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Cerebral Valley – Week of September 1st 🗓
The latest in AI Products, News, Jobs and Events
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Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) Full Stack Engineer at Financial AI Lab (NYC)
- About: Founders with previous 9-figure exit • Top investors including Garry Tan and hedge fund founders • Building OpenAI for finance
-Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience building in AI, crypto, or finance • Alum from Stripe, Ramp, Plaid, or other fintech unicorns • Experience in Python / Go backend + React / Next frontend • Fit in with research-driven culture and bridge the gap
2) AI Engineer at Codegen Automation Startup (SF)
- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $20M+ funding raised
-Ideal candidate: Experience developing and deploying agentic and LLM-based systems • 2+ years experience building with LLMs • Personal projects demonstrating AI-nativity in engineering • Work at the intersection of AI and product
3) Frontend Engineer at Codegen Automation Startup (SF)
- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $20M+ funding raised
-Ideal candidate: Able to innovate and develop novel human-AI interaction • 4+ years experience building scalable consumer web and native applications • Familiar with Typescript, React, Next & the likes • Native intuition for user interfaces and AI usage
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in September:
🗓️ Thursdays, September 4th, 18th; October 2nd, 16th, 30th
📍 Virtual
This 6-part virtual event series will enable startups to effectively build, deploy, and scale Generative AI workloads on AWS using NVIDIA technologies. This comprehensive series combines AWS's cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA's cutting edge platform/full-stack to help startups accelerate their Generative AI journey.
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🗓️ Thursday, September 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an exclusive evening where AWS and Anthropic unite to showcase the future of generative AI development. This unique collaboration brings together leading experts from both organizations for an immersive experience in AI innovation and practical implementation.
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🗓️ Thursday, September 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
It’s faster than ever to build prototypes of AI products—but delivering high-quality, reliable products is still a lot of work.
Join AI experts from Fin, Cognition, and Harvey live on September 11th to hear how they're investing at all levels of the AI stack—from training specialized models to scaling real-world applications.
Expect candid conversations about the technical choices they’ve made, what they’ve learned, and the systems they’ve built to achieve reliability and control.
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🗓️ Saturday, September 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Calling all SF Bay Area based AI developers, builders, and enthusiasts for an intense all-weekend hackathon. Create autonomous AI Agents that integrate real-world tools, automate workflows and eliminate the boring/repetitive stuff in your work or personal life.
Food and beverages will be provided. Winners will receive cash prizes, credits from the hackathon sponsors, and get to present their solutions to industry leaders building the next gen AI dev tools.
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🗓️ Thursday, September 25th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Flower AI Day will change AI forever. Superintelligence is here, and it is both open-source and decentralized.
Speakers: Sara Hooker (Cohere), Ce Zhang (CTO, Together), Joseph Spisak (Meta), Daniel Beutel (Flower), Timothy Chou (Stanford/Lecturer (Pediatric Moonshot), Sudhir Upadhyay (JP Morgan), Nic Lane (Flower) and more surprise announcements soon.
Join us for keynotes from world-leading engineers and scientists, ground-breaking demos of brand-new decentralized AI tech, and interactive expert-led panels. Catered social and networking sessions, including an evening reception along with light food. Attendees will receive event-specific swag (t-shirts and more)
Shack15 in the Ferry Building. Limited early-bird tickets starting at $49.
Get your Ticket!
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🗓️ Friday, September 26th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re creating a unique opportunity to build multimodal agents applied to data. You’ll be building projects that explore multimodal data exploration, analysis, dashboarding, and synthetic generation.
💰There’s a stacked prize pool for this hackathon with $15K+ in cash and partner credits 💰
Our partners from Glean, WRITER, CrewAI, Meta, LandingAI, and AWS will be there providing credits and support.
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🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
VapiCon is a voice AI summit tailored for developers. Join us on October 2, 2025, in San Francisco for a one-day event bringing together engineers, developers, and industry leaders to explore innovations and the future of voice AI.
Learn about building, deploying, and scaling voice AI agents, explore modern architectural designs, and discuss where the voice AI industry is headed. The event features talks from experts, including voices from Top Research Labs, Vapi, Deepgram, Assembly, Coval, Krisp, Ultravox, Rime Labs, and others.
🗓️ Thursday, October 9th
📍 New York City, NY
Solving tough challenges in search, security, or observability? Looking to sharpen your skills or stay ahead of what’s next?
Whether you’re a developer, engineer, or architect (or you just love working with Elastic) you’ll find your place at Elastic{ON}. Join this single-day, no-cost event where you'll get early access to new features, explore technical deep dives, and go hands-on with the latest Elastic innovations. You’ll connect with peers, swap real-world lessons, and shape what’s next — together, in person.
🗓️ Tuesday, November 4th
📍 Virtual
Join thousands of data scientists, engineers, AI practitioners and developers virtually at Snowflake’s BUILD event on November 4th - 6th.
This FREE 3-day virtual event offers you three days of exclusive product announcements, “how to” technical sessions, and hands-on labs focused on Snowflake’s latest innovations.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Thursday, September 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Leading voices from OpenAI, Databricks, Deepgram, Sierra, Vellum, and more will share insights through keynotes, lightning talks, and hands-on masterclasses. Expect 30+ booths featuring engineers building production-grade AI agents, expert-led rooms, and practical sessions like Building Voice Agents and AI Agents & Authentication.
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🗓️ Thursday, September 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Discover how Prompt-Driven Development (PDD) is transforming software engineering with a regenerative approach that keeps code clean, consistent, and scalable. Expect live demos of PDD on Groq hardware and Toolhouse’s Agent Studio, plus open networking, pizza, exclusive swag, and $20 Groq credit for attendees.
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🗓️ Saturday, September 6th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re hosting a live challenge inspired by METR’s latest evals paper to test the real-world impact of AI coding agents. Half of participants will be randomly assigned to build without AI; the other half will use leading tools like Factory. It’s a head-to-head showdown measuring speed, quality, and productivity. $12,500 for overall winning team + credits from our sponsors
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This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Thursday, September 4th
📍 New York, NYC
Critically Extant by Sofia Crespo uses AI trained on open-source nature images to visualize endangered species with little online presence, revealing the limits of our digital knowledge of the natural world. Join us for an exclusive Armory Week closing reception in New York, sponsored by Meanwhile, celebrating Crespo’s work at the intersection of art, nature, and AI.
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🗓️ Friday, September 5th
📍 New York, NYC
Join us on a guided art walk during MoMA First Friday. Capture artworks and textures on your smartphone, remix them in real time with daisy, and share your creations in our community Telegram. Perfect for creatives, photographers, and curious newcomers
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🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 New York, NYC
An evening for anyone curious about building with Cursor, from vibe-coders to power-users. Expect show-and-tell demos, live tips and workflow exchanges, free swag and food, plus a surprise speaker.
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Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
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