entrepreneur is one of a growing number of young Australians to leave their corporate jobs and pursue their dreams in artificial intelligence.

What started as Liao and a couple of friends working overtime together has now grown into a community of more than 500 AI engineers and builders. This month they are gaining their own physical “hacker hub” to work from.

Located in Sydney’s new Tech Central hub, Build Club is Liao’s take on San Francisco-based hacker spaces …