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Cerebral Valley – Week of November 10th 🗓
Join us in London and NYC for our upcoming Google & AIE hackathons; plus read about our Open Roles, and more...


After an incredible kickoff in San Francisco, we’re keeping the energy going — Vibe Code with Gemini is headed to London, and our AIE Code Agents Hackathon is landing in NYC:
🇬🇧 Register here for London’s Vibe Code with Gemini November 15th Hackathon.
🗽 Register here for NYC’s AIE Code Agents Hackathon, November 22nd to November 23rd.
Interested in volunteering at one of our hackathons? Fill out the interest form here 💥
You Might’ve Missed
Gemini API drops File Search — hosted RAG with free storage and query-time embeddings 🚀
Pixels in, answers out; tokenizer-free model does addition straight from images 🤯
Semantic search upgrades code agents; better results on big codebases where grep fails 🔍
Self-Forcing turns a bidirectional teacher into an autoregressive motion-control model 🎥
Google’s 7th-gen TPU Ironwood is here: 10× faster than v5p, powering Gemini⚡
Poseidon Aerospace raises $11M seed to build autonomous cargo planes, aiming for faster, cheaper air freight ✈️💨
Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) Applied Agent Engineer at AI Automation Startup (SF)
- About: Largest seed round in YC history • Biggest ever launch on product hunt • $25M+ raised • Building agents for general knowledge work • Founder-dense team
- Ideal candidate: Strong experience & preference for founding or building early startups • Typescript, LLM, and AI coding tool expertise • Demonstrated shipping ability building quality agents • Can easily mesh with fun & lively team
2) Mobile Engineer at Finance Personalization Startup (Remote)
- About: Backed by top investors in finance • $10M+ raised, largest seed round ever for their primary VC • Built by exited founder, previously raised $500M+ for past companies • Building proactive agentic personal finance tools • Incredibly technical team
- Ideal candidate: Strong experience in Swift & mobile app development • Preferred work history in fintech or finance • 2+ years of professional experience
3) Full Stack Engineer at AI Documentation Startup (SF)
- About: Backed by A16Z, YC & other Tier 1 VCs • Tech powers over 10,000 companies to date & rapidly growing • $20M+ funding raised with small team
- Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience including consumer or B2B startups • Innate ability to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong full stack engineering ability with high agency • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in November:
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
It's Veterans Day and a pre-Sync conference. Come hang with Convex on Tuesday, November 11th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 PM. Plus, pick up exclusive sync by Convex merch for attendees. You’ll also meet YC startups building on Convex.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 29th — Monday, November 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join the TanStack Start Hackathon hosted by Convex, CodeRabbit, Netlify, Firecrawl, Sentry, Autumn, and Cloudflare. Build a full-stack app and compete for $140k in cash prizes and credits.
🗓️ Thursday, November 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We are excited to announce CrewAI's second summit, CrewAI Signal, on November 20th in San Francisco, CA! Join us for a day of deep dives into real-world AI Agent use cases, live demos, workshops, and networking with AI leaders. Learn how to leverage our open source and Enterprise platform to implement AI Agents into your business.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Wednesday, November 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Google Cloud, Meta, and Arize AI for an advanced hands-on workshop exploring how to build, evaluate, and optimize agents and applications.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, November 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Learn more about open roles at ElevenLabs! This event offers a behind-the-scenes look at how ElevenLabs is redefining enterprise AI adoption — from the groundbreaking technology built by our engineers to the strategies driving our rapid global growth.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, November 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Locus (F25) is hosting the first ever agentic payments hackathon at YC HQ in San Francisco. We’re at an inflection point. AI agents are learning to think, decide, and act; now, they’re starting to transact.
Coinbase, OpenAI + Stripe, and Google have all launched agentic payment protocols in recent months. The infrastructure is forming: what will you build on top of it?
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Thursday, November 13th
📍 New York, NYC
Join us for the CUDA Meet-Up by NVIDIA and Flox at the amazing Ramp HQ!
Engineers, platform teams, DevOps folks — come hang out and learn. We'll have talks, demos, food & drinks! Doors open at 5PM.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, November 15th
📍 New York, NYC
Build and demo intelligent document solutions for finance — powered by LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) and your favorite LLMs or agentic frameworks.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, November 18th
📍 New York, NYC
The world’s largest conference for spec-centric, AI-native software development. Join developers, founders, and product leaders building the future of engineering with specs, AI coding agents, and next-gen dev tools.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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