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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 18th 🗓
Right after the I/O keynote, we're in SF May 23rd with Google DeepMind. Then it's Paris in July — RAISE Summit (July 4–5) and Machina (July 6), back-to-back...
Google's next chapter starts at I/O — come build it.
Right after the keynote, we're hosting a Gemini hackathon with the Google DeepMind team focused on turning the latest model capabilities into working products. Direct access to the team behind Gemini, fresh APIs to play with, and the first weekend to ship on whatever lands at I/O.
📍 Saturday, May 23 | San Francisco, CA
In partnership with Cerebral Valley, Vultr, and others, the RAISE Summit Hackathon convenes the world's top developers to solve high-stakes business problems. Over the course of two days in Paris, ideas become demos, and demos become momentum.
📍 Saturday, July 4 – Sunday, July 5 | Paris, France (Hybrid)
In partnership with Cerebral Valley, 150+ builders will join us for 12 hours of intense building in 3 tracks, on July 6, 2026, in Paris, the day before the MACHINA Summit brings together the founders, scientists, and investors defining the next era of intelligent machines. Be part of the future of Physical AI. Applications are now open.
📍 Monday, July 6 | Paris, France
You Might’ve Missed
Cooling AI training racks with fjord seawater inside a Norwegian mountain — @WeAreHRT (Hudson River Trading) takes the camera inside Lefdal Mine DC, where cold seawater siphoned from the fjord cools DLC racks running above 125 kW per cabinet. Bespoke storage, high-speed interconnects, and a mountain. Quant research infrastructure has gotten weird.
Jane Street's GPU buildout, from "the hive" to 4,032 GPUs — @GoshawkTrades surfaces the origin story behind Jane Street's new liquid-cooled Texas AI training facility (56 racks, 8,000 km of fiber). Their first cluster: six Dell boxes stacked at the end of a desk row, sitting next to traders so they could unplug it. Someone vacuuming once unplugged a live trading system mid-day. The 20-year arc ends at sub-100ns trade execution.
Singapore is now the #1 user of Claude globally — @zeroxkyle flags the milestone, noting that GIC also led Anthropic's $30B Series G. Adoption and capital, from the same address.
The 3rd Annual NatSec Hackathon — @cerebral_valley wraps the largest edition yet: 1,000+ applicants, 102 projects, $80K in prizes, and a first-time partnership with @USARMYPIT. Teams built across sensor analysis, mission C2, cyber, edge deployments, and drone ops, judged by Army and Space Force personnel alongside @ShieldCapVC, @PalantirTech, @DCVC, @L3HarrisTech, and IQT.
130,000 lbs of "Boomalloy" billet, in weeks instead of a year — @bscholl (Boom Supersonic) shows off the powder-metal shipment headed for turbine disc forging — enough material for ~1.3GW of turbines. Procurement that normally takes 12+ months collapsed into a few weeks via deep supplier partnership. Supersonic supply chains, ahead of schedule.
CV Spotlight: Snowflake Dev Day
Don't wait for the future—build it.
Calling all developers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, data engineers and anyone building with AI!
Join your peers to explore demos of the latest data and AI technologies, hear from industry experts, earn professional badges, and much more. Learn, connect and play at Dev Day!
Don't miss your chance to:
Experience AI in Action - Get hands on with bootcamps, learn about the latest AI developments, and discover eLearning opportunities to turn your proof-of-concepts into enterprise-grade production.
Hear from Industry Trailblazers - Get inspiration from industry luminaries, community leaders, and your peers. Hear their stories and see their innovations to inspire your own!
Invest in Your Growth - Discover how AI is reshaping the developer toolkit and learn how to make it work for you. Explore new tools, pick up practical skills, and leave with ideas you'll actually use, whether it's for your next project or your next career move.
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] for job placement inquiries.
iOS 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 building and maintaining SwiftUI in production & shipping impactful, high adoption mobile applications • 3+ years of experience in professional software engineering in an iOS/Mobile role • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team
Software Engineer at Computational Photography Startup (Remote)
- Building: Photo upscaling and generation for real estate & spatial photography
- About: Fully bootstrapped with >8 figures ARR • Small, distributed, tight-knit team • Solving cutting-edge problems in photography and spatial understanding • Processing thousands of pictures per day on industrial GPU infrastructure
- Ideal candidate: Experience does not matter, but demonstrated aptitude in game development or diffusion models are a huge plus • Clear communicators that value shipping > prestige • Repeat hackathon winners • Merging code into prod on day one
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.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in May:
🗓️ Tuesday, May 19th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Build that idea that you keep thinking about with $250 credits to get started! (This is an in-person only event in SF.)
Remy is the first AI product + coding agent. You share an idea with Remy like you’d talk to a co-founder, and walk out with a deployed, full-stack application, including a backend, database, auth all in one go.
Forget getting a prototype or a landing page. You'll quickly get a fully ready product that comes in a complete package AND with a pitch deck and roadmap.
Also, MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro is flying in to work with you in person. He built Remy. He’ll be in the room helping you get the most out of it.
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
Following the success of our first event back in February, we will be back in SF with a new and improved format to update you all on the direction on the state of video generation!
