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🔬 Why Transformers Hit a Wall the Moment Physics Shows Up — Anima Anandkumar, Caltech
Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- ▶ 1:07:43 Joon Sung Park So we're in SF. 3 times in the scene
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ▶ 1:52 unnamed speaker You were like, hey, I'm on my way to SF.
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
- ▶ 47:49 Dan Biderman Um, they can find us in SF.
Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
- ▶ 48:41 unnamed speaker I hope to see you back in San Francisco and I'm sure we'll chat more.
🔬 "The Most Innovative Diffusion Research Is Happening in Drug Discovery, Not Image Generation"
- ▶ 6:54 Evan Feinberg We're recording this in San Francisco.
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 30:56 Anjney Midha These are founders who've raised billions of dollars in San Francisco going on.
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 37:09 Ahmad Awais I'm hoping we can announce that on the AI engineering conference, NSF.
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 21:08 Axel Backlund Yeah, that, and also in, in here in SF, it's like, it has a bunch of shelves.
- ▶ 1:11:09 Lukas Petersson But I mean, selling stuff in, in SF, uh, that are food related, like it's, it's months of permits. 4 times in the scene
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 22:29 Kyle Daigle I'm going to be in Seattle tomorrow.
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 26:15 Shawn Wang Uh, Logan is over in SF. 2 times in the scene
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 1:00:37 Ivan Burazin And here, like a lot of our team is in Croatia, a part of our team and a growing is here now in San Francisco.
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 1:20:50 Shawn Wang I mean, speaking of, maybe you talk about the founder side, um, you're famously like, you know, the YC, uh, the SF consensus is you go to YC, you get a co-founder, you could do all these things.
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
- ▶ 3:05 Yaroslav Azhnyuk So I lived in San Francisco, 2014 to 20 20.
- ▶ 58:00 Yaroslav Azhnyuk We have Waymos and SF and some other places, but they're still, like, not, not perfect.
Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
- ▶ 0:20 Matt Pocock You do a lot of SF stuff, but nice, so nice that you come to London.
🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
- ▶ 20:13 Alex Lupsasca I said, Hey, Andy, do you want to come here to the SF visit OpenAI?
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 24:54 Yasser Elsaid So we're going into, so what we have scheduled is Paris, we're going to Vegas, we're going to Toronto, we're going to New York, and of course San Francisco, and we're telling stories
- ▶ 51:30 unnamed speaker And moving to SF, right? 4 times in the scene
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 48:36 Shawn Wang Um, so I'll see you there.
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 32:39 Shawn Wang Uh, he's moving to SF.
Moonlake: Interactive, Multimodal World Models — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
- ▶ 1:04:21 Fan-yun Sun We're currently based in San Mateo, although we're moving up to SF.
The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
- ▶ 30:15 Sam D'Amico Yeah, I think we want to, you know, yeah, get to offset those Chinese peptides in our systems, you know, given we're in San Francisco.
Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample
- ▶ 47:16 Guillaume Lample Recently, we opened some offices, uh, in, uh, in Warsaw, in Poland, uh, so one in Zurich, um, we will serve, like, some presence in New York as well, and soon one in San Francisco, so we are a bit, everywhere, also, like, hiring people…
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 1:18:26 Felix Rieseberg It's very hard from, we're in San Francisco right now, this is where we're recording.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 24:26 Simon Eskildsen Last time I was in San Francisco, I was talking to one of the engineers, actually, who, who was one of our champions, um, at, at Notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:08 Simon Eskildsen If you're, like, steeped in San Francisco, you're just, like, you just know, okay, like, you go out, raise a pre-seed round.
- ▶ 41:28 Alessio Fanelli Since you mentioned candidates, maybe we can talk about team building, you know, like, especially in SF, it feels like it just easier to start a company than to join a company.
- ▶ 57:22 Simon Eskildsen Um, and, uh, especially when I'm on a trip like this to San Francisco, I consume a lot of caffeine.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 5:31 Nader Khalil But, um, I found this old printing press here actually just around the corner on Venice and, um, it's a third generation San Francisco shop.
