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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 4th 🗓
Join us May 16th for Hospitality 2030 at Rosewood Sand Hill - feat. Anthropic, Greycroft and ElevenLabs. Plus, announcing our Google I/O Hackathon on May 23rd...
What does a hotel look like in 2030?
Join us at the iconic Rosewood Sand Hill for a 1-day hackathon bringing together the Bay Area’s top builders, designers, and founders to reimagine the future of hospitality with AI.
From intelligent concierge systems to fully autonomous operations, this is your chance to build the next generation of guest experiences - alongside leading partners including Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and Greycroft.
📍 Saturday, May 16 | Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park 🔗
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 🔗
You Might’ve Missed
H100s at $1.38/hr on Thunder Compute — @ilyasu drops a one-liner on @AnjneyMidha's pricing post: while neoclouds are renting H100s for $2.75/hr (and a16z's Oxygen program got them for $1.72/hr back in 2023), Thunder Compute is now listing them at $1.38/hr. Cheaper than the VC deals from two years ago.
ForgeCAD SKILLs are now open-source — @ruben_kostard releases the SKILLs he's been using to build his ForgeCAD models. Grab them off GitHub and start spinning up CAD the same way he does.
LWD: robots that train while they work — @jianlanluo unveils Learning While Deploying — robots that keep learning during real jobs: restocking groceries, brewing Gongfu tea, mixing cocktails, juicing, packing shoes. Deployment stops being just evaluation and becomes the training loop itself.
SF Compute is hiring across the board — @evanjconrad opens up roles in systems engineering, data center development, and product/brand design at San Francisco Compute. SFC sells GPU clusters on contracts you can sublease, vertically integrated from data centers up to a cloud platform, with veterans from Voltage Park, Tesla, Meta, Lambda, Red Hat, Hut8, Canonical, and Sun. DMs are open.
Striker × AWS on the robotics stack — @strikervp teams up with @awscloud to break down the multi-modal AI stack powering frontier robotics — and the world models coming next. Features work with @ElorianAI and Striker's stealth embodied AI portfolio.
The Hugging Face robot is a hit with the kids — @zackslab tries the @huggingface bot at home and reports back: it's a solid home-assistant replacement that can run on or connect to your own local models. The kids approve.
Google DeepMind partners with Korea — @ivanleomk shares that @GoogleDeepMind has a new partnership with Korea: 85,000+ researchers there are already on AlphaFold, plus active collaborations with the Korean AI Safety Institute and a lot more on the way.
WarGames: agents playing Red Alert from pixels — @layerbrain drops WarGames, a real-time RL environment where agents play Command & Conquer: Red Alert using only pixels, mouse, and keyboard. Episodes stretch hundreds to thousands of actions, rewards come from hidden simulator state, and it's built for long-horizon vision-first agents that have to plan and adapt as the world shifts.
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
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
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:
🗓️ Monday, May 4th
📍 Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
AgentCon Silicon Valley is built for developers and technical leaders working on AI agents, with sessions and workshops covering multi-agent orchestration, MCP tool integration, and production deployment patterns. Speakers include engineers and founders from Microsoft, GitHub, Pydantic, Docker, Neo4j, Pendo, Arize AI, Vectorize, Mendral, and Edgee. Free to attend, includes access to the Computer History Museum.
🗓️ Tuesday, May 5th
📍 Los Angeles, California
We're opening the HQ for AI in SoCal. Join us at our brand new offices in the heart of the LA Arts District for a private evening of great drinks, food and conversation with other AI builders.
To eat, we'll be serving delicious Mexican food, margs and mixed drinks from Damian - it's only right, it's Cinco De Mayo.
We'll also have some swanky gifts to give away via a raffle.
So join us at our brand new space where AI builders meet - no presentations, just a great atmosphere, people and food.
About Us: ZeroClick is building the Ads Platform for AI. Backed by 55M in funding from top VCs, we're deeply involved in building the 'agentic web', and are excited to share more in person.
🗓️ Wednesday, May 6th
📍 AGI House, San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous discussion on how AI is reshaping the scientific research process. We convene experimental researchers, computational scientists, and research engineers across domains to examine concrete work—papers, methods, and workflows—covering literature synthesis, hypothesis generation, experimental design, simulation, analysis, and reproducibility.
