Cerebral Valley – Week of February 23rd 🗓

CV Hackathons are stacking up — PyTorch OpenEnv, Gemini 3 NYC & more 👀 — plus catch the latest AI events, news and open roles...

February 23, 2026

CV • X • IG • AI Events 

🧬 OpenEnv Hackathon SF Build RL environments and post-train a base model across 10 tracks — coding, computer-use, gaming, and more. $100K total prize pool. Judges from Meta, Hugging Face, UC Berkeley, Scale AI, CoreWeave, and more.

📍 Sat–Sun, Mar 7–8 | Shack15, San Francisco
🔗 Apply here

💎 Gemini 3 NYC Hackathon Gemini 3 lands in New York. Build with Google's most intelligent model across AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Antigravity. Show the Google DeepMind team what you can create. $100K+ in Gemini API credits + an exclusive 30-min call with Google's AI Futures Fund founders.

📍 Saturday, Feb 28 | 9 AM–10 PM EST | New York, NY
🔗 Apply here

We’re still gathering Asia’s most cracked builders to push the boundaries of what’s possible with Gemini 3 across AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Google’s new agentic development platform: Antigravity.

Register below by city

📍 2/28, Seoul – Register Here

📍 3/7, Singapore – Register Here

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Open Jobs

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

Founding Engineer at Online Psychiatry Startup (SF)

- Building: Easy access to online psychiatric help & medication, with an in-house clinic

- About: YC-backed • $7M+ total raised • $3M ARR • Top provider of affordable patient-first care • Agentic booking & care software serving 2,000+ patients to date 

- Ideal candidate: Highly proficient in typescript • Have owned 0 to 1 engineering at a past startup • You view LLMs as colleagues, using multiple agents in parallel regularly

AI Product Engineer at Agent Reliability Research Lab (SF)

- Building: Research lab building products for last-mile agent reliability & improvement

- About: $30m+ raised in just last 5 months, including Lightspeed • Team of <20 shipping like they’re 50+ headcount • Clients include Rogo, Delve, Propel, Clado

- Ideal candidate: Intense engineer with 2+ years of experience • Able to work hard, play hard with the team in-office • Strong quality taste in software • LLM native, and obsessively trying the latest and greatest tools

Engineering Manager at AI Documentation Startup (SF)

- Building: AI documentation platform used by 10,000+ companies to date

- 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 leading teams of 4+ engineers to ship like crazy • Innate ability to motivate engineers to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team

If you’re interested in the above roles, please email [email protected] with your LinkedIn, resume, and why you think you’re the best fit. We’ll be in touch if there’s a match.

Events List

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

Featured in February:

🗓️ Postponed to March 12th
📍 New York City, NY

Postponed due to the snowstorm.

Join us for an exclusive gathering at il Buco Showroom, the private dining space behind one of NYC's most celebrated Italian restaurants. Shared plates, bottles from the cellar, and a few fresh perspectives to take home.

ZeroClick is the ad platform for AI, letting developers monetize AI products and helps advertisers reach millions of high-intent users.

Register

🗓️ Tuesday, March 24th
📍San Francisco, California

Same format, West Coast edition. Hosted at iconic Waterbar on the Embarcadero with spectacular Bay Bridge views. Shared plates, bottles from the cellar, and fresh perspectives with fellow AI leaders.

ZeroClick is the ad platform for AI, letting developers monetize AI products and helps advertisers reach millions of high-intent users.

Register

🗓️ Sunday, March 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

The AI era is entering its Renaissance. Renaissance 2026 is AI+'s flagship summit bringing together the founders, researchers, and engineers defining the next decade of intelligence. Over two days on the weekend between GDC and Nvidia's GTC, we convene 60 AI leaders, 20+ top AI startups, and 2,000 founders, builders & investors to explore frontier breakthroughs across Multimodal Intelligence, Agents, AI Infrastructure, Embodied AI and Robotics.

🗓️ Saturday, February 28th
📍 New York, NY

Gemini 3 lands in New York. Build with Google's most intelligent model across AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Antigravity. Show the Google DeepMind team what you can create. $100K+ in Gemini API credits + an exclusive 30-min call with Google's AI Futures Fund founders.

🗓️ Saturday–Sunday, March 7th–8th
📍 Shack15, San Francisco

Build RL environments and post-train a base model across 10 tracks — coding, computer-use, gaming, and more. $100K total prize pool. Judges from Meta, Hugging Face, UC Berkeley, Scale AI, CoreWeave, and more.

🗓️ Saturday, March 14th
📍 Paris, France

Gemini 3 is coming to Paris. Build with Google's most intelligent model yet, built for state-of-the-art reasoning, rich multimodal understanding, and bringing any idea to life. Backed by Google's AI Futures Fund.

🗓️ Saturday, March 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us to push the boundaries of GPU kernel development with fellow developers, researchers, and ML engineers. You'll get hands-on access to Helion, PyTorch's new Python-native kernel authoring language that compiles directly to Triton — making it easier than ever to write high-performance ML kernels.

Helion lets you build roofline-performant kernels with 4x fewer lines of code compared to Triton, dramatically lowering the barrier to advanced GPU programming. In addition, you will get a preview of NVIDIA's CompileIQ, which enables bespoke optimizations and code generation for your kernels leading to higher performance.

🗓️ Sunday, March 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

A builder day for robotics and inference is coming — for engineers pushing the limits of autonomous systems and high-performance inference.

Get warmed up for GTC the best way possible… by building. Compare notes on what’s working (latency, throughput, cost, reliability), and walk away with a demo you can take straight into GTC week.

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, February 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us in San Francisco for a our Build Fast, Scale Faster: AI & Infra Demos + Drinks hosted by Google Cloud + Redis + Bain Capital Ventures!

​This event is focused on bringing together founders in the Bay Area to dive into the latest in AI and Infrastructure - featuring the latest demos on Gemini, AI Studio, Vertex AI, and more!

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🗓️ Wednesday, February 25th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Build the next generation of open, agent-driven AI systems on permissionless, decentralized compute. Design, deploy, and ship AI agents using open and unrestricted APIs.

Participants will design, deploy, and ship AI agents running on permissionless, decentralized compute, using open and unrestricted APIs to explore architectures that prioritize transparency, composability, and resilience beyond centralized cloud and model providers.

🗓️ Thu–Fri, Mar 5–6
📍 San Francisco, CA

AI agents are changing how we interact with software, moving beyond simple chat interfaces to autonomous systems that take action. At Vercel, we’re not just talking about this shift - we’re actively building with it.

​This event extends our internal "Demo Day" culture to the wider engineering community. Every Friday, our team shares what we are shipping. Now, we are inviting you to share what you are building.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Tuesday, February 24th
📍 New York City, NY

We’ve all done a lot of talking in the last few months (years??) about coding agents, advancements in models, and AI slop. In this meetup, we're bringing all of this together as our speakers talk about how to squeeze even more out of AI so you can actually ship something you're proud of.

Be our guest, hear from the speakers we've assembled, and bring your hard questions. We're here to learn from each other, successes and failures alike.

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🗓️ Wednesday, February 25th
📍 Brooklyn, NY

Dive into real-time video AI, creative AI, and the latest advancements in the ComfyUI ecosystem. Technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts. Powered by Livepeer.

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🗓️ Thursday, February 26th
📍 New York City, NY

Discover Agent Skills with npx skills (skills.sh) and explore what's possible with the open agent ecosystem. An evening of demos, talks, and connecting with builders, founders, and developers working with AI agents.

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