Cerebral Valley – Week of Feb 12th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

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Partner Spotlight: TruEra

How to Create High-Performing GenAI Apps

Are reliable Gen AI applications just a hallucination? Hear the latest from experts at OpenAI, Microsoft, TruEra and WingVC on production-grade Gen AI.

On Feb. 28, this webinar will cover:

  • Beyond LLMs – how multimodal is taking hold

  • What does testing and evaluation even mean?

  • How to think about tech stack, tools, and even foundation models in an era of rapid innovation

Events List

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

Cerebral Valley:

AI Builders Co-Working at General Catalyst

🗓️ Friday, Feb 23rd • 9:00AM PST
📍 San Francisco

Join us for co-working with AI builders & founders in SF! ​​This will be a great opportunity to work alongside others building in AI and get feedback from your peers. ​Space is limited, please make sure you fill out the questionnaire mindfully so we can approve RSVP's accordingly.

Featured Events:

Evaluating LLMs: Needle in a Haystack

🗓️ Tues, Feb 13th • 5:30PM PST
📍 San Francisco

​Building on the viral threads on X/Twitter,  Greg Kamradt, Robert Nishihara, and Jason Lopatecki discuss highlights from Arize AI's ongoing research on how major foundation models – from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Mistral and Anthropic’s Claude – are stacking up against each other at important tasks and emerging LLM use cases

Build Better Multimodal RAG Pipelines with FiftyOne, LlamaIndex, and Milvus

🗓️ Thursday, Feb 15th • 9:00AM PST
📍 Remote

Multimodal Large Language Models like GPT-4V, Gemini Pro Vision and LLaVA are ushering in a new era of interactive applications. The addition of visual data into retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines introduces new axes of complexity, reiterating the importance of evaluation.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to compare and evaluate multimodal retrieval techniques so that you can build a highly performant multimodal RAG pipeline with your data.

El Segundo Defense Tech Hackathon

🗓️ Saturday, Feb 17th • 2:00PM PST
📍 El Segundo

​8VC, Entrepreneur First, and Apollo Defense are co-hosting a defense tech hackathon in an emerging hub of American hard tech — El Segundo — to connect America’s brightest young minds with cutting-edge startups, venture capitalists, and U.S. military leadership.

Next Month:

Pilot.com Founders & Funders: AI with Harrison Chase

🗓️ Wednesday, March 13th • 6:00PM - 8:00PM PST
📍 San Francisco (Pilot HQ)

Join us on March 13th for our Founders and Funders AI event live in San Francisco with Harrison Chase. The discussion will be moderated by Pilot’s CEO and Co-Founder, Waseem Daher. 

The discussion will be followed by an AMA session with our speakers. Drinks and pizza will be provided. Priority admittance will be given to active AI founders.

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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