Cerebral Valley – Week of April 8th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

April 08, 2024

You Might’ve Missed

  • Apple’s @awnihannun drops 103.5 toks-per-sec, 4-bit Mistral 7B running on M2 Ultra, MLX

  • @ChenLingjiao: a larger number of LLM calls can incur worse performance of compound AI systems

  • @NielsRogge’s thread on Ring Attention, the magic behind Gemini's 1 million context window

  • @victormustar releases his AI Genie - uses Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral from @NousResearch

  • @iamgrigorev implements Mixture-of-Depths, achieves memory reduction during training and 10% speed increase

Partner Spotlight: TruEra

Learn how to prevent LLM mishaps! Join TruEra and MongoDB for RAG and Eval for LLM Success, and you will:

  • Get an overview of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): what it’s for and how it works

  • Learn about the RAG triad – the three evaluations that minimize risks like hallucinations from LLM apps

  • Step through the dev and test process using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and TruLens

Events List

A curated list of events this week (view all events).

Cerebral Valley Events:

🗓️ Thursday, April 11th
📍 San Francisco

​The Ollamas are back to host another Local & Open-Source Developer Meetup with Cerebral Valley and Shack 15 @ the San Francisco Ferry Building!

Event schedule:

  • ​​5pm: Doors open

  • ​​6pm: Lightning demos (5 minutes each)

  • 7:15pm-8pm: Free time​

Want to demo your project? Please email [email protected] for instructions!

🗓️ 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:

🗓️ Wednesday, April 3rd
📍 San Francisco

​Come hang out at Mercury HQ with ~100 builders to see some of the coolest AI applications people are working on in SF.

Spots filled up so fast for our last event (600+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you!.

🗓️ Thursday, April 11th
📍 San Francisco

We are gathering our friends, users, fellow builders, and investors in the AI community for good food, drinks and deep discussions. Join the V7 founders and team to celebrate the launch of V7 Go.

We're hosting our happy hour celebration at the cozy heated garden of one of our favourite spots in the Mission - location revealed with registration. Drinks, good food and celebration.

Starting at 6:30pm sharp :)

Next Week:

🗓️ 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.

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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