Surreal Dinner Series: Next Frontier of Models with Higgsfield, Handshake, & Reflection AI
Making the surreal, real.
Join us for another Surreal in Palo Alto, a dinner series held at art galleries.
We'll discuss where people at the frontier of building models see the opportunities and what they're facing.
We'll have a conversation with:
Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Higgsfield
Aakanksha Chowdhery, MoTS at Reflection AI
John Stull, President of Handshake
Past attendees have hailed from Perplexity, OpenAI, X.Ai, Reflection AI, Sierra, Glean,, Vercel,, Anthropic, Mercor, Midjourney, Apple, Google Deepmind, Pika, Jane Street, Nvidia, Parallel, 1X, Stanford CS PhDs, and more.
Agenda:
5:15pm Doors Open + Mingle
6:00pm Talk
6:40pm Dinner
7:30pm Network + Mingle
Surreal
Surreal is a monthly dinner series & technical community run by Premise in collaboration with our sponsors (Fenwick, SVB, Colliers, & True Search).
The series is held at art galleries as we believe that technologists are inspired by creative environments when they invent new technology products, and that the same creativity that inspires artists, inspires technologists.
Our manifesto:
Surreal products are created when a research breakthrough rapidly meets a consumer behavior shift.
The speed of this latent unlock creates a reality distortion field, a narrative violation.
It's not just improbable, it seems impossible.
The premise is first questioned, then fought, and then shaken.
But then a small group of people finds your work - and it's what they've been looking for their whole life.
They fought and clawed for an answer despite the experts' heeding that it wasn't possible.
And then they met you. Your research redefines what's possible.
You make the surreal, real.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke
Learn more about the Surreal community here: surrealbuilders.com