Surreal
Making the surreal, real.
Join us in Palo Alto at Pamela Walsh's Art Gallery for a gathering of Stanford-affiliated researchers and AI startups / founders who are on the precipice of building surreal products.
This is a casual social gathering designed to foster meaningful connections. Come prepared to share one thing you believe, that might sound surreal.
In addition to Stanford researchers, attendees work at these companies: Stripe, Turing, Character AI, Harmonic, Amazon, Mistral, Waymo, Groq, Deepmind, Meta, Anthropic, X.Ai, Microsoft, NavigateAI, and more.
Surreal Manifesto:
Surreal products are created when a research breakthrough rapidly meets a consumer behavior shift.
The speed of this latent unlock creates a reality distortion field, a narrative violation.
It's not just improbable, it seems impossible.
The premise is first questioned, then fought, and then shaken.
But then a small group of people finds your work - and it's what they've been looking for their whole life.
They fought and clawed for an answer despite the experts' heeding that it wasn't possible.
And then they met you. Your research redefines what's possible.
And when it meets open minds bursting with latent need, it takes on a life of its own, metamorphosing in increasingly faster loops.
You make the surreal, real.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke
CoHosts: Chenglei Si, Stanford PhD Candidate https://noviscl.github.io/ and HSBC https://www.business.us.hsbc.com/en/campaigns/innovation-banking/early-stage