AI Tinkerers

🚀 Big news from AI Tinkerers! We’re thrilled to welcome Jake Laes as our new Executive Director 🎉 Jake joins us from Deel, where he built partnerships across VC firms and accelerator ecosystems. A long-time community builder in the startup world, Jake has led initiatives at Techstars, YoungTech, and beyond — always with a focus on empowering founders and technologists pushing the frontier 💡 AI Tinkerers began as a handful of engineers sharing demos and ideas. Today it’s a global network of tens of thousands of active AI builders across 100+ cities 🌍 – shaping what’s next in AI. With in-person events every day around the world – from build-a-thons and AI science fairs to global hackathons – AI Tinkerers has become the community where the world’s most driven builders experiment, share breakthroughs, and shape the next generation of AI companies. We’re growing faster than ever thanks to our incredible organizers, members, and partners who make AI Tinkerers what it is. Bringing Jake on as Executive Director is about supporting them – strengthening chapters, deepening partnerships, and building the systems that keep our global builder community thriving. 💫 The future of AI is being built right here — by the tinkerers. Here’s to our next chapter 🥂

Atlanta showed up! ⚡️ Last night’s AI Tinkerers Meetup with the Google Cloud AI team was packed with builders, innovators, and curious minds diving deep into the future of autonomous AI agents. From live coding sessions to real-world demos using Vertex AI, Gemini, and the Agent Development Kit (ADK) — the energy was electric. Special shoutout to Mayowa Awojuyigbe and Christopher Maurice from Google Cloud AI for breaking down how these tools move from concept to production-ready systems. Special thanks to the Atlanta chapter organizers: Avoilan Bingham, Andrew Tabit, and Alisa Delikatna. 💡 We’re not just talking about AI anymore — we’re building it. #AITinkerers #GoogleCloudAI #VertexAI #Gemini #GenerativeAI #AtlantaTech #AICommunity #Builders

🌏 AI Tinkerers Tokyo Has Officially Launched! A huge congratulations the incredible team in Japan for hosting the first-ever AI Tinkerers Tokyo meetup — and what a debut it was! 🎉 The event brought together makers, researchers, and founders pushing the boundaries of AI implementation. From agentic workflows and real-time knowledge graphs to AI-powered music generation and multilingual translation systems, the lineup captured the full creative spirit of the AI Tinkerers community. The night included 7 incredible talks: 🤖 Agentic Go-Kit — No-code framework for agentic AI workflows (Kunal Kushwaha) 🗺️ MapScroll — Automatically generating AI travel/history maps (Shekhar Upadhaya) ⚙️ AMD GPU & Local LLMs — Optimizing Japanese models for next-gen GPUs (Leonard Lin) 🧠 Knowledge Graph at Mercari — Real-time product graph + inspiration buckets (Jehandad Kamal) 🎹 AI + Music Synthesizer — Letting AI control hardware synths via MCP (Cournapeau David) ✍️ AI for Novel Writing — Long-form storytelling with rejection sampling + debate (Adam Lensenmayer) 🌐 Real-time Multilingual Translation — Whisper + LLM powering JA/EN/ZH live translations (Changyu Hu) We’re excited to see how AI Tinkerers Tokyo continues to spark collaboration and innovation in one of the world’s most dynamic tech hubs. Big shoutout to Ryunosuke(Ryan) Tanaka, Drew Robbins, Mike Lanzetta, Ilya Kulyatin and Yoshio Terada — your work made AI Tinkerers Tokyo an incredible kickoff event! 🎉 #AITinkerers #Tokyo #AICommunity #AIAgents #OpenInnovation

💻 The AI Tinkerers Paris Hackathon was 🔥 12 hours. 100+ builders. Teams built agents that see, hear, and think 👀👂🏻💭 From real-time video reasoning to voice-aware assistants, the demos were pure innovation. 👏 Huge congratulations to the winning team — Vassili de Rosen, Roy Bensimon, Pierre Haas, Samuel Rajzman, and Manfredi Bernardi — for creating Discovery, an AI travel companion that recognizes landmarks through your phone camera and delivers real-time, interactive audio guides. They took home 1st place and the Mistral Prize for best use of Mistral AI! 🏆✨ Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors Google Cloud, NVIDIA, and Mistral AI — as well as our judges and everyone who helped make this day possible. Special shoutout to Jonathan Murray and Abdoulaye D. for organizing an unforgettable event. 👏 ⚡️ The energy was unreal — code, caffeine, and collaboration everywhere. Congrats to the winning teams who brought multimodal AI to life. Missed it? You’ll want to be at the next one. 🚀 #AITinkerers #AgentsIRL #Hackathon #GoogleCloud #NVIDIA #MistralAI #CloudRun #AICommunity #ParisTech

