AI Dinner DC ๐๏ธ โย OpenAI / OpenClaw ๐ฆ + Moltbook
โThis is our first AI Dinner in DC. We're a community who runs monthly AI event in NYC, Milan, and Madrid with a community of top-tier AI engineers, researchers and founders pushing the AI frontier.
โA Symposium with the brightest minds in the Washington DC AI scene. We run Socratic Dialogues and eat some delicious food ๐ฅ ๐ฒ.
โThis Month's Topics
โOpenAI / OpenClaw & Moltbook โ OpenClaw ๐ฆ and its latest purchase from OpenAI
โIf You Don't Own Your Inference, Your Agent Isn't Yours โ sovereignty, open-source, and the case for air-gapped AI.
โOpus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex vs Kimi K2.5 โ The coding agents war continue.
โSeedDance 2.0 โ Hollywood chagpt moment.
โWorld Models โ Google Genie, World Labs, D4RT, and reality simulators.
โFunding: $7 Trillion in AI Infrastructure โ Alphabet $185B, Amazon $200B. Is this a boom or a bubble?
โ50 States vs 1 Executive Order โ Trump's EO targets state AI laws. DC is ground zero for the regulatory showdown.
โAGI & Consciousness โ Hinton says LLMs understand, Goertzel says 2 years until AGI. Do you agree?
โ1.2M Jobs Cut in 2025 โ SaaS apocalypse is coming, what's the moat?
โDiscussions are structured around this blog post: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-february-2026.
โAgenda
โโโ6:30 PM Dinner starts
โโ7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues
โ8:00 PM Presentations and Demos
โโโโโโ9:30 PM Networking at a bar nearby
โSocratic Dialogues
โโโโWe start with a quick round of intro around the room. We then discuss the latest in AI from structuring the conversation with these blog posts
โโโโEveryone is encouraged to contribute. Ivo and Fed moderate the conversations.
โPresentations And Demos ๐
โIn this session, youโll have the chance to share something youโve learned that brings real value to the roomโwhether itโs a new model, a research paper, an AI coding project, or even an ethical debate.
โAdd your presentation or demo here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7SxdTbdZYX3fsnA1PND3UJ3p7o7VcWBN2gP79cpa5I
โSponsors
โ๐ Thanks to Charm and Christian Rocha for the generous sponsor to keep us running these events ๐๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ
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