Cerebral Valley – Week of May 13th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

May 13, 2024

You Might’ve Missed

  • @AlexReibman’s incredible recap of our Llama 3 hackathon with Meta

  • OpenAI’s @LiamFedus walks us through the new GPT4o model on LymSys

  • @kodjima33’s Open Glass AI, AI smart glasses for just $20

  • @lethic1’s insanely cheap ($250!) robotic arm 

  • Refuel’s @nihitdesai announces RefuelLLM, built for data labeling and enrichment tasks (and outperforms trained human annotators)

  • Stanford professor Jerry Cain breaks down the C programming language, highlighting pointers and structs. 

Event Spotlight: INDEX Conference 

Join us at INDEX 2024 this Thursday! Hear talks from Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, and DoorDash about Search and AI at scale. [Plus, have 1:1 conversations with AI experts from leading startups like Arize, Superlinked, Tecton, Baseten, and many more.]

Dive deep into search systems, vector databases, and streaming data infrastructure with highly technical talks from engineers. Don't miss these standout sessions:

  • Homepage Personalization at Netflix - Speaker: Shriya Arora, Engineering Manager of Personalization at Netflix

  • Personalized Shopping at DoorDash - Speaker: Sudeep Das, Head of Machine Learning and AI at DoorDash

Event Spotlight: AI Engineer World’s Fair

The biggest technical AI conference in San Francisco is just around the corner. If you’re a technical founder, CEO/CTO, VP of AI/Eng, or AI Engineer, this is the event you don’t want to miss.

Across 9 tracks plus a workshop day, you’ll learn deeply technical content presented by engineers & founders from the top companies in AI Engineering including Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS, Google, and many more to be announced soon.

Currently about 40% of attendees are technical founders, C-level execs & VPs, and 60% identify as technical ICs from AI Engineer to Principal Engineer. Around 70% come from outside the Bay, representing household names and Fortune 500 companies to hot startups fresh off a Seed or Series A. This event will be an incredible mix of deep technical learning coupled with business deals struck in the hallway track and the expo.

Organized by the team behind the AI Engineer Summit. Don’t miss this event -- get your ticket today at ai.engineer/worldsfair

Events List

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

Cerebral Valley Events:

🗓️ Saturday, May 11th - Sunday, May 12th
📍 San Francisco

​The Ollamas are back to host another Local & Open-Source Developer Meetup with Cerebral Valley and Shack 15 @ the San Francisco Ferry Building!

​​Event schedule:

  • ​​5pm: Doors open

  • ​​6pm: Lightning demos (5 minutes each)

  • ​​7:15pm-8pm: Free time

​Thank you to co-hosts & sponsors for making this happen!

​​Want to demo your project? Please email [email protected] for instructions!

🗓️ Saturday, May 25th - Sunday, May 26th
📍 Paris

We’re excited to welcome you to the Mistral AI Paris Hackathon, hosted by Mistral in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and Station F. Mistral's 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.

Featured Events:

🗓️ Wednesday, May 15th
📍 Remote

Join Gretel, the leading synthetic data platform, at an upcoming virtual workshop on May 15th. During this workshop, you will learn how Gretel Navigator was used to generate the recently released synthetic Text-to-SQL dataset.

This dataset was published under an open-source license to address the need for high-quality data. It quickly became the #1 trending dataset on Hugging Face, boasting 200+ likes and 1k+ downloads in one week and reinforcing the need for high-quality, easily-accessible data in the market.

In this workshop you can expect to learn how to: 

  • Generate synthetic training data with Gretel Navigator

  • Employ contextual tags to design synthetic data for your specific needs

  • Fine-tune an SLM

  • Speed-up innovation and reduce AI development costs

LaunchDarkly - GALAXY 24

🗓️ Tuesday, May 21st
📍 San Francisco

The leading conference for software builders and DevOps innovators. 1,000+ attendees. 30 speakers. 2 days. 

Build innovative velocity across every stage of software delivery. Join us in San Francisco as we gather developers and leaders for two electrifying days of networking, insights, and hands-on experiences designed to help your team launch whatever’s next.

Featuring world-class speakers from OpenAI, Google, Amazon and more, sharing their insights on product, engineering and software development. 

Next Month:

🗓️ Saturday, June 1st - Sunday, June 2nd
📍 San Francisco

The Aiify.io AI in Media & Entertainment Summit is a 2-Day Live Event in San Francisco, CA.

The AI in Media & Ent. Summit explores AI’s capabilities today, and the promise AI holds for tomorrow. Meet and hear from industry leaders building today’s cutting edge tools, and the creators pushing these tools to their limits. See how AI is changing the landscape of how media is generated; from marketing and social media, to narration and music, to mind-bending graphics and motion video, to immersive virtual worlds and gaming. This event will open your eyes and mind, and provide valuable insights into what’s possible.

For more info on speakers and programming, visit our webpage

If you're interested in speaking, sponsoring, or partnering (at this or other Aiify.io events), please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/aiify-partner

Cerebral Valley subscribers receive 20% off (this week only) with code: “CVNEWS” (scholarship tickets also available).

🗓️ Thursday, June 6th
📍 San Francisco

Join thousands of AI/ML engineers and developers at Snowflake’s Dev Day in San Francisco on June 6. 

This FREE event offers you a packed agenda of industry experts from OpenAI, Meta, Landing AI, You.com, Weights & Biases and more; leading venture capitalists; demos from the most popular AI companies; a gen AI Bootcamp; and fun networking events.

🗓️ Thursday, June 13th
📍 San Francisco

Join 150 product leaders and builders at Intercom's HQ in SF for an exclusive event showcasing cutting-edge AI startups transforming the way we build and manage products.

Food, drinks and chill vibes. Spots are limited, so secure your spot today :)

​​AI Founders: have an incredible AI demo to show?

​​​Community applications to present at our AI Demo Nights are currently open. Fill this form to apply: Deadline is May 31st.

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

Final Note…

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