Events

Nov 22, 2024

• Ben Moskowitz, Consumer Reports explained their focus on Personal AI. Doc Searls anchored in Reza's absence. 

Nov 15, 2024

• Matt Bird, CEO of ESG News, discussed the organization's focus on sustainability news, the shift from centralized to decentralized electrical power generation and the challenges of making AI safe and avoiding its concentration in the hands of a few. 

Nov 8, 2024

• Daryle Serrant, presented his research on the performance of Mamba, a state space model, and its comparison with other transformer models.

Nov 1, 2024

• Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. 

• Workgroup updates

• Event updates

Oct 25, 2024

• Introducing the Newly Elected Board

• Workgroup updates

• Event updates

Oct 18, 2024

• Jeff Easley, General Manager of the Responsible AI Institute. 

• Workgroup updates

• Event updates

Oct 11, 2024

• Diego Galeano reported on the AI for Life Sciences work group progress. 

• accuracy of large language models (LLMs) 

• retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

• graph-based methods (GraphRAG)

Oct 4, 2024

• Larry Namer, Founder of E! Entertainment, was guest speaker.

Sep 27, 2024

• Sam Johnston, pAIOS Lead, was the guest speaker.

• Reported on the anti-democratic behavior in the OSI process as it strives to develop a definition for Open Source AI.

Sep 20, 2024

• Rika Nakazawa, Founder of Gathr, was the guest speaker.

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Sep 13, 2024

• Scott Glosserman, Founder of Gathr, was the guest speaker.

Sep 6, 2024

• Doc Searls, Chief Intention Officer of Kwaai was guest speaker. He gave a report on the proceedings at dWeb Camp.

• Balaji, Saian, and Sam gave workgroup updates.

Aug 30, 2024

• Raffi Krikorian gave the Lightning Talk

  • CTO Emerson Collective

  • Podcast - Technically Optimistic 

  • Board - Tumo Center, Mozilla, Medic

  • Former DNC CTO, Uber Dir, Twitter VP

Aug 23, 2024

• Greg Spektor delivered an insightful presentation on process optimization and agile methodologies, focusing on the importance of clear, complete, and prioritized requirements in software development.

• Sam Johnston gave an update on pAIOS

• Richard Whitt gave a recap of GliaNET kick-off meeting

Aug 16, 2024

• Richard Whitt, Founder of GliaNet, talks about his new book, Reweaving the Web, launching in Sept.

• Ai4 Conference report

Aug 9, 2024

• AZ Zaidi, winner of the hackathon, reports on the PAI Palooza at GooglePlex

• The meeting also covered updates from the alignment and policy work group, focusing on AI alignment with human values and the idea of creating configurable metrics for personal AI assistants. This sparked a discussion on bias in AI models, with participants debating the challenges and potential solutions.

• iBridge infrastructure partnership for Kwaai Beta Program

• Reza and Brian Ragazzi report on grant applications.

Aug 2, 2024

• Dr. Hind Arroub, guest speaker, Artificial Intelligence Ethicist and  Geo-Political Scientist

• Workgroup updates

• New member voices

July 26, 2024

• Angel Sanchez, guest speaker, talked about his commitment to support the Kwaai mission through the development partnership of ArkusNexus.

• The Kwaai Weekly Public meeting celebrates its 1st birthday

• Kwaai membership exceed 550

• 17 institutions have applied to the Beta Program

• Swiss Vault and iBridge agreed to provide the infrastructure required for the Beta

July 19, 2024

• Steve Wilson, Exabeam CPO, gave a Lightning Talk on Securing Generative AI Apps

• Reza reported on funding activity

• Sam - fully signed commits to pAIOS

• Sunity reports on Back-Office automation for a growing movement. Slack Pro nonprofit upgrade 

July 12, 2024

• Michael Glavich gave the Lightning Talk on AI2030

• We celebrated our 50th KwaaiDay

July 5, 2024

• Ruth Rassool gave a Lightning Talk on Personal AI in Edu

• Live connection with Cristian Randieri- Siracusa, Italy conference

• Lumi now speaks Italian!

• pAI Assistant update from Saian Ford, Roy Quesada

• Arkus Nexus team drives progress towards

• 14 institutions have applied to the Beta program

June 28, 2024

• Sol Lee gave a Lightning Talk on Double - Virtual Assistant

• pAIOS update from Sam Johnston

• pAI Assistant update from Balaji Lakshmanan

• Research update from Diego, Daryle, Brian

• End of quarter update - membership crossed 500

June 21, 2024

• Eve Maler gave the Lightning Talk on 'Identity'

• pAIOS update from Sam Johnston

• pAI Assistant update from Balaji Lakshmanan

• Beta update from Reza

• Research update from Diego, Daryle, Brian

June 14, 2024

• Sujith Nair Lightning Talk on the BeckN protocol - very inspiring p2p commerce tech

• Beta Program

• Hackathon update from Toby Morning

• pAIOS update from Sam Johnston

June 7, 2024

• JD Miller Lightning Talk on AI Executive Insights - views from C-suites

• Beta Program

• Hackathon update from Toby Morning

• pAIOS update from Sam Johnston

June 6, 2024

• EMEA Chapter Cristian Randieri

• Palermo Conference Review

• Discussed extending the Kwaai Beta to EMEA

May 31, 2024

• Iain Henderson on Intentcasting

• Sam discusses convergence of dev tracks

• Toby updates on Hackathon series

May 24, 2024

• Doc Searls on Personal AI vs. Personalized AI

• Beta Program Update

• Kwaai Development Roadmap

May 17, 2024

• Kwaai Beta Program

• PAI Palooza Hackathon

• Introduction to Kwaai Net

May 10, 2024

• Markus Petteri Laine, Founding Member of MyData Global| delivered a Lightning Talk on the movement

• Sam Johnston gave an engineering update before heading off for a birthday break to the Cannes Film Festival.

May 9, 2024

• EMEA Chapter Strategy Recap  Cristian Randieri

• Working Groups

• Palermo Conference Announcement

May 3, 2024

• Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment gave a Lightning Talk on the impact of AI in Hollywood

• Sam Johnston gave an update on the PAI OS

• Roman Pineda described the convergence path forward for the three development streams

• Toby and Karsten gave a marketing and community updates

Apr 26, 2024

• EMEA Chapter Launch Summary fron Cristian Randieri

• Dave Grantham gives a Lightning Talk on Cryptid, scalable decentralized verifiable identity, authentication, data provenance and user sovereignty.

• Balaji Lakshmanan and Sam Johnstone provide a code update

• Roman Pineda and Doc Searls give an architectural update

• Karsten Wade and Toby Morning provide a community update

Apr 19, 2024

• Doc Searls joins Kwaai as Chief Intention Officer.

• Ted Cohen gives Lightning Talk regaling us with tales from his rock and roll career.

• Toby Morning gives report on Kwaai representation at Internet Identity Workshop

• Karsten Wade reports on trip to Open Source Summit

• Balaji Lakshmanan gives engineering and roadmap update

Apr 25, 2024

• Reza Rassool introduces Cristian Randieri, Kwaai EMEA Director

• Cristian outlines his vision for the EMEA Chapter.

Apr 12, 2024

• Thomas Box gives Lightning talk on AI in the streaming industry

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