Play with representation engineering from a free tier Colab notebook!
Inspired by @NeelNanda5's TransformerLens notebooks, @ivanleomk and I made a notebook to get up and running with @voooooogel's repeng library in just a few minutes with GPUs available on Colab's free tier.
https://t.co/3gJ9fBCCHF
@brianchew Get a bit more ram but don’t max it out. Can’t run models that are good enough and fast enough to make sense unless you’re working offline most of the time
and the day 3 recap for @aiDotEngineer singapore is here!!
thank u everyone for the trust and all the grace that was extended to me, our team and everyone who made this work
see you in 2027 for ai engineer singapore
Heading to Singapore 🇸🇬 to speak at @aiDotEngineer ! I'll be sharing how we're approaching sovereign AI at @SakanaAILabs toward culturally-aligned and sustainable models for Japan. Can't wait to see old friends & connect with the local builder community.
Thank you @SherryYanJiang & @swyx <3
Where in the world can you find a senior government leader with a personal AI stack published on GitHub?
How many would be willing to talk about it in a room full of builders?
Which is why we are so incredibly honoured to welcome Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, to the lineup of speakers for @aiDotEngineer Singapore.
A few weeks ago, Minister Balakrishnan casually dropped a technical writeup of his personal AI system online.
Raspberry Pi. Claude. Local embeddings. Knowledge graphs. A full architecture breakdown.
And the global AI community noticed because it reflected something bigger: a willingness to engage with these systems directly, publicly, and practically.
To kick off AIE Singapore, Minister Balakrishnan will share his experience experimenting with open-source AI tools and building a “second brain” workflow, alongside broader reflections on how AI may reshape global dynamics, and the way people work, think, and manage information.
In a role that demands navigating enormous volumes of information and constant context-switching, his reflections will set the tone for the conference in exactly the way we hoped:
That meaningful conversations about AI should not stay abstract.
They should involve understanding its parameters through practical engagement with the technology.
And that Singapore has become the place where that kind of engagement happens seriously.
Where in the world can you find a senior government leader with a personal AI stack published on GitHub?
How many would be willing to talk about it in a room full of builders?
Which is why we are so incredibly honoured to welcome Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan @VivianBala, to the lineup of speakers for AI Engineer Singapore.
A few weeks ago, Minister Balakrishnan casually dropped a technical writeup of his personal AI system online
Raspberry Pi. Claude. Local embeddings. Knowledge graphs. A full architecture breakdown.
And the global AI community noticed because it reflected something bigger: a willingness to engage with these systems directly, publicly, and practically.
To kick off @aiDotEngineer Singapore, Minister Balakrishnan will share his experience experimenting with open-source AI tools and building a “second brain” workflow, alongside broader reflections on how AI may reshape global dynamics, and the way people work, think, and manage information.
In a role that demands navigating enormous volumes of information and constant context-switching, his reflections will set the tone for the conference in exactly the way we hoped:
That meaningful conversations about AI should not stay abstract.
They should involve understanding its parameters through practical engagement with the technology.
And that Singapore has become the place where that kind of engagement happens seriously.
announcing more sponsors + track prizes for the @aidotengineer singapore hackathon this saturday!
300 builders. 7 hours.
$6,000 in overall cash prizes,
$3,000 from adaption,
$500 convex gift cards, tickets to aie, pro accounts, api credits, tablets, and more
new sponsors include @ExaAILabs , @ManusAI , @vercel , and @daytonaio - joining @openai, @cursor_ai, @convex, @mastra, @adaption_ai, @smitherydotai and more
come build with us: https://t.co/yNYd6eypc4
hackathon this saturday for @aiDotEngineer singapore!
300 builders, 7 hours, real cash prizes ($3k/$2k/$1k SGD) + hundreds in credits and prizes from @OpenAI , @cursor_ai , @convex , @mastra , @adaption_ai, @SmitheryDotAI and more
some of these companies are making their singapore debut - adaption labs is giving first-ever access to their product through this event!
we've been building up to ai engineer singapore with these road to aie events and the energy here is unreal. this one's going to be special
solo or squad, no fixed themes, free food all day. come build with us
https://t.co/yNYd6eypc4
AI is concentrating, in a few countries, a few companies, a few chips.
Open-source AI is the only real check on that. And it only works if the infrastructure to run it actually exists.
Today, we're announcing our Series A, $20 M, to make this a reality.
Hi Singapore 🇸🇬, meet Codex 🩵
With Codex, ANYONE can build and create.
We’re turning that energy up this May.
We’re a diamond sponsor 💎 at @aiDotEngineer Singapore, at a bunch of events, and hosting sessions for builders at every level. Plus, @thsottiaux will be in town.
There's something for everyone:
> Intro workshops if you’re just getting started.
> Hack nights if you want to go deep & tokenmax
> Demo nights if you want to see what people are building.
May is going to be fun, and we're just getting started.
+++++++++++++++++
3 May: Emergency Codex Hackathon https://t.co/Mx4mQDUYs1 with @brianchew
4 May: Codex Hack Night - Design & Frontend https://t.co/le5ioJg3uP with @cleondesigns
5 May: Codex Demo Night - GPT-5.5 & ImageGen 2 https://t.co/sIXfx73Hzs with @Lorong_AI and @yongquanYQ
7 May: AI Engineer UnConference https://t.co/SRGP7cMIKH
No talk there, but I’ll be hanging out. Come find us.
Together with the @65labslah crew
9 May: AI Engineer Singapore Hackathon
Link is TBA
Together with the @65labslah crew
9 May: Codex workshop at The Good Hack https://t.co/MeMatjN5Il
Thanks for inviting us GoodHub SEA (Joanne Tan), Open Government Products
11 May: Codex Hack Night - Computer Use https://t.co/C1wJAB03yL
Together with @Lorong_AI and @yongquanYQ
13 May: Codex Hack Night - TBC 👀 https://t.co/I2mExOqAaV
Together with @Lorong_AI
TBA: Intro to Codex for Everyday Work - Workshop
15 May: AI Engineer Singapore - Codex Workshop
16-17 May: AI Engineer Singapore - Keynotes + Codex Booths
and more ...
we are beyond stoked to have @ryolu_ head of design at @cursor_ai speaking at @aiDotEngineer singapore!
ryo is the mind behind so many of the interface decisions that make cursor feel like magic - and one of the most thoughtful voices in ai-native design right now.
before cursor, he was founding designer at notion, and held design roles at stripe and asana.
see you in a few weeks at https://t.co/13SQyOwilT
@swyx@agrimsingh@unprofeshme@aimuggle@adlinzainal@ivanleomk
speaker reveal: @calcsam is joining us at @aiDotEngineer singapore 🇸🇬
sam co-founded gatsby.js, then built @mastra - a typescript ai agent framework that hit 150k weekly downloads in its first year. @Replit 's agent runs on it.
he also wrote two books on building ai agents with 200k+ copies printed.
excited to have him at https://t.co/13SQyOwQbr
@swyx@agrimsingh@unprofeshme@aimuggle@ivanleo