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AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person session detailing architectural patterns for planning-based AI systems featuring AI21 Labs' Maestro, with support from AI21 and AI21 Labs.
Engineers attended a full-day workshop focused on building reliable LLM agents using the 12-factor agents methodology, featuring instruction from YC founders and a panel of AI companies.
Ten AI founders and practitioners attended an intimate, invite-only dinner to trade candid operational insights on using AI tools, sponsored by AI Tinkerers and Samsung Next.
Attendees joined an intimate, invitation-only dinner for technical leaders to discuss deploying private enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure with Kamiwaza.ai.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person evening featuring enterprise-grade agent demos and technical talks focused on LLM building, sponsored by Kamiwaza.
Engineering leaders attended an intimate, invite-only VIP dinner for a focused discussion on integrating AI coding assistants into production systems.
Active AI builders participated in a focused, community-driven mini-hackathon to push an idea to a minimum viable product using AI tooling. Sponsors included Jelly, Copilot Kit, and Tavily.
AI Tinkerers hosted a workshop on fine-tuning and deploying video generators with Modal Labs, fostering collaboration among AI practitioners. Modal and SignalFire sponsored the event.
Practitioners gathered for short demos and focused talks on building with foundation models. The event facilitated technical discussion and networking, supported by sponsors SignalFire and Comet.
Developers built sub-second voice agents and realtime reasoning systems at the in-person hackathon, supported by sponsors including OpenAI.
AI Tinkerers, ElevenLabs and a16z are hosting a worldwide hackathon Feb 22–23, with 7 hackathons in San Francisco, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Online. Global sponsors include Lovable, Clerk, and AI Tinkerers, with prizes from Mistral, Vercel, and Windsurf—apply at https://hackathon.elevenlabs.io.
Practitioners building foundation models attended an in-person meetup for technical conversation and project sharing, sponsored by Betaworks and Comet.
Builders gathered for a focused, in-person discussion questioning vector databases and exploring data unlocking methods, supported by Timescale and Betaworks.
Technical AI builders gathered for a hands-on Demo Day featuring unpolished, code-running demonstrations, supported by sponsors Betaworks and The Law Office of Christopher Moye.
Practitioners built with Claude, viewed technical demos from Anthropic's Head of Developer Relations, and shared projects, supported by sponsors Betaworks and Anthropic.
Practitioners built with foundation models through hands-on demos, lightning talks, and networking, supported by sponsors Betaworks, Ascend VC, Weights & Biases, and Baseten.
The competitive evening of engineering challenges for prompt engineers was postponed. Participants vied in escalating, real-time prompt challenges for prizes, supported by sponsors Betaworks and Groq.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on demos and technical talks focused on building LLM-enabled apps, with support from host Betaworks and sponsor Bloomberg Beta.
Technical founders gathered for an in-person dinner featuring demos and networking focused on foundation models and LLM applications, supported by Jelly and Baseten.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on demos and short talks focused on building with foundation models, emphasizing experimentation and collaboration, with support from Lightning AI.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup for practitioners building with foundation models. The event featured demos and networking, supported by Sisense.
AI Tinkerers hosted João Moura, founder of CrewAI, for an evening of agentic AI demos and networking, sponsored by Covalent and Betaworks.
AI Tinkerers met at Betaworks for an in-person gathering of builders passionate about foundation models and generative AI, featuring demos and networking.
Competitors gathered for a hands-on prompt engineering tournament featuring four timed challenges, live scoring, and a $5,000 prize, with dinner and drinks provided.
AI Tinkerers hosted an intimate, investors-only dinner showcasing Jelly, a startup reimagining phone calls with AI, where attendees experienced a live talk show build, sponsored by Jelly.
AI practitioners gathered for a focused luncheon with Lightning AI to share hands-on insights on Large Language Models and generative artificial intelligence. Drinks and appetizers were provided by sponsors.
Founders of generative artificial intelligence companies gathered for an intimate dinner featuring curated conversation, sushi, and networking, supported by Sierra Ventures and Jelly.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup for practitioners building with foundation models and generative AI, featuring lightning demos and networking.
