Cerebral Valley – Week of December 1st 🗓

Join us in SF and London for our Gemini 3 Hackathons, or Miami for our private dinner with OpenAI; plus read about our Open Roles, and more...

December 01, 2025

CV • X • IG • AI Events 

  • We’re hosting the official Gemini 3 hackathons in SF and London, register below 🫵🏻

  • In Miami for Art Basel? RSVP to Meet Sora 2 — our private dinner with OpenAI on Wednesday 12/3 from 8-10pm in Brickell. Spots extremely limited.

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Open Jobs

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

1) Applied Agent Engineer at AI Automation Startup (SF)

- About: Largest seed round in YC history • Biggest ever launch on product hunt • $25M+ raised • Building agents for general knowledge work • Founder-dense team
- Ideal candidate: Strong experience & preference for founding or building early startups • Typescript, LLM, and AI coding tool expertise • Demonstrated shipping ability building quality agents • Can easily mesh with fun & lively team

2) Full Stack Engineer at AI Documentation Startup (SF)

- About: Backed by A16Z, YC & other Tier 1 VCs • Tech powers over 10,000 companies to date & rapidly growing • $20M+ funding raised with small team
- Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience including consumer or B2B startups • Innate ability to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong full stack engineering ability with high agency • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team

3) Full Stack Engineer at Finance Personalization Startup (Remote)

- About: About: Backed by top investors in finance • $10m+ raised, largest seed round ever for their primary VC • Built by exited founder, previously raised $500m+ for past companies • Building proactive agentic personal finance tools • Incredibly technical team
- Ideal candidate: Strong experience in full stack development & AI engineering • Preferred work history in fintech or finance • 3+ years of professional experience

Events List

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

Featured in December:

🗓️ Wednesday, December 3rd
📍 San Diego, CA

Join us for an evening with the multimodal AI community, connecting engineers and researchers who are pushing the field forward. Share industry insights, discuss technical challenges, and connect with fellow practitioners over drinks and food.

🗓️ Monday, December 8th
📍 San Francisco, CA

This event is where the Agentic economy comes together. In partnership with Google Cloud, Fetch.ai is bringing together the people overcoming the hardest blockers in the Agent Economy: from payments, to identity, to interoperability, to discovery (by consumers and other agents), to brand control.

🗓️ Wednesday, December 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA

The immigrant startup summit of the year is here! This December 10, the One Way Summit will spotlight the visionary immigrant founders building over half of America’s unicorns and driving the future of US innovation.

Held in the heart of San Francisco, this all-day summit brings together 450+ visionary entrepreneurs and investors, with speakers including the founders of Slack, Lyft, Branch, Mercury; Partners at a16z, Khosla Ventures, and so many more.

Join us to celebrate the power of immigrant entrepreneurship.

🗓️ Saturday, January 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA

We all know the power of AI agents, and people are rapidly adopting them across industries. In a world of agents, how can they work together? Soon, we’ll need to orchestrate agents across platforms for unified goals.

Build with MongoDB and the best hackers in AI to enable agentic collaboration for the future, building tools, agents, and techniques to allow agents to communicate, share context, and work together to achieve ever more complex goals.

Winning teams will get over $25,000 in cash prizes 👀

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, December 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join Operators & Friends, Build, and Pebblebed for a 6-hour sprint to prototype AI and tech solutions for the physical world — geospatial, robotics, construction, hardware, infrastructure, logistics, and beyond.​​

🗓️ Thursday, December 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Join us for an exclusive AI Dev Tool night & Networking session. Learn about the latest and top AI Dev Tool & APIs in the market. ​​Organised by Sampleapp.ai & Alchemist Accelerator. If you would like to showcase your company's public API/SDKs, reach out to us to demo your APIs in the event. (Limited slots available)

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🗓️ Friday, December 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for a hands-on evening designed for founders, developers, designers, marketers, freelancers, and curious professionals who want to go from exploring AI to actually building with it.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Monday, December 1st
📍 New York City, NY

​​An evening of Q&A with engineering leaders redefining how modern products get built. ​​​Brought to you by The Browser Company, Clay, and Stainless.

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🗓️ Wednesday, December 3rd
📍 New York City, NY

​Join us for the third annual AI-Volution of Culture, where global leaders, innovators, and strategists gather to explore how AI is transforming consumer insights, market research, and the cultural landscape.

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🗓️ Wednesday, December 3rd
📍 New York City, NY

​Join us at South Park Commons NYC for our inaugural Hardware Only Demo Night — an evening dedicated to the builders pushing the physical frontier.

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

Final Note…

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