Researcher Night: Grace Gong x Patronus AI

​Join us for an evening of researcher spotlight talks in San Francisco, hosted by Patronus AI and Grace Gong. The event brings together researchers working on post-training and evaluation for short spotlight talks on topics such as multimodal world models, reward modeling, multi-agent systems, and computer-use agents followed by meaningful connections and strategic conversations over happy hour drinks and appetizers.

​​​​​​​Grace Gong

​Grace hosts Smart Venture Podcast and Venture with Grace. Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Instagram, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the venture capital category on Amazon New Release. Before her media ventures, she worked in venture capital and private equity. Connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong.

​​​​​​​​Patronus AI

​Patronus AI is a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI. Their mission is to simulate all of the world’s intelligence. They are the company behind the earliest and most influential research in AI evaluation like FinanceBench, Lynx, SimpleSafetyTests, and CopyrightCatcher. They are backed by top-tier investors like Greenfield Partners, Notable Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Stanford University, Datadog, Factorial Capital, and a cohort of AI leaders across the labs and neolabs.

​Smart Venture Media Leading media company in the VC and startup space. Home to Smart Venture Podcast, Venture with Grace, and Smart AI Leadership Summit, a premier AI summit in San Francisco that featured partners from A16z, Insight Partners, IVP, among other top VC funds, and unicorn founders in the AI space. Also home to the Smart AI 100 List and Summit, a curated ranking of the top 100 early-stage AI startups (top 0.43% of 23,250+ seed and Series A companies) backed by insights from over 100 top VCs managing $230B+ in capital and enhanced with proprietary CB Insights data. Speakers at the Summit including President of Cisco, CRO of Nebius, VP of Microsoft, SVP of Vercel, top VCs from Bessemer, Index, Coatue, Pear among others. Our mission is to bridge the gap between emerging AI startups and the capital, customers, and community they need to scale through data-driven analysis, exclusive invite-only events, and authentic storytelling that reflects the real conversations happening in Silicon Valley.

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