

AI Leaders Dinner @ NeurIPS Hosted by Venrock, IBM Ventures, E14 Fund and Archetype AI
We’re hosting an intimate AI Leaders Dinner at NeurIPS, bringing together senior researchers and builders shaping the frontier of artificial intelligence. The format of this dinner will be a Jeffersonian single table conversation amongst a peer group.
We’re joined by leaders including the Head of the MIT-Watson Lab, Directors of Engineering at Google, and AI researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and NVIDIA, alongside professors from MIT and UC Berkeley and founders of next-generation AI startups.
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Venrock is a venture capital firm established in 1969 out of the Rockefeller family. They focus on early-stage investments, including in areas like AI apps, consumer, fintech, health tech, and life sciences. Venrock has invested in companies like Apple, Intel, Cloudflare, and Gilead Sciences.
IBM Ventures invests in visionary founders building the next generation of enterprise technology. We accelerate innovation through our capital-plus model, leveraging IBM's global reach and vast ecosystem of experts to help startups scale. We focus on early-stage companies solving the toughest challenges in AI and quantum computing, from infrastructure to applications.
E14 is an MIT-affiliated early stage VC investing in transformative deep tech startups across AI/ML, robotics, climate, biotech, materials, and more. We invest in MIT alumni and donate back to MIT.
Archetype AI is an AI platform for building and deploying Physical Agents in the real world. It’s powered by a proprietary foundation model, Newton, which fuses multimodal sensor data to enable real-time perception, reasoning, and decision-making across machines, environments, and people. The platform allows customers to create and deploy agents that monitor, optimize, and automate complex physical operations. Enterprise customers are deploying Physical Agents to increase efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve safety in environments ranging from warehouses and construction sites to city streets.