AI Dinner DC 🏛️ — OpenAI / OpenClaw 🦞 + Moltbook

​This 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.

​A Symposium with the brightest minds in the Washington DC AI scene. We run Socratic Dialogues and eat some delicious food 🥗 🍲.

​This Month's Topics

• ​OpenAI / OpenClaw & Moltbook — OpenClaw 🦞 and its latest purchase from OpenAI

• ​If You Don't Own Your Inference, Your Agent Isn't Yours — sovereignty, open-source, and the case for air-gapped AI.

• ​Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex vs Kimi K2.5 — The coding agents war continue.

• ​SeedDance 2.0 — Hollywood chagpt moment.

• ​World Models — Google Genie, World Labs, D4RT, and reality simulators.

• ​Funding: $7 Trillion in AI Infrastructure — Alphabet $185B, Amazon $200B. Is this a boom or a bubble?

• ​50 States vs 1 Executive Order — Trump's EO targets state AI laws. DC is ground zero for the regulatory showdown.

• ​AGI & Consciousness — Hinton says LLMs understand, Goertzel says 2 years until AGI. Do you agree?

• ​1.2M Jobs Cut in 2025 — SaaS apocalypse is coming, what's the moat?

​Discussions are structured around this blog post: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-february-2026.

​Agenda

• ​​​6:30 PM Dinner starts

• ​​7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues

• ​8:00 PM Presentations and Demos

• ​​​​​​9:30 PM Networking at a bar nearby

​Socratic Dialogues

​​​​We 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

​​​​Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Ivo and Fed moderate the conversations.

​Presentations And Demos 🚀

​In this session, you’ll have the chance to share something you’ve learned that brings real value to the room—whether it’s a new model, a research paper, an AI coding project, or even an ethical debate.

​Add your presentation or demo here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7SxdTbdZYX3fsnA1PND3UJ3p7o7VcWBN2gP79cpa5I

​Sponsors

​🏅 Thanks to Charm and Christian Rocha for the generous sponsor to keep us running these events 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

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