🔥 Save the date: Wednesday, October 17th from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

Join us for an exciting evening of hands-on demos, talks, and networking at our October meetup! Connect with fellow technical AI innovators and share your work in a 5-minute talk/demo, or simply engage in discussions with like-minded builders.

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who 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 and want to connect with fellow builders, this group is the perfect fit for you.

Who is this for?

We are not just “AI tinkerers”; our gatherings are meant for those who are actively tinkering on LLMs and generative AI. If you’re looking to network without a technical focus or seeking to market your services, this event may not be suitable for you.

Event Schedule:

• 6:00 PM - Doors open
• 7:00 PM - Talks/Demos begin
• 8:00 PM - Networking
• 9:00 PM - Doors close

👑 Sponsors

This event is generously sponsored by

Betaworks - Betaworks has been a foundational part of the NYC tech ecosystem for the last 15 years – first, as a startup studio building brands you know and love like Giphy, Tweetdeck, Bit.ly, and Dots, and more recently as a pre-seed and seed-stage investor in companies like HuggingFace and Stability AI, among many others.

Ascend VC - Ascend is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in both AI infrastructure and what we call SaaS 3.0: AI-native vertical software applications disrupting the b2b software status quo.

Weights and Biases Weave - 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.

Baseten - At Baseten we provide all the infrastructure you need to deploy and serve ML models performantly, scalably, and cost-efficiently. Get started in minutes, and avoid getting tangled in complex deployment processes. You can deploy best-in-class open-source models and take advantage of optimized serving for your own models.

More Information

If you are new to the group, please be sure to read the AI Tinkerers FAQ and check out our Discord channel.