AI Research Night — Case Studies in Pretraining

📍 Location: Shoreditch Treehouse, 34 Charlotte Rd, London EC2A 3PB, UK

Join us for an insightful evening featuring presentations from three innovative teams focused on AI pretraining! 🤖✨

🌟 Speakers and Topics:

1. Angelos Perivolaropoulos (Research Engineer at ElevenLabs)
   Pretraining a GPT on a laptop
   Discover what insights can be transferred from a 10M parameter model and the limitations.
2. Nico Waltz (AI Research Engineer at PostHog)
   A from-scratch encoder for session replay data
   Learn about a self-supervised encoder trained directly on DOM recordings.
3. Cameron Tice (Co-Founder & Executive Director, Geodesic Research)
   Alignment pretraining
   Explore lessons from training 6.9B-parameter LLMs on vast corpora.

🥳 Enjoy canapés throughout the event to keep you energized!

👥 Who this is for:
Active PhD students and AI researchers with hands-on experience in model training. Registration is manually approved.

🗓️ Agenda:
18:30 — Doors open, drinks 19:00 — Talks
20:10 — Open discussion 20:40 — Dinner in the treehouse

For more details and to register: Click here to register