Multimodal AI Agents: New Trends in 2026
📌 Event Overview
Multimodal AI models are improving at a breathtaking pace — but closing the technology gap is only half the story. The harder challenge is bringing it to the real world: how do you integrate AI into existing production workflows? How do you design for users to articulate what they want in a way that models can understand? And when generation costs drop to near zero, where does the value — and the revenue — actually come from?
Join us at Stanford for a high-signal evening with founders who are living these answers — building multimodal AI products that are moving from impressive demos to indispensable tools. Honest. Tactical. No hype.
In this practical session, we will cover:
The Technology Gaps in Multimodal AI: How far are we from truly production-ready multimodal AI? We'll dig into the real limitations — temporal consistency, character controllability, audio-visual synchronization, and generation speed — and what it will take to close the gap between what's impressive in a demo and what holds up in the real world.
Spatial AI for Real-World Products: How AI with visual intelligence—the ability to understand visual and spatial inputs—is being applied in real-world domains, and what it takes to build products users actually adopt.
AI for Creative Industries: How AI is transforming screenwriting and filmmaking workflows from idea to cinematic execution, and the product decisions behind building for creative professionals.
The Founder's Playbook: Battle-tested strategies for taking AI products from early research to market, including positioning, go-to-market, and scaling in industries just beginning to embrace AI.
Built for Stanford and Bay Area founders working at the intersection of AI and product development, this is real insight from founders who've navigated the journey from research to real-world impact.
🌟 Featured Speakers
Dr. Xiao Zhang – Founder & CEO, Collov Labs | Serving 6M+ users across 200+ countries, backed by top-tier global investors, and powered by a research team from Stanford, Berkeley, and Yale.| Stanford PhD in AI for Science | Forbes 30 Under 30
Russell Palmer – Co-Founder & CEO, CyberFilm AI, creator of Saga, the AI screenwriting and filmmaking platform. With 15+ years at Microsoft, Samsung, and JPMorgan Chase's AI Lab. He co-founded CyberFilm with his brother Andrew (2021).
Moderated by Jing Conan Wang, Founder at DeepVista AI & FounderCoHo (Ex-Google DeepMind).
Partners
Wan is an AI-powered creative platform and video generation tool, that turns prompts and ideas into animated short-form videos in seconds. It aims to lower the barrier to creative work using artificial intelligence, offering features like text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, and image editing.
Event Details
Date: February 27, 2026 (Friday)
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
Location: Stanford University, CA
Event Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: Networking and Dinner
6:30 PM - 7:20 PM: Panel and Q&A
7:20 PM onwards: Socializing and Continued Conversations
RSVP: Founder spots are limited; registration is required to join this in-person session.
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