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Cerebral Valley – Week of January 12th 🗓
Join our Gemini 3 SuperHack and reimagine sports and live entertainment ahead of Super Bowl weekend — plus catch the latest AI events, news, open roles, and more...


Ahead of Super Bowl weekend, CV is bringing Gemini 3 to the spotlight in SF 👀Register here for the official Gemini 3 SuperHack and reimagine sports and live entertainment across all leagues and formats ⚡
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Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) AI Engineer at Construction Automation Startup (SF)
- Building: AI agents for construction, “Harvey for real estate development”
- About: Backed by CEO of Blackstone & others • Harvard-founded • Clients include Tishman Speyer & premier real estate firms • Solving frontier geospatial AI problems
- Ideal candidate: Experience building production-ready agents • Python or typescript expertise • Strong preference for ex-founders or ex-founding engineers
2) Agent Engineer at AI Media Startup (SF)
- Building: Agentic media production platform, “Lovable for creatives”
- About: Well-funded preseed • Small but elite team of <5 • Founded by founder of Soundcloud and Dance • Founded raised $500m+ for previous companies
- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated experience in using LLMs in production & to build quickly • 4+ years of experience in professional software engineering at early stage startups • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team
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
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 January:
🗓️ Monday January 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The East Meets West Summit is a cross-border startup and venture conference connecting leading investors, founders, and innovators from Asia and the U.S.
🗓️ Tuesday, January 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for the Global AI Agents Hackathon with $30K in cash prizes on the line featuring Comet Opik, Google Gemini and Vercel. Build an AI agent that actually helps people follow through on their New Year’s resolutions. You’ll have four weeks to go from idea to shipped project, with workshops, office hours, and a community of builders doing it alongside you.
🗓️ 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, January 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
South Park Commons is delighted to host Tony Xu, CEO & co-founder of DoorDash as part of our -1 to Now Series!
🗓️ Tuesday, January 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us in San Francisco for the inaugural meetup of the Bay Area Svelte Society.We're keeping things casual with an evening of pizza and networking at Accretional's office in Jackson Square, San Francisco.
🗓️ Tuesday, January 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Codex SF is a small, high-signal meetup for engineers and founders actively using OpenAI Codex in real codebases. This is not an intro talk or a tool overview. The room is filled with people shipping with agentic coding and comparing what actually works: prompt discipline, repo and sandbox hygiene, long-horizon task management, review loops, failure modes, and how Codex is being wired into real toolchains.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Tuesday, January 13th
📍 New York City, NY
Come grab a drink with the community and meet others in the NYC tech ecosystem.
Register
🗓️ Friday, January 30th
📍 New York City, NY
Join us for our monthly ComfyUI NYC Events, where we dive into real-time video AI, creative AI, and the latest advancements in the ComfyUI ecosystem. Each event features technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts.
Register
🗓️ Friday, January 16th
📍 New York City, NY
TRANSFER and Nguyen Wahed Gallery present TRANSFER Download: AliveNET, an immersive exhibition exploring the fragile space of perception between human and machine.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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