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Pete Soderling retweeted
Very timely that we are organising a RSI hackathon @UseCorgi Cafe London on 19th Sep. Register here: luma.com/abmar7tg
📷 Corgi Cafe, London · 19 Sept
12 hours. 35 hackathon spots.
$1,500 cash + $13,500 in @runware credits.
Pete Soderling retweeted
@AICouncilConf is 6–12 months ahead of the market. This year’s talks are now online (thanks to @petesoder and @tristanzajonc)!
We reviewed three themes: Git-for-data, the changing semantic layer and the open-source ecosystem bauplanlabs.com/post/bauplan… 🧵
Pete Soderling retweeted
We are gonna have some fun 😈
Our Day 02 afternoon keynote "Beyond the API" is beyond stacked.
New panelist just added... welcome back @charles_irl - Member of Technical Staff @Modal, joining:
@BEBischof, Head of AI, @theoryvc
Charles Zedlewski, CPO, @togethercompute
@tuomars, Research Scientist, @nvidia
2 PM on the Main Stage, see you there.
Pete Soderling retweeted
Over the weekend, I reviewed slide decks from all the speakers in the Databases and Data Engineering track at the @AICouncilConf . The talks are incredibly strong across a wide range of topics — transactional, analytical, search, vector databases; ETL/CDC; real-world case studies at massive scale, all with a forward-looking perspective on the critical role of Data Infra in supporting AI.
I’m so excited about this track and expecting it to be absolutely epic!!
Huge thanks to all the speakers for being an integral part of it and helping make it happen Hannes Mühleisen from @duckdblabs , @nikhilbenesch from @turbopuffer , @J_ and Pierre Lacave from @datadoghq, @iskakaushik from @ClickHouseDB , @kelvich from @databricks , Bhargavi Reddy Dokuru from @netflix , Robin Tang from @artie_labs 🙏
The track is on on May 12 (Day 1), starting at 10 AM, don’t miss it if you’re attending AI Council.
@petesoder @ZeroPrimeVC
Pete Soderling retweeted
Come see my track at @AICouncilConf where the creator of this model will explain the history and science of quantization
I'm telling you: The inference systems track at this years AI Council will be the highest density of this content ever assembled aicouncil.com/sf-2026
Today we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai: Top intelligence at 1.58 bits
Using ternary weights {-1, 0, +1}, we built a family of models that are 9x smaller than their 16-bit counterparts while outperforming most models in their respective parameter classes on standard benchmarks.
We’re open-sourcing the models under the Apache 2.0 license in three sizes: 8B (1.75 GB), 4B (0.86 GB), and 1.7B (0.37 GB).
Pete Soderling retweeted
AI is playing a role in two ways:
1.Far more code is being written (1.5-2x by some estimates) and far more people are vibe coding without reviewing what their agents install. Every unreviewed dependency is an attack surface.
2.Attackers have woken up. We saw the first NPM worm last year. The recent TeamPCP attacks (against Trivy and LiteLLM) have stolen a massive number of credentials that most teams haven’t rotated yet. We’ll be dealing with the long tail of these compromises for 6-12 months.
Not that developers were good at reviewing dependencies before. But AI has mass-produced the exact behavior attackers exploit.
Pete Soderling retweeted
Come listen to me and my friends yap about training models, will be a good time!
Feat a bunch of 🐐’s: @eliebakouch @ezi_ozoani @vikhyatk @llm_wizard and @latkins
This year, we received 700+ talk submissions for AI Council ‘26. It's the track hosts' job to curate and coach speakers all the way from "idea" to the stage. Even now, as you read this, our beloved hosts are navigating a giant spreadsheet of doom that organizes all submissions. (20+ tabs wide. Thousands of rows. No one escapes it.)
The hosts are practitioners. Engineers. Founders. CTOs. People with full-time jobs who volunteer their time to help elevate great ideas. That’s how the AI Council program takes shape - guided by the people doing the work every day.
Leading the charge (and surviving the spreadsheet) - our confirmed AIC ‘26 track hosts:
Inference Systems: @BEBischof @Theoryvc
AI Engineering: @ds3638 @honeyhiveai
Analytics & Data Science: @imightbemary @_hex_tech
Model Systems: @TheZachMueller @LambdaAPI
AI Agent Infrastructure: @tristanzajonc @continual_ai
Coding Agents & Autonomous Dev: @s_breitenother @kilocode
Engineering & Databases: @saisrirampur @ClickHouseDB
Applied AI: @dancfrancisco @Meta
...more to be announced!
If you want to hear the handful of ideas that survive the cut, join us in SF this May. Last week to lock in the early-bird ticket price!
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Pete Soderling retweeted
ChatGPT says you should buy your AIC ‘26 ticket today. Gemini agrees. Claude wrote this email. The machines have reached consensus. That never happens.
Today’s the last day to get your conference ticket at the lower price.
If you already know you’re coming May 12–14, take 30 seconds, lock in the early-bird discount, and move on with your day.
See you in SF: aicouncil.com
Pete Soderling retweeted
We built some new agentic features into @_hex_tech so more people can use AI for accurate, trusted data work
They're pretty fun, and we made a video to show them off
Lots more coming!
hex.tech/blog/fall-2025-laun…
Pete Soderling retweeted
It's true – @modal has raised a $87M Series B at a $1.1B valuation to advance the future of AI infrastructure.
Thank you to @Lux_Capital, @Redpoint, @AmplifyPartners, and others.
Now more than ever, AI demands a complete reinvention of traditional compute infrastructure
Pete Soderling retweeted
Your calendar invites are color-coded. You set up automations in Notion for fun. And you’ve said the words “Let’s templatize that” at least once this week. If that’s you, @ZeroPrimeVC needs a Director of Ops.
Apply here: notion.so/data-council/Direc…
Pete Soderling retweeted
🚀 Launching Memory 2.0: A multi-user, multi-session, chatgpt-like memory driver for Agents.
Memory v2 has been in beta for a few weeks and today it becomes the default Memory driver for all @AgnoAgi Agents. Read more 👇
Pete Soderling retweeted
Relive the magic! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch all the #DataCouncil25 talks as they drop.
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Pete Soderling retweeted
I'm excited to share we've raised $7.4M Seed from @gkm1 at @InsightPartners, along with @petesoder at @ZeroPrimeVC, @antgoldbloom at @AIXVentures, @flo at @468Capital, and others to bring evals & observability to AI agents!
We're also going GA today! 🧵
Pete Soderling retweeted
I'm excited to share we've raised $7.4M Seed from @gkm1 at @InsightPartners, along with @petesoder at @ZeroPrimeVC, @antgoldbloom at @AIXVentures, @flo at @468Capital, and others to bring evals & observability to AI agents!
We're also launching our full platform into GA today!
Pete Soderling retweeted
Missed us at NVIDIA GTC? You can catch us at @DataCouncilAI later this month in Oakland for our next happy hour. Connect with product builders driving the next generation of open, AI-powered developer tools. hubs.ly/Q03fmBzr0
