Cerebral Valley – Week of July 14th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and News

July 14, 2025

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Events List

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

CV Events:

🗓️ Saturday, August 2nd - Sunday, August 3rd
📍 Seattle, WA

To finish off Seattle Tech Week, we bring you the OpenAI Voicemode Hackathon hosted by Pioneer Square Labs and Cerebral Valley.

This is a unique opportunity to build voice apps with OpenAI models. The OpenAI team will be in attendance and hackers will receive hands-on support from them.

💰 Prizes include Mac Minis, Teenage Engineering OB-4s, Meta Raybans, and OpenAI credits. 💰

Our partners and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!

Featured in July:

🗓️ Monday, July 21st
📍 Remote

​​​​Ready to turn your AI MVP into a real product with traction from day one? Join Pond’s 2-week virtual hackathon - your product launchpad to build, fund, and grow the next breakthrough AI startup.

​You’ll build alongside Pond partners like Google Cloud, Eleven Labs, and Ethereum Foundation - with support from top mentors, tools, and community.

​Please note, you can build any AI-related products.

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🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd
📍 Remote

​​​GraphRAG is expanding what's possible with RAG, enabling systems to combine the ability to capture the semantics of vector search with the structure of knowledge graphs for greater context and control and better understanding of the relationships in your data.

In this session, you’ll learn how Lettria designed a production-scale GraphRAG system by integrating Qdrant’s high-performance vector engine with Neo4j’s graph-based knowledge representation.

The result: a platform capable of handling over 100 million embeddings with sub-200ms latency and delivering 20–25% higher accuracy than traditional RAG in real-world applications.

We'll talk about Qdrant's universal query API, more about Lettria's architecture and approach to GraphRAG.

Don't miss your chance to hear directly from Lettria, Qdrant, and Neo4j. 

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🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Hello and welcome to this edition of our AI Dev Tools Nights!

​This is a series of events where AI dev tool founders, builders, and practitioners showcase some of the most important tools in the industry, as well as all the work and thoughts that went into building those.

​Our past speakers include the founders of Netlify, Docker, Neon, and Gatsby, as well as a lead DevRel from Google DeepMind.

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🗓️ Thursday, September 4th - Friday, September 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Get 6-month's worth of knowledge in just 2 days At Odoo Connect, engage in over 100 exciting talks from Odoo experts, partners, and the community, spread across two jam-packed days!

Join the community Get your Odoo questions answered in the Q&A after each session, and speak directly with exhibitors about your business's wonderful use-cases.

Connect, collaborate, and build your network Enhance your ERP expertise and interact with the Odoo community from across the globe. Whether you seek advice on specific projects or need guidance on business growth, our partners are here to help.

With more than 2,000 attendees, seize opportunities to network, collaborate, and forge valuable relationships within an ecosystem of business solutions.

Engage with industry leaders, exchange ideas with experts, and immerse yourself in the dynamic Odoo community.

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This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Join us for a candid, forward-looking conversation on what happens after you pre-train a large language model—tailored for founders and builders who have to ship this year, not someday.

Our panel of hands-on researchers will unpack where post-training is headed in the next 6–12 months, how reward-hacking headaches are evolving, what “thought disclosure” might really look like, and which open problems Big Labs are scrambling to solve—so startups can place smarter bets today.

Expect technical depth, plenty of audience Q&A, and time to network over good snacks and drinks.

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​How do you reinvent hiring when AI can vet every candidate in minutes?

​Join us in San Francisco for an invite-only taping of First Block, Notion’s founder-led series on building breakout companies from day one.

​For our next episode, we’re sitting down with Brendan Foody, Co-founder & CEO of Mercor — the AI-powered talent marketplace that’s leapt from dorm-room idea to a $2 billion valuation in just two years. Backed by Felicis, Benchmark, and Jack Dorsey, Mercor matches thousands of specialists with the world’s fastest-growing AI labs.

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Come meet the Cline team and other folks in the AI Coding space!

Food (not pizza) & drink will be included

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for a day to explore and experience the self-writing internet with Caffeine, the first complete tech stack designed for AI, where humans build through conversation only.

Set across three immersive floors and livestreamed worldwide, this event brings together AI enthusiasts, developers, builders, and visionaries shaping the future of tech.

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🗓️ Wednesday, July 16
📍 San Francisco, CA

South Park Commons is delighted to host Bret Taylor as part of our -1 to Now series!

​​​​​Event Details

  • ​​​​​​​3:30pm: Doors Open

  • ​​​​4:00-5:00pm: Fireside Chat

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Tuesday, July 15
📍 New York, NY

​​The NYC Founders Club hosts their practical speaker series where industry leaders share real-world insights on leveraging AI to solve business challenges. This session features engaging speakers who will dive into how they’re using artificial intelligence to drive innovation and tackle problems within their companies.

​​If you're a founder, operator, or investor looking to leverage AI to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and gain a competitive edge, this event will give you actionable insights to take the next step with confidence.

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🗓️ Wednesday, July 16
📍 New York, NY

​Join us for our monthly ComfyUI NYC Meetups, where we dive into real-time video AI, creative AI, and the latest advancements in the ComfyUI ecosystem. Each meetup features technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts.

Livepeer is the creator and maintainer of ComfyStream, an open source real time interactivity plugin for ComfyUI. Check out https://daydream.live/ for a taste of the magic!

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