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Cerebral Valley – Week of June 30th 🗓
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Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in June:
🗓️ Thursday, July 3
📍 Remote
Large Reasoning Models look smart—until problems get hard. The Apple ML paper we’re unpacking shows LRMs sailing through easy puzzles, improving with a bit more “thinking,” then collapsing once complexity crosses a line
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We’ll dig into:
The puzzle sandbox that lets the authors dial problem complexity with surgical precision.
Why extra chain-of-thought can hurt on simple tasks and still fail on hard ones.
What “accuracy collapse” means for eval-driven development, benchmark design, and agents in prod.
A quick look at the response paper The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking and open critiques.
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🗓️ Tuesday, August 5
📍 Remote
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 previous speakers include Netlify Founder, Docker Founder, Neon Founder, Gatsby Founder, as well as a Google DeepMind DevRel lead.
In this event, we're going to have awesome speakers from Netlify, Mintlify, WorkOS, Google, as well as Sourcegraph.
Food and drinks will be provided. Please note that all participants will be screened carefully.
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This Week:
🗓️ Monday, June 30
📍 San Francisco, CA
👋 Welcome to our monthly SF meetup! This month, we're diving into the practical side of AI agents development, with a focus on building intelligent systems that actually work.
💡 We'll explore creating AI application builders, designing multi-agent workflows, and leveraging external tools to build more effective GenAI systems.
❤️ Whether you're a developer, founder, or simply curious about the future of AI, you won't want to miss these insightful talks and community demos from leading experts in the field.
🍕 Light refreshments will be available.
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🗓️ Tuesday, July 1
📍 San Francisco, CA
Founders.
Investors.
AI.
Hanwha.
Squid Games Season 3.
Watch.
Together.
🔴🔺🟥
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🗓️ Tuesday, July 1
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us on July 1 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there!
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🗓️ Tuesday, July 1
📍 San Francisco, CA
Welcome one, welcome all!
Join us at Frontier Tower for our bi-monthly AI Floor gathering!
Come together with the community to share projects, meet new faces, and help shape what’s next for the AI Floor. We’ll open space for people to share their projects, align on goals, and start to co-create.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
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