Duff Gardner

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QUESTION:
Why is SF is the Epicenter of AI? It's shocking, but it is...

ANSWER:
...Community. Community. Community. Yes, humans. It's builders, investors, event hosts, and many other partners. Sure the tech itself matters, but at this stage, it requires a culture to assemble and integrate the tech.

DATA:
This Sept 2023, there are exactly 100 AI events in the SF Bay Area, with 70 of them taking place in San Francisco. data from @cerebral_valley (follow them now)

I was in New York this week, where there were just a fraction of the AI events in comparison. NY is amazing too, btw.

Sept 2023 Bay Area AI events:

-Web3 and AI Investor Pitching
-Edge Intelligence Summit
-AI Fintech meetup: McKinsey and Google entrepreneurs
-Byte to bite an AI Dinner Experience
-AI Investors & Networking
-FutureScape 2023: How AI and Big Ideas Are Changing the Game for Engineers
-AI Investor Pitching
-Revolutionizing Risk: How Sensors, Data and AI Are Reshaping the Insurance
-AI x Complex Product Development
-Fireside Unleashed with Patrick Salyer AI
-AI Builders & Connectors hosted by AI+ & RAD Ninja Group
-Tech & Tequila - Network Differently
-AI Founder & Builder CoWorking at Pixlcat Coffee
-GenAI Founders & Funders (AI Panel)
-GenAI Collective and FPV Ventures: Discussion Lounge
-Thursday Nights in AI: Anton Troynikov, Chroma
-Agents Dev
-AI Founders Happy Hour
-AI Investors & Networking
-Builder Game Night with SamsungNext
-AI Dev Day
-Music and AI at Hacker Dojo
-AI in Design
-MLHops - an MLOps infused Happy Hour
-AI in HR Mixer @ Indeed
-Sync Up! With Syncly
-AI For Marketers #6
-AI Founder & Builder CoWorking at Pixlcat
-Thursday Nights in AI: Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex
-Power Up Your Network by Alchemist Accelerator
-AWS Gen AI Day in SF
-The Commons Hack Night
-Generative AI Social & Speaker: Build Gen AI applications with Real-time events
-AI Automation in Digital Marketing
-AI B2C Investors & Networking
-AI Social Mixer: Bridging Minds
-GenAI Collective Disruptive Horizons Summit
-Mastering Content Creation Using AI
-Enterprise AI happy hour
-Build or Buy: The Journey to Data and AI in the Enterprise
-Women in AI Pitch Night with NFX
-AI ARCADE MEETUP
-Jobs, Truth, and AI: Where do we go from here?
-GenAI Collective x Galaxy Interactive GenAI Virtual Worlds Summit
-Snorkel AI Meetup
-Athletes in tech happy hour
-Startup & VC Happy Hour
-Generative AI Use Cases in Healthcare
-Ready, Set, Grow!
-Generative AI - The Future of Accounting Summit
-Llama Lounge
-Building with Generative AI at Scale – fireside w/ -Ironclad, Webflow, Mem
-AI For Designers #6
-Unleashing the Future of Gen AI
-AI Social Club (Meetup #8)
-CloudSips: Climate Aligned Generative AI
-AI Tinkerers - September Meetup
-Patronus AI: Frontier of AI Evaluation
-Bridging Innovation: Startup Speed Dating with NTT
-LLMOps: Overcoming Hurdles in Bringing LLMs to Production
-How to prepare your Support team for AI
-AI Founder & Builder CoWorking at Pixlcat
-SignalFire's AI Disruptors Afterparty
-AI & Renewable Energy - Speaker Panel & Happy Hour
-Thursday Nights in AI: @swyx
-Generative AI Social
-Founders BBQ @ SF AI Collective HQ
-Uplift Series: Frontier of Interspecies Conversations
-Machine-World Interfaces Salon Series
-Next Gen AI Hackathon Closing Reception
-Generative AI Silicon Valley Summit 2023
-AI Mosh Pie Demos
-Productizing LLMs
-AI B2B Investors & Networking
-AI B2B Investor Salon
-Bring Your Idea to Production on Replit
-AI Insight Summit: Navigating the Future of Artificial Intelligence
-MUSIC & AI
-Demystifying Gen AI for the Enterprise
-AI Builders Coworking + Happy Hour @ MindsDB
-Your Data, Your Model, Change My Mind - ft founders of Chroma, Ollama, Nixtla, MindsDB
-LLM Happy Hour
-Unstructured Data in LLMs with LlamaIndex, VectorFlow, CambioML, and Zilliz
-Founders and Funders: AI with Sarah Guo
-Unlocking sustainable growth: Generative AI for -Startups and Enterprises
-GenAI Collective Silicon Valley Meetup
-Agents SOTA
-🤖 AI Builders Cerebral Valley 🤖 Co-Working at Susa Ventures
-Pushing RAG to Production and Troubleshooting LLM Apps
-AI for Good: A discussion on addressing real-world problems with AI
-Thursday Nights in AI: Kanjun Qiu, Imbue
-AI Founder & Builder CoWorking at Pixlcat
-Conviction Hiring Demo Day
-Real time Data Apps and LLMs
-Generative AI Social
-TSVC Capital Monthly Beer Bash-Web3 Wonders with AI
-Machine Learning at the Exploratorium
-Prototyping Your Agent Idea with No Code
-Big Data & AI in Precision Medicine (Chinese Bioscience Association (CBA) Annual Conference 2023)
-The AI Conference 2023

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1/ Superthread: Microsoft Copilot AI means we all have our own executive assistant.

I spent time with the @Microsoft @Microsoft365 team this am, they are partnered with OpenAI/GPT. Here's what you need to know.

#AI

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

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Increasing client retention by as little as 5% can boost profits by as much as 95%. https://t.co/ZUGAXEBPrP

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7 Keys to a Productive Life:

1. Wake up early
2. Limit interruptions
3. Make a little progress everyday
4. Say no (a lot)
5. Learn from your mistakes
6. Pick yourself back up when you slip
7. Waste no time measuring yourself against other people

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Great read from a startup pitch coach and former portfolio lead... https://t.co/Bq3F2rYdJq