AI is eating software! Come network with entrepreneurs and leaders inventing the future of AI: from autonomous vehicles, to drug discovery, to efficient generative AI platforms.  Join the Fireside chat, meet Pear's AI portfolio, and discover the biggest opportunities in AI today. 

Featuring a fireside chat with Hussein Mehana, SVP engineering at Cruise! 

We'll be at Playground Global in Palo Alto (380 Portage Ave). Unfortunately, Playground does not allow outside food but we will have plenty of drinks and snacks in their micro-kitchen.

Hussein is currently the Senior VP of AI and ML, leading the development of AI and ML teams to deliver on Cruise's vision of making autonomous vehicles a reality. He has pioneered cutting-edge AI and ML systems from the lab to market working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Doordash, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Affinity and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

Pear VC: AI Mixer and Fireside Chat with Cruise's Hussein Mehanna

Join Pear VC's Aparna Sinha in a conversation on safe and efficient AI with Stanford CS PhD researchers Dan Fu and Eric Mitchell. Dan is co-inventor of FlashAttention and is doing seminal work in increasing context length in LLMs. Eric is co-author of DetectGPT, which was recently featured in various press outlets for its ability to distinguish between AI vs. human generated text. We will talk with Dan and Eric about new capabilities we can expect from LLMs and how they could impact the use cases for generative AI. 

 is a fifth-year Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford, where he is co-advised by 

. In his research, Dan develops ML and systems algorithms to break crucial modeling bottlenecks. Recently, he's been very interested in enabling longer-sequence models, with a line of work starting with 

. In the past, he has also done work on labeling (

 is a fourth-year PhD student in Stanford’s CS department, where he is advised by 

. The goal of his research is to make the knowledge embedded in neural networks more reusable and updatable in an ever-changing world. Eric is interested in deep learning generally, as well as meta-learning and continual learning more specifically, particularly in the context large language models (or ‘Foundation Models’). 

Pear VC: Generative AI Mixer and Fireside Chat with Stanford Researchers

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. 

Please join us for brunch to hear Pear VC’s very own partners Aparna Sinha and Arash Afrakhteh as they discuss and share insights on enterprise opportunities in generative AI. As leading voices in the field, Aparna and Arash are uniquely positioned to provide attendees with a wealth of knowledge and insights into latest trends, technologies and applications of generative AI. 

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including DoorDash, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Affinity and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

SF #TechWeek x Pear VC: Enterprise Opportunities in Generative AI Breakfast Mixer with Aparna Sinha and Arash Afrakhteh

, Partner at Pear VC and meet other amazing women in AI builders! 

Spots are very limited. If you are not accepted, then you are on the waitlist.

Once accepted, location will be shared in San Francisco.

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. Pear has backed iconic companies such as Doordash, Guardant, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, Aurora Solar, Nobell Foods and more at the earliest stages. We're company builders, having founded 12 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

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Women in AI Builders with Sara Hooker, Head of AI at Cohere

Join Pear AI partner Aparna Sinha for a fireside chat with Kamil Rocki, PhD, Head of Performance at Stability AI, and former Nvidia CUDA, Neuralink, Cerebras and IBM researcher. We will cover the breakthroughs in the design of AI supercomputers, progress in connecting the human brain to machines and the technology that powers StabilityAIs newest hyper realistic models. We will talk about the applications that are emerging and may in future emerge from these phenomenal systems level innovations. 