- ▶ 1:05:33 Shawn Wang Um, and it was like, every time I try to park in San Francisco, I, I have to buy a smart car because like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:53 Nader Khalil I think if you were in SF, you were like, okay, uh, I know this is gonna be a huge world-changing moment, but it seemed like, you know, no one had known yet. 6 times in the scene
Why Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box
- ▶ 1:07:20 Aaron Levie And it was, um, probably no different than somebody's doing a house party in SF.
⚡️ Polsia: Solo Founder Tiny Team from 0 to 1m ARR in 1 month & the future of Self-Running Companies
- ▶ 39:21 unnamed speaker I mean, what I love right now, and I just moved to SF like, uh, maybe now a month ago.
Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- ▶ 8:59 Joel Becker Um, we are the, you know, most enthusiastic and, and possibly least technically skilled soccer team in San Francisco.
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 35:41 Dylan Patel Despite the fact everyone in San Francisco is going to see revenue skyrocketing, they're going to see all the amazing capabilities, uh, but we live in a bubble, right? 3 times in the scene
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:19:09 Doug O'Laughlin Yeah, that's, that's the, that's the SF bubble? 2 times in the scene
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- ▶ 2:35 Andrew White Uh, Hey, I'm Andrew from San Francisco, former professor, now running two startups, uh, one that's a nonprofit research lab and one that's a for-profit venture-backed company, and we're trying to automate science.
- ▶ 15:12 Andrew White And it also this kind of, this, this thing you, you notice it in, um, in, in San Francisco is like, it's actually kind of hard to find problems, which are like so hard that like,
- ▶ 51:52 Andrew White I'm sure many people living in San Francisco do get like a little bit of a little bit of waves of it.
⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
- ▶ 4:50 Kevin Weil Jumped on a Zoom and eventually met in San Francisco and, uh, made it happen.
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 4:09 Micah Hill-Smith Well, Sydney, Australia for me, George was an SF, but he's Australian, but he moved here already.
- ▶ 21:23 Micah Hill-Smith And that's very important to a lot of developers and people in, especially in this particular city of San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:16:59 Shawn Wang Some random guy in San Francisco mentions you and.
[State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
- ▶ 20:45 Andy Konwinski Get together one day in San Francisco in the next five months and get the hundred most influential open researchers together for conference and for meetings where we share our roadmaps and we talk about common goals amongst the entire…
[State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
- ▶ 6:38 Nina Lopatina Yeah, so Brian Bischoff and Hamill Hussein hosted it in San Francisco last month, mid-November, and they had about, uh, just under a 100,000 documents.
[State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
- ▶ 10:08 Anastasios Angelopoulos That's an SF.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 36:34 David Soria Parra So we had two big summits this year, we had the, the MCP dev summit in San Francisco.
SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
- ▶ 20:50 Joseph Nelson There's not that much data that have like Waymos labeled throughout the streets of San Francisco, but Sam does a really good job to identify Waymo as like a vehicle.
- ▶ 1:06:00 Joseph Nelson So here I'm, I'm screen sharing an example of like, these are vehicles next to our office in San Francisco that go by and you can see here's a Waymo and here's like other vehicles.
World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- ▶ 31:41 Pim de Witte Don't call it video dance, and then, yeah, if I lived in San Francisco, maybe I would, yeah.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 14:13 unnamed speaker It's very popular here in SF.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 23:52 Shawn Wang The single most honest billboard I've seen in San Francisco.
- ▶ 38:50 Shawn Wang yeah, no, but like, this is what I want to get on the podcast because like a lot of people don't get the chance to like talk about this, but then this is like a normal SF dinner.
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases
- ▶ 19:52 Priscilla Chan It's not here, but at our San Francisco Skype, we do image see-through fish called zebrafish.
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 1:01:29 Shawn Wang Ways and Bias' office in San Francisco is fantastic.
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 2:48 Christina Huang Um, this is my first SF dev day.
⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning
- ▶ 5:19 Anish Agarwal So funnily enough, I remember when we were flying to San Francisco to pitch, I was on the plane trying to understand what a trace is.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 1:27 Thorsten Ball And we started a new project and we were, you know, I remember first weekend SF where I would stand up in the middle of the room, like, you gotta, you gotta see this, like, this is crazy.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 23:29 Shawn Wang We're going to do one here in San Francisco as well.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 2:38 Stephanie Palazzolo I, I live in New York, so every couple months I go visit SF, and specifically on that trip I went, and everyone was like,
⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
- ▶ 0:24 Shawn Wang I think, honestly, you were sort of evaluating a move to SF and Composio, I think at the time was, uh, sort of like the, the bundle of tools for agents and sort of building that agents platform.
