📣 AI Tinkerers SF IS BACK - July 6th 6-9PM at Pebblebed!!! 📣

Come by to see kick-ass AI demos and lightning talks, mingle with AI builders, AI researchers, and (a few) AI investors – plus some special guest drop ins. Big thanks to Pebblebed for providing the venue and to AI Grant for sponsoring food and beverages.

Event Photos & Recap

Thank you to the 270 active builders in attendance (with apologies to the 300+ on the waitlist that we could not fit in this time), and to our 8 demo presenters (of an outstanding 49 demo proposals that we received.) Also, a huge shout-out to AI Grant for sponsoring, to Pebblebed for hosting and to Nat Friedman for providing his insights and predictions around the state of the art in AI and for spending the entire evening hanging out with all of us.

Speakers:

Bharath Bhat

• [email protected]
• ResolveML - a monitoring tool that uses LLMs to help autofix production alerts
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLG4s3j6jg

swyx

• [email protected]
• smol talk
• github.com/smol-ai

Surya Dantuluei

• [email protected]
• vLite, an extremely lightweight gpu accelerated vector db
• https://github.com/sdan/vlite

Ali Shobeiri

• [email protected]
• Demo of GPT-4 connected to my WhatsApp + iMessage and replying on my behalf

Milad Mo

• [email protected]
• The Path to Achieve Ultra-Low Inference Latency With LLaMA 65B on PyTorch/XLA
• https://pytorch.org/blog/path-achieve-low-inference-latency/

Nikita Shamgunov

• [email protected]
• Postgres extension for approximate similarity search with hnsw index

Francesco Rossi

• [email protected]
• A fun demo of Animato, callannie.ai, with a different character
• https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1651316031762071553

Travis Cine

• [email protected]
• “RightHand” - gpt4 powered assistive software
• https://github.com/tmc/righthand

Alex Graveley

• [email protected]
• Minion, an AI assistant that performs daily tasks for you on the web.
• minion.ai

TALK SIGNUPS

We’re looking for speakers! If you would like to demo or present your findings for our July event: fill out the speaker submission form.

Talks are limited to 5 minutes. Pitch decks are strongly discouraged - we want to see your messy WIP!

RSVP HERE

Please RSVP at the top of the page ☝️ - space is limited. This month we’re switching to our new home SF.TINKERER.AI, which will allow us to prioritize RSVPs for past attendees and notify people of our upcoming events. Thanks to Joe from AI Tinkerers Seattle for pulling this site together!

Tentative Schedule:

• 6:00 Doors open
• 6:05-6:25 Fireside Chat
• 7:00-7:20 Talk Block 1
• 8:00-8:30 Talk Block 2
• 9:00 Doors close

Special shoutout for those who gave awesome demos at our May event:

• Miguel Acevedo - OpenCode: Personal Programming Tutor
• Ronith Kandallu - Iris: Exploring more natural ways of interacting with AI. macOS desktop chat bot.
• Florian Juengermann - Llama finetuning: Finetune llama for hyde retrieval
• Michael Chang - LangChain Agent Simulations: Examples of agent simulations in LangChain
• Xander - Jasnah: Rust autograd framework
• Pranav Parthasarathy - Polyhive: AI texture generation
• Matt B - NBA_TPG: NBA db text to SQL (NBA Stats)
• Brian Mount - Languagepractice.app: Conversational language instruction (language learning)
• Mark Nadal - SecureRender: Privacy preserving AI runtime
• Sagar Desai - Interview Sandbox: Technical interviewing app with AI
• Will Bryk - Metaphor: Search engine
• Surya Dantuluri - Wordflow: Adds ChatGPT Plugins to help people monetize

(Please forgive lack of project/profile links - we’ll get these going forward)

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