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Cerebral Valley – Week of August 19th 🗓
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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:
🗓️ Tuesday, August 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Come hang out at GitHub HQ in SF with ~100 builders to see demos of some of the coolest AI applications people are working on.
Spots filled up so fast for our last AI Night (700+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you!
Want to demo? Here's how it works...
Community applications to demo at AI Night are currently open. How do we pick? We don't! You do. We'll send out the list, so you can tell us what products you want to see.
To apply just fill out this quick form. The deadline is August 12.
See you there,
Your friends at Jam.dev 💜
About the hosts:
Jam - developer friendly bug reports in 1 click, complete with an AI debugging assistant to help you fix bugs faster.
🗓️ Tuesday, August 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Product Hunt + Solaris AI demo night is back!
We'll have 5-7 demos, 3-5 minutes each, in a conversational style, no slides (I will moderate and ask questions).
How to demo:
- Launch on Product Hunt! I will be hand-picking demos from top Product Hunt launches.
- You can also dm me (@rajivayyangar) if you're interested in demoing.
We'll have drinks and pizza, with plenty of time to make connections and meet other founders and builders.
🗓️ Wednesday, August 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA
Get ready for another exciting gathering of active builders. Join us for the AI Tinkerers San Francisco August Meetup, hosted and sponsored by GitHub / Microsoft for Startups, Covalent, and Neo4j at GitHub HQ.
Hang with SF’s top AI engineers, hackers, researchers, and technical founders.
Space is strictly limited for this event and we will be screening attendance.
🥽 What is AI Tinkerers?
AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners who possess technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds and are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and are eager to connect with like-minded individuals who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you. With AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in multiple cities, we cater to a dedicated community of practitioners.
🌍 Who is this for?
👉 It’s AI Tinkerers, not AI enthusiasts. We screen attendance to active builders with a shared level of expertise in order to create a collaborative environment ideal for early-stage discovery and innovation. Prior attendee stats: 2167 members: AI/ML - 28.89%, Full-Stack Engineering - 25.83%, Entrepreneurship - 13.07%, Open Source - 7.74%, Data Science - 6.78%
Read more about us in the FAQ
🗓️ Thursday, August 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Many developers have felt the pain of huge OpenAI bills or the challenge of building big model infra on their own. The LLMOps world is changing and the future looks much smaller.
Pioneered by Apple, the new GenAI stack is built on small models (SLMs) and cost-effective inference without sacrificing performance. So what does it take to build like Apple?
Join us Aug. 22nd in San Francisco to hear from AI leaders at Apple, Checkr, and more on what it takes to build the next-gen LLM architecture. We’ll cover the latest techniques from data through deployment.
Space is limited. For those we cannot accomodate or live outside of the area, we are providing a live stream of the event.
🎙️Talks & Speakers
Small is the New Big: Why Apple and Other AI Leaders are Betting Big on Small Language Models
Dev Rishi, Cofounder & CEO, Predibase
Piero Molino, Cofounder & Chief Scientific Officer, Predibase, and creator of open-source Ludwig
Fast Speculative Decoding in Large Language Models
Yi Wang, Principal Engineer, Apple
Next Gen LLM Inference: Blazing Fast + Cost-Effective
Arnav Garg, ML Eng Lead, Predibase, and maintainer of open-source LoRAX and Ludwig
GenAI at Production Scale with SLMs that Beat GPT-4
Vlad Bukhin, Staff ML Engineer, Checkr
Fine-Tuning SLMs for Enterprise-Grade Evaluation & Observability
Atin Sanyal, Co-founder & CTO, Galileo
Build Better Models Faster with Synthetic Data
Maarten Van Segbroeck, Head of Applied Science, Gretel
Register
🗓️ Thursday, August 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at Google San Francisco office to meet the team members behind Google Cloud Run, Gemma, and Ollama!
We will focus on updating the community on Ollama updates, engineering demo from Ollama, announcement from engineers behind Google Cloud Run, and Gemma 2 team members.
Schedule:
5-6:30pm Social time
6:30pm-7pm
Ollama project update
Google Cloud Run special announcement
Google demo
7pm-7:20pm Q&A
7:20pm-9pm Social time
Food and refreshments will be available
What to expect:
Insights on running AI workloads by Google Cloud Run team; project updates from Ollama team
Meet the engineers and developers behind Google Cloud Run, Google Gemma, and Ollama
Grab Ollama keychains, Ollama 1 year birthday pins, and Ollama stickers
Space is limited.
RSVP is required before Tuesday, August 20th!
🗓️ Saturday, August 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Agents are the next big wave in AI, redefining automation and streamlining the way we tackle complex tasks. As the demand for smarter, more powerful agents grows, open-source frameworks are leading the charge in this innovation. In August, we've witnessed exciting launches like LangGraph from the LangChain team and the new LlamaIndex workflow—just the tip of the iceberg.
Join us on August 24th at AGI House for the Open-Source Agent Hackathon by Andrew Ng & DeepLearning.AI. Dive deep into the latest advancements, collaborate with fellow pioneers, and build the future of agent automation. Let’s push the boundaries of what’s possible and create tools that make life easier, one agent at a time.
In support of open research and collaboration, all new projects built at AGI House must be open-source.
Register
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