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Cerebral Valley – Week of January 22nd 🗓
The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs
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Midjourney’s alpha site is opening up to more users (with new explore page)
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HeyGen releases AI video translation of Argentina’s President Milei from Davos
@lmazare drops mamba-rs - which runs locally on CPU in Rust w/ [almost] no dependencies
Top face-swapping library FaceFusion 2.0 is 2.5x faster than its predecessor
New paper introduces inexpensive method for preventing LLM jailbreaks without weight updates
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Events This Week
A curated list of events this week (view all events).
Cerebral Valley:
Attention Alternatives & Scaling Context Windows (w/ Innovation Endeavors & Cerebral Valley)
🗓️ Thurs, Jan 25th • 5:00 PM PST
📍 San Francisco
Recently, there has been substantial interest in ways to further scale LLM context windows by getting around the quadratic scaling of attention, such as Mamba, Striped Hyena, State Space Models, and Monarch Mixer.
Come join us for an evening where we will discuss this emerging line of research.
Featured Events:
Wing AI - Learn & Network
🗓️ Tues, Jan 23rd • 5:30PM PST
📍 San Francisco
Hear from Pinecone founder Edo Liberty and Notion COO Akshay Kothari in an exclusive conversation moderated by Wing founder Peter Wagner.
Register
MindsDB - FinTech AI Hackathon
🗓️ Fri, Jan 26th • 5:00PM PST
📍 San Francisco
Hack, build, ship the future of finance at MindsDB's first hackathon of the year.
Harness the power of AI to tackle pressing challenges in the finance industry. Whether it's enhancing customer experiences, optimizing trading strategies, or revolutionizing fraud detection, your solutions can shape the future of finance.
Register
AgentOps.ai & Staf.ai - GPT Store Hackathon
🗓️ Sat, Jan 27th • 10:00AM PST
📍 Remote
Hackathon to build GPTs for the GPT store.
Register
Next Month:
Felicis & 20SALES: GTM for AI/ML Startups
🗓️ Thurs, Feb 1st • 4:00PM PST
📍 San Francisco
Felicis and 20SALES are co-hosting founders of AI/ML startups on February 1 for a discussion on go-to-market strategies for AI companies.
The discussion will be moderated by Viviana Faga, a former marketing leader at Salesforce and Yammer and current Felicis GP who led deals in Runway, MotherDuck, and Supabase. She will be joined by 20SALES founding partners Maggie Hott (go-to-market leader at Open AI) and Stevie Case (CRO at Vanta).
LlamaIndex RAG Hackathon - Think Beyond Chatbots: Unleashing the Potential of AI Agents
🗓️ Friday, Feb 2nd • 9:00PM PST
📍 San Francisco
Join us in Silicon Valley for the in-person LlamaIndex RAG-A-THON, a groundbreaking event showcasing the transformative potential of Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology in advancing AI agents.
Register
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).
Artisan AI - Senior ML Engineer/Researcher
Descript - Head of Applied AI
Unum - Senior C++ Research Engineer
Hiring for a role? Submit a job for our AI Jobs Spotlight.
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