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About NY AI

I'm Derek Larson. I started NY AI in early 2022, 9 months before ChatGPT.

At the time, there wasn't a strong community for AI builders in NYC.

Since then, we've hosted dozens of events, made almost a thousand introductions, and incubated AI products.

We love jamming with builders and helping them turn nothing into something.

What we do:

We host: events where the right people meet.

We incubate: Kin, Blackout, and a stealth project.

We support: with hiring, integrating AI, advice, and more. Learn more

Members include:

- Engineers & operators from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, Ramp, and more.

- Founders backed by a16z, Sequoia, YC, and more.

- ML leads at Bloomberg, NASA, Fortune 500s.

- Researchers from MIT, Stanford, Columbia.

Next:

NY Founder Sabbath. Tech-free weekend in upstate NY.

Blackout - Next cohort starts September 1st.

Email: hello@newyorkai.org