Ivan Porollo
@iporollo
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Since
@partiful
doesn't have an official API, the
@cerebral_valley
team built an unofficial wrapper for it
Feel free to roast and/or contribute
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Had a wonderful chat about building the
@cerebral_valley
AI community with
@aparnadhinak
from
@arizeai
Check it out 👇
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ChatGPT 🤝 WolframAlpha
Give
#ChatGPT
a Wolfram|Alpha neural implant (as
@stephen_wolfram
put it) with
@LangChainAI
👏👏
@nickscamara_
for adding this
Collab Notebook to try it out:
Screenshot Below
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Gonna be in NYC this weekend and next week with the
@cerebral_valley
crew
thinking of organizing an ai founder / builder coworking sesh, lmk if interested
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If you're in SF, we're hosting co-working for AI founders & builders this week and next
@cerebral_valley
partnered with VC offices in the city to host, check it out 👇
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🚨 GPT-4 Hackathon on Sat, Mar 25 at SHACK15.
120 hackers.
$20,000+ in cash to win.
24 hours.
Hosted by
@cerebral_valley
&
@internetactvsm
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Had a blast hosting the AI for Good hackathon last weekend alongside the
@cerebral_valley
team and
@AviSchiffmann
from
@internetactvsm
Big thank you to our sponsors, judges, volunteers, and hackers for a wonderful experience
Last weekend, we partnered with
@internetactvsm
to host the AI for Good Hackathon
24 hours, 120 hackers, $40K in prizes
Here's a recap of the winners:
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Last week, and teams came together to build MenuBites, a food delivery image enhancer. We ended up winning the OpenAI prompt slot!
Huge shoutout to
@swyx
and
@FanaHOVA
for throwing such an awesome hackathon
Our Best OpenAI prompt was won by
@AlexReibman
,
@iporollo
,
@gloriafelicia_
, and
@amber_yanwang
with MenuBites. It lets any restaurant use AI to generate better images for all their menu without hiring an expensive photographer! 📷
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We just got 64 H100s allocated by
@nebiusofficial
for the Mistral AI hackathon in Paris
I thinks that’s the most compute a hackathon has ever had
GPUs go brrr
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Safe to say one of the most beautiful venues in SF to throw a hackathon
Ever seen a more beautiful hackathon venue?
📍 SHACK15
🗓️ March 25-26
🎟️
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Over the weekend,
@the_carlosdp
and I teamed up to build GPTBox Games, a GPT powered trivia game. We ended up winning 3rd place!
Huge shoutout to
@nonmayorpete
@rachel_l_woods
@TarlonKhoubyari
and sponsors for throwing such an amazing hackathon
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Out here accelerating
Funny to think that a year ago today, this tweet inspired the start of
@cerebral_valley
. So proud of what
@iporollo
and team have accomplished during this time!
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interested in some spontaneous travel this fall?
@KevinUnkrich
and I are organizing a hacker house for founders / builders - located in the center of Lisbon for the whole month of November
who’s down / who should roll through? A few spots left so dm/comment if interested!
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Can't wait to host this one
🚀 We're excited to announce the first-ever
@MistralAI
Hackathon in San Francisco on March 23rd-24th at
@SHACK15sf
!
Two days of hacking, and a keynote from Mistral founders
@arthurmensch
&
@GuillaumeLample
A huge shoutout to our sponsors:
@Microsoft
,
@GroqInc
,
@huggingface
,…
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Had a great chat with
@BradStone
about the AI boom happening in SF and the
@cerebral_valley
community
Checkout the full article:
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We turned
@SHACK15sf
into a night club
CV 20/20 Vision - OFFICIAL RECAP 🥽
Apple Vision Pro release party was wild
Shoutout to
@SHACK15sf
for hosting us ⚡️
Content:
@byjmitch
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Just launched a newsletter - What's New In AI
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We out in Paris come thru
🚀 We're excited to announce our sponsors for this weekend's Mistral hackathon in Paris with
@MistralAILabs
,
@balderton
and
@joinstationf
A huge shoutout to:
@aws
,
@huggingface
,
@weights_biases
,
@snowflake
,
@nebiusofficial
,
@neondatabase
and
@phospho_app
👏
Sign up below! 👇
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Had a lot of fun hosting this one
Last weekend, we hosted
@MistralAI
's first-ever hackathon at
@SHACK15sf
24 hours, 400+ hackers, $10K+ in prizes
Relive the weekend in our Mistral SF Aftermovie 👇
(Cred:
@byjmitch
)
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eyooo hosting another one
GPT Plugins Hackathon at
@SHACK15sf
this weekend
24 hours (Apr. 15th-16th)
Teams get
@OpenAI
plugin access.
