​This event brings together highly technical experts: AI engineers, LLM researchers, and AI founders.

​We have Socratic-style discussions on the latest open source AI models, new research papers, coding agents & harnesses, AI agents, and even physical AI, funding, geopolitics, macroeconomics, and philosophy of a post-AGI world.

​Topics 🔥
aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-may-2026

​To keep it high signal and low noise participation is highly selective. The event will be in English.

​Address📍
推浪咖啡 WAVEOFF coffee
徐汇区建国西路550号101室

​​Agenda

• ​6:00 PM Music, cool vibes, and networking

• ​6:30 PM Event Starts:

  • ​Opening remarks

  • ​Intros — everyone introduces themselves 5 seconds

  • ​⭐️ Socratic Dialogues — we discuss the latest in AI together with the experts in the room

• ​8:00 PM Presentations and Demos — add your 5 minutes presentation here

• ​9:00 PM MuShanghai: Cyborg Tech Party at INS — if you plan to join rsvp and read the rules here.

​​Socratic Dialogues ⭐️

​We discuss the latest in AI with everyone in the room, the Socratic conversations are structured with this blog post: aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-may-2026.

​Fed and Dev will moderate the conversation.

​​Presentations And Demos 🚀

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

​👎 no product pitches (only sponsors can), no vibe-coded apps, no crypto (except x402, ERC 8004 and other serious projects).

​Add your presentation here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DAbWHcQjoDMQuR-h6GDb7TVAJ6GzphYsApnpHVf2xEk

​MuShanghai — A Month of Frontier Tech in Shanghai

​This event is part of MuShanghai.xyz a month long event with each week dedicated to a frontier topic: AI, Biotech & Longevity, Robotics, and Chinese Culture:

​Links: https://mushanghai.xyz, https://luma.com/mushanghai

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​🥇 Saturn Cloud — Our Sponsor

​Our amazing friends from SaturnCloud are sponsoring our Euro-China tour. Super grateful for their support. If you’re ever renting H100s or other GPU beasts, give them a shot: saturncloud.io

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​AI Socratic — About Us

​We're an exclusive global community of of top-tier AI engineers, researchers, and founders working at frontier AI companies. We meet monthly to discuss new AI models, papers, coding agents, and even philosophy, geopolitics, and biotech.

​Our mission is to decentralize and open source AI via local open source AI.

​We are a group of people from diverse background and countries, some sadly at war, because of that we avoid discussions about politics or religion.

​Join us at aisocratic.org 👈