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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 12th 🗓
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CV Spotlight: AWS Gen AI Lofts
AWS Gen AI Lofts are coming to 10+ cities worldwide in 2025. From San Francisco to São Paulo, Tel Aviv to Osaka, these pop-up spaces bring together local AI communities, technical experts, and founders to learn, connect, and build in the world of generative AI. The next destination is Dublin, Ireland from May 13-23.
Explore the latest in LLMs, Amazon Bedrock, and AI Agents
Network with industry leaders and innovators
Experience live demos of AI Applications across industries
Get expert support for your AI implementation challenges
Join the growing AI community in your city
Join AWS in Dublin on May 13-23, or find another location near you.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
CV Events:
🗓️ Sunday, May 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
A hackathon pushing the frontier of Reinforcement Learning with AI forward, hosted by NOUS RESEARCH
This event will be a gathering of top AI talent with one of the largest prize pools for a hackathon in 2025, focused on discovering innovative, creative, and useful new environments for doing Reinforcement Learning training with LLMs.
We'd like to give a huge shoutout to our sponsors: xAI | NVIDIA | Nebius | Lambda | Akash Networks | Tensorstax | RunPod
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🗓️ Saturday, May 24th
📍 Remote
We’re excited to welcome you to the 24 hour accelerator hosted by Sprites and Coplay!
Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Note: this is a fully online event
Register
🗓️ Saturday, May 31st - Sunday, June 1st
📍 New York, NY
We’re excited to welcome you to the Llama 4 NYC Hackathon hosted by Meta in collaboration with Cerebral Valley!
This is a unique opportunity to build new AI apps on top of the newest Llama models, alongside the best hackers in AI. Meta's Llama team will be in attendance, and hackers will receive hands-on support from the Meta team. Attendees will be amongst the first to get free access to the newly released Llama API, now in limited preview.
💰 Compete for $21K+ in CASH prizes 💰
Our speakers and judges and sponsors will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Register
Featured in May:
🗓️ Tuesday, May 13
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join fellow developers and AI practitioners from varied organizations for a free happy hour hosted by MongoDB. Come connect with industry leaders, share ideas, and explore the possibilities of next-generation AI applications in a casual setting.
This is a great opportunity to:
Network with other AI innovators
Enjoy great drinks and food in a fun atmosphere
See you there!
Register
🗓️ Friday, May 16 - Sunday, May 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
Previous winners and grantees:
Deep Seek Fine Tuning: Hackathon: Increase PyTorch -> CUDA translation from 10%->30% accuracy
ARC Prize: Grantee placed Second Place in ARC Prize contest
Chess Bots: Train From Scratch: reached 2000 ELO in 10 hours.
STRONG COMPUTE GPU HACKATHON
For Engineers, AI Researchers, students & anyone who is comfortable with PyTorch.
Our goal is to offer the best platform to build and train models at cluster scale. Come on over, light up some clusters, have a blast and let us know what you love and what needs work.
Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer (ISC) is designed to be the easiest way to get started on multinode training. You’ll be up and running in an hour.
Engineers only. All code. Recruiters/Slidegineers/Marketers etc. need not apply.
All applicants will be vetted for technical fit before being approved to attend.
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🗓️ Tuesday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
A conference where AI and creativity blend together is coming to San Francisco! From design, through filmmaking to music, the immersive stage at SFJazz will be taken over by the latest artistic possibilities and debates about expectations for the future developments.
Join us for 2 days of insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and real conversations. Whether you're deep in AI or just curious about where it's all headed, this is the place to be.
Our speakers include: John Maeda, Karin Fong, Leonardo De La Rocha, GMUNK and many more.
Get Early Bird tickets with extra 30% off. Discount code: CV30
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🗓️ Wednesday, May 28
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at PilotHQ on Wednesday, May 28 for Founders x Funders: AI with Mark Goldberg, General Partner at Index Ventures.
Mark has backed standout companies like Ramp, Persona, and Pilot, and brings a sharp perspective on what it takes to build durable, fundable AI startups in today’s market. We’ll cover where the real opportunities are in AI, how to stand out to investors, and what founders often overlook. Stick around for Q&A, beer, and great company.
Priority given to active AI founders — RSVP now.
🗓️ Thursday, June 5
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join thousands of data scientists, AI practitioners and developers at Snowflake’s Dev Day in San Francisco on June 5.
This FREE in-person event offers you a packed agenda of industry experts; leading venture capitalists; demos from the most popular AI companies; a gen AI Bootcamp; and fun networking events.
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🗓️ Tuesday, June 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
Fully Connected is an action-packed, 2-day in-person event hosted by Weights & Biases, designed to supercharge your AI agent development from prototype to production. Dive into hands-on workshops on Day 1, then get inspired by our AI Pioneer Speaker Series featuring Weights & Biases customers and co-founders on Day 2.
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This Week:
🗓️ Monday, May 12
📍 Santa Clara, CA
SemiAnalysis is at MLSys! Come join us for a laid-back evening over tacos, margaritas, and great conversation.
Join us at one of Santa Clara’s most vibrant Mexican spots, known for its Mexico City–inspired menu and must-have handmade blue corn tortillas.
Whether you’re deep in the ML systems world or just here for the vibes, swing by and connect with fellow MLSys attendees.
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🗓️ Wednesday, May 14
📍 San Francisco, CA
Please join us for an evening of fun conversations with fellow AI researchers who are working on improving today’s SOTA foundation models.
Hosted by Vijay Krishnan, Founder and CTO, and Kai Du, Head of Generative AI at Turing.com, this event offers a relaxed setting to mingle and chat with other researchers from companies such as Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM, Adobe, and more.
Building on the exciting energy of our previous gatherings at NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, EMNLP, COLM, AAAI and ICLR, we're excited to bring this vibrant community together again to kickstart 2025 in the Bay Area.
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
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🗓️ Wednesday, May 14
📍 San Francisco, CA
A one-night event for those building at the cutting edge of AI and MCP—demos, discussions, and developers.
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🗓️ Thursday, May 15
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us as we unveil the next generation of models and cloud infrastructure powering real-time reasoning and intelligent agents. From DeepSeek R1 to Llama 4, Cerebras is the fastest AI inference provider for cutting-edge, open-source models—built for those deploying at scale.
Whether you're building apps, deploying models, or designing infrastructure for the agentic era, Supernova is where AI goes from promise to production.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, May 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join top engineers, builders, and researchers for the BIGGEST MCP hackathon!
Hosted by teams from Greptile, Gumloop, and Mintlify, with sponsorship from Anthropic, Supabase, and taking place at Y Combinator, this event is all about building from scratch, solving hard technical problems, and pushing the limits of what’s possible.
We'll have $10K+ in prizes, fast-paced sub-challenges, and a room full of people shaping the next wave of AI infrastructure. Teams will have one day to take an idea from zero to demo—no pre-built projects allowed.
Food, swag, and good energy provided.
Spots are limited. Apply to attend. We’re curating for technical depth, creativity, and momentum.
Register
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