Limited space, signup here 👇
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The drone video from the first hackathon 😍
AIxClimate 🤖🌳 hackathon this weekend with
@OpenAI
@streamclimate
@lowercarbon
at the beautiful
@SHACK15sf
venue
Sign up here 👉
P.S. Here's a video from the last one with
@internetactvsm
@AviSchiffmann
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Had a wonderful time chatting with
@shiringhaffary
about the AI transformation we are living in.
Check it out 👇
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This man ships
incorporated, funded, and looking for people who want to spend their summer building the first true personal computer.
primarily looking for SF based obsessed and unbalanced founding engineers, DM.
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If you're in SF, come through the GPT-4 Launch Party
@cerebral_valley
is co-hosting with
@BenHolfeld
at the SF AI Studio
RSVP 👇
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going international with it again
🚀 We're excited to announce our first-ever hackathon in Paris, in collaboration with
@MistralAI
and
@balderton
!
Two days of hacking at
@joinstationf
, $10k in prizes and credits, and hands-on mentorship from the Mistral team.
Applications are now live, with more info coming...…
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The via ferrata, I did this exact one in Switzerland in September 2022
The biggest adrenaline rush I’ve ever felt
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LFG
Been sitting on this one for a while but now that it's official... I'm joining
@cerebral_valley
as founding engineer, effective immediately!! 🎊🗣️
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With less than a week's notice, we're putting together the best hackathon SF has seen since pre-COVID times
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somehow ended up at Romanian embassy in Paris
got inspired
might pull a side quest to Bucharest
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Made a quick appearance in the NFX documentary
As part of our own recent AI hackathon the NFX team spent 48 hours going behind the scenes, house to house, talking with top AI founders about their work —what’s hard, what’s exciting... and what will never be the same again.
This is what we captured.
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Had a great chat with
@gregosuri
about Akash Network at our technical speaker series
Big thank you to
@tryfondo
for hosting
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In NYC for all of April working on
@monosidev
out of the
@launchhouse
Hack House ... lots of updates coming stay tuned 🚀
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Excited to share something
@KevinUnkrich
and I have been working on - an open source data observability toolset. We're on a mission to help data-driven teams remove data-distrust and increase reliability. Check it out and give it a ⭐ -
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Coffee shop overrun by hackers building LangChain apps
Only in Cerebral Valley
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Founding engineer interview final question
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new list just dropped, if you're an AI company and hiring submit a job
just aggregated a bunch of AI startups that are hiring engineers
if you're looking to join the AI wave check it out here:
updating it every day, if you're hiring submit a job
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Wonderful vibes at the GPT4 Launch Happy Hour
Big thank you to
@BenHolfeld
from SF AI Studio for letting
@cerebral_valley
co-host!
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A big thank you to
@rohancalum
for representing
@OpenAI
as the AI for Good hackathon sponsor and judge
From ending scam call losses to multiplying the efficiency of therapists, feeling so inspired by the projects built this weekend ⚡️
Much more to come from the teams & organizers!
@AviSchiffmann
@iporollo
@AqeelMeetsWorld
@TarlonKhoubyari
@internetactvsm
@cerebral_valley
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Lots of news from the AI world this week - the
@BanklessHQ
&
@ESYudkowsky
podcast,
@huggingface
+
@awscloud
partnerships, and more...
Shoutout to
@itsandrewgao
,
@LumaLabsAI
,
@Spotify
, and others for creating amazing things to write about
Check it out👇
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Throwing a party for the latest batch
good luck on demo day, come celebrate after
🚀 Congrats & best of luck to all the W24 founders at Demo Day this week!
Looking forward to celebrating with 150+ YC founders at the historic Transamerica Pyramid this Friday in SF 🌉
@tryfondo
(W18) is teaming up with our friends at
@cerebral_valley
(
@iporollo
S20),…
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The GC office is a vibe
For one day only, General Catalyst invited 20 of San Francisco’s top AI entrepreneurs to showcase what’s possible with AI.
Live product and raw code only. No pitches. No bullshit.
Here’s what we saw at the
@cerebral_valley
co-working demo session at
@generalcatalyst
(🧵):
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Hugeeee
Excited to share that we're hosting the first ever Llama 3 Hackathon with
@cerebral_valley
+
@SHACK15sf
in San Francisco. Prizes include a total of $10K+ in cash + partner credits to kickstart projects.
Register to join us May 11-12:
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Tuba player at the
@cerebral_valley
hackathons?
If you want to hire a tuba player for your next hackathon or demo day, please contact Zach. He was perfect. Let's make him the official tuba player of San Francisco tech events.
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Shoutout to
@amber_yanwang
and
@gloriafelicia_
for co-hosting an amazing event
And a big thank you to the sponsors
@pebble_bed
@tammiesiew
@gerta_ma
for providing a beautiful space
Thank you everyone for coming out to our private ‘Women In AI’ lunch. ✨
Amazing discussions.
