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Cerebral Valley – Week of February 2nd 🗓
We've partnered with OpenAI to launch the new Codex App, with the Codex Hackathon 👀 — plus catch the latest AI events, news, open roles, and more...


We’ve partnered with OpenAI to launch the new Codex App
Hack alongside the OpenAl team this February 5th, and pitch your projects for a chance to be featured in an exclusive demo showcase.
$90,000 in credits on the line (your agents will thank you 😉)
And we’ve got another this weekend:
📌 Cartesia x Anthropic Voice Agents Hackathon hosted by Notion
From February 7 — 8, build the next generation of voice-first AI agents that combine real-time audio with reasoning, memory, and action; open for engineers, startup founders, early teams, and EPD leaders
👉 Register here
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How to win the talent war while competing against OpenAI, Anthropic, and other hot startups ⚡
trackers v2.1.0 is out — now with ByteTrack for fast, stable object tracking even under occlusion 👀
Flapping Airplanes raises $180M from GV, Sequoia & Index — building AI that thinks at human level without ingesting half the internet 🛫
jokegen2-1t, a 1T-parameter Kimi K2 model fine-tuned on tweets, TikToks & standup generates jokes so human-like even Pangram thinks they’re real 🤯
AI using computers? Still not a reality 💻
Grainrad is live — a free, browser-based generative art tool running on WebGPU 🎨
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) Developer Relations Engineer at OSS Authentication Framework (SF)
- Building: Streamlined & comprehensive authentication system for Typescript
- About: 25k+ stars on Github • Allowing teams to roll their own auth, fast • Small team of <4, with high ownership • YC-backed • Over 10 million monthly downloads
- Ideal candidate: Comfortable acting as the public face of the company • Highly active on LinkedIn and X • Experience building reference apps, demos, videos, and educational content • Kill friction in the developer experience
2) 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
3) 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:
🗓️ Tuesday, February 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Come celebrate the launch of 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 (skills.sh), the open agent skills ecosystem. We're bringing together builders, founders, and developers who are working with AI agents for an evening of demos, talks, and connecting with the community.
🗓️ 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.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Tuesday, February 3rd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Cloudflare IRL with PlanetScale & Replicate. We’re doing live demos with food, drinks, and music. Come build something!
🗓️ Thursday, February 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Anthropic and Dust are teaming up for an evening of demos, architecture talk, and tons of delicious food.
Register
🗓️ Friday, February 6th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Build with the future stack of AI with integrations and inspiration from You.com, Intercom, Lovable, and Google DeepMind. In just one day, teams will prototype AI copilots, autonomous research agents, customer-support brains, real-time data explorers, and creative design systems
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, February 4th
📍 New York City, NY
Join Vercel and Harmonic at our AI co-working café in NYC! For the first time ever, Harmonic will be offering public access to their platform. Query the complete startup database with the help of complimentary Vercel credits. Or just come build with friends and fellow engineers. We’d love to hear what you’re working on.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, February 4th
📍 New York City, NY
Choose a CFO headache. Build an AI app to solve it. Light, Lovable, Abacum and J.P. Morgan are teaming up to give finance teams a unique opportunity to bring AI into their operations
Register
🗓️ Saturday, February 7th
📍 New York City, NY
As artificial intelligence reshapes everything from healthcare to democracy, one question grows more urgent: who gets to set the rules? Join us for a vital public discussion on AI governance featuring perspectives from philosophy, law, industry, policy, and civil society.
Register
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