Cerebral Valley – Week of Feb 19th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

February 20, 2024

You Might’ve Missed

Partner Spotlight: Gladia

Gladia provides a turnkey speech-to-text and audio intelligence API for building virtual meeting and note-taking apps, call center bots, and media platforms, providing transcription, translation, and insights powered by GenAI.

The startup recently released a hybrid ASR model, Whisper-Zero, based on enhanced OpenAI’s Whisper, which eliminates virtually all hallucinations from transcripts and adds advanced speech AI features in 99 languages. 

Sign up for the API now to enjoy early access to their upcoming suite of next-gen Audio LLM features.

Launching insane AI tools? Let us know!

Events List

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

Featured Events:

🗓️ Tuesday, Feb 20th • 5:30PM PST
📍 San Francisco

​​Topic: Connecting your unstructured data with Generative LLMs

​What we’ll do:
Have some food and refreshments. Hear three exciting talks about unstructured data and generative AI from Zilliz, OpenAI, ANN-Benchmarks, and Arize Speakers.

🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 21st • 6:00 PM PST
📍 San Francisco

​Come hang out at the Pebblebed warehouse with ~100 builders to see some of the coolest AI applications people are working on in SF + food, drinks, and a good time 🍕🍻

Spots filled up so fast for our last event (500+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you! And, to get your perspective on what will be possible with AI in 2024.

🗓️ Sunday, Feb 25th • 9:00 AM PST
📍 San Francisco

Last week, Bluesky opened its doors, and now, it has ~5M users! In celebration of Bluesky’s public launch, we’re hosting a hackathon at the YC office in SF judged by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber and several Bluesky engineers.

March:

🗓️ Monday, March 11th • 5:30PM PST
📍 San Francisco

​Join your fellow founders, builders, and AI-first enthusiasts for a chance to hear from Glean founder and CEO Arvind Jain and You.com founder and CEO Richard Socher in an exclusive conversation moderated by Wing partner Zach DeWitt.

​This event is hosted by Wing, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI-first businesses at every layer of the technology stack.

🗓️ Wednesday, March 13th • 10:00 AM PST
📍 Remote

Announcing GenAI Productionize 2024 – a FREE, virtual industry-first summit focused on productionizing generative AI within the enterprise!

Join AI experts from Coinbase, LinkedIn, Roblox, Databricks, JP Morgan Chase, Comcast, Fidelity and more for insights and actionable strategies on generative AI governance, frameworks, and practical techniques for evaluation and observability.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ Saturday, March 16th • 9:00AM PST
📍 San Francisco

GenLab Studio invites individuals and teams to our 3rd hackathon with $15K in cash awards. We're intrigued by how AI Agents will interoperate in the world of transactions and finance, and we're excited to see what people build.

Projects can start from scratch or have up to $1M in revenue and funding to be eligible for prizes. Our judges include Jeremiah Owyang (Blitzscaling Ventures), Charlene Li, and Robert Scoble.

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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