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 Digital Jungle SF, San Francisco, CA
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. Network with up-and-coming startups and leaders developing AI technologies. Panel and demo lineup includes Fireworks AI, Browserbase, Mastra, Drata, Auth0, and more. Space is limited.
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at Sphere's SF office for an invite-only Catan night with Burak Ozgur, the 2026 Catan Americas Champion. Burak plays through the night and shares strategy as we go. Winners from each table advance to a championship round against Burak.
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco CA
Think your AI prompts write secure code? Prove it. Clash of Prompts is a first-of-its-kind live tournament where developers go head-to-head, crafting prompts scored in real time on code security, agent work, and token efficiency. Whether you compete or spectate, you'll walk away with sharper instincts for writing prompts that produce secure, production-ready code — plus food, drinks, and retro games. Compete in person at the AWS Builder Loft SF on May 7 or join the online tournament. Over $23,500 in prizes up for grabs, hosted by Symbiotic Security.
🗓️ May 12-14th
📍 Mariott Marquis, San Francisco CA
AI Council is the IKYK technical conference for builders in AI. Hear from the co-inventor of ChatGPT. Creator of DuckDB. Creator of Codex. 1,500+ engineers. 10 tracks. Zero hype. Join teams from OpenAI, Anthropic, Snowflake, Databricks, Hugging Face, Vercel, and 100+ more.
Register
🗓️ Sat–Sun, May 16–17
📍 Notion HQ, San Francisco, CA
Join the Notion team for two days of building on their new Developer Platform. Build with primitives that let you sync any data source into Notion, give your agent any tool, and trigger workflows from anywhere. No servers, no infra — just a CLI and your ideas. Whether you've been building integrations for years or you're writing your first Worker, this hackathon is designed to get you shipping. Sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel.
Featured in June:
🗓️ 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 11th
📍 The Midway, San Francisco, CA
Vector Space Day comes to San Francisco on Thursday, June 11 at The Midway, gathering 300+ AI builders for a single-track day on agents and memory in production, retrieval from cloud to edge, context engineering, and multimodal AI. Speakers include mem0, LlamaIndex, Neo4j, Arize, Twelve Labs, and Qdrant, with a closing happy hour. Early bird tickets are $99 through May 11, then $199.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Wednesday, May 6th
📍 San Francisco, CA
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll go from zero to building a fully functional AI agent in under an hour using Hermes Agent and Novita AI. Your agent will become your marketing assistant and email manager. No coding experience required.
Hermes Agent is an open-source agent framework from Nous Research designed to think, act, and improve over time with built-in memory, tool use, and real-world execution capabilities. Paired with Novita AI’s fast and scalable infrastructure, you’ll learn how to turn ideas into working systems that actually work for you.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA
XTrace is the private, portable memory infrastructure for AI-native organizations that captures every interaction, preserves institutional knowledge, and gives your teams the shared team brain they need to move faster and build smarter agents.
Come celebrate our official launch alongside founders who've collectively raised over $200M and investors from Sequoia, a16z, Pear VC, and Draper Associates. Startup demos, food, drinks, and conversations about the future of AI-native work
Register
🗓️ Sunday, May 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Beats & Build is a hackathon in San Francisco. Music, drinks, and a room full of PMs, engineers, and AI builders — all shipping something real by end of day. No pitch decks. No panels. You build something in a few hours, post it everywhere, and let real-world traction decide the winners.
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 New York, NY
Work block, then dinner at the end. Mingle then a big focused work block, an unreasonably abundant charcuterie board, focus music, drinks, comfortable seating, and incredible company of other women founders and investors crossing things off the list, getting sh*t done afternoon.
Share some of your personal AI stack that's helping you work more efficiently this year during the break.
🗓️ Thursday, May 7th
📍 111 8th Avenue, New York, NY
Ship something real. Then grab a drink.
Join Google and Builder for a hands-on workshop where you take an idea from prompt to production, live, in one evening.
You'll build alongside Steve Sewell (CEO, Builder.io) and Alexis Kulash (Head of Sales Engineering) using Builder's AI agent inside a real product environment, on top of Google's Material Design 3 design system. Designers, PMs, and engineers are all welcome. Bring your laptop. You will write code.
🗓️ Monday, May 11th
📍 New York, NY
Come hang out with fellow builders and members of the Gemma and LM Studio teams at LM Studio's NYC HQ! Light bites and drinks will be provided.
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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