AI Tinkerers NYC hosted a meetup for AI practitioners building with foundation models. Attendees presented work-in-progress projects and networked, with support from sponsors ARI and JellyJelly.
AI Tinkerers NYC hosted a meetup for technical practitioners building with foundation models, featuring demos and networking. Sponsors ShopARI, JellyJelly, and Bloomberg BETA provided complimentary drinks and appetizers.
The in-person gathering featured hands-on demonstrations, brief talks, and networking for builders using foundation models and large language models. Sponsors supported the community event.
Technical practitioners gathered for hands-on demos, networking, and pragmatic product discovery focused on generative artificial intelligence.
Practitioners built with large language models and generative AI during a hands-on evening featuring technical demos and networking, supported by Arthur and Samsung Next.
Practitioners gathered for the inaugural meetup to demo work-in-progress, trade lessons, and collaborate on building large language model applications. Sponsors included Point72, Work-Bench, Zocdoc, and Arthur.
Best AI meetup in New York City for builders
AI Tinkerers New York City is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The New York City chapter is part of a 268-city global network with 140,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local New York City chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers New York City meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is Agentic Loops Demo Day ft Conveo on October 21, 2026. Subscribe to the New York City chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers New York City is the best AI meetup in New York City for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The New York City chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
AI Tinkerers New York City is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The New York City chapter is part of a 268-city network with 140,000+ members worldwide.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models. Recent talks: Teaching an LLM to be an interior designer (August 19, 2026), Create Your Own DeepSeek Moment (August 19, 2026), Why I gave up on agent voting: hard escalation in a 3-reviewer LLM pipeline (June 3, 2026)
Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration. Recent talks: Create Your Own DeepSeek Moment (August 19, 2026), What if loops are the problem? (July 29, 2026)
Flutter is Google's UI toolkit: build, test, and deploy natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from one codebase. Recent talks: Teaching an LLM to be an interior designer (August 19, 2026), UI on the Fly (May 13, 2026)
React is an open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces (UIs). Recent talks: With AI, Make Videos your Audience Can Talk To (August 19, 2026), Why I gave up on agent voting: hard escalation in a 3-reviewer LLM pipeline (June 3, 2026)
TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript. Recent talks: What if loops are the problem? (July 29, 2026), UI on the Fly (May 13, 2026)
Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that connects application components together, simplifying communication and reducing coupling. Recent talks: Create Your Own DeepSeek Moment (August 19, 2026)
ARKit is Apple's augmented reality framework: it integrates device motion tracking and scene understanding to build immersive AR experiences on iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. Recent talks: Teaching an LLM to be an interior designer (August 19, 2026)
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is the premier serverless, event-driven compute service: Run code in response to triggers without provisioning or managing any infrastructure. Recent talks: Create Your Own DeepSeek Moment (August 19, 2026)
Manifest V3 is the latest iteration of the Chrome extension platform, prioritizing security, privacy, and performance through service workers and declarative APIs. Recent talks: Watch a 4B browser model turn your boring tasks into a SKILL.md (June 3, 2026)
Access Anthropic's state-of-the-art Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) via the RESTful Messages API, integrating advanced AI capabilities directly into your applications. Recent talks: Why I gave up on agent voting: hard escalation in a 3-reviewer LLM pipeline (June 3, 2026)
"The vibe is spot on with minimal admin and a focus on digging in and hacking and not taking it too seriously. The sponsors were also a great match for the theme. The handbook was useful and thorough."
"Encouraging networking is great, allowing people to share what they work on is a good ice breaker"
"I thought it was perfect. Some of the submissions were very impressive and useful and fun."
"I loved the lecture — it was full of valuable insights and practical coding examples. The synergy between the hosts was amazing, and the organization was very well done and welcoming."
"I thought the format and keeping people to strict limits was great and kept presentations going."
"All the demos! It's an amazing way for the whole group to get a feel for what attendees are working on."
"She showed how would people use the jev, and loved her design"
"It would be great if they could fix their TV hookup to avoid laptop connection delays during demos."
"I love that NYC have place like this and would look foward to attend next meeting!"
"first pich, and he made it so easy to understand about the demo day. also love his idea, and I would agree that we can use Jev to find sentiments on the market"
Last updated: October 2026
