Culver City is becoming a hub for AI startups looking to break into Hollywood, with Silicon Valley names including billionaire former Facebook president Sean Parker taking office space in the area, according to Page Six Hollywood. Over the past year, more than a half-dozen AI startups have moved into the 1.2-square-mile city, taking advantage of a commercial real estate market that council member and former mayor Dan O’Brien says “bottomed out last year.” George Strompolos, who set up the startup Promise AI in a building in the shadow of the Sony water tower alongside former YouTube exec Jamie Byrne and filmmaker Dave Clark with backing from Peter Chernin’s North Road and Andreessen Horowitz, says the Laurel Grill has become one of his go-to working lunch spots, adding, “Every time I’m having a meeting with an Amazon exec it’s at the Laurel Grill.” The restaurant sits atop the Culver Steps, overlooking the Culver Studios and the Roaring ‘20s-era Culver Hotel, and was opened two years ago by Dean McKillen and Phil Howard, the owners of West Hollywood haunts Laurel Hardware and Ysabel. A studio exec in the area says there’s not a lot in downtown Culver in terms of places to have business lunches, so the Laurel Grill filled that gap. A bartender at the spot said it’s frequently packed with Amazon, Apple and Sony execs, and O’Brien likens the place to Culver