5 months planning for this event in SF 🌉 I turned a car park into AI Dev, the flagship event for DeepLearning.AI. It was a wild challenge! The event hosted 3k developers and 50+ industry partners, buzzing with excitement. Till next time! ✌️ #AIDev

Finally this event has come to life! I spent 6 weeks in the Bay Area working with the best team and of course, enjoyed the sunshine 🌻 See you soon in New York 🗽

Loving my @Uniswap trading card 🥰 #eventgirlies

Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers. Tickets had (unfortunately) sold out shortly after we announced their availability, but I came away energized by the day of coding and technical discussions with fellow AI Builders! Let me share here my observations from the event. I'd decided to start AI Dev because while there're great academic AI conferences that disseminate research work (such as NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR) and also great meetings held by individual companies, often focused on each company's product offerings, there were few vendor-neutral conferences for AI developers. With the wide range of AI tools now available, there is a rich set of opportunities for developers to build new things (and to share ideas on how to build things!), but also a need for a neutral forum that helps developers do so. Based on an informal poll, about half the attendees had traveled to San Francisco from outside the Bay Area for this meeting, including many who had come from overseas. I was thrilled by the enthusiasm to be part of this AI Builder community. To everyone who came, thank you! Other aspects of the event that struck me: - First, agentic AI continues to be a strong theme. The topic attendees most wanted to hear about (based on free text responses to our in-person survey at the start of the event) was agents! - Google's Paige Bailey talked about embedding AI in everything and using a wide range of models to do so. I also particularly enjoyed her demos of Astra and Deep Research agents. - Meta's Amit Sangani talked compellingly as usual about open models. Specifically, he described developers fine-tuning smaller models on specific data, resulting in superior performance than with large general purpose models. While there're still many companies using fine-tuning that should really just be prompting, I'm also seeing continued growth of fine-tuning in applications that are reaching scale and that are becoming valuable. - Many speakers also spoke about the importance of being pragmatic about what problems we are solving, as opposed to buying into the AGI hype. For example, Nebius' Roman Chernin put it simply: Focusing on solving real problems is important! - Lastly, I was excited to hear continued enthusiasm for the Voice Stack. Justin Uberti gave a talk about OpenAI’s realtime audio API to a packed room, with many people pulling out laptops to try things out themselves in code! DeepLearning.AI has a strong “Learner First” mentality; our foremost goal is always to help learners. I was thrilled that a few attendees told me they enjoyed how technical the sessions were, and said they learned many things that they're sure they will use. (In fact, I, too, came away with a few ideas from the sessions!) I was also struck that, both during the talks and at the technical demo booths, the rooms were packed with attendees who were highly engaged throughout the whole day. I'm glad that we were able to have a meeting filled with technical and engineering discussions. I'm delighted that AI Dev 25 went off so well, and am grateful to all the attendees, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, partners, and team members that made the event possible. I regretted only that the physical size of the event space prevented us from admitting more attendees this time. There is something magical about bringing people together physically to share ideas, make friends, and to learn from and help each other. I hope we'll be able to bring even more people together in the future. [Original text: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is… ]

A lifetime opportunity to be part of the organising team for the first AI Dev event with @AndrewYNg and @DeepLearningAI. A day of learning on AI advancements and we had lots of 🥧 for Pi Day!

It’s starting - just kicked off AI Dev 25, the AI developer conference, in San Francisco! Happy Pi day!

Event Girlies (and guys) at ETH Denver, this one’s for you! ✨ if you organize events in web3, come connect with others who get it. ☕️ join us for coffee, brunch & exclusive (very cool) merch, we’re so excited to meet you and show you what we’re working on! casual vibes—stop by, co-work, and meet your event besties 🥰 📍 Catbird Hotel, Denver 🔗 Register below!

I first started working with @AndrewYNg and @DeepLearningAI team during covid managing their Pie & AI ambassador program. Now, I finally get to bring the show in person, meet the OGs of AI, and connect with the community. See you in San Fran for Pi Day 🥧

Goodbye 2024, a crazy year of travelling for both crypto and personal adventures 🏂🏖️🌋 Wishing everyone all the best, happy new year 🫶

Had a fantastic Sunday evening with Crypto Secret Santas🧑‍🎄🎄 Totally obsessed with these avocado goodies! My Santa @manhuichi is a definite 10/10 🥑✨ Blown away by what @robdotrego put together as a gift (can’t spill the beans yet). Counting down the minutes for the unboxing video! 😂🎁💕 Thanks for organising, @catmcgee!

What a lovely evening with crypto Secret Santa🧑‍🎄 @catmcgee gathered crypto folks to exchange gifts and good vibes before Christmas✨ It's always great to learn something personal about people you knew only from conferences, work, or even only from CT 💗 Thanks @catmcgee, @eomjipark, @Simonpuebla_, @abbaskhan, @spaceagente, @FelixHowes, @manhuichi, @robdotrego, and @judicodes for amazing emotions 🎄

New toy alert 🚨 I’ll be testing the @Starlink Mini on my next travels - so I supposedly have no excuse for losing internet connection now 😛

It’s been a fun week of events around DevCon 🇹🇭🥭🍚 Started the week with the inaugural NoirCon, swagged it out at the DevCon Noir booth, hosted the dreamy Frens of Aztec Cocktail Party, and wrapped it up in Pattaya with our builders at the hacker house. TLDL: Noir gud 💜

Enjoying the great hospitality by @0xHolonym at DevCon with delicious food and stunning views of Bangkok 🇹🇭

Assets can now be pretty appreciated 🥹 ( Thanks to my old team @ETHGlobal for the sweet gift I finally received in person at DevCon! ) 🥰

Boa noite… The @aztecnetwork Dinner after zkSummit ✨ Where privacy, ZK, and good vibes (and Swiftie blings) come together 💜