Open Source AI Day at Berkeley - Funding the Common
🤫 It's no secret that open source has a funding problem.
⚔️ Facing the war-chested giants in AI's capital arms race, how can underfunded open source projects hope to survive, let alone win this modern David vs. Goliath battle?
🧠 Join us (@EdgeAGI) at the Open Source AI Day on April 14th at UC Berkeley. To support Funding the Commons this year, we are hosting a one-day discussion on the open-source AI landscape, contributor growth, and innovative funding models.
🗓️ Apr 14th Open Source AI Day Speakers include:
Matt White, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation & GM of AI, Linux Foundation
Julia Kiseleva, Principal Research at Microsoft
Jason Lopatecki, Co-Founder of Arize AI
Suraj Patel, Head of MongoDB Venture
Keith Adams, General Partner of Pebblebed & ex-Chief Architect, Slack
Erik Bovee, Founding Partner of Speedinvest & VP of Business of MindsDB
Arnav Gang, Senior ML Engineer at Predibase
Shishir Patil, Co-Founder of Gorilla LLM
Anton Osika, Founder of GPT Engineer
Alan Zabihi, Founder of SuperAgent
Ash Vardanian, Founder of Unum
Vitaly Butlatov, Founder of Merklebot
Jamie Joyce, Founder of Society Library & ex-PM of Internet Archive
Ben Goldhaber, Director at FAR Labs
Alex Skidanov, Co-Founder of Near AI
Evan Miyazono, Founder of Atlas Computing
Adam Chan, Developer Advocate Lead at Weaviate
Shannon Hong, Fellow of Open Future Foundation & ex-PM of ScaleAI
Jocelyn Weber Phipps, Deputy Director of the Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
On Apr13th, There is also having an Open Web Day with speakers include Chris Aniszczyk (CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Brian Behlendorf (Executive Director, Linux Foundation), and etc. Check here if you are interested in joining both days program.🌳 Open Source Campus
Your ticket also grants you access to a free month of co-working at the Open Source Campus at 717 Market Street #300. It is a 12,222 sq/ft floor with many private offices, collaborative co-working, frequent meetups and hackathons, and most importantly, good vibes.
🪐 About Edge
Established in early 2023 in San Francisco, Edge is a research & incubation lab advancing edge intelligence. It was founded in response to the rapidly evolving AI and next-gen web landscape, and Edge focuses on an open, autonomous, and user-centric intelligence future.
❤️ About Funding the Commons
Funding the Commons is an organization that aims to bridge the gap between builders and researchers to establish new mechanisms for public goods funding that leverage open-source technologies.
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