Open Source AI Summit
Hosted by BuildPlanet + Erica Kang + NEAR Foundation + Cameron Dennis + Matt White
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What to look forward to
The Open Source AI Summit will spotlight technical advances across the open-source AI frontier, with founders and builders sharing insights during a half-day seminar. Speakers will include Stanford Fellow Peter Norvig, former Linux Foundation AI CTO Matt White, NEAR founder and *Attention Is All You Need* co-author Illia Polosukhin, and NVIDIA Research group lead Jean Kossaifi.
Inside the event
It's that time for another Open Source AI Summit with Buildplanet! This time we are hosting during Open Source AI Week on Oct 16-25, and co-hosting with Open Intelligence Foundation and NEAR AI.
Open Source AI Summit is a half day seminar focused on sharing technical developments in the open source AI frontier. We look forward to hearing insights from founders and builders in respective fields.
We will start talks at 2:30pm, don't be late! Delicious kimbap will be provided from 2pm, let's enjoy some good food before we start an intensive round of talks!
Previous talk videos can be seen here
*[Speakers]*
- Peter Norvig: Technical Staff at Recursive, Fellow at Stanford University
- Matt White: Former Global CTO of AI at Linux Foundation, CTO of PyTorch
- Illia Polosukhin: Founder of NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI, former researcher at Google Research, co-author of Attention Is All You Need, contributor to Tensorflow
- Jean Kossaifi: Group Lead, NVIDIA Research
- Adrian Kosowski: Co-founder & CSO, Pathway
- Evan Conrad, Co-founder & CEO, SF Compute
- Stepan Gershuni: Builder, cyber.fund
*[Agenda]*
2:30pm - 2:40pm Welcome Remarks by Erica Kang, Illia Polosukhin, Matt White
2:40pm - 3:05pm Fireside chat between Matt White, Illia Polosukhin on "Benefits and Risks of Open Models”
3:05pm - 3:25pm Solo talk by Peter Norvig (Technical Staff at Recursive, Fellow at Stanford University)
- Talk title: "Beyond the Breakthrough: What Comes Next for AI"
3:25pm - 3:45pm Solo talk by Illia Polosukhin (Founder of NEAR Protocol and NEAR AI, co-author of Attention Is All You Need)
- Talk title: "What can't your AI do?"
3:45pm - 4:10pm Fireside chat between Peter Norvig, Illia Polosukhin on "Recursive Self Improvement as a Future of Science"
4:10pm - 4:30pm Solo talk by Adrian Kosowski (Co-founder & CSO, Pathway)
- Talk title: "The Post-Transformer Frontier More Intelligence per Watt, Token, and Dollar"
4:30pm - 4:50pm Solo talk by Jean Kossaifi (Group Lead, NVIDIA Research)
- Talk title: "From CAD to Physics: Tokenizing Geometry for AI-Aided Engineering"
4:50pm - 5:15pm Fireside chat between Evan Conrad, Stepan Gershuni
A free, high quality seminar for the community - secure your spot and see you soon!
The House by Edge & Node
The House by Edge & Node, Building 103, 103 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94129, USA. Confirm the venue with the organizer before traveling.
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Last checked: Oct 19, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.
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