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Announcing the AI Engineer Network: Benjamin Dunphy
Takeaway
The AI Engineer Summit launches with a sponsor-backed event and an open-source LLM-powered attendee-matching app as proof of the community's reach.
Summary
- Opening of the inaugural 2023 AI Engineer Summit (500 attendees) with sponsor roll call: AutoGPT, Supabase (broke their no-sponsorship rule), Fixie, Microsoft, GitHub, Cloudflare.
- Launches Network, the conference's official mobile app, with LLM-powered attendee matching ('Generative Matching Algorithm') based on user-stated problems.
- Network is open-sourced (github.com/ai-engineer/network); built by Simon Sturmer (mobile) and Swyx (matching) with Descope (auth) and Supabase + pgvector (DB).
- Recognizes attendees as 'experienced software engineers actively shipping AI-enhanced or AI-native apps'.
- Teases 2024 expansion announcements for the following day's keynote.
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Original description
Benjamin Dunphy (https://twitter.com/benghamine), co-founder of the AI Engineer Summit and managing partner at Software 3.0, LLC, welcomes attendees to the Summit, and makes a few key announcements for the event's software app, Network. Recorded live in San Francisco at the AI Engineer Summit 2023. See the full schedule of talks at https://ai.engineer/summit/schedule & join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in 2024! Get your tickets today at https://ai.engineer/worlds-fair 00:00 Welcome 00:55 Who's here? 03:26 🌶️ joke that doesn't land 😅 03:56 You're here! 04:45 Network mobile app background https://ai.engineer/Network 05:30 ⚠️📢 Announcing AI-Enhanced Matching! 06:25 ⚠️📢 Announcing Network is now open source! https://github.com/aiDotEngineer/Network