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The #SDxAI23 hackathon is a wrap 🌟 Over 100 hackers from San Diego came together to build Generative AI solutions 💫 Let's thank everyone who made this possible: 👉 Prize Sponsors: Qualcomm UC San Diego Keshif Ventures, LLC EyePop.ai gravityAI Launch Factory Polygon Labs ETH SD 👉 Credit Sponsors: Anthropic OpenAI Replit Vercel Pinecone ElevenLabs LangChain Log10.io AlgoFace Hugging Face Modal Labs Oxen.AI 👉 Judges: Andy White Arjun Bansal Cheryl K Goodman Daniel Huss Enrico Ros Schoeninger Jeffrey Belk Lena Skliarova-Mordvinova Sharon Zhang 👉 Mentors: Arshia Moghaddam Daniel Spokoyny Jason Koo Leslie Joe 👉 Organizers: Chad Lohrli Bryan Landers Chao Wu 伍超 🤖 Greg Schwartz 👉 Videography: Sam Roberts inBLUME Digital To stay up to date with SDx, drop into our discord https://lnkd.in/eeGACcJC Until next time San Diego!

Thank you Diego Caples for leading yesterday's Paper Club meetup and sharing your implementation of Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet by Anthropic! View the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/eaYkgSNM The SDx Paper Club is a bi-weekly meetup where we discuss fundamental machine-learning literature focusing on language models and diffusion. If you're looking to join SDx, be sure to join our Discord and get notified about future events: https://lnkd.in/gvQRej87 #sdx #paperclub #ai #builders #startups #events #sandiego

Missed last week's Paper Club with Panna Felsen and Keith Chester? Thank you Panna for presenting the InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions paper during last Thursday's meetup. Slides coming soon. Paper Link: https://lnkd.in/ejex7ZAn This Thursday's Paper club will be featuring Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet by Anthropic presented by Diego Caples. Paper Link: https://lnkd.in/gnFadt2R Apply to join here: https://lu.ma/v2aqei21 #sdx #sandiego #ai #builders #community #july #events #paperclub

Another successful AI Coffee event this morning at our new location in Liberty Station ☕️ Thanks to Pactto for fueling the SDx community up with coffee and continuing to empower local AI builders! Key news/highlights shared: 📚 Andrej Kapathy’s new AI + education venture https://eurekalabs.ai/ 🔎 SpreadSheet LLM by Microsoft: https://lnkd.in/gpm4UJvh 🤝 Clay.com’s large raise: https://lnkd.in/diyNWcV8 🌍 Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content: https://lnkd.in/eZBfSpdP Tomorrow we will be hosting our bi-monthly AI Paper Club co-hosted by Keith Chester starting at 6 pm PST! ➡️ You can apply to attend here: https://lu.ma/zg441svz #sdx #sandiego #ai #builders #community #july #events #paperclub

Join us tomorrow at 9 am for our final AI Coffee of the month powered by Pactto ☕️ The SDx AI Coffee is an invite-only meetup where we hold open discussions on the latest updates in AI. If you're an active AI builder in San Diego, RSVP and meet the community. ➡ Seats are limited, so apply to join here: https://lu.ma/28xzji9h #sdx #sandiego #ai #builders #community #july #events

SDx events this week: 💻 Hacker Club: Tue, July 16th, 6-8pm | https://lu.ma/dtwrgba3 ☕ AI Coffee: Wed, July 17th, 9:30-11:00am | https://lu.ma/28xzji9h 📚 Paper Club: Thu, July 18th, 6-8pm | InstructPix2Pix: https://lu.ma/zg441svz

SDx July Updates We're almost 1 year old and have grown A LOT since the SDxAI 23 Hackathon. We're now over 500 members in discord. [Community Updates] We've got a fresh look! New logo and updated website: https://sdx.community. Let us know what you think. 🏠 SDx has a new office (hacker house) in Liberty Station! We've partnered with the Data Science Alliance to create an AI builder hub. We've got space for events, co-working, and room for early-stage AI startups. Want to cowork with top AI builders? Apply here: https://lnkd.in/g2SFhP5Y 🤝 Ongoing partnership with Qualcomm for AI workshops. Interested? Fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/gRKDmvTr 🎉 We've recently partnered with San Diego Tech Hub to host the San Diego AI Showcase. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gRwBkbZP [July Events] ☕ AI Coffee: Wed, July 3rd, 9:30-11:00am | https://lu.ma/g2bn2dfl 💻 AI Hacker Club: Tue, July 16th, 6-8pm | https://lu.ma/dtwrgba3 Check out the last hacker club: https://lnkd.in/g-nuVcZv 📚 AI Paper Club: 1. Thu, July 11th, 6-8pm | InstructPix2Pix: https://lu.ma/zg441svz - presented by Panna Felsen 2. Thu, July 25th, 6-8pm | Scaling Monosemanticity: https://lu.ma/v2aqei21 - presented by Diego Caples Paper Club presenters wanted! Apply to speak here: https://lnkd.in/guuFpxev Let's keep building San Diego <3

It's time for AGI progress to resume. San Diego, are y'all in?

We're teaming up with Qualcomm to host our next AI Coffee chat on June 12th! The SDx AI Coffee series serves to provide a place for builders to discuss emerging topics in AI with like-minded peers. Sign up: https://lu.ma/aicoffee4

This past weekend a small group of UCSD students building with AI came together to demo their products and chat with serial founder and Y Combinator alum Yan Lhert [https://lnkd.in/gb_xhVZS]. The SDxUCSD Chapter which started only a few months ago by Dhruv Kanetkar has been flourishing with talented students building AI products. Check out some of the group's demos: - fynspo by Dhruv Kanetkar & Justin Chou- The clothing recommendation platform: https://fynspo.com/ - AI accountability coach by Andrew Schmitz- https://lnkd.in/e7_SBKqq - Draw2Design by Danielle Trinh - convert sketch to UI: https://lnkd.in/eQTNZeKu - SoundSearch by Pranav Singh - search by audio: https://lnkd.in/eYYkqk49 A special thanks to Crescent Fund for helping set up this special event as well as our partners at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego, and the University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management for their continual support of the chapter. If you're an AI builder at UCSD with something amazing you want to demo, we host these invite-only meetings on Sundays from 4-5:30 pm. We will be hosting our final meetup for the academic year this weekend: https://lu.ma/keddo9qg