LangChain & Pear Present: Lessons from Scaling Consumer AI to 30K QPS - Fireside Chat with James Groeneveld (Engineering @ Character.ai)

​​Join us for an exciting evening meetup in San Francisco hosted at Pear Ventures, featuring a fireside chat with Harrison Chase (CEO of LangChain) and James Groeneveld (Engineering at Character.ai).

​James and Harrison will take you behind the scenes of Character.ai’s journey to scale LLM generation to handle 30,000 queries per second. Get the inside scoop on the backend magic and the lessons learned from the early days of consumer AI.

​​​​​Enjoy snacks, drinks, and engaging discussions! Spots are limited, so RSVP now ✨ Please note this event is fully in-person in San Francisco and will not be live-streamed online.

​​​​​​​​​​​​Agenda ⏰

​​6:00 PM: Doors open

​​6:30 PM: Fireside Chat with Harrison Chase (CEO of LangChain) and James Groeneveld (Engineering at Character.ai)

​​7:15 PM: Networking

​​About the hosts:

• ​​​​LangChain is building developer tools (LangChain, LangSmith, LangGraph) to make it as easy as possible to build context-aware reasoning applications. Learn more: https://www.langchain.com/

• ​​Pear VC is a seed specialist fund investing out of a $432M fund. We are company builders, operators, and advisors, and we have founded 11+ startups. We have been fortunate to be the earliest investment partners with companies now worth over $70B, including DoorDash, Gusto, Vanta, Viz AI, Orby AI, Ideogram. Learn more: https://pear.vc/

• ​​Character.ai is building AIs that feel alive. Users can chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Learn more: https://character.ai