🔥 Why You Shouldn’t Miss October Demo Night

Austin keeps turning out some of the spiciest AI builds on the planet—from ultra-cheap reasoning agents to text-to-video workflows. On Thursday, October 9, we’re packing the room with 100 serious builders to share what’s working right now and trade war stories while the models are still hot.

Join us for the next AI Tinkerers meetup in Austin!

Featuring SOTA demos from Google Cloud & Comet!

Showcase your latest AI demos, connect with fellow practitioners, and dive deep into the world of LLMs and generative AI with the best technical community in Austin.

Space is strictly limited and we will be screening attendance.

🔥 Apply now for an evening of hands-on demos and talks and connect with a community of active builders! Participate by presenting your own work, or just share ideas with like-minded people.

RSVP in the form above 👆

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup exclusively for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and want to connect with like-minded people who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you. With AI Tinkerers meetings happening in many cities, we support a dedicated global community.

Who is this for?

We are not just “AI enthusiasts”, we are AI Tinkerers. The core essence of AI Tinkerers is active collaboration around early-stage discovery and innovation, which requires a high degree of experimentation, vulnerability, openness to sharing challenges and learnings, and collaboration among individuals with a shared level of expertise. This unique environment allows us to embrace experimentation, foster an atmosphere of trust and innovation, and create world-changing solutions. 🌍

Read more in the FAQ

Some slots still available, submit your demo! 👇

🎤 Demo Submissions

Ready to showcase your groundbreaking AI research, revolutionary AI use, or game-changing model? This is your moment to share with like-minded AI tinkerers!

A demo is about five minutes in length and demonstrates a work in progress, followed by Q\&A and discussion with the community (this is the best part!)

👉 FILL OUT THE DEMO SUBMISSION FORM HERE 👈

Pitch decks are not allowed - we want to see your work in progress, no matter how messy!

Read What Makes a Great Demo at AI Tinkerers

Please note that capacity is limited, so we’ll prioritize those who are able to present a demo.

Demo vibes

🕕 Event Schedule

*6:00 PM: Doors Open

*7:00: 10 min GCP overview presented by Vibha Kurpad

*7:15: 10 min COMET presentation on how to confidently track ML/AI experiments at scale by Vincent

*7:30 PM: Community demos, showcasing what attendees have built with GCP (5 min each + Q & A, no slides, all code)

*8:00 PM: Open networking and Science Fair

*9:00 PM: Event Closes

More information

If you are new to AI Tinkerers, please read the AI Tinkerers FAQ and join our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/8WsqnC6Hk3

Sponsors

Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

⭐ Start building now!

We’re giving the AI Tinkerers Community free trial access to Google Cloud’s cutting-edge AI tools to power your projects.

• Build What’s Next in Generative AI
• Vertex AI Free Trial ($300 Credit)
• Google for Startups Cloud Program
• Hello Startups

COMET

Opik is an open source platform built by the Comet team for debugging, evaluating, optimizing and monitoring LLM applications. It supports prompt and agent optimization, built-in safety guardrails, CI/CD testing, and production monitoring—all integrated with popular LLM tools and easy to run locally or via Comet.

Capital Factory

Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. They also sponsor the AI Tinkerers Austin Chapter.