​A slow month is a rare opportunity in the AI world — let's be grateful 🙏 and use this time to build and learn... OK 😅, strike that. Turned out to be another very busy month with tons of updates.

​Let's focus our next event on A2A demos and foundational research papers.

​​​Agenda

• ​​​6:30 PM Dinner and networking, tonight Mexican food 🌮 🥑 🍺

• ​​​7:00 PM Socratic Conversations:

  • ​(10m) Greycroft intro by Ian Sigalow, introductions around the room (10s per person), and announcements.

  • ​(30m) Latest AI updates from Apr 23 to May 21 https://site.flowai.xyz/ai-socratic-may-2025

  • ​(45m) Research papers reading:

    • ​5m https://aman.ai/primers/ai/top-30-papers - Fed

    • ​15m pre-training data - Kirill Igumenshchev

    • ​15m tokenizer - James Augeri

  • ​(30m) A2A demo - Dustin Zubke, with the support of Andrew Hamilton and Yuval Ziegler for the MCP side.

• ​​​9:00 PM Networking

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​​​The AI NYC 🗽🍎 is a community of top-tier applied AI researchers, engineers, and founders meeting regularly to cut through the noise of the AI news cycle, bridging the signals across all verticals.

​​​Some of our past discussions include:

• ​MCP Workshop: we focused the entire event on learning how MCP works and showing demos.

• ​​​DeepSeek Study Group, we read the R1 and V3 papers and went into the rabbit hole of reasoners and show how to install DeepSeek.

• ​​​SOTA RAG: integrating search and retrieval mechanisms like HyDE with LLMs for enhanced knowledge retrieval in real-time applications.

​​​​​​Sponsors

​​Greycroft is sponsoring space and food​​

​Flow AI, Trebuchet, and Amol are moderating the event.

​CryptoCoutur is the vibe curator.

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​​​👉 Important

​The AI NYC community is exclusive to applied AI researchers, engineers, and experts focusing on AI/ML. We review every application, so make sure you go into the details of what you're working on and what value you bring to the conversations.