Welcome to the monthly in-person AI meetup in Boston, in collaboration with Microsoft. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 6:00pm~6:10pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:10pm~8:30pm: Tech talks
* 8:30pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Tech Talk: Assistants API in Azure OpenAI
Speaker: Juan Pablo (Microsoft LinkedIn)
Abstract: In this session, we will explore the API Assistants in Azure OpenAI Service. This new feature in Azure OpenAI Service, is now available in public preview. Assistants API represents a new cognitive architecture from OpenAI embedded in a product that makes it simple for developers to create high quality copilot-like experiences within their own applications. Previously, building custom AI assistants needed heavy lifting even for experienced developers. While the chat completions API is lightweight and powerful, it is inherently stateless, which means that developers had to manage conversation state and chat threads, tool integrations, retrieval documents and indexes, and execute code manually. Assistants API, as the stateful evolution of the chat completion API, provides a solution for these challenges.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Boston or 300K+ worldwide.

Venue:
Microsoft New England – 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Conf Room NERD/1245 Thomas Paul

Community Partners:
Contact us if you are interested in partnership.
- Microsoft: Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Every day, the innovative technology we create here takes that mission to new and exciting places and impacts the lives of millions of people around the world.

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