Cerebral Valley – Week of March 17th🗓

GTC week is here and the Valley is building. 🏗️ — Zero to Agent with Vercel x DeepMind (SF, NYC, London) & more 👀 — plus catch the latest AI events, news and open roles...

CVXIGAI Events 

🤝 Zero to Agent: Vercel x DeepMind Hackathon The era of AI agents is here and it's time to build. Join Vercel, Google DeepMind, and Cerebral Valley for a day of hacking — ship an AI agent and compete for prizes across three cities.

Register below by city (or for all? 👀)

📍 3/21, San Francisco – Register Here

📍 3/21, New York – Register Here

📍 3/21, London – Register Here

You Might’ve Missed

​MiniMax AI Founder Day @ GTC

We're entering an AI renaissance.

​On March 21, MiniMax is hosting its first exclusive founder gathering in San Francisco during GTC.

​Our cofounder and president will be on stage sharing the story behind MiniMax — how we built frontier models, what we’ve learned, and what comes next.

​We’ll also launch a new model and show what builders can do with it.

MiniMax AI Founder Day is for the serious builders, founders, and engineers who want to understand the new AI landscape.​

​If you’re building something real. Whether it’s an enterprise app, coding agent, vertical AI product, or multimodal system, and you care about what’s under the hood, this event is for you.

Founders building with frontier models. One Special afternoon during GTC🚀🍻

Register here

Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] for job placement inquiries.

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

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

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

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.

Gemini 3 Asia Tour Recap

Our team spent a month in Asia with Google DeepMind - bringing Gemini 3 to the most talented builders and hackers from across the APAC region.

Catch all of the action from our Bangalore, Tokyo and Seoul events below:

We had a very special VIP guest at our Singapore hackathon… recap coming soon!

Events List

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

Featured in March:

🗓️ Monday, March 16th
📍 The Prestige Venue, San Jose

Join us for a private screening of Jensen Huang's GTC keynote at a comfortable venue near the conference. We'll have catered food, coffee, a comfortable private space to watch together.

🗓️ Tuesday, March 24th
📍San Francisco, California

Same format, West Coast edition. Hosted at iconic Waterbar on the Embarcadero with spectacular Bay Bridge views. Shared plates, bottles from the cellar, and fresh perspectives with fellow AI leaders.

ZeroClick is the ad platform for AI, letting developers monetize AI products and helps advertisers reach millions of high-intent users.

Register

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, March 17th
📍 San Francisco War Memorial, San Francisco, CA

The FDE Conference is back — bigger than round one, which sold out in a week and had people turned away at the door. Over 300 forward deployed engineers, founders, and operators gathering for talks and panels from Nixo, Rippling, and ElevenLabs on what it actually takes to ship AI in the field. Approval required.

🗓️ Wednesday, March 18th
📍 Sunnyvale, CA

The GTC after-party for builders, not badge-holders. Novita AI and FounderCoHo are hosting speakers from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Alibaba Cloud (Qwen/Wan), Hugging Face, Kimi, MiniMax, OpenRouter, and more. 1,600+ going — the biggest side event of GTC week. Approval required.

🗓️ Thursday, March 19th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Pydantic creator Samuel Colvin joins SurrealDB and CocoIndex for a developer meetup on what actually holds up when agents go live — fresh context, durable memory, validation, observability, and guardrails under real-world pressure. This one's for the people shipping agents, not just demoing them. Approval required.

This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Tuesday, March 17th
📍 Notion NYC HQ, New York, NY

Notion and OpenAI are co-hosting an intimate evening at Notion HQ for engineers and technical leaders. Notion's AI Lead Ryan Nystrom and OpenAI's Corey Ching will walk through how Notion builds with Codex, followed by a live workflow demo and Q&A. 75 capacity - this will fill fast.

🗓️ Thursday, March 19th
📍 Betaworks (29 Little W 12th St), New York, NY

PostHog and Replit are taking over Betaworks for a demo-driven evening on practical product development — what to track, how to instrument it, and the patterns you need to build exceptional products. Matt Brooker (PostHog) and Aman Mathur (Replit) showing real implementations. Approval required.

🗓️ Saturday, April 4th
📍 Kings County, New York

​What happens when Lightning AI's frontier training infrastructure meets Validia's safety & security expertise?

​A hackathon where you build smarter, ship faster, and deploy agents in a secure manner.

​We're excited to host a hackathon right here in New York City, where we'll challenge you and your team to build autonomous agents that work the way you work - faster than ever before.

Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.

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