Cerebral Valley – Week of August 12th 🗓️

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Partner Spotlight - Narrow AI

In today's fast-paced AI landscape, developers face constant “model anxiety” keeping up with the never-ending stream of higher reasoning, cheaper cost and lower latency models. That's why we're thrilled to announce the launch of Narrow AI, an Automated Prompt Engineering and Optimization platform designed to help AI developers scale LLM workloads effortlessly.

Key Features:

  • Automated Model Migration: Adapt and test prompts on new models in minutes, not weeks

  • Intelligent Cost & Performance Optimization: Find the perfect balance between accuracy and efficiency

  • Continuous Performance Monitoring: Ensure your LLM task performance stays on track

Real Results:

  • Reduced LLM task costs by 95% while maintaining consistent output quality by migrating from OpenAI models to more efficient open-weight models like Llama3 8b.

  • Helped reduce a week’s worth of manual evaluation and migration to a new model into an automated process that took less than a day.

  • API used as an embedded prompt optimizer within other AI products to help users create more reliable and cost efficient prompts in a matter of seconds.

Narrow AI is your partner in navigating the multi-model world, helping you:

  • ✅ Stay adaptable in a rapidly changing model landscape

  • ✅ Maximize cost efficiency

  • ✅ Seamlessly transition between closed and open-weight models

  • ✅ Leverage cutting-edge providers for optimal performance

Ready to transform your LLM development workflow? Learn more at getnarrow.ai

Events List

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

Featured Events:

🗓️ Monday, August 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Learn how to leverage Cohere's foundation models, Command, Embed, and Rerank, to build enterprise-grade agentic systems that use tools to connect to external services, like search engines, APIs, and databases.

The top agent demo will receive $2,000 worth of Cohere API credits.

​During this event, you'll have the unique opportunity to:

  • ​Learn from Cohere experts on agentic workflow use cases and their impact on enterprise-grade systems.

  • ​Learn to integrate human oversight in agentic workflows to enhance system performance and reliability.

  • ​Get hands-on experience with mentors who will guide you in building agents to automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency.

  • ​Connect with fellow founders and engineers.

​Cohere models are designed to offer best-in-class advanced RAG capabilities, multilingual coverage in 10 key business languages, and multi-step tool use to automate sophisticated workflows.

🗓️ Monday, August 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA

South Park Commons is excited to welcome back Scott Wu, co-founder and CEO of Cognition as well as esteemed SPC alum, for our -1 to Now series!

Event Details

  • ​​​4:30pm Doors Open

  • ​​​5-6pm Discussion with Scott Wu

  • ​​6-6:30pm Networking

​*No late admittance, doors close at 5pm

​​​📢 -1 to Now is a recurring speaker series at South Park Commons exploring how the world's best builders and thinkers took their ideas from -1 to 0 and beyond. Join us for the inside stories of their experiments, pivots, and breakthroughs on the way to where they are today.

​Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition AI. He previously competed in international programming competitions (3x IOI gold medalist) and co-founded Lunchclub, an AI-powered professional networking platform. Scott grew up in Louisiana and attended Harvard University.

🗓️ Tuesday, August 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at GitHub!

​​Here's what you can roughly expect:

​​​​🏆 Evening of Fun:

  • Lightning Talks by incredible people at incredible companies

  • ​​​​Demo Challenge: Showcase your creativity by combining Quickstarts or technologies.

  • ​​​Raffles: As always, raffles always get the energy going, so we're bringing them back with ever better prizes!

​​​​We'll have prizes for each of the mini challenges above and more!

​If this sounds like a fun night to you, don't miss the chance to secure your spot!

🗓️ Wednesday, August 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Learn to use the Cohere Toolkit to build a complete AI assistant, including an open-sourced chat interface, a locally hosted LLM model, and information retrieval components.

What is the Cohere Toolkit?

​The Cohere Toolkit is an open-source repository designed for user interfaces optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and autonomous tool applications in enterprise systems.

What You'll Gain:

  • Expert Insights: Insights from Cohere experts on creating UI for RAG and autonomous tools in enterprise workflows.

  • Hands-On Workshop: Hands-on session to build a local chat assistant with production-ready open-source code.

  • Networking: Connect with fellow AI engineers and developers.

Key Features:

  • ​Newly open-sourced chat interface

  • ​Advanced RAG capabilities

  • ​Multilingual support in 10 key business languages

  • ​Multi-step tool automation for complex workflows

Event Agenda:

  • 10:00 AM: Lightning Talk - "Toolkit Repository: How We Open-Sourced Cohere UI" by Sandra Kublik

  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM: Workshop - "Building Open-Source Local LLMs With Cohere" by Kseniia Ryuma

  • 11:45 AM: Lightning Talk - "Using Cohere on Amazon Bedrock" by Suman Debnath

  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Networking

​We're excited to see you get started with the Toolkit!


Register

🗓️ Thursday, August 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Come meet the Cursor team at our office. We'd love to hear your feedback and showcase some demos of where Cursor is headed!

​Food and Drinks Provided

🗓️ Sunday, August 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Get ready for the GenAI Collective’s third demo night where we’re turning the dial up to 11! Check out our recap of the last event! 🌟

​Join us as we gather the Bay Area’s most brilliant creators for a night of mind-blowing demos that push the boundaries of innovation. From cutting-edge tech to groundbreaking ideas, these 10 showcases will leave you speechless and eager for more! 😮

​Discover the future of work at our demo night with Emergence Capital and Arcee, who will share invaluable insights from their discussions with thousands of AI founders and users. 💡

​Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a curious onlooker, or a seasoned builder, you’ll leave inspired and amazed, wondering if you just attended a tech showcase or a mind-bending magic show! 🤹

​​​On this special evening, we’ll be selecting 10 demoists to show off their products and technology to the world!

​We’re looking for the best of the best companies who are using generative AI for work!  

​Application categories:

  • ​B2B Applications 💼

  • ​Infrastructure 🛤️

​If you would like to demo and receive feedback from the community, please click the button below and fill out the form! Submissions close the Saturday before the event at 11:59pm.

🗓️ Wednesday, August 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Vision Agent in Action

​Calling all developers working on Visual AI applications! Join us for a meetup dedicated to Vision Agent. This event with Dr. Andrew Ng and the LandingAI MLE team is designed to spark meaningful discussions, gather invaluable feedback, and learn how to use AI agentic systems to solve vision problems.

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

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