AI Mad Lab

The fastest growing developer community for AI in the Nordics. Meet hundreds of founders, engineers, researchers and VCs for world-class talks every month.

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

we are going to steal the f'ing moon

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

The current revolution is at least as big as the Industrial Revolution. The name of the game is radical cost reduction. One hour of human labor should be one-to-many.

[Ymir @ymir_ke]

Way more people should pay attention to the /llms.txt proposal.

A markdown file explaining what you have on your website, making it really simple to give the llms the most important context.

Why would we want to re-generate this _all_ the time on the "client"?

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

Next generation chefs

[Sander Land @magikarp_tokens]

It was great to be able to present my glitch token work at @aimadlab in Oslo. As always, great community, excellent conversations, looking forward to many more meetups.

[Arne Tonning 🤙🚀 @eagleonamound]

#interestingdata
AI + 🇳🇴 = 💔? (ref. earlier AI + VC = ❤️ posts)
As a superfan of @kjetil1 ‘s "On Norwegian Tech" (🙏) I eagerly await the annual review, published last week 👌 The 2024 review is solid as always w/most of the numbers as expected in “the VC trenches” 😜. The “horizontal segment chart” is still somewhat surprising 😳 as AI/ML investment accounted for ~14% of all 🇳🇴deals. Even with some labeling overlap w/HW and SaaS this is low relative to other markets. AI share of deal count elsewhere:
· 🇪🇺: 23% (State of European Tech)
· 🇺🇸: 25% (Pitchbook)
· YC: 75% (Summer ’24 batch)
AI is significantly more overrepresented in invested amounts elsewhere.

I am an “AI bull” for multiple reasons: 1) AI’s potential to drive much needed societal productivity gains, 2) AI’s potential to solve fundamental problems and 3) the massive value potential and rapid change, make AI a great opportunity space for founders, startups and investors. It is natural to ask: What is going on in 🇳🇴? Are we just off/slower than others?

The bad news – macro/top-down: I fear Norway is becoming a societal AI laggard driven by risk aversion and lack of curiosity/ambition. Too harsh? Maybe… My perspective is formed by the focus and quality of AI discussions in public, where the main topic has been the risk of students cheating using AI, rather than the opportunity presented by AI and how to reap benefits and stay competitive. Societal focus and ambitions create trickle-down effects on capital allocation, either directly thru investment objectives/strategies (e.g. government investment) or indirectly due to interest, awareness and effort. It’s time to step it up on AI 👆We can do it 🙌

The good news – micro/bottom-up: For founders and VCs it is all about micro, identifying great opportunities and investment time+capital to build/scale products and organizations to serve customers. While the Norwegian AI founder and investor community is limited, the commitment+skillset+ambition combo of the “hard core” is awesome 💪It’s a game of winners anyway, not volume. I’m stoked to work with some top founders and startups in this space and look forward to more. It’s great to see that the biggest “true VC round” in Kjetil’s 2024 review was in @1x_tech, a truly exceptional company and global leader in physical AI (and @AllianceVC investment). The snowball is rolling and will only get bigger. Kudos to all the AI founders giving their all and newcomers like @aimadlab, gunning to build a vibrant community of builders bottom-up 👊

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[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

These are the people building tomorrow, today.

Hundreds of founders, engineers, and researchers came together at AI Mad Lab Summit, all driven by the same obsession: solving problems with code.

At @startuplabno we learned from world-class Nordic Seed and Series-A founders how they build, and how you can do the same with AI.

We’ve posted photos capturing the best moments — check them out: https://t.co/gWalvDiisQ

If you weren’t there, you missed out, but you can still be part of what’s next. Join more than 1500 founders, engineers and researchers @ https://t.co/WLyAcUbqMV.

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

Behind the scenes.

Immense talent density.

Developers. Developers. Developers.

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Get ready for show-time.

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

100 developers.

all learning how to apply LLMs and CV.

how to simulate lifeforms on your computer from Daniel Marchand

and

how to count car passengers from Laksiya Balasubramaniam.

come make new friends at our next meetup in Oslo @ Startuplab

[AI Mad Lab @aimadlab]

Hey team! Making a quick intro here.

We’re a fun team of founders/developers building AI Mad Lab to pay it forward.

Will do our best to share more content, behind-the-scenes and how to join.

If anyone’s world class at building developer communities, hit us up

@emilanker1.