Chinese Women "Looking for a Husband to Make AI Companies a Hit"...Silicon Valley is crowded in the U.S

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In Silicon Valley, a growing number of Chinese women prefer men in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry as their spouses.

Recently, the New York Post reported that Tsinghua Zhao, founder of 2RedBeans, the largest Chinese dating service in North America, said that the criteria for choosing a spouse for female customers are specified.

"Antropic and OpenAI are among the top companies," Zhao said. "For these large companies, especially men working for AI companies, it is relatively easy to estimate how much wealth they can accumulate if the company goes public."

Zhao, who founded Touredbins about 15 years ago to link encounters between unmarried Chinese men and women, said clients' preferred regions and job conditions have changed from the past. In the past, it used to be at the level of looking for men living in the eastern or western United States, but recently, there have been more cases of designating Silicon Valley as a specific meeting area. He added that unlike in the past, when he preferred the job of an engineer itself, he is now looking for AI engineers first.

Amy Yang, who runs a marriage brokerage firm "Matchmaker Amy" in the San Francisco Bay Area, also said she is confirming this trend. "Most women who come here from other regions want engineers as spouses," Yang said. "It is natural to prefer AI workers among them."

In fact, a 34-year-old Chinese woman living in Los Angeles (LA) asked several marriage brokers to marry a man in the AI industry. She also applied for counseling with a company run by Yang, and looked for a product that costs 1,500 dollars (about 2.2 million won) to arrange three meetings.

Zhong, who was born in China and currently lives in LA, said he is attracted to the move by AI founders to change the world. "I think there are people in Silicon Valley who want to change the world," he said. "That comes as interesting."

Expectations that the asset value of AI company executives and employees can jump significantly also seem to affect spouse selection. Antropic is seeking to go public in mid-November, and it is predicted that its corporate value could reach up to $2 trillion.

OpenAI is still an unlisted company, but some executives and employees have already secured significant funds by selling their holdings. In October 2025, more than 600 current and former OpenAI employees sold about $6.6 billion worth of their shares. About 75 of them reportedly sold $30 million worth of shares each.