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Come and learn about how to accelerate your AI through optimisation of your LLM training & Cloud Infrastructure, hosted at Dolby Laboratories tomorrow on 1275 Market St in downtown SF. We are lucky enough to have speakers on our panel from: Unsloth AI, Daniel Han A trailblazer in LLM optimization, achieving 30x faster finetuning and 85% VRAM reduction through innovative software and mathematical techniques. Strong Compute, Ben Sand, An expert in AI compute infrastructure, offering solutions for enterprise-scale AI deployment, multi-cloud management, and high-speed tooling for AI workloads. Predibase, Piero Molino A pioneer in efficient AI model deployment, leading the development of cost-effective LLM fine-tuning and serving solutions that rival GPT-4 performance at a fraction of the cost. Flipai, Sunil Mallya Lead NLP for AWS, Pioneer behind AWS Bedrock, RL guru and brains behind AWS DeepRacer. Currently building domain specific autonomous LLMs for observability. Event link in the comments. See you all tomorrow! #llmops #Mlops #llm

We are just 5 days away from our first Developer Meetup in San Jose at Zoom HQ. Here are our talks: 1. Chat Oriented Programming - How to 10x your productivity by being lazy with AI : Beyang Liu , CTO Sourcegraph 2. AI Predictions For Engineers : Dani Grant, CEO Jam.dev 3. Topics in Voice AI : Nauman Dawalatabad, Research Scientist Zoom 4. RAG Security - Indirect Prompt Injection through Vector Database : Sachin Dharashivkar, CEO TrojanVectors 5. Cloud AI Performance : Ben Sand, CEO Strong Compute So make sure to signup if you want to learn from some of the top AI innovators: https://lu.ma/p5qmq3x9 Zoom , Sourcegraph and Jam.dev are regularly hosting tech events and meetups. To know more subscribe to their luma calendars. Zoom: https://lu.ma/zoom.us Sourcegraph: https://lu.ma/sourcegraph Jam.dev: https://lu.ma/jamdotdev

🚀 Mega Chess Hackathon: Train AI Chess Bots on GPUs ♟️🇺🇸🇦🇺 Get ready for an epic AI showdown as we host the Mega Chess Hackathon across San Francisco and Sydney! This is your chance to immerse yourself in AI development, training deep neural networks to play chess using Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer (ISC). 📝 Event Highlights: - Hands-on experience with rapid iteration cluster training - Access to 48 GPU clusters - $10k-$100k compute grant for the winning team 🏅 What’s in it for you? - Experiment with models, datasets, and hyperparameters - Compete in teams of 1-3 to develop the best chess AI - Showcase your skills in front of top AI engineers 📅 Event Schedule: - San Francisco: Aug 30, 6:00 PM - Aug 31, 11:00 PM PDT 🇺🇸 - Sydney: Aug 31, 11:00 AM - Sep 1, 4:00 PM AEST 🇦🇺 🔗 Register Now: • San Francisco: https://lnkd.in/gKfxqmx2 • Sydney: https://lnkd.in/g99bs4Fn Join us and train your AI chess bots to victory! P.S. We’re hiring! This is a great way for us to get to know each other. #AI #Chess #Hackathon #DeepLearning #GPUs #StrongCompute

Over the weekend, Strong Compute hosted their second GPU Chess Hackathon - this time in Sydney, after a successful inaugural event in San Francisco a few weeks ago. The team welcomed around 30 local builders in 10 teams to spend 48-hours training AI Chess bots on GPUs. Providing all participants with 2-day access to Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer. A massive congratulations to Elliott, Quýnh and Nguyên for playing the best game, and finishing as champions after 48-hours. 🏆 The team has a few more events in the works, be sure to follow Folklore-backed Strong Compute to stay up to date.

🚀 Just spent an amazing weekend participating in the GPU Chess Hackathon with my team, Andrew Vo and Brian Tong! 🧠♟️ We had the incredible opportunity to train AI Chess bots on GPUs, diving deep into rapid iteration cluster training using Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer. This environment made it so much easier and faster to run jobs on shared GPU clusters, allowing us to start training within seconds, even for large datasets and large cluster sizes. Here are some highlights: 1. Access to 48 GPU clusters for 2 days. 2. 9 teams competing to create the ultimate chess AI. 3. Training character-level generative language models using PGNs from Leela Chess Zero. Judging based on a tournament between each team's model. And... drumroll please... congratulations to our team, "UTS," for coming in 2nd place with our championship model! 🥈🎉 A huge thank you to Strong Compute for allowing us to participate, and special thanks to Ben Sand, Adam Peaston, and their whole team for making this event possible! This experience was incredibly rewarding, and I’m grateful for the chance to blend human intuition, champion moves, and innovative techniques to push the boundaries of AI in chess. #ChessHackathon #AI #MachineLearning #GPUComputing #StrongCompute

