Welcome to the monthly in-person AI meetup in New York City, 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: Build Lightweight LLMs Applications with Open Source Tools
Speaker: Amogh Kokari (Con Edison)
Abstract: ChatGPT is awesome, but developing with its API comes at a cost. Fortunately, there are open-source alternatives like Google Gemini, Streamlit, and Python APIs that can fetch prompt results using an API key. In this presentation, I'll explore how to create a lightweight, self-service end-to-end LLMs application using prompt engineering and fine-tuning based on user requests. Additionally, I'll demonstrate how to build a food suggestion application based on ingredients or food names.

Tech Talk: MultiModal Learning and Synthetic AI
Speaker: Shafik Quoraishee (The New York Times)
Abstract: This talk will take a dive into the core theories and mechanisms behind multi-modal AI models, the powerful AI systems that integrate intelligence from diverse data sources such as text, AI, and vision. While we will reference popular applications like GPT Vision, Gemini, and Sora as illustrative examples, our focus will primarily be on understanding the foundational principles that enable capabilities such as real-time image/video analysis, hyper-segmentation of images, and image-to-text extraction among others.

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 sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 350K+ worldwide.

Venue:
Microsoft NYC - Times Square, 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036
Room Name: Central Park West 6501

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