Creative AI Curated Dinner with Contra and AI Circle
Generative models are no longer just capable. They're developing taste.
Across image, video, audio, and interactive media, models are beginning to diverge in ways that go beyond benchmark scores: in taste, aesthetics, reasoning patterns, and creative behavior. What was once a single frontier is fracturing into something more interesting: a landscape of distinct creative intelligences, each with its own signature.
That raises harder questions. How do you give a model taste? How do you find signal in model divergence? How do you evaluate creativity when there's no longer a single right answer? What happens when the systems generating it no longer behave the same way?
Join us during CVPR 2026 for an intimate dinner hosted by Contra Labs and AI Circle, bringing together founders, researchers, artists, engineers, and operators working at the edge of creative AI.
The evening will move across model divergence and emergent creative behavior, evals for multimodal and generative systems, generative video and image models, AI-native media companies, creative tooling and workflows, synthetic environments and world models, robotics and embodied simulation, and interactive storytelling and gaming.
Attendance is curated to keep the conversation high-signal. Space is limited.
About the hosts:
Contra Labs harnesses the power of their 1.5M+ creative network to train SOTA models. Learn more about Contra Labs.
AI Circle curates a community of practitioners developing and deploying AI systems across research, startups, and enterprise. Learn more about AI Circle.