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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 .

Follow @AlexReibman for on-the-ground hack reports and to see what’s up next timeagentops.ai

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May 25
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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1/ Walkie-talkie-LLM 🥉3rd place $1,000

Voice replicator that steals enemy voices and creates false commands and rumors with local LLMs

AI false flag attacks

@kirill_igum
2/ Skyfall 🥈2nd place $2,000

ML classifier that plugs into street cameras and fingerprints people based on their gait

Spy on people based on how they walk on local ML models
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Feb 18
Stanford just hosted a hackathon. Over 1000 Ivy League and elite engineering students came to build for 36 hours straight.

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
@LawtonSkaling
2/ OMNOM - 🎖️ Most creative prize

End to end food ordering and delivery robot that drives to restaurants, picks up orders, and brings them home

Built from scratch with spare parts and custom aluminum

@NilsIRL
@AJobAIO
@JohnathanM62119
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Feb 3
OpenAI’s biggest rival isn’t just Deepseek. It’s Google.

We invited 200+ hackers to build what’s possible with Gemini multimodal AI and generative video

Here’s what we saw at the @GoogleDeepMind MultiModal Hackathon with @AgentOpsAI @windsurf_ai at @agihouse_org (🧵): Image
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1/ ANIMINE - 🥇First Place $3000 GCP credits

Translate real videos into anime by combining Gemini video understanding with Veo2

Gesture-to-video

@aliceheimanxyz Image
2/ Firefly vs Veo2

Comparing the outputs of Adobe Firefly with Veo2 against the same prompts. Hilarity ensues

@dpang
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Jan 20
Saw these guys walking around Hayes looking for coworking space, so I invited them to HQ

I was not prepared. These guys are absolutely cracked.

Here’s the demos from the Swedish Hack Mafia (🧵): Image
1/ Lovable

AI agent for building + replicating websites

Agentic web app builder

@lovable_dev
2/ Rubik’s Cube CSS

3D interactive Rubik’s cube built entirely in CSS

@whosmatu
Read 5 tweets
Jan 16
We surveyed thousands of AI agent developers and asked what they wanted to see built

(bookmark for later)

Here are 5 AI agents you can build in a weekend with customers ready to buy (🧵): Image
1/ Car auctioning agents.

Catalog automobiles from photos and insurance docs to estimate fair market value auction prices. Arbitrage sales across 3rd party marketplaces

Tools:
- @perplexity_ai
- GPT-4o Vision
- @weaviate_io RAG
- @llama_index PDF Parser

Framework
- CrewAI
2/ Airbnb Chatbots.

AI property managers that manage questions for guests and automatically delegate work to property manager (cleaners, repairs, etc.)

Tools
- @twilio API
- GPT-4o Vision

Framework
- @pyautogen conversational chatbots
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Dec 11, 2024
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open standard for connecting LLMs to tools, data, and dev environments

Anthropic invited 100+ developers to SF to see what we could build in only 3 hours.

Here’s what we saw at the @AnthropicAI MCP Hackathon (🧵): Image
1/ Santa Claude - 🏅Fun award

Claude assistant powered by Browserbase Stagehand that finds holiday gift ideas on NYT Wirecutter and buys them on Amazon

Holiday shopping agent

@alexdphan @sophie2chance @Kamathematic @pk_iv @browserbasehq Image
2/ Clauduct Manager- 🏅Productivity award

AI agent built by connecting Claude to Linear and automatically writes PRDs, creates tasks, and ranks them by difficulty

AI product manager

@priyashah_ @Chrisnolet @Financialvice Image
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