Intelligence in the Open — Edition 01: Reasoning, Evaluation & Long-Horizon Agents
Intelligence in the Open is a recurring MiniMax research series bringing together AI researchers, engineers, technical founders, and investors for candid conversations about the work shaping the next generation of intelligent systems.
For our first edition, we’ll convene a curated group of attendees at UpScaleX for an evening of short research presentations, open discussion, food, and networking.
The initial program will explore structured multi-agent reasoning, process-level error localization, counterfactual evaluation, and new methods for understanding how AI systems behave across extended, real-world tasks.
Each researcher will present recent work in a focused 10–15 minute talk, followed by a broader discussion and time to connect directly with the speakers and other attendees working across foundation models, agentic systems, post-training data, multimodality, benchmarks, and evaluations.
Location: 465 California St, 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
Speakers
Matt Turk
Senior Machine Learning Researcher, Protégé
Talk: Counterfactual Evaluation Reveals Hidden Capability Profiles in Clinical LLMs and Agents
Federico Bianchi
Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Together AI
Talk: Learning to Discover at Test Time
Will Keating
Member of Technical Staff, Artificial Analysis
Talk: AA-Briefcase - a frontier agentic knowledge work evaluation
Isha Chaturvedi
Founding Member, Keenable AI
Talk: PeerCoT: Structured Multi-Agent Chain-of-Thought Collaboration for Error Localization in LLM Reasoning
Additional speakers, research topics, and event partners will be announced as the program develops.
Schedule
6:00–6:30 PM — Arrival and Check-in
Meet fellow researchers, founders, engineers, and investors before the program begins.
6:30–6:40 PM — Welcome and Opening Remarks
An introduction to, MiniMax, Intelligence in the Open, Protege and the evening’s research themes.
6:40–7:40 PM — Research Presentations
Three to four focused talks from researchers presenting recent work across reasoning, agents, and evaluation.
7:40–8:00 PM — Open Discussion and Panel Q&A
All speakers will return for a moderated group discussion connecting the themes across their presentations.
8:00–9:00 PM — Food and Networking
Continue the discussion directly with speakers and connect with others working across the AI research and startup ecosystem.
Presented by MiniMax, Protégé and Together AI. Hosted at UpScaleX.
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