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Cerebral Valley – Week of December 8th 🗓
Join us for our LAST hackathon of the year: Gemini 3 Hackathon in London; plus read about our Open Roles, and more...
🇬🇧 London, this one’s for you! We’re closing out the year in London, with our Gemini 3 London Hackathon, on December 13th, 9:00 AM — 10:00 PM. Spots are limited, so register now! 🫵🏻
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A closer look at pyutils in ThunderKittens, the tiny library enabling PyTorch to run GPU kernels 🔍
White House summer internships now open in AI, Quantum, Autonomous Systems, and many more ‼️
Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B 🚀
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) 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
2) Full Stack Engineer at Finance Personalization Startup (Remote)
- 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
3) Forward Deployed AI Engineer at AI Transformation Startup (SF / NYC)
- About: Large unannounced funding rounds • Founded by former tier 1 investment partner & big tech veterans • Building custom AI solutions for enterprise • Too much inbound to handle
- Ideal candidate: 2+ years experience in a forward deployed or AI engineering role • Expertise in Python, LLMs, & ML technique tradeoffs • Able to interact with customers & manage technical / non-technical stakeholders • Can leverage and advise on code productivity tools
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👉 Partnerships: [email protected]
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Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in December:
🗓️ 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.
🗓️ Friday, December 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Major League Hacking (MLH) and DigitalOcean are hosting an AI hackathon in New York City!
Whether you’re a seasoned developer or curious to explore coding for the first time, this is a great opportunity for you to make something real in just a day with tools like DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI. Network with other builders ranging from career professionals to students, learn from experienced mentors and industry experts, and enjoy free catered meals all weekend!
Register
🗓️ Thursday, December 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Your best-dressed holiday outfit or ugly sweater is highly encouraged! Come in your favorite fancy outfit or an ugly holiday sweater to the Convex Holiday Party. And, sync up with your favorite backend team as we get ready for the end-of-year holiday season.
🗓️ 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 👀
🗓️ Thursday, January 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area’s top AI founders are building what’s next, and MongoDB is bringing them together at our .local SF conference.
Join hundreds of founders, builders, and leaders from across the Bay Area startup ecosystem to learn how high-growth startups are moving from prototype to production, shipping faster with MongoDB, and unlocking new opportunities for growth.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 9th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Cloudflare and Replicate are teaming up to host an evening of networking, great conversation, and community.
🗓️ Wednesday, December 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Snowflake for Startups and Proving Ground for pitch night: a chance to see some of the Bay Area's most promising startups and developers in the AI and data space showcase their applications built on Snowflake.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, December 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Vmax and SPC for a panel discussion featuring Danijar Hafner (creator of Dreamer), Ashvin Nair (ex-OpenAI, now RL foundations at Cursor) and Nate Rahn (research scientist at Anthropic) on which parts of pre-LLM reinforcement learning are likely to be the most fruitful in the LLM era.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Monday, December 8th
📍 New York City, NY
Join ClickHouse and the newly joined LibreChat team for an evening dedicated to Agentic AI, real-world engineering stories, and open-source innovation — all in the heart of New York City!
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, December 9th
📍 New York City, NY
Join Postman, and special guest ReadMe and Apollo GraphQL, for food, networking, live demos and best practices on how to scale API development, and get your AI apps ready for production. Come for the learning, stay for the vibes.
🗓️ Thursday, December 11th
📍 New York City, NY
Join us for the third installment of this growing community series, featuring talks on voice agents, spatial reasoning in video games, and low-latency model deployment.
Register
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