🚀 AI Tinkerers Summer Social: Our Biggest AI Event of the Year! 🎉

🌟 Join Us for an Unforgettable Evening of Celebration 🌟

We’re throwing an epic party to celebrate AI Tinkerers’ journey from a local Seattle meetup to a worldwide global network of 25+ cities globally connecting thousands of active builders to create groundbreaking AI applications, and help shape the future. You’re invited to be part of the celebration!

Don’t miss our biggest event of the year! Join us for an unforgettable night of networking, inspiration, and a glimpse into the future of AI! This is your chance to mingle with the area’s top AI builders and meet folks from some of the most innovative AI companies.

🔥 Groq will be on site! 🔥 Come see some cool demos of AI applications and use cases running on the Groq LPU™ AI Inference Technology, complete with their GitHub repos.

👑 Premier Sponsors:

We are very grateful to these innovation leaders for their support of AI Tinkerers and this event:

• Groq - Revolutionizing AI inference with the groundbreaking Groq LPU™ AI Inference Technology.
• Microsoft for Startups - Empowering the next generation of tech innovators.
• Madrona - Fueling groundbreaking ideas from day one.

🥽 Community Showcase Sponsors 🥽

This event is also supported by some exciting companies from our local and international AI Tinkerers community. Check out their latest innovations at informal demo stations we’ll have set up at the event, get inspired and make valuable connections.

• Griptape.ai
• Deepgram
• OctoAI
• Fixie
• Moondream
• Boundary
• CopilotKit

☝️☝️☝️ 🎟️ Ready to Join the Celebration? Register above to join us. This is an event you do not want to miss! 🎟️ ☝️☝️☝️

Who is this for?

It’s AI Tinkerers, not AI enthusiasts. We screen attendance to active builders with a shared level of expertise in order to create a collaborative environment ideal for early-stage discovery and innovation. This event is perfect for AI practitioners, developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are actively building and working with AI technologies. We are inviting all past attendees to join us for our biggest event of the year!

🍻 Event Format

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Welcome Remarks and Groq LPU™ AI Inference Technology Demo by Groq!
• 7:00pm - 10:00pm: open networking and informal demo stations.
• 10:00 pm: Doors close

🍕🍺 Food and drink will be served throughout the event.

🤝 Register now for an evening of celebration, community demos, and connection with leading AI builders

🤖 More Information

If you are new to the group, please be sure to read the AI Tinkerers FAQ.

☝️ Join us to connect with fellow AI builders, share ideas, and explore new developments in AI – register now.

👑 Premier Sponsors

The event is generously sponsored by Groq, Microsoft for Startups, Madrona and our community showcase sponsors.

Groq is fast AI Inference. The Groq LPU™ AI Inference Technology delivers exceptional compute speed, quality, and energy efficiency. Groq, headquartered in Silicon Valley, provides cloud and on-prem inference at scale for AI applications. The LPU and related systems are designed, fabricated, and assembled in North America. Learn more and try Groq speed today at groq.com.

Microsoft for Startups - Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub helps startups radically accelerate innovation by providing access to industry-leading AI services, expert guidance, and the essential technology needed to build a future-proofed startup. Open to all—sign up in minutes with no funding required.

Madrona - Whether we are helping founders ideate, test, and launch companies through Madrona Venture Labs or making that first seed investment, we look for founders who care deeply about why a problem exists and who have the passion and skill to be the foundation of a company and products that will solve that problem and positively change the world.

🥽 Community Showcase Sponsors 🥽

Our community sponsors are emerging AI leaders from the global AI Tinkerers network and will be on hand to showcase their latest with demo stations. Meet their tinkerers, see live demos of cutting-edge AI tools, and explore collaborations that could shape your next big project.

Griptape.ai - Griptape is a modular open source Python framework that allows developers to build and deploy LLM-based agents, pipelines, and workflows. Its composability makes it ideal for creating conversational and event-driven AI apps that can access and manipulate data safely and reliably.

Deepgram - Deepgram is a pioneering voice AI platform offering cutting-edge APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language understanding. Their lightning-fast, highly accurate speech recognition and natural-sounding voice synthesis enable developers to build sophisticated voice AI applications with ease. Deepgram’s GPU-optimized infrastructure provides unparalleled speed and cost-efficiency, making it up to 40x faster and 3-5x cheaper than alternatives. From conversational AI to medical transcription, Deepgram empowers developers to unlock the full potential of voice data at scale.

OctoAI is a cutting-edge AI infrastructure company that empowers developers to build and scale production-ready generative AI applications with ease. Their platform offers a customizable GenAI inference stack, allowing users to mix and match the latest optimized models and fine-tunes. With solutions like OctoStack, developers can deploy AI in their own environments, ensuring data privacy and reducing costs. OctoAI’s innovative approach to AI serving, rooted in technologies like XG Boost and TVM, provides unparalleled flexibility and performance for enterprises seeking AI independence.

Fixie - Fixie is a Seattle-based AI startup aiming to revolutionize human-AI interaction by enabling real-time, multi-modal conversations. They’re working on giving AI a voice and face to create more human-like connections, maximizing the potential of large language models in various applications.

Moondream - Moondream is an open-source computer-vision model designed to answer real-world questions about images with speed and accuracy. With just 1.8 billion parameters, it can run on almost any hardware, excelling in high-performance image analysis for various applications.

Boundary - BAML is an open-source tool that transforms messy prompt templates into typed functions, making AI code easier to run and test. It offers a seamless experience for developers working with various AI models, simplifying the process of building AI pipelines without hiding prompts or proxying APIs.

CopilotKit - CopilotKit is an innovative open-source platform that simplifies the integration of AI copilots into any product. It offers developers a comprehensive toolkit to enhance their applications with powerful AI-driven capabilities in hours rather than months.

🎉 Stay tuned - more exciting community sponsors to be announced soon!

☝️ Join us to connect with fellow AI builders, share ideas, and explore new developments in AI – register now as space is limited

📊 AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats

• Member stats: This exclusive community of 5,394 technical professionals features a high-signal membership where 35% are CTOs, founders, or principal architects. Key skill areas are balanced across generative AI orchestration (35%), distributed systems infrastructure (35%), and applied machine learning research (30%). Notable achievements include members deploying production-grade agentic architectures, pioneering open-source AI developer tooling, and optimizing GPU-compiler performance at scale.