Researcher Poker Night

​SF's top researchers in one room.

​We'll bring the dealers, food, and drinks. You bring yourselves, and $50 for the buy in :)

​​Cash game, $0.25/$0.50 blinds.

​Co-hosted by three teams building at the frontier of applied AI -- spanning end-to-end voice models, browser-native context systems, and independent research at the intersection of cognition and systems.

​Smallest.ai - Research-driven voice models for real-time AI agents, built end-to-end with a focus on multilingual ASR, low-latency inference, and system-level optimization.

​Thirdlayer: Dex is an AI coworker in Chrome that organizes, acts, and automates your work with full company context. We work on memory, context, and predictive agent systems. Backed by YC and MIT, our team brings together ex-quant researchers, designers, and Harvard math dropouts.

​Tilde Research is a moonshot AI research lab focused on mechanistic interpretability, novel model architectures, and pretraining science. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic, we’re building a deeper scientific understanding of AI to enable the next generation of capabilities.

​Rho (https://www.rho.co/): Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups. With banking set up in minutes, 2% cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused-- with support that goes to the ends of the earth to help you win.