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SDxAI Startup Showcase Recap Video 🎥✨ A huge thank you to everyone who participated and helped make this event a success. Together, we're shaping the largest community of AI builders in San Diego. To recap, the SDxAI showcase brought together 120+ AI builders, investors, and founders to view demos from 7 local San Diego Generative AI startups. These startups featured everything from AI research tools to dynamic video feedback solutions. Check out the video to see the startup founders in action! Congratulations to our audience favorites: 🥇 1st Place: Demian Borba with Pactto 🥈 2nd Place: Pedro Arellano with Wallabi 🥉 3rd Place: Nick Edwards, PhD with Potato Kudos also to our incredible lineup of founders: Panna Felsen & Addison Ooms, NextUp. Rupak Doshi, OmniSync Incorporated Albert Aguilera, claims.ai Andrew Petry, Makase A special shoutout to our sponsors and partners: crosscourt.vc, Qualcomm, University of San Diego, and AI LA, as well as our fantastic exhibitors. Watch the highlights in our video and stay tuned for more events as we continue to grow the AI builder community in San Diego. Join our Discord: https://lnkd.in/guyG6rAf Follow us on Twitter: https://lnkd.in/gBi4DKv6 Subscribe to our Events: https://lu.ma/sdx (Video credit: Kaleb Smith) #sdx #sandiego #ai #startups #crosscourtvc #qualcomm #universityofsandiego #builders #events #investors

Adam Smith presented a paper on Liquid Time-Constant Neural Nets at last weeks SDx Paperclub. He talked about how this revolutionized prediction of time-series data (weather forecasting, robotic trajectories, etc). The group discussed the inner workings of the ODE solving activation functions and how the training and inference of the networks worked. Great time last week! Stay tuned for upcoming SDx events: https://lu.ma/sdx

I'll be presenting "Liquid Time-constant Neural Networks" on Thursday evening, come hang!

Join us this Thursday, March 13th from 7pm-9pm for the SDx PaperClub! The paper covered will be Liquid Time-constant Networks. [https://lnkd.in/dgbVssg] Sign up here: https://lu.ma/jkdpwi70

Perplexity Hack Day Recap! On Saturday we hosted an impromptu hack day bringing together 25+ top UCSD AI builders for a 5-hour hack session. All teams demoed totaling 13 demos, here's a few projects people built: - Worldwide News Sentiment Analysis by Chris Mo and Prachi Heda: https://lnkd.in/g_K2BVBu - Class Notes to MCQ by David Wang: https://lnkd.in/giMCY9CV - Personal Sleep Analysis by Tony Zheng: https://lnkd.in/gM_4Zun4 - iMessage Question Answering by Matthew Lu: https://lnkd.in/gE8-rSVp - Solar Panel Defect Classification by Lucas Bicudo: https://lnkd.in/gPFQ8UNy Shoutout everyone who joined and demoed, and thank you to Perplexity for powering up hackers with credits. We’re looking forward to hosting more of these!

Another successful SDx Qualcomm AI Coffee Chat in the books! Huge thanks to Chad Lohrli for organizing these with me. Next dates are 4/9 and 5/7 from 9am - 11am, more info at SDx.community. Come talk about the latest abd greatest in AI with us!

SDx is a model every major metro should replicate to foster talent and stoke opportunity. Already 2 start-ups accepted at Y Combinator. Great things happen when strong leaders with a clear mission gather talented, smart, and humble individuals. Kudos to Chad Lohrli and crew.

Congrats Tom Zheng, great way to lead by example! This is the power of building a highly curated, highly cracked community of AI Engineers both at the academic and community level. It's happening, right here in SD. Let's go SDx & SDx at UC San Diego!

Join SDx this Wednesday, February March 5th from 9-11am for AI Coffee at Qualcomm AI Coffee is an invite-only meetup for AI builders where we hold open discussions on the latest progress in AI. Conversations range from high-level observations to technical reflections on state-of-the-art techniques. Sign up here: https://lu.ma/5ejuamw1

SDx at UC San Diego has been hard at work building AI products across industries like sales and defense. Their next meetup is this weekend. Be sure to check out what the best students in San Diego are building with AI.