Thousands converged in downtown San Francisco this week for HumanX, one of the year's biggest AI conferences, proving people still prefer interacting with humans rather than AI agents. Talking to VCs and founders inside San Francisco's Moscone Center, the consensus was clear for most: Anthropic is the new Silicon Valley favorite. That sentiment is a sharp contrast with the first HumanX last year, held in a Las Vegas casino, where most VCs were placing their chips on OpenAI. "In Vegas last year,