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30-year-old Praxis CEO planning AI-powered utopia in Uruguay
New York Post • • world
Key Points:
- Praxis, led by CEO Dryden Brown and backed by investors including a fund founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, plans to build a utopian, AI-powered city in Uruguay, with the first residents expected by mid-2027.
- The city will be constructed within the +Colonia development near Colonia del Sacramento, chosen for its natural beauty and political stability, and aims to blend gothic and futuristic architectural styles.
- Praxis intends to mobilize $1 billion in investment over three years and envisions the city as a hub for new cultural, economic, and technological approaches shaped by artificial general intelligence.
- Brown envisions the city fostering a new culture inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, with home sales funding artists and thinkers, and initially agreeing to follow Uruguay’s legal system despite earlier ambitions for self-governance.
- This project reflects a broader trend among wealthy tech entrepreneurs seeking to create new cities or city-states to experiment with societal models, though similar efforts elsewhere have faced local opposition.
