AI Dinner 15.0 — Traversing the Gradient Backwards
A Symposium with the brightest minds in the NYC AI scene, including engineers and researchers from the hyperscalers — applied AI engineers, ML researchers, and founders pushing AI forward.
We run it with Socratic dialogues with engineering topics like AI research papers, LLMs, MCP, RAG, and sometimes we dive into AGI alignment, philosophy, geo-politics, and more.
To keep discussions meaningful and low-noise, every application is carefully reviewed.
Please have your QR code ready to check-in we'll have some solid security at the entrance!
Agenda 📖
6:30 PM Dinner starts 🇲🇽 🌯 🥣
7:00 PM Socratic AI — we'll discuss the topic from this blog post: Socratic AI Nov
8:00 PM Presentation & demos
Jeff Berger — Extropic vs Willow: Thermodynamic vs Quantum computing
Surya Ganesh — How we cut inference costs from 46k to 7.5k fine-tuning Qwen-image-edit
Ivo Galic — LLM Olympics, running Qwen/Gemini/Codex/Claude Code on a super comlex task for a month
9:30 PM Continue networking at a bar nearby
Location 📍
We'll be in a private building in Downtown Manhattan, near Chamber St. — Follow the instruction in the location (after you're approved to the event) to get into the building.
Sponsors 🏆
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We ordered burrito bowls and veggies to cover all food preferences and we have drinks
Team 👏
Amol, moderator (OpenAI)
Anissa, vibe curator (CryptoCouture)
AI NYC 🗽🍎
We're a community of top-tier applied AI researchers, engineers, and founders working on AI. We meet once a month to discuss the latest in AI, including new models, new papers, framework, and more. 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.