Cerebral Valley – Week of August 18th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, News, Jobs and Events

August 18, 2025

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Register here for our AI Fintech Hackathon this coming weekend in NYC! Featuring Anthropic, UBS, Rogo, Cline, CodeRabbit and many more… applications due 8/20!


Plus, register for our Founder Coworking with NEA on Thursday, August 21st

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Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.

1) Frontend Engineer at Codegen Automation Startup (SF)

- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $10m+ funding raised
-Ideal candidate: Able to innovate and develop novel human-AI interaction • 4+ years experience building scalable consumer web and native applications • Familiar with Typescript, React, Next & the likes • Native intuition for user interfaces and AI usage

2) Full Stack Engineer at Financial AI Lab (NYC)

- About: Founders with previous 9-figure exit • Top investors including Garry Tan and hedge fund founders • Building OpenAI for finance
-Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience building in AI, crypto, or finance • Alum from Stripe, Ramp, Plaid, or other fintech unicorns • Experience in Python / Go backend + React / Next frontend • Fit in with research-driven culture and bridge the gap

3) AI Engineer at Agentic Research Lab (SF)

- About: Building state-of-the-art agents for human-AI interaction • Repeat founding team • Strong research culture from top PhD programs 
-Ideal candidate: Experience at top consumer AI companies (Perplexity, Granola, Notion) • Native understanding of LLMs and their place in product • Demonstrated zero-to-one experience from idea to production

This past Wednesday, we hosted our first-ever N(YC) Founder Social for 120+ members of the YC Alumni ecosystem in NYC.

Big shoutout to our partners NYC Founders Club, Nebius, Vouch, Factory and Rho for making this event possible! Plus, a special thanks to Maxwell Social for hosting us in their iconic space.

You can find all event photos here. One for the books 🍸

Events List

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

CV Events:

🗓️ Thursday, August 21st
📍 New York, NY

Join us for a coworking day with our partners at NEA. Come lock in alongside fellow AI founders, engineers, and builders in the NEA offices.

We'll close out the day with demos, where you’ll have the opportunity to share what you're working on with peers and NEA team members.

Lunch, snacks, and refreshments will be provided.

Spots are limited!

🗓️ Saturday, August 23rd - Sunday, August 24th
📍 New York, NY

Cerebral Valley is hosting NYC's first-ever AI Fintech Hackathon on August 23-24!

This 2-day hackathon is where top-tier builders, engineers, and founders collide with the most powerful use-cases for AI - finance, payments and infra.

We've curated a list of problem statements for hackers to solve. The Top 3 teams will receive cash and credits as prizes 👀

Featured in August:

🗓️ Thursdays, August 21st; September 4th, 18th; October 2nd, 16th, 30th
📍 Virtual

This 6-part virtual event series will enable startups to effectively build, deploy, and scale Generative AI workloads on AWS using NVIDIA technologies. This comprehensive series combines AWS's cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA's cutting edge platform/full-stack to help startups accelerate their Generative AI journey.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

Step San Francisco is a high-energy tech and startup festival that brings together founders, investors, and global ecosystem leaders. Expect breakthrough startup showcases, networking with real decision-makers, and sharp keynotes from speakers like Amjad Masad and Chris Messina - alongside powerhouse firms including Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures.

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🗓️ Friday, August 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Get ready for an exciting day of learning, hacking, networking, and innovation! This event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.

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🗓️ Wednesday, August 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for the first-ever SaaS Summit at the AWS Builder Loft (GenAI Loft) and enjoy an evening of lightning talks focused on picking the right tools for SaaS in 2025. Meet like-minded founders, network with the web dev community, and dive into codegen and building modern SaaS.

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🗓️ Wednesday, August 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Join us for a special keynote presentation on the detailed product vision of the Hyperspace Agentic OS, including an extended live demo of our breakthrough new agentic browser with it's spatial AI, and the announcement of the first-ever agentic blockchain protocol.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 28th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join Arize and Turing for an evening exploring how to optimize agents with RL Gyms and Prompt Learning.

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🗓️ Monday, September 29nd
📍 Virtual

The Reborn x Roboverse x Unitree Global Hackathon kicks off on Monday, Sept 29 in San Francisco with a $50k prize pool across beginner to advanced tracks. Finalists from the advanced track will compete in person, deploying policies on real Unitree G1s. Supported by AWS Startups, Intel, Coohom, Akash, BAIR, Tianji, and Rokae, this global event is open to all levels.

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, August 19
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Ready to see what generative AI can actually do—right now, not in some distant future? Swing by Zoom HQ in downtown San Jose for an hour packed with real-world demos, wild ideas, and plenty of surprises.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 21
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join engineers from Anthropic, Cloudflare, Stytch, and Arcade for an evening exploring the cutting edge of MCP and AI agents. 

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🗓️ Thursday, August 21
📍 San Francisco, CA

This isn’t another AI meetup. This is where the top 1% of prompt engineers, Claude maxxers, amp-heads, cursornauts, and AI-native developers converge to demonstrate workflows that shouldn’t be possible.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Thursday, August 21
📍 New York, NY

​Come meet other NYC-based engineers and developers building with LangChain and LangGraph. We'll be discussing building AI applications with LangChain and the underlying architectures for making these applications work. A deployed engineer from the LangChain team will also discuss how ambient agents work.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 21
📍 New York, NY

​AI is rapidly transforming how we build and improve software. In this developer happy hour, Vercel, Profound, and PostHog will share practical ways to build with AI and build for the AI-powered web. From generating apps with AI assistance, to making content discoverable by LLMs, to analyzing how AI features perform in production, each company will give a 5-minute lightning talk on how their tools empower developers in the AI era.

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