Announcing the AI Engineer Network: Benjamin Dunphy

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00:00:14.260 | Engineers, founders, sponsors, partners, colleagues, and friends,

00:00:21.640 | welcome to the AI Engineer Summit 2023.

00:00:26.420 | I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to host you

00:00:35.740 | all at this event with my co-host, Swix.

00:00:39.600 | And I'm especially delighted to kick off the presentation

00:00:42.720 | portion of the summit.

00:00:45.240 | We've curated two days of stage talk content for you

00:00:49.220 | from some of the top founders and engineers

00:00:52.000 | in this versioning new industry of AI engineering.

00:00:55.660 | In just a few moments, Swix is going

00:00:57.740 | to come on stage to help set the context for those talks.

00:01:01.880 | But for my time on stage, I really want to know who is here.

00:01:07.180 | So AutoGPT is here.

00:01:09.420 | A few months ago, they were just an open source project.

00:01:18.100 | Mind you, the fastest growing open source project in history,

00:01:22.400 | but just an open source project.

00:01:24.620 | Now, they're the presenting sponsor of the AI Engineer Summit.

00:01:29.620 | So needless to say, we can expect some big announcements when Torrin takes the stage

00:01:33.920 | in a few moments.

00:01:35.920 | Let's see who else is here.

00:01:37.140 | SuperBase.

00:01:38.140 | SuperBase is here.

00:01:40.140 | The social media experts who make product launches fun,

00:01:45.140 | and who make databases both easy and trustworthy, given that they're open source.

00:01:53.140 | They're a diamond sponsor this year, and we're honored that they broke their no event sponsorships

00:01:58.140 | policy for this event.

00:01:59.780 | So Paul, Ant, let me know how that policy change works out for you.

00:02:05.360 | Fixie is here.

00:02:07.580 | Where's Fixie?

00:02:09.580 | I'm looking forward to asking their booth sidekick if they can see what I'm wearing yet,

00:02:16.580 | and if they can recommend any updates to my wardrobe.

00:02:19.580 | We'll call this sidekick Derek.

00:02:21.580 | And if Vision is not in the cards yet, Matt and Ben, I can make an intro to Logan Kilpatrick,

00:02:27.580 | and perhaps we can get a preview of that Vision API.

00:02:31.680 | Microsoft is here.

00:02:33.900 | The company who helped to commercialize this movement by pumping 13 billion dollars into

00:02:38.140 | OpenAI.

00:02:40.140 | And many of you might be thinking, "Well, how can I get some of that gravy for my startup?"

00:02:45.740 | Well, head over to their booth in the Carmel room, just past the elevators behind you, and

00:02:50.940 | have a chat.

00:02:52.320 | They have representatives from Microsoft for Startups who can help to open those doors for

00:02:56.940 | industry.

00:02:57.940 | And if you have any questions for the co-pilot team, well, Microsoft's booth is right next

00:03:02.160 | to GitHub.

00:03:03.160 | Oh, and happy belated birthday, Cloudflare, who is here.

00:03:08.460 | Round of applause.

00:03:09.640 | They have-- Cloudflare, you are now 13, so that means you're going to be going through

00:03:15.760 | some changes.

00:03:16.760 | But don't worry, there's plenty of folks who will be delighted to talk to you about those

00:03:21.940 | changes at your booth, just next to Microsoft and Carmel across the elevators.

00:03:26.300 | Alessio Finelli is here.

00:03:31.520 | The VC half of the Latent Space podcast, but no less technical than Swix.

00:03:38.320 | Perhaps after watching some of today's talks, we can convince him to come back to the founder

00:03:42.820 | world.

00:03:43.820 | A little bit easier, right?

00:03:44.520 | But this time, Alessio, let's get you a software startup and leave the hardware to the experts.

00:03:49.740 | Some of you got that joke.

00:03:55.960 | And who else is here?

00:03:56.960 | Well, of course, you.

00:03:58.960 | You're one of 500 people who were selected to attend the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.

00:04:05.180 | So give yourselves a round of applause.

00:04:11.400 | This means that you're not only an experienced software engineer, but that you're actively

00:04:15.440 | experimenting with, shipping to production, or have founded an AI-enhanced or AI-native apps

00:04:21.400 | and companies.

00:04:22.400 | So I want you to remember this when you're interacting with one another.

00:04:26.620 | But we also want to recognize the many people who are not here today, but are watching the

00:04:31.160 | live stream.

00:04:31.580 | We thank you and appreciate you, and we hope that you enjoy the content on the live stream.

00:04:37.060 | And be sure to watch tomorrow's opening keynote address for some exciting announcements for 2024,

00:04:42.600 | which will expand our participation limits.

00:04:45.840 | But for those of you who are here, we hope that you've been enjoying your conversations with

00:04:51.680 | other attendees so far.

00:04:52.900 | One of the reasons that I really love conferences is that it brings together experts from around

00:04:58.900 | the world who are passionate about a singular niche subject.

00:05:03.200 | And so most of your conversations are already high signal.

00:05:07.580 | But is there a way we can actually improve this?

00:05:12.540 | Many of you have downloaded our conference mobile app, Network, and have been enjoying

00:05:17.760 | its use.

00:05:18.260 | It includes the conference schedule, a full list of all of our expo partners, recommended

00:05:23.840 | restaurants, bars, and cafes within walking distance of the venue, and other event information.

00:05:30.220 | But in addition to these features, we're pleased to announce AI-enhanced matching using our generative

00:05:39.600 | matching algorithm, which is a fancy way of saying we use LLMs to match you with the right people.

00:05:45.880 | We can match you with people who help to solve your stated problems.

00:05:50.780 | We all have problems we need to solve.

00:05:54.700 | That's why in your network profile, you can literally tell us what problem you're looking

00:06:01.000 | to have solved, and our GMA will connect you with the right people.

00:06:05.280 | We call this app Network.

00:06:08.560 | You can download the app today at ai.engineer.network.

00:06:15.280 | The matching is currently limited to in-person attendees of this summit only, but we have one

00:06:22.260 | more big announcement that we'd like to make.

00:06:25.640 | We are pleased to announce that we are an open-sourcing network, both the event app and the matching

00:06:31.860 | algorithm.

00:06:32.260 | Our goal is to provide a simple yet powerful mobile event experience for attendees at any

00:06:38.580 | event around the world.

00:06:40.000 | And we hope that the matching algorithm can better assist to connect people at those events.

00:06:46.420 | And we'd like to thank our lead engineer, Simon Stermer, for the mobile app, and Suizets Teller for

00:06:51.820 | our identity matching algorithm, and our infrastructure partners, Dscope for Auth, and Supabase for

00:06:57.220 | Database and PG Vector.

00:06:58.940 | So go talk to them about PG Vector outside.

00:07:01.220 | So a round of applause for all of our developers, partners, for this app.

00:07:10.940 | So you can access the repo today at ai.engineer.network, or github.com slash ai.engineer.network.

00:07:22.240 | So with that, I'd love to welcome our first speaker to the stage.

00:07:26.620 | He's the co-host of the Latent Space podcast and the co-founder of this very summit.

00:07:31.260 | Please join me in welcoming to the stage, Swix.

00:07:34.080 | We'll see you next time.

00:07:35.340 | We'll see you next time.

00:07:35.720 | We'll see you next time.

Announcing the AI Engineer Network: Benjamin Dunphy

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