Expect hardy discussion on real-time video generation & more time to pick the brains of expert builders in the community (There may also be a rooftop involved)
🗓️ Friday, May 29
📍 100 High St, Boston, MA
The future belongs to companies building agents that collaborate and accomplish complex tasks. We’ve gone through this process ourselves, and we know what makes or breaks a successful multi-agent system.
We're bringing our AI experts to share their experiences building autonomously improving agent swarms.
We’ll kick off with generous networking time before moving to a session with the W&B Weave team and customers taking the stage to share how they're building agentic systems.
Featured in June:
🗓️ Monday, June 1 – Wednesday, June 3
📍 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Duck in daily for refreshments, MotherDuck merch, and good company. Meet the flock, join live dive demos from our DevRel team, or settle in for slack to catch-up between sessions.
🗓️ Wednesday, June 3
📍 620 Eighth Ave, New York, NY
We've packed our bags, and we're hitting the road. By popular demand, Camp AI is headed on a world tour 🌎
Our second stop is in New York City, the big AI-pple 🍎, during Tech Week.
Tech founders, builders, and AI enthusiasts are invited to an evening of demos, a panel discussion, and conversations around developing, shipping, and scaling agentic workflows. This is a chance to network with up-and-coming startups and leaders developing AI technologies.
🗓️ Thursday, June 4th
📍 Shack15, San Francisco, CA
If you're building what's next, Observe is Arize AI’s annual conference for engineers building agents and AI systems in prod. This year, Observe will take place on June 4 at the San Francisco Ferry Building with engineers and teams from Uber, Cursor, OpenAI, AG2, and more offering perspectives on a defining challenge and opportunity ahead: defining agent feedback loops. Join the engineers, teams, and companies building smarter agents—and bring your laptop so you can join in and build together. Use code CEREBRALVALLEY100 for $100 off registration.
🗓️ Thursday, June 4th
📍 New York, NY & Virtual
Doubling your organization's productivity sounds impossible. Thanks to AI, it's a reality. Fin's 2x story is living proof. Join the Fin team in New York (or virtually) on June 4th to discover the choices that made 2x possible, and how giving all teams access to AI tools enabled them to ship at a new velocity, transform their product, and make zero bugs a reality.
🗓️ Thursday, June 11th
📍 The Midway, San Francisco, CA
If you’re building something novel in vector search, AI memory, context engineering, or retrieval infra, you won't want to miss Vector Space Day. Join 300+ AI builders for a full day on agents and memory in production, retrieval from cloud to edge, context engineering, and multimodal AI. Speakers include Adobe, mem0, LlamaIndex, Neo4j, Google Deepmind, Twelve Labs, Qdrant, Hubspot, and more.
The first 10 people to use the access code C3R3BRAL-VALL3Y-VSD get a free ticket.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
📍 SOHN, San Francisco, CA
Clerk is hosting a co-working night for all founders and builders of SF!
Come work on that startup idea, dive down a new rabbit hole, or spend a few hours around other ambitious builders. We’ll have good music, coffee, food, strong wifi, and plenty of outlets.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
📍 Pebblebed, San Francisco, CA
CapCut and Design Buddies are teaming up for a design hackathon built for designers, creators, and visual storytellers.
This event will focus on AI Design Studio, CapCut’s browser-based creative tool for image generation. You’ll get a prompt, build your concept, and submit your work individually for judging. Please ensure you have a CapCut account (free) to be able to receive free credits to participate in this event.
Whether you’re a graphic designer, product designer, UX designer, or template creator, this is a chance to experiment, create, and meet other creatives in the community.
🗓️ Friday, May 22
📍 Corgi Cafe, San Francisco, CA
The keynotes are over. The real building begins. ☕️💻
Google I/O is a sprint, but the best insights usually happen after the conference doors close. Whether you’re processing the latest Gemini updates or already halfway through a new integration, come hang out at Corgi Cafe for a post-I/O "cool down."
We’re hosting members of the Google DeepMind team for a casual late-night session at SF’s favorite 24/7 startup hub. No stages, no microphones - just coffee, builders, and deep dives into the future of AI.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Wednesday, May 20
📍 New York, NY
Come see demos from:
Sandbar
Flora AI
Luma Labs
The Sentience Company
ElevenLabs
Demos start at 6:00 PM sharp! If you are exploring what's next, apply to join SPC.
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
📍 New York, NY
Join Robert Hodgin and Pablo Honey for a fireside chat exploring the intersection of creativity and technology. Robert, co-founder of Rare Volume, is known for his groundbreaking work in generative art, computational aesthetics, and creative coding. Pablo, Creative Director at Automattic, has spent decades designing for modern technologies and leading global design teams. Together, they’ll dive into how creators are using AI and emerging tools to build expressive products and experiences, as well as the evolving relationship between people and technology.
Connect with technologists, researchers, and creators in a relaxed environment, followed by drinks and light bites.
🗓️ Saturday, May 23
📍 New York, NY
NYC doesn't wait. Neither do we.
We're getting NYC's best builders for one day to hack on real problems and show their work to a room full of people who build for a living.
If you're serious about what you're building, you gotta be here. + $45K in prizes.
We're backing you with some of the best teams in the game so you build without limitations.
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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