People behind AI ·Pre-NeurIPS Dinner

​Before everyone flies to Sydney, one last table in San Francisco.

​People behind AI is a dinner series by Sovrano for the researchers doing the work underneath frontier models: evaluation, post-training, RL environments, data. The work that decides whether a model is actually good, and that almost never makes the launch post.

​After Madrid, London and Barcelona, we’re bringing it to San Francisco, the week before NeurIPS.

​Fifteen seats. One table. No talks, no panels, no slides.

​Just a good dinner and the conversations worth having before the conference noise starts:

• ​Which paper at NeurIPS this year will actually matter in 12 months?

• ​What are we really measuring when we say a model got better?

• ​Where do evals break, and what replaces them?

• ​What can expert human judgment do that synthetic data still can’t?

​Who it’s for
Professionals working on evaluation, post-training, RL, alignment or data, at frontier labs, AI startups and universities. Heading to NeurIPS or not, if you’ve ever argued about a benchmark at 1am, you’ll fit right in.

​Details
Friday 20 November, 18:30
San Francisco. Venue shared with confirmed guests.
Dinner is on us.

​Seats are limited and approved by request. Tell us briefly what you’re working on.

​Hosted by Sovrano. We build expert data infrastructure for frontier AI: the evaluations, environments and human expertise that models are measured against.