Meaningful connections.
#AI
#womenintech
#SF
#founders
#vc
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106 events in August we’re so back
New record: In August 2023, the SF Bay Area hosted 106 in-person AI events.
-I excluded the 13 remote events, as well as numerous private gatherings, hacker houses, etc.
-Several AI companies secured funding, with many achieving unicorn status.
-We've entered the tech…
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👀
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Dropped some of that new new OSS for Cerebral Valley
You can judge my code but only if you submit a PR to make it better
We dropped a new events page.
Check it out 👉
The og Google sheet will always stay up to date ()
P.S. Events page is open source if you want to contribute & help support
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Friends
@cerebral_valley
are throwing an e/acc-themed holiday party
@SHACK15sf
in a few hours.
Accelerate your way there if you're around.
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Had a wonderful time chatting with
@shiringhaffary
about the AI transformation we are living in.
Check it out 👇
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The projects on this one were crazy
Big thank you to
@ShieldCapVC
and
@SHACK15sf
for co-hosting
300+ veterans, military contractors, and engineers just spent 48 hours hacking AI defense tech
Someone built a laser cannon and the CIA showed up.
Here’s what we saw at the
@cerebral_valley
National Security Hackathon by
@CIA
x
@ShieldCapVC
x
@anduriltechx
x
@foundersfund
(🧵):
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😤
🚀 We're excited to announce our Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon in San Francisco on May 4th-5th at
@SHACK15sf
!
In collaboration with
@ShieldCapVC
,
@anduriltech
,
@foundersfund
,
@IqtLabs
,
@VannevarLabs
,
@StanfordGKC
and Stanford's Defense Tech Club.
Two days of…
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The AI community in Paris is LIT
This past weekend, we hosted the largest-ever AI hackathon in Paris with
@MistralAI
and
@balderton
🇫🇷
Attendees got mentorship from the Mistral team, plus a keynote from Mistral CEO
@arthurmensch
👀
All at the iconic
@joinstationf
(s/o
@Xavier75
&
@roxannevarza
)
More below👇
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Shotgunning
@redbull
, now this is commitment
Excited to see the projects at the
@cerebral_valley
x
@internetactvsm
AI for Good hackathon
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More awesome news from the AI world this week - hackathons, new models, fun projects, etc.
Shoutout to
@davefontenot
@magicaltome
@sideguide_dev
@ArvindSanjeev
for organizing and building cool stuff to write about
Check out what's new 👇
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Just created a list of generative AI hackathons / events happening in the space
if anyone has events to add shoot me a DM
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When you don’t qualify for the Thiel Fellowship
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Doing an NYC
@cerebral_valley
co-working for ai builders and founders tomorrow with
@HOFCapital
Signup here 👇
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Check out the full article
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New year, more AI news - market bubbles, BingGPT, hackathons, and more ...
Shoutout to
@SashaKaletsky
@Contrary_Res
@aaronpholmes
@patterns_app
@scale_AI
@aleyda
@imjaredz
@httpie
for writing about & building cool stuff to surface
Check it out👇
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collabing with in NYC to host an AI builders co-working
For AI founders & builders in NYC, sign up here 👇
Tagging some of the NYC folks I know
@the_carlosdp
@JulienTech
@DannyHabibs
@maddiehawkinson
@imjaredz
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Learning more about
@krea_ai
and
@asciidiego
’s journey was such an inspirational read
Amazing product, amazing team
We're live with an unmissable CV Deep Dive, featuring
@asciidiego
and
@krea_ai
KREA IS BUILDING THE NEXT FRONTIER OF HUMAN CREATIVITY
Diego covers AI x humanity, how KREA builds, and what makes his team unique... plus, his view on mixing passion and pain to find purpose.
Link…
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@Suhail
Agreed and this can already be seen with things like
@teamcodestream
where they're building on top of the IDE and sponsoring extensions like GitLens
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Get some early access goods from Poe this weekend
Excited to announce our Poe Hackathon, taking place THIS Saturday in collaboration with
@poe_platform
!
Quora CEO
@adamdangelo
will be giving the keynote, and attendees will get exclusive early access to Poe's new monetization system.
Date: Saturday, April 6th (9am-6pm)…
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The vectorDB races are back
The results are in: our VLite2 is the FASTEST vector database you can use to start your project. A thread of details and benchmarks ‼️🧵
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When building a company, both short term and long term thinking is necessary
With co-founders you can split the responsibility
But it's very impressive when an individual can balance both well
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Had to do it after the devday drops
🚨 Announcing the DevDay x MultiOn API Hackathon 🚨
24 hours
November 18th - 19th in SF
$$$ Cash prizes & credits
Hosted along side
@MultiON_AI
& friends from
@OpenAI
coming by to do workshops & judge
Huge thank you to our sponsors
@omneky
@SamsungNext
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