Cerebral Valley – Week of April 15th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

April 15, 2024

You Might’ve Missed

  • OpenAI introduces the Batch API to help devs save costs and get higher ratel limits on async tasks

  • Reka AI drops Reka Core, their best and most capable multimodal language model yet

  • @MatthewHeartful develops a legal agent that updates a vector database across all local county government websites

  • @hardmaru hilariously announces NeurIPS Preschool Track (for preschoolers to submit ML research papers)

  • @victormusta demos InstantMesh by Tencent - a super-fast image-to-3D model

  • @danielhanchen shows off Unsloth AI’s latest model release, which reduces memory used by a huge 30%

Event Spotlight: Galaxy 2024

The leading conference for software builders and DevOps innovators. 1,000+ attendees. 30 speakers. 2 days. 

Build innovative velocity across every stage of software delivery. Join us in San Francisco as we gather developers and leaders for two electrifying days of networking, insights, and hands-on experiences designed to help your team launch whatever’s next.

Featuring world-class speakers from OpenAI, Google, Amazon and more, sharing their insights on product, engineering and software development. 

Partner Spotlight: Enterprise Tech 30

What AI companies are dominating investor attention, and which ones are getting lost in the AI fray? See the definitive list of the best companies in enterprise tech: The Enterprise Tech 30, presented by Wing VC.

The list names the best companies, by stage, as ranked by 100+ leading tech investors. The ET30 report digs into trends including:

  • What companies have AI in their DNA, and which ones are investing in more AI-driven features or functionalities?

  • What business models do the best companies use?

  • What companies do the most successful founders and CEOs come from?

  • Which coast boasts the most listees?

Get those insights and more in the 6th annual Enterprise Tech 30 report. See the list, then read the report.

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Cerebral Valley Events:

🗓️ Saturday, May 4th - Sunday, May 5th
📍 San Francisco

Join us for a weekend of hacking in support of national security, sponsored by Shield Capital, Vannevar Labs, In-Q-Tel, Founders Fund, and Anduril. This event is hosted by Stanford's Defense Tech Club, Stanford Gordian Knot Center, and Cerebral Valley, with a kick off event on May 3 on Stanford campus.

Don't miss the opportunity to connect with problem statement stakeholders and special guest speakers. The official hackathon will begin on May 4 at Shack15 in San Francisco.

Featured Events:

🗓️ Tuesday, April 16th
📍 San Jose

AIAI San Jose: 4 Events. 2 Days. 1 Ticket.

Join us on April 16 & 17 for an incredible lineup featuring C-level leaders from Microsoft, Stability AI, Palo Alto Networks, Hugging Face and more. They'll share upcoming releases, winning solutions, and state-of-the-art engineering methods.

Experience four unique tracks - AI Accelerator, Generative AI, Computer Vision, and AICXO Summits, alongside special guests on the Headliners Stage.

Hundreds of engineers, builders, and execs have their tickets already - don’t miss out on yours.

🗓️ Wednesday, April 17th
📍 San Francisco

​Join the "Transatlantic AI Symposium: Europe's Heartbeat of Innovation" hosted by NRW.Global Business, trade and investment agency of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). We're celebrating the NRW-USA Year 2023/2024, underscoring the strong ties between NRW and the United States.

​Hendrik Wüst, Minister President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia will join us, highlighting NRW's AI initiatives and exploring collaborative opportunities with Silicon Valley. As Europe's powerhouse in tech and industry, NRW is driving significant advancements in the AI landscape.

🗓️ Saturday, April 20th
📍 San Francisco

​Agent Hackathon: Building Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) with Mayfield, AgentOps and MindsDB.

Build a real company in a weekend.

A lot of hackathon projects fall and die - this is your chance to build something that will last.

AgentOps and MindsDB would like to invite builders for an agent focused hackathon! If you’re looking to spur up your next side hustle or turn your existing project into a reliable business. You have 48 hours to hack.

Later This Month:

🗓️ Tuesday, April 23rd
📍 Los Altos

The AI Symposium serves as a pivotal platform, connecting venture capitalists with founders to enhance collaboration and propel forward the upcoming surge in growth. This is your opportunity to engage in discussions that will influence the future of AI infrastructure.

Join over 30 VC's April 23rd and meet us at the Fremont Hills Country Club in Los Altos. It's an exceptional chance for networking with venture capitalists, startups, and key players in the strategic ecosystem. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity. Sponsored by Amaara Networks , The MultiVerse, IndigiLabs , Lazarev

🗓️ Thursday, April 25th
📍 Remote

Curious about AI's role in your workplace? Join Storytell.ai's webinar exploring the journey of AI adoption. We'll tackle the hurdles leaders face and shed light on common fears and misconceptions.

Our panel of experts, leaders in their fields, will share their personal experiences with AI, from initial skepticism to seamlessly incorporating it into their daily lives and leadership practices.

Next Month:

🗓️ Thursday, May 16th
📍 Mountain View (+ Remote)

Join engineers from Netflix, Uber, Meta and DoorDash at Index, the community conference for search and AI applications at scale.

Register free for the virtual and in-person event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on May 16th.

LaunchDarkly - GALAXY 24

🗓️ Tuesday, May 21st
📍 San Francisco

The leading conference for software builders and DevOps innovators. 1,000+ attendees. 30 speakers. 2 days. 

Build innovative velocity across every stage of software delivery. Join us in San Francisco as we gather developers and leaders for two electrifying days of networking, insights, and hands-on experiences designed to help your team launch whatever’s next.

Featuring world-class speakers from OpenAI, Google, Amazon and more, sharing their insights on product, engineering and software development. 

Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Spotlight.

AI Jobs Spotlight

A curated list of startup jobs in the ecosystem (full list here).

Hiring for a role? Submit a job for our AI Jobs Spotlight.

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