- ▶ 17:16 Alessio Fanelli Anything that people are missing about Composio, like, uh, underrated parts of it, or obviously you're growing so fast, you just moved to SF and open a new office, so everything is super exciting.
- ▶ 19:47 Karan Vaidya I mean, like, obviously, like, I think it's anyway hard to kind of hire really good engineers in SF. 2 times in the scene
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 0:43 Shawn Wang Oh, well, Luca, Luca did, and you, you supported, and then you were more recently here in, uh, in SF for AIE.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 3:19 Varun Mohan I've actually biked from San Francisco to LA.
- ▶ 1:10:23 Kevin Hou You can take a Waymo around San Francisco, which I encourage you to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:51 Varun Mohan A lot of the people at the company previously, you know, were in SF or still in SF. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:29:53 Anshul Ramachandran Like, I think there's something we've said like, there's all like the San Francisco AI companies and like everyone's like hyping each other, like on the tech and everything, which is like, great.
- ▶ 2:43:52 Kevin Hou We're a team based out of San Francisco, and thank you so much to Swix and Ben and the whole AI Engineering Summit team for inviting us here and letting us speak to you all.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 18:31 Andrew Hsu Like we, we were definitely, you know, sitting in an office here in San Francisco operating with users in a market all the way on the other side of the world.
- ▶ 22:01 Andrew Hsu And then a few people here in San Francisco, and we still do. 3 times in the scene
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 23:01 Noam Brown He asked me what my AGI timelines are, very standard SF question.
- ▶ 1:13:21 Noam Brown It's become very popular in San Francisco.
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 42:31 Emmanuel Ameisen Like, sometimes to get to the Golden Gate Bridge, it had to realize that you were talking about San Francisco and about, like, the best way to go to Sonoma or something, and so that's how it got to Golden Gate Bridge.
[AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI
- ▶ 14:49 Shawn Wang Quinn actually runs the voice AI meetup in San Francisco.
The AI Coding Factory
- ▶ 55:30 Matan Grinberg He moved out to San Francisco.
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 0:29 unnamed speaker I think a lot of people have this misconception of Cognition as being an East Coast team, obviously because of the founding mythology of the, the team, but you guys have a significant SF presence now, right? 2 times in the scene
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 40:27 Vasek Mlejnsky Um, I think this, there's a slight bubble, ah, in, I don't know if it's, like, people in SF, but, like, developers thinking Langchain isn't popular or used. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 Shawn Wang And then the next thing I know you're moving to SF, your whole team. 5 times in the scene
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 0:31 Michael Swix (Swyx) It's a significant presence, at least in the San Francisco community, which of course it's in the name.
- ▶ 1:03:22 Evan Conrad I think San Francisco is amazing. 6 times in the scene
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:22:39 Dharmesh Shah And I was at an event here in San Francisco that Sam spoke at where he launched, uh,
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 28:44 unnamed speaker And this is the, uh, Bay Area, San Francisco.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 20:07 Shawn Wang For, for the record, since you have the Italians, best Italian restaurant in SF.
- ▶ 31:49 Shawn Wang It's because you live in SF.
- ▶ 33:13 Ethan Sutin So I mean, you say in San Francisco, but like we have out there are daily shipment of like over a hundred.
- ▶ 41:03 Alessio Fanelli You can not fit 90,000 people in SF.
- ▶ 1:04:11 Shawn Wang You know, there's this culture that like is very alien to everyone else outside of SF and outside the Gen Z bubble in SF, which is sharing, location sharing. 2 times in the scene
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 1:35:31 Bret Taylor Um, our engineering team is exclusively in person in San Francisco, though we do have some, uh, kind of forward deployed engineers, uh, and, and other offices like, uh, London, so.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 58:40 Samuel Colvin In San Francisco, chatting to people, I think it's probably a bit, a bit of a mixture and I, I could probably do with being in the, in the States a bit more.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
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