AI Tinkerers SF is back for a Halloween Edition on October 22nd, 2024!

Get ready for a spooktacular gathering of active builders. Join us for the AI Tinkerers San Francisco Halloween Edition meetup, hosted and sponsored by Weights & Biases and Exa at the Faight Collective, located at 473 Haight St.

Hang with SF’s top AI engineers, hackers, researchers, and technical founders.

Space is strictly limited for this event and we will be screening attendance.

🥽 What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners who possess technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds and are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and are eager to connect with like-minded individuals who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you. With AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in multiple cities, we cater to a dedicated community of practitioners.

🌍 Who is this for?

👉 It’s AI Tinkerers, not AI enthusiasts. We screen attendance to active builders with a shared level of expertise in order to create a collaborative environment ideal for early-stage discovery and innovation. Prior attendee stats: This elite community of 7,317 technical professionals features a powerful distribution of skills: 48% specialize in agentic systems and multi-agent orchestration, 42% in advanced model engineering and PyTorch, and 38% in high-performance AI infrastructure and MLOps. Distinguished by a high density of venture-backed founders and researchers from top-tier labs like Google DeepMind and Meta, members actively collaborate on cutting-edge Model Context Protocol implementations and verifiable AI governance.

Read more about us in the FAQ

🎙️ DEMO SIGNUPS 🎙️

We’re on the lookout for speakers! Want to showcase your latest AI project or share your findings?

👉 CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT OUR DEMO PROPOSAL FORM 👈!

Demos are capped at 5 minutes. No pitch decks! We’re eager to see your raw and exciting WIPs! 🛠️

🕕 Tentative Schedule:

• 5:30 PM: Doors Open
• 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Welcome & Community Demos
• 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Networking
• 8:30 PM: Doors Close

🤖 Connect, Collaborate, and Create 🤖

This meetup is your chance to:

• Showcase your latest AI projects: Share your work with the community during our demo session. Submit your proposal for a 5-minute presentation and inspire others with your innovative ideas.
• Network with fellow tinkerers: Meet and collaborate with other active builders, AI engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers who share your passion for building the future with AI.
• Learn from industry experts: Gain insights and inspiration from our sponsors and other leading figures in the AI space.

🍕 Sponsors

This event is generously sponsored and hosted by Weights & Biases and Exa.

Weights & Biases - This event is sponsored by Weights & Biases Weave. When you’re ready to take your tinkering to production, you’ll need reliable logging and tracing, Weave will get you there with 3 lines of code, and you’ll get a beautiful dashboard you can share with even the non technical folks! Plus, once you’re ready to upgrade to o1 or gpt-next, Weave offers a robust LLM evaluation pipeline so you’ll always know which LLM works best for your use-case.

Exa - Exa is the search engine built for AI. When you’re ready to supercharge your AI applications with real-time, comprehensive knowledge, Exa has you covered. With just a few lines of code, you’ll give your AI access to up-to-date information from across the web, enabling more accurate and relevant responses. Whether you’re building a chatbot, a research tool, or any AI-powered application, Exa’s semantic search and powerful filtering capabilities ensure your AI always has the most pertinent information at its fingertips. Plus, with features like similarity search and the ability to scrape full content from webpages, Exa opens up new possibilities for AI-driven insights and analysis.

RSVP Today!

Space is limited, so don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect with the Bay Area AI community. RSVP now.