Cerebral Valley – Week of March 18th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

March 18, 2024

  • Our Mistral Hackathon is this weekend March 23/24 - sign up here

  • We’ll be at GTC Week - reply here and let us know what you’re up to!

  • Our Deep Dive with Baseten is now live on our Blog

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Partner Spotlight: Kolena

Join Kolena for a discussion with Anjali Balagopal, Rad AI Senior Machine Learning Engineer, for a session geared to ML professionals on how Rad AI reduced model failures and boosted AI/ML testing efficiency.

You'll gain insights on:

  • Understanding Common Pitfalls: Delve into the frequent causes of model failures in ML projects and learn how to anticipate and mitigate these issues early in the development phase.

  • Efficient Testing Methodologies: Discover cutting-edge testing methodologies that can significantly reduce your time-to-market while ensuring your model's reliability and performance.

  • Best Practices in Model Development: Learn the best practices for ML model development, including data preprocessing, feature selection, and model selection, to enhance your model's accuracy and efficiency.

Register now to save your spot!

Events List

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

CV Events:

🗓️ Saturday, March 23rd - Sunday, March 24th
📍 SHACK15

We’re excited to welcome you to the Mistral AI SF Hackathon, hosted by Mistral in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and SHACK15.

Mistral's founders and team will be in attendance IRL, and hackers will receive hands-on support from the Mistral team. Hackers will be granted model access and API access to Mistral models, with the goal of creating projects centered around creativity and AI. Winning teams will receive $10K+ in cash prizes and credits to kickstart their projects.

Keynote Speakers: Arthur Mensch & Guillaume Lample (Mistral Founders)

Featured Events:

🗓️ Thursday, March 21st
📍 San Jose

​Come join us on Thursday, March 21st, for a meetup and panel featuring speakers from Codi, Vouch, Google Deepmind, and General Catalyst. Connect with fellow founders over snacks and drinks, and tune in to an inspiring conversation on the impact and future of AI.

​We have an amazing lineup of speakers for this event, each offering insights drawn from their area of expertise. You won't want to miss out!

🗓️ Thursday, March 21st
📍 San Jose

Calling all founders, builders, developers, and CIO's! 🙌 Join us for an epic evening of networking and conversation at our GTC wind down!

​Get ready to unwind with your favorite drinks at our OPEN BAR, as you mingle and engage with fellow visionaries who are paving the way for the future of AI. 🍻 This event is taking place at a downtown San Jose bar, just a short walk away from the San Jose Convention Center.

​Seize this opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships in a relaxed and vibrant atmosphere. Don't miss out on an unforgettable night of community and inspiration! See you there!

🗓️ Thursday, March 21st
📍 San Francisco

Tanishq Abraham, Founder at MedARC, and Research Director at Stability AI is in town on Thursday so we're hosting a smol meetup covering: Stable Diffusion 3 and Hourglass Diffusion.

Come chat about how people have been tweaking diffusion / transformer architectures in creative ways!

🗓️ Thursday, March 21st
📍 San Francisco

​Arthur Mensch & Guillame Lample + others from the Mistral team will give a short talk on the roadmap, demo and do Q&A.

​Please join us for a casual hang in our open source series, with AI builders and founders — especially if you are doing a project with Mistral models!

​Food and drinks, capacity-limited so please RSVP.

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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