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Aug 4, 2023 8 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Every week, SF’s top AI engineers and startup founders meet up and show what’s new in AI.

No pitches. No grifting. Just code.

Here’s what some of SF’s best hackers are up to this week at @cerebral_valley 🧵 Image
1/ Insight AI

Trying to validate an idea? Just pick your topic and ideal customer persona, and generate user interviews surveys automatically

Mom test in a box
@prasann_pandya https://t.co/oicG2RHUustwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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2/ What’s going on?! (name pending)

Ever seen a cool event on a website but couldn’t find the calendar invites?

This chrome extension automatically scrapes events on any website and adds them to your calendar. Way more convenient than adding them manually https://t.co/WLfAJCZgsPtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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3/ MyMap

Summarize any website and turn it into a beautiful, easy to digest slide show of the key points
@victorzhrn https://t.co/kvICFGaH6jtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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4/ Playtest

Turn any website into an interactive mini-game

Powered by @AnthropicAI’s Claude, make your web content more engaging with 1 line of Js https://t.co/cjcoZwTLEVtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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5/ Anything Protocol

AI Zapier to automate your life and business easily. Open source, hackable workflow protocol
@carllippert
6/ Silic

Generative AI for clothing. Design, model, and print brand new garment designs on demand
@AiSilic https://t.co/Iy09V6MnuAtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@AiSilic That’s it for this week

Also, I didn’t present this time, but check out .

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MCP is now the de facto standard for LLM agents

200 developers came to NYC to compete for $10,000+ and prove what’s possible.

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Automated exploit Intelligence for vulnerability triage. MCP companion for SOC teams to verify and prioritize CVEs and cyber attacks
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GPT-5 is finally out.

OpenAI invited 500+ hackers to San Francisco to push it to the limit. 95 teams competed for $50,000.

Here’s what we saw at the Official GPT-5 Hackathon at @cerebral_valley @OpenAI Image
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1/ Gentoo 🥇

GPT-5 for marketing campaign simulations. Turn product ideas into simulations. And run live experiments on your store

E-commerce AI sims
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Diffusion models and GPT-5 to let users style 3D avatars with AI-powered outfit recommendations.

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300+ hackers just spent 48 hours building AI weapons and hardware to fight America’s enemies.

I’m actually worried terrorists and adversaries will see this.

Here’s what we saw at the National Security Hackathon by @NATO x @CIA x @ShieldCapVC (🧵): Image
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Voice replicator that steals enemy voices and creates false commands and rumors with local LLMs

AI false flag attacks

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Spy on people based on how they walk on local ML models
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The reward? $200k+ in prizes.

Here are the winners and crowd standouts we saw at TreeHacks ‘25 @hackwithtrees (🧵): Image
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1/ BrailleBot - 🎖️Best Hardware Prize

Converting a 3d printer and junk material from Stanford supply closet into a $15 braille printer

@jclin22009
@cathyzbn
@ScottHickmann
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Built from scratch with spare parts and custom aluminum

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