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Cerebral Valley – Week of February 24th 🗓
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Michael is the founder of Aurelius Systems, a company who are tackling the rise in drone warfare using laser guns. This is the entire story of Michael and Aurelius Systems from Hackathon To Startup 👇
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— Cerebral Valley (@cerebral_valley)
4:01 PM • Feb 22, 2025
Michael LaFramboise is the founder of Aurelius Systems, a company that is tackling the rise in drone warfare using laser guns.
Watch the entire story of Michael and Aurelius Systems, from Hackathon To Startup, here.
Introducing NEO: The first Autonomous Machine Learning Engineer. NEO is a multi-agent system that automates the entire ML workflow, saving engineers thousands of hours of grunt work. Our recent advancements in multi-step reasoning, iterative experimentation and smart context orchestration have enabled NEO to excel at solving complex Machine Learning problems on its own from data cleaning, preprocessing to ML model exploration, training and hyper parameter optimization.
Benchmarks: NEO was tested against 50 Kaggle competitions and scored a medal in 26% of them, far superior than the previous state of the art performance of 16.9% by Open AI’s O1 with AIDE scaffolding on the MLE bench With these capabilities, NEO aims to help every ML engineer become superhuman and focus on real innovation instead of the existing grunt work
Check out NEO here.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured Events:
🗓️ Tuesday, February 25th
📍 Remote
Compute.Exchange is hosting the world’s first public, global GPU auction—no commitments, dozens of cloud providers, and built by alumni from OpenAI, Apple, and Oracle to make renting GPUs frictionless.
You set the terms: Want 64 bare-metal H100s for 7 days at $0.10/hour? Go for it. If your bid wins, you’re directly connected with the provider.
The auction is live for 24 hours—free to join. Secure the compute you need at unbeatable rates—before it’s gone.
🗓️ Wednesday, February 26th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Dive deep into the cutting edge of AI evaluation at GitHub HQ in San Francisco! This meetup brings together AI developers and practitioners for two in-depth talks from industry experts, covering the latest techniques for evaluating AI applications, including multi-modal systems. Whether you’re working on classifying audio sentiment, evaluating agentic systems, or still figuring out what evaluations are right for your use case, this event offers actionable insights to elevate your work. Enjoy light food, drinks, and the chance to connect with fellow AI professionals.
🗓️ Wednesday, February 26th
📍 Santa Clara, CA
AI tools are evolving fast. Join us for an expert panel and meetup to explore how developers are building better AI interfaces and improving workflows with new dev tools. We'll discuss trends, challenges, and what’s next for AI-powered applications.
This is a great chance to connect with engineers, researchers, and product builders working in AI.
Our speakers include:
Who should attend? Developers, engineers, researchers, and anyone interested in building with AI.
Free catered food & drinks will be available too!
Schedule:
5:30: Arrive and hang out
6:30: Panel
7:15: Hang out
This event will be hosted at the Replicate Hackspace:
If you Uber, please get dropped off at the corner of 22nd and Harrison! We're on a quiet residential street :)
Register
🗓️ Thursday, February 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Enjoy a well-deserved break from the mid-week grind and join us for an Enterprise and AI Happy Hour for founders!
Hosted by Vouch for players in the innovative enterprise and AI space, this happy hour is the perfect opportunity to unwind, network, and find community.
RSVP today and send this invite to a friend!
A bit about us:
Vouch is the leader in business insurance for venture-backed startups. With deep expertise in tech, Vouch delivers precise coverage as startups scale from launch to IPO. Vouch makes it easy to master insurance with a modern digital platform, 10 exclusive coverages for tech, and a curated marketplace of tech-focused carriers.
🗓️ Thursday, February 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
This unique event gives AI practitioners and early stage startup teams the chance to work side by side with supply chain and procurement professionals to help develop tools and strategies for addressing supply chain disruptions caused by extreme weather. With a panel of expert judges from industry, policymakers and nonprofits, the AI Supply Chain Hackathon is a terrific opportunity for people excited and concerned about the impact of AI on accelerating both supply chain decisions and supply chain disruptions.
Sign up for free to get more info.
Our panel of expert AI Supply Chain Hackathon judges include:
Marc Carlson, Chief Revenue Officer - Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Perdue
Charlotte De Brabandt, ex-JJ & Amazon, supply chain thought leader
Ben Roome, PhD, Founder - Ethical Resolve
And many others, with more to be announced!
Register
🗓️ Thursday, February 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re back for the first AI Code Gen + Full-Stack Demo Night at Convex.
This is an in-person event!
Registration is required to get in.
Topic: Using AI Code Gen Applications and full-stack app development.
What we'll do:
Hear three talks on the latest advancements in AI Code Gen and full-stack development.
Enjoy food, refreshments, and plenty of time to chat and network about AI and full-stack development after the tech talks.
Register
🗓️ Friday, February 28th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join DataStax, Cloudflare, Unstructured, Twilio and OpenAI for an epic 24 hour hackathon where we'll be diving into what developers can build with the latest and greatest in AI tooling!
What to Expect
There will be lightning workshops, plenty of food & drinks and prizes for the for the best (and silliest and craziest) hacks that people come up with.
This is NOT a startup competition, this is a hackathon for hackers and we hope you can join us!
🗓️ Friday, February 28th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Unlock the Future of Compute: A Hackathon Like No Other
Step into the unknown and compete alongside the world’s top engineers on a high-stakes challenge centered around cutting-edge inference-time compute. The clock is ticking, and the prizes are waiting—but that's not all. Get an exclusive first look at groundbreaking products from our host companies, and discover what’s next before anyone else.
Hosts:
Etched - Building the hardware for superintelligence
Cognition - An applied AI lab building the future of software engineering
Mercor - Creating one-billion life changing jobs
Sponsors:
Anthropic
CoreWeave
Timing: Friday, Feb 28th (8pm) - Saturday, Mar 1st (8pm)
Teams: up to 4 people
Location: Mercor HQ (San Francisco)
Address to be shared upon acceptance
1st Place Prize: $40K Cash
2nd Place Prize: $15K Cash
3rd Place Prize: $5K Cash
Register
🗓️ Monday, March 3rd
📍 Remote
Three rooms. Four weeks. $10,000 in prizes.
Can you outsmart the AI? Compete in Pangea's prompt injection challenge for a chance to win $10,000 in prizes.
To escape each room, you'll need to outsmart the AI chatbot with clever prompts to unlock secret keys (passcodes). To win each room's grand prize, you must escape with the highest score. The fewer tokens (words) you use, the higher your score. Ready to play?
Register
🗓️ Thursday, March 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
At Nebius, we’re creating an AI Cloud — a cutting-edge cloud platform designed exclusively for AI practitioners. We provide seamless AI solutions accelerated by NVIDIA, popular MLOps tools and a scalable inference platform to support AI application development.
Ready to meet the team behind it all?
Join us at Convene, San Francisco, on Thursday, 13 March, for an exclusive look into Nebius AI Neocloud, our cutting-edge platform designed for explorers and innovators.
Whether you’re developing AI models, scaling ML workloads, or deploying AI applications, this is a great opportunity to connect with our developers, product experts, architects and some of our partners.
What’s in store?
An insider’s look at Nebius architecture and development principles.
Insights into the NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture.
A deep dive into how we developed a Kubernetes operator for Slurm.
Discover how test-time computation unlocks the potential of agentic systems.
And much more!
Plus, all attendees will receive free credits to try out our GPU Cloud Accelerated by NVIDIA and explore the new text-to-image functionality in AI Studio.
Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out! Register now to secure your spot.
Register
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