AI Founders & Researcher Dinner
AI agents are moving from impressive prototypes to persistent actors that can reason, collaborate, transact, and execute in the real world. As their capabilities grow, so do the questions: How should we evaluate them? Who owns their identity, data, decisions, and the value they create? What infrastructure will make agentic systems trustworthy, accountable, and economically viable?
This curated dinner brings together AI founders, researchers, agent infrastructure builders, investors, and ecosystem partners for an honest conversation at the intersection of frontier research and company building.
The dinner is part of BUIDL_QUESTS 2026, amber.ac’s global founder challenge exploring Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty. Participating builders and projects are connected through OpenArena, an open benchmark, discovery, and community layer for emerging autonomous-agent projects.
We are especially interested in people working on agent models and frameworks, evaluation and observability, safety and security, identity and verifiable compute, agent commerce and payments, developer tooling, cloud and compute infrastructure, embodied agents, and new forms of AI-native entrepreneurship.
No formal panels and no generic networking agenda—just a thoughtfully curated table for exchanging unfinished ideas, sharing what is being built, and discovering collaborations that can continue beyond Berkeley.
Interested in contributing benchmarks, research questions, compute, credits, tooling, mentorship, distribution, or capital? We welcome conversations with potential OpenArena and BUIDL_QUESTS ecosystem partners.
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BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
Initiated by amber.ac, BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 is a global AI and AI Crypto founder challenge designed to discover and accelerate the next generation of AI founders, agent builders, Crypto infrastructure teams, and super individuals.
The 2026 theme is Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty. It explores both the capability frontier of autonomous agents and the infrastructure needed for identity, data ownership, payments, value creation, responsibility, and governance.
BUIDL_QUESTS helps founders launch products, build in public, receive structured feedback, and connect with capital, tools, compute, mentors, markets, and global ecosystem resources. All project submissions, leaderboards, and community signals run through OpenArena.to.
Details: BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
Submit a Project: OpenArena Submission
Telegram: t.me/OpenArena_to
OpenArena.to
OpenArena.to is an open competitive benchmark, project discovery, and community tracking platform for distributed autonomous agents.
AI-native founders and agent builders can submit projects, build in public, showcase product and technical progress, and establish credibility through leaderboards, structured reviews, city activations, and community signals.
Website: openarena.to/en
About OpenArena: English Introduction
Telegram: t.me/OpenArena_to
X： @OpenArena_To
Fenbushi Capital
Asia's first and most active blockchain investment firm. Since 2015, Fenbushi has supported 300+ leading projects across the primary market, established by veterans from both the blockchain and traditional financial sectors.
X：fenbushi
Website: https://fenbushi.vc
AllScale
AllScale is a stablecoin neobank for cross-border payments. Businesses and AI agents use AllScale to send invoices, accept checkout payments, run payroll, and share payment links — all in stablecoins, without intermediaries.
Anyone can create a permissionless account to access core features instantly. Complete verifications to unlock crypto cards, virtual accounts, and global fiat payouts.
X - allscaleio Website - http://allscale.io/ LinkedIn - allscaleinc
amber.ac
amber.ac is a frontier AI accelerator launched by Amber Group to discover and accelerate the next generation of Agentic Services, AI-native companies, and AI × Crypto infrastructure.
Website: amber.ac
X: @amber_ac_
Amber Group
Amber Group is a global digital financial services and technology company providing solutions across digital wealth and asset management, institutional liquidity, investment and research, market infrastructure, and secure wallet services.
Website: ambergroup.io
X: @ambergroup_io