Cerebral Valley – Week of April 29th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

April 29, 2024

  • Sign up for our Defense Tech Hackathon this weekend - featuring Shield Capital, Anduril, Founder’s Fund and more…

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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, Anduril, Vannevar Labs, In-Q-Tel, Founders Fund, Primer, Radiant, SkyFi and Dedrone. 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 30
📍 San Francisco

​👋 We're thrilled to invite you to our monthly AGI Builders meetup on April 30th.

​❤️ It's a gathering where AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts share ideas, inspire peers, and transform the future.

​💡 Participants can expect engaging tech talks covering the latest challenges and advancements in AI.

​🍕 Light refreshments will be available.

🗓️ Tuesday, April 30th
📍 San Francisco

​[Talk 1]: Deep Learning Past and Future: What Comes After GPT? by Lukasz Kaiser

​[Talk 2]: Taming Unstructured Data: Which Indexing Strategy Wins? by Jan Chorowski

​Challenge: Building LLM-powered systems that accurately answer questions over vast, ever-changing unstructured data sets is a challenge. Traditional one-size-fits-all vector indexing struggles to keep up.

🗓️ Wednesday, May 1st
📍 San Francisco

​​DSPy is a framework that enables you to program and optimize large language model (LLM) systems. DSPy introduces two new concepts: the programming model and compilers. The programming model lets you define each component in an LLM call, such as the task description, examples, and input and output fields. The compilers can then improve the quality and cost of your DSPy program. DSPy has integrations with Cohere’s Command R LLM, Arize Phoenix observability, and the Weaviate vector database.

​We will begin with lighting talks from each company and then hand it over to Omar Khattab for a deep dive tutorial. We will open-source the demo, so feel free to bring your laptops.

Next Month:

🗓️ Wednesday, May 8th
📍 San Francisco

​Join fellow founders and builders in AI for an exclusive evening with Clem Delangue, cofounder and CEO of Hugging Face. The mission is to network, and to learn.

​Agenda

​5:30 p.m.: Arrival and networking

​6 p.m.: Fireside chat and Q&A with Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue, moderated by Wing head of research Rajeev Chand

​6:30 p.m.: Drinks, bites, and networking

🗓️ Tuesday, May 14th
📍 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 20 VC's May 14th 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.

🗓️ Wednesday, May 15th
📍 Remote

Join Gretel, the leading synthetic data platform, at an upcoming virtual workshop on May 15th. During this workshop, you will learn how Gretel Navigator was used to generate the recently released synthetic Text-to-SQL dataset.

This dataset was published under an open-source license to address the need for high-quality data. It quickly became the #1 trending dataset on Hugging Face, boasting 200+ likes and 1k+ downloads in one week and reinforcing the need for high-quality, easily-accessible data in the market.

In this workshop you can expect to learn how to: 

  • Generate synthetic training data with Gretel Navigator

  • Employ contextual tags to design synthetic data for your specific needs

  • Fine-tune an SLM

  • Speed-up innovation and reduce AI development costs

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ Tuesday, June 4th
📍 San Francisco

Join us at Talk Gen AI, a half-day summit covering the latest trends in Generative AI. 

Topics include Generative AI in the enterprise, leveraging Gen AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences, investor trends, unleashing creativity in media and entertainment, legal implications, personal productivity, and more. 

Our speakers include folks from AWS, Google, Nvidia, AstraZeneca, Geodesic Capital, Civilization Ventures, Everest Group, and more. 

The early bird discount rate of $99 is extended for Cerebral Valley members with the code "Cerebral"

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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