Open Source AI Summit SF
Buildplanet is hosting its 10th Open Source AI Summit back in SF! We will be returning to the iconic House by Edge & Node.
Open Source AI Summit is a half day seminar focused on sharing technical developments in the open source AI frontier. We look forward to hearing insights from founders and builders in respective fields.
The summit is co-hosted with NEAR AI. We will have amazing Korean food provided :-) We will begin promptly at 3pm, so please come earlier for registration as we will have a lot of people attending.
Previous talk videos can be seen here:
[Confirmed Speakers]
Matt White: Former Global CTO of AI at Linux Foundation, CTO of PyTorch
Illia Polosukhin: Founder of NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI, former researcher at Google Research, co-author of Attention Is All You Need, contributor to Tensorflow
Dima Dzhulgakov: Co-founder, Fireworks AI
Lukasz Kaiser: Researcher in machine learning, former member of technical staff at OpenAI, co-author of Attention Is All You Need
Bowen Wang: Co-founder at River AI, previously CTO at NEAR Protocol
Aakanksha Chowdhery: Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Jean Kossaifi: Group Lead, NVIDIA Research
Soubhik Deb: Head of Research, Eigen Labs
Anand Iyer: Partner, Canonical x Lightspeed
Victor Su-Ortiz: Global Product Marketing Manager, GTM Engineer & Developer Relations, MiniMax
Agenda
3:00pm - 3:10pm Welcome and introduction by Erica Kang
3:10pm - 3:30pm "Learning Powerful Models: Why and How" by Lukasz Kaiser, Co-author of "Attention is All You Need" paper
3:30pm - 3:50pm "User-Owned AI Is All You Need" by Illia Polosukhin, Founder of NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI, Co-author of "Attention is All You Need" paper
3:50pm - 4:15pm "Why Open Models and Open Science Matters"
Fireside chat between Matt White (Former Global CTO of AI at Linux Foundation, CTO of PyTorch) and Illia Polosukhin
4:20pm - 4:40pm "Building Self Improving AI" by Aakanksha Chowdhery, Adjunct Professor at Stanford University
4:40pm - 5:00pm "Physics AI: From Open Foundations to Industrial Scale" by Jean Kossaifi, Group Lead at NVIDIA Research
5:00pm - 5:20pm "Yukon: Open Science in the Post-AGI Era" by Soubhik Deb, Head of Research at Eigen Labs
5:20pm - 5:35pm "Personal AI and Continual Learning" by Bowen Wang, Co-Founder at River AI
5:35pm - 5:50pm "Omni-Context Generation with MiniMax H3" by Victor Su-Ortiz, Global Product Marketing Manager, GTM Engineer & Developer Relations, MiniMax
5:50pm - 6:10pm "Specialized Intelligence vs. the God Model"
Fireside chat with Dima Dzhulgakov, Co-founder at Fireworks AI, and Anand Iyer, Partner at Canonical x Lightspeed