Knight Cap: Evening Mixer at NeurIPS

​Make your next move at Knight Cap, a fun, chess inspired evening mixer during NeurIPS 2025.

​Join Akash Network, Gensyn, and Pluralis Research as we mix the timeless game of chess with networking, good music and even better vibes. Come and unwind, play, and meet your fellow community in a in a relaxed, brainy(ish) setting.

​⚡️ The San Diego Chess Club is bringing the heat to Knight Cap with a Speed Chess Tournament for those interested! Sign up early, spectate, or just enjoy the action. Winners will be receiving a special “piece” of merch.

​📅 Thursday, 4 December
📍 6 mins from the Conference. See address once registered
⏰ 5pm - 8pm
🍻 Drinks and Food
♟️ Chess is totally optional, we'll have other games too!

​Get to know the hosts

​Akash: is the world's first peer-to-peer marketplace for compute. Tap into the highest density GPUs on demand and scale your startup at a fraction of the cost of centralized cloud companies.

​Gensyn: a protocol for machine learning computation. Gensyn is building the network for machine intelligence - execution, communication, verification, and coordination software for machine learning operations to be performed, programmatically and permissionlessly, on every capable device in the world.

​Pluralis Research: is pioneering Protocol Learning—a fully decentralised way to train and deploy AI models that opens this layer to individuals rather than well-resourced corporates. By pooling compute from many participants, incentivising their efforts, and preventing any single party from controlling a model’s full weights, we’re creating a genuinely open, collaborative path to frontier-scale AI.

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