More than 100 researchers, founders, and builders gathered for small-group discussions about the biggest ideas in AI.
“I think we will be able to look back at today and go, that's when a cool idea was generated.” Dimitry Shvartsman, Co-Founder + Chief Product Officer, Prime Security
AI Unconference Sessions
Foundation Capital General Partner Joanne Chen and Partner Jaya Gupta kicked off a day of presentations that included debates about the role of AI SDRs, the evolution of physical AI, and next-wave architectures outpacing transformers.
Keynote 1
Andy Hock, Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Cerebras, discussed the chip-maker’s path to building the largest-ever computer chip, named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2024.
Keynote 2
Anyscale’s CTO Philipp Moritz & AI Lead Kourosh Hakhamaneshi covered developments that inform their work, as they help enterprise companies develop and deploy AI workloads.
AI Infrastructure
Large Language Monkeys: How to scale inference compute with repeated sampling
Azalia Mirhoseini, Assistant Professor, Standford University, Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Beyond LLMs
Next-wave architectures outpacing transformers
Karan Goel, Founder & CEO, Cartesia
AI Agents in Verticals
Using AI to Secure AI
Dimtry Shvartsman, CPO & Co-Founder, Prime Security, and former Head of Security Engineerings and Architecture, PayPal
Services as Software
AI SDRs: fiction or reality
Srinath Sridhar, Co-Founder & CEO, Regie.ai Arjun Pillai, Co-Founder & CEO, Docket
Better, faster, more efficient: AI in observability
Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Arize AI
Virtual to visceral -> the evolution of physical AI
Akshat Shrivastava & Armen Aghajanya, Co-Founders, Perception Geroge Netscher, SafelyYou
Next-generation intelligent agents
Shikhar Murty, Stanford Ph.D. candidate and deep learning researcher
Rise of the AI reliability engineer
Rahul Kayala, stealth founder Jitender Aswani, VP, Head of Engineering and Security, StarTree
Securing AI
Caleb Sima, Builder, WhiteRabbit
Beyond text: the powers of multimodal models
Darius Lam, CEO & Founder, NEX Aditya Grover, UCLA Computer Science Professor and AI Researcher
Special ops: Advanced agent frameworks
Yohei Nakajima, VC & Researcher
AI's battleground sectors: Insurance, health, + other industries ripe for disruption
Arjun Mangla, Co-Founder, Fulcrum Nishith Khandwala, Co-Founder Bunkerhill
5 top takeaways from the 2024 AI Unconference
Exactly two years after ChatGPT’s launch, AI is reshaping every industry. As the revolution transitions to evolution, the question also shifts from “What can AI do?” to “How will AI systems fundamentally transform work?”
AI leads a service-as-software paradigm shift
The push towards services represents a $4.6 trillion opportunity.
Beyond LLMs: Building magic
Large language models reshaped AI. Though they were invented in 2017, LLMs entered the mainstream with the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, the fastest-growing consumer application of all time. Since then, there has been an explosion of innovation.
The Observability Crisis
We’ve inadvertently created a maze of complexity and cost in observability. How did this happen?
Let’s explore how this crisis emerged and the market dynamics that have shaped it.
