- Cerebral Valley
- Posts
- Cerebral Valley – Week of November 4th 🗓
Cerebral Valley – Week of November 4th 🗓
The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs
Join Slack • All Events • Jobs
Register for our Consumer AI Hackathon NYC with a16z this coming weekend!
Launching an AI product? Hiring? Fundraising? Get in touch!
You Might’ve Missed
A glimpse into @xai’s insane engineering culture
A brief history of headless react components
Snap images into oblivion with this open source code
How Anthropic prompted its way to SWE-bench SOTA
Use this repo to train models like an academic research lab
@scale_ai launches talent network??
Learn how Backprop in PyTorch actually works!
@physical_int finally launches their first action foundation model, and it’s killer
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Cerebral Valley:
🗓️ Saturday, November 9th - Sunday, November 10th
📍 Sao Paulo, Brazil
We 're excited to welcome you to the official Llama Impact Hackathon: Brazil, hosted by Meta in collaboration with Cerebral Valley!
This is a unique opportunity to bring together Brazil's growing AI community to build new AI applications using Meta's Llama models, alongside many of the best developers across Brazil's tech ecosystem. Meta's team will be in attendance, and hackers will receive hands-on support from the Meta team.
Winning teams will receive cash prizes as well as additional prizes to kickstart their Llama 3 projects. This event qualifies participants to submit their projects to the Llama Impact Grant program.
Please note: This is a fully in-person event - remote teams are not allowed. By registering you agree to Cerebral Valley TOS.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, November 9th - Sunday, November 10th
📍 New York, NY
We’re excited to welcome you to the NYC Consumer AI Hackathon hosted by a16z + ElevenLabs with support from Captions, Luma, OpenAI, and Cerebral Valley.
Participants will use partner tooling and models with the goal of building creative consumer AI projects.
Winning teams will receive prizes and credits to kickstart their projects. Note: This is a fully in person event, remote teams are not allowed.
By registering you agree to Cerebral Valley ToS
Register
🗓️ Saturday, November 16th - Sunday, November 17th
📍 London, UK
Llama 3 hackathon. London. Be there.
Winning teams will receive cash / sick hardware prizes. This event also qualifies participants to submit their projects to the Llama Impact Grant program! Each team will receive exclusive access to dedicated GPU clusters for training if necessary.
NOTE: Final round of judging will take place at the Meta HQ in London on the evening of Monday November 18th.
Register
Featured Events:
🗓️ Thursday, November 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Let's build something unbreakable! At The Unhackable Hack, you’ll develop secure, compliant-ready APIs or microservices using AI-generated code (powered by Claude). We’ll give you plug-and-play templates, and you’ll add your creative touch to make it both powerful and secure.
This isn’t your typical hackathon. With industry leaders sharing insights, top-tier tech, and hands-on challenges, you’ll push the limits of what’s possible with AI-generated code. Plus, we’ve got AirPods for the most creative project (chosen by the judge), smart speakers for the most secure project (scanned by Vidoc's security checks), and tons of swag for the participants.
Join us for a day of serious innovation, collaboration, and fun. Think you can build the unhackable? Let’s find out!
We’ll also be serving dinner and refreshments throughout the event, so come ready to code, connect, and get fed!
About the host
Fleak is a real time data enrichment platform tailored for creating intelligent data APIs effortlessly. It enables users to quickly develop and deploy API backends with a single click. Leveraging a low-code workflow builder, Fleak simplifies request payload manipulation using SQL, integrates seamlessly with LLM or embedding models, and supports invoking AWS Lambda functions.
VidocSecurity creates AI tools that help find and fix code vulnerabilities to keep applications secure. During this hackathon, we'll provide access to our technology, guidance from our engineers, and resources to help you build secure apps. Join us to learn more about cybersecurity and use our AI tools to create something impactful—no matter your skill level!
Register
🗓️ Saturday, November 9th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Come join fantastic agents companies: Anthropic, MultiOn, AgentOps, Neon, and our sponsor, Notable Capital and build out the next generation of computer use powered agents! Computer use has opened all of our minds to a practical AGI taking every action we take on our machines. Together we'll build next to a suite of potent AI agent companies, products, and founders!!
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, November 13th
📍 Remote
AI Agents Are Moving from R&D to Reality — Are You Ready?
This year, Prosus AI and The MLOps Community are focusing on real-world AI agents that are already in or nearing production.
From buying agents to customer service and analytics agents, this full-day virtual event brings together the global ML/AI community to share real-world insights into deploying and scaling AI agents in industries like e-commerce, food delivery, SaaS, and more.
What’s on the agenda?
Solving real challenges: memory management, performance benchmarking, agent behavior control, and balancing latency vs. response quality.
Learning from the best: Hear how top companies are deploying AI agents across apps, services, and tools.
Exploring practical solutions: Tool use, cost management, and aligning UI/UX with agent capabilities.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, November 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA
With the AI market exploding, founders, product managers, and executives face tough questions around go-to-market strategies. In a space where innovation and competition move at lightning speed, how do you make your product stand out?
If these challenges sound familiar, you won’t want to miss insights from four AI GTM experts who have successfully navigated this complex landscape.
Register
🗓️ Monday, November 25th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Every company sees the potential of GenAI, but most teams hit a wall when turning it into scalable, production-ready applications. This series of master classes will equip you with the practical skills to build and deploy GenAI solutions that deliver real impact.
In this immersive program, you’ll:
Build a GenAI app in class: Get hands-on experience designing and implementing a working GenAI solution from start to finish.
Master RAG: Learn how to integrate retrieval with generation to build AI systems that dynamically pull from vast knowledge bases, delivering more accurate, contextually relevant, and up-to-date responses. In this section, you'll explore retrieval strategies, optimize how your models fetch and generate data, and fine-tune the balance between retrieval and generation for maximum performance in real-world applications.
Build intelligent agents: Develop autonomous systems that don’t just generate outputs but actively make decisions, adapt to changing data, and perform tasks in real-time. These agents can automate complex workflows, handle unpredictable environments, and continuously learn, allowing you to build smarter, more responsive applications that drive efficiency and innovation in your business.
Scale and Productionize AI Systems: Master techniques for building scalable, secure, and robust AI systems. Covering topics like red teaming, hallucination prevention, guardrails, evaluations, performance tuning, and data pipelines at scale.
Who Should Attend:
Technical Teams: Deep dive into GenAI architectures, RAG, and the latest AI frameworks.
Technical Executives: Learn to identify high-impact GenAI use cases and build a roadmap for integrating AI to drive innovation.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
Final Note…
You’ve reached the end of our CV AI newsletter.
Sponsors: If you would like to promote a launch, event or fundraise to our community of AI founders, enterprises and investors, please get in touch at [email protected] or DM us on Twitter / X.