The best AI builders can now create and deploy complex agentic AI solutions in < 24 hours 👷🏻♀️.   We had 24 new projects get built to life in our latest hackathon, leveraging the latest developer tools: Groq, crewAI, Sahha, Strong Compute, Relevance AI, AgentOps.ai, JigsawStack and more!   We had everything from: 1. AI job interviewers to automate manual screening 2. Copilots for teachers and students 3. App to find the nearest parks 4. Chrome extensions for productivity on the web 5. 'AI first' excel spreadsheets 6. Gamified Pokémon themed prompting game 7. AI negotiator for medical bills 8. Text to prototype app with user interface 9. Security with multi-agent system for Github repos 10. AI mood tracker health apps for improved wellbeing 11. AI marketing associates who generate content 12. Customer support agents who work 24/7 … and 2x more   Would you use any of these? Tell us below! ✨   🙋🏻♀️ We have just opened up people's choice award where one lucky team with the most votes will score a showcase and win a 🐰 rabbit inc. too!   Votes close at 12am Wednesday PT. Links in comments! Tag and share with anyone interested! #startups #ai

We gave 250+ engineers from around the world early access to:  -Voice -Agents -Compute -Wearables - and inference APIs They had 24 hours to hack. Here are the finalists from the "AI Supaheroes" hackathon by AgentOps.ai x Supabase x Build Club at Solaris (🧵): 1/ Agentic Reasoners Multi-agent reasoning framework for solving New York Times Connections puzzles Applied experiment where agents debate to solve complex tasks GPT-4o vs Groq benchmarked by AgentOps.ai 🥇 First place: $25k @AWS + $5k @StrongCompute credits Justin Jung 2/ PokéPrompt Pokemon simulation arena powered by agents Instead of creating your own team, you prompt an AI agent to battle for you and see which ones win 🥈 Second place: $5k @AWS + $2k @StrongCompute credits Jack Wakem Joel Tankard 3/ Dream Job AI voice agent that runs practice interviews with you and rates your performance using Vapi Also used by recruiters as a screening round William C. Wright Jonathan Talmi 4/ GitHero Agentic system for scanning and monitoring git repositories for security vulnerabilities, key leaks, and control violations 🥉 $5k AWS + $1k Strong Compute credits Sako M 5/ TL;DR Search and summarize any book by breaking down the chapters and identifying key points SparkNotes, but AI Tiffany Guan 6/ Gavin Github agents for automated issue resolution AI agent that automatically creates PR proposals to issues   Ishika Mishra Mark Shteyn Jyoti Ranjan Swain Tirth Shah

This weekend we ran Build Club's largest hackathon in SF to date, teaming up with AgentOps.ai and Supabase 🎉! We had 250+ builders sign up and saw 24 teams teams compete. With no doubt, the build energy in SF is insane. A huge thank you to our partners: Jacob Shamberger, Lorenze Jay Hernandez, João (Joe) Moura, Jordan Dearsley, Yoeven D Khemlani, Alex Reibman, Sarit Schube, Yuri S., Relevance AI, Sahha, Strong Compute and more! We will be sharing demos, people's choice + winners on 👉 Build Club page soon! #startups #ai

Excited to announce Strong Compute is sponsoring Build Club's AI ‘Supaheroes’ Hackathon! 🎉 There's some awesome prizes up for grabs, including $3K, $2K, $1K of Strong Compute credits for grand final prize. Don't miss out! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gA7k4MbC

We are hosting AI Builders Night a Developer Meetup at Zoom HQ, San Jose on August 13th from 5.30 - 8.30 PM PT. Register on Luma to attend : https://lu.ma/p5qmq3x9 AI Builders Night is all about connecting with engineers, developers, product managers, and AI enthusiasts. We are going to have some of the brightest minds in the industry, including speakers from Sourcegraph, Jam.dev, Strong Compute, TrojanVectors and our very own Zoomies give lightning talks. Here is the line up of amazing speakers:  Beyang Liu - CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph Dani Grant - CEO and Co-Founder of Jam.dev Dr Nauman Dawalatabad - AI Research Scientist Zoom Sachin Dharashivkar - CEO & Co-Founder of TrojanVectors Ben Sand - CEO & Founder of Strong Compute Brendan Ittelson our Chief Ecosystems Officer will be giving the opening remarks for the event. Yes, we will have food, beverages and parking 🍕🥤🅿️🚗 If you are interested in speaking at future events, please register here or reach out to me : https://bit.ly/4d6SOLG