Cerebral Valley – Week of June 17th 🗓️

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

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You Might’ve Missed

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  • @exolabs @mo_baioumy demos open Source alternative to Apple Intelligence

  • @haizelabs automatically red-teams AI systems to preemptively discover and eliminate any failure mode

  • @ZetaLabsAI announces Jace, a new AI employee

Do you still rely on 'vibe checks' or ChatGPT for your GenAI evaluations?  See the future of instant, accurate, low-cost evals in our upcoming webinar, including:

  • How to conduct GenAI evaluations

  • The problem with human and LLM-as-a-judge approaches

  • The future of ultra-low cost and latency evaluations

Events List

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

Featured Events:

🗓️ Monday, June 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​You probably already know that AI is changing the world. Come learn about some of the awesome AI dev tools being worked on.

Event series focused on amplifying activities that promote open source for AI tools.

🗓️ Tuesday, June 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for a day of coding, collaboration, and connection at the Code/Collab/Connect Coworking Day hosted by MindsDB.

It's more than just a coworking session; it's a chance to learn from the pros, get a glimpse into the future of AI, and maybe even find new collaborators for your next big idea.

Schedule:
11AM - Office Doors Open
12PM 🍕Lunch is provided 🍕
1PM - Coworking + time with MindsDB staff
4PM - End of coworking

​We can't wait to see you there! Let's code, collaborate, and connect to make this day a memorable one.

🗓️ Saturday, June 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation.

​**no pre-reqs. all scientists, product designers, software, and hardware engineers welcome**

​everyone joining will be expected to demo something by end of the weekend.

​we welcome all skill levels and can support 100+ builders.

🔑 you must be able to stay through demo on sunday to participate.

🗓️ Sunday, June 23rd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us on Sunday, June 23rd from 4-6pm PT for the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon Awards Ceremony. You will have the chance to listen to experts in the AI/LLM field and the pitches of the top 8 teams of the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon.

This epic event will be IN-PERSON at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley.

​All technology enthusiasts are welcome to celebrate the culmination of a thrilling AI Hackathon that brought together the brightest minds in the field of artificial intelligence. This is your chance to witness groundbreaking solutions, ingenious algorithms, and revolutionary applications developed by the most talented hackers from around the world during an intense 36-hour marathon!

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member at OpenAI, will be joining us as a keynote speaker.

Later This Month:

🗓️ Thursday, June 24th
📍 San Francisco

​Join us and learn about the latest advancements in AI, language models, and open source. This meetup is organized by developers for developers and sponsored by Sourcegraph.

🗓️ Monday, June 24th
📍 San Francisco

⚒️ Calling all builders!

​Join our high-energy hack party featuring top RAG technology experts in the industry. Enjoy food, drinks, networking, and hacking, and discover how to boost your development speed by 100x.

​Team up with DataStax, Unstructured, Microsoft, LangChain, and Voyage AI to connect with RAG professionals, witness AI production demos, and enjoy dinner and drinks while networking.

​RSVP today to be considered.

Next Month:

🗓️ Thursday, July 11th
📍 San Francisco

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Arize for their annual conference, Arize:Observe - the premier event for LLM evaluation and observability!

Early bird registration is now open! Join us on July 11th at Shack15 for a deep dive into the future of AI engineering. Whether you're local or flying in, this is an event you won't want to miss.

Can LLM evals sustain the accelerationist dream? Is RAG becoming a drag? Discover the answers and more from top minds in the field. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the conversation!

Interested in speaking at the event? Submit your talk here: https://forms.gle/jrRM3ySUJz214uBK8

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

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