Chicago friends: Tomorrow evening I'm speaking at AI Tinkerers about vibe coding AI agents. Over the last couple weeks, I've built more functional agents than I have in months of tinkering with other frameworks. The combination? Replit + Mastra AI. Something clicked. Replit handles the vibe coding perfectly—low friction, everything just works, fast iteration. Mastra AI nails the abstraction layer. It's not low-code. It's not pure code. It's the sweet spot in between. Technical enough to have full control, but streamlined enough to ship fast. I'm finally seeing the promise of AI agents. Building them by myself, getting them to actually work, and they're useful. Tomorrow I'm breaking down: - Why this combo works - What makes Mastra AI different - Real examples of what I've built - How you can start building your own agents If you're in Chicago, come through. Would love to meet you and talk shop. See you there. Thank you to Landon W. Campbell and Drive Capital for hosting!

AI builders, join the Gemini × Pipecat Virtual Hackathon – a global learning sprint to explore real-time agents, voice/video workflows, and multimodal intelligence. 🛠️ This is NOT a pitch competition — it’s a learning-and-showing hackathon. ✅ Build something interesting ✅ Use Gemini + Pipecat (voice, vision, orchestration) ✅ Share your repo, your demo, and your learnings with the world ✅ Bonus: Give feedback to help improve the tools 🗓️ Runs Oct 11–19 (solo or teams of up to 5) 🌎 Open to builders anywhere 💥 Every project will be published for the community 💬 All submissions are open-source — it’s about progress, not polish 🏆 Prizes: $100K Gemini Credits (by Google) $100K Pipecat Cloud Credits (by Daily) $50K + $50K for best Gemini Live API + Pipecat build If you’re hacking with agents, voice AI, Langfuse traces, embedded hardware, or just want to test the limits of Gemini 2.5 in the wild — this is for you. 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/g_A-SUSS #Gemini #Pipecat #VoiceAI #MultimodalAI #Hackathon #RealTimeAI #Langfuse #Boundary #Coval #Daily #Tavus #AIbuilders #OpenSourceAI #AITinkerers #AIExperiments #AgenticAI #BuildInPublic #TechForBuilders #AIInfra #ConversationalAI #VoiceAgents #AIDevTools #FromPromptToProduct #BuilderMindset

【AI Tinkerers Tokyo Officially Launched】 We successfully held the first-ever AI Tinkerers Tokyo! We are deeply grateful to our 7 presenters who brought fresh insights and real implementations to the stage. Talk Highlights (7 presentations) ・Agentic Go-Kit: A developer-friendly framework for building agentic AI workflows with zero coding. Kunal Kushwaha ・MapScroll: Automatically generating travel or history maps using AI-based location & image extraction. Shekhar Upadhaya ・AMD GPU & Local LLMs: Exploring optimization of Japanese LLMs and PyTorch builds on next-gen GPUs. Leonard Lin ・Knowledge Graph at Mercari: Creating real-time product knowledge graphs and “inspiration buckets” to understand user behavior. Jehandad Kamal ・AI + Music Synthesizer: Using MCP servers to let AI control and generate sounds on hardware synths. Cournapeau David ・AI for Novel Writing: Applying rejection sampling and pro-con debate techniques for long-form storytelling. Adam Lensenmayer ・Real-time Multilingual Translation: A JA/EN/ZH translation system battle-tested at a wedding, powered by Whisper + LLM. Changyu Hu Huge thanks to all speakers, attendees and Joe Heitzeberg, Drew Robbins Mike Lanzetta Yoshio Terada Ilya Kulyatin —you made our Tokyo debut possible. We’ll continue to build a stage for makers. If you’d like to speak, sponsor, or volunteer at the next event, feel free to comment or DM me. #AITinkerers #Tokyo

Seattle showed up 🔥 No slides. No pitches. Just code, terminals, and a packed room of AI builders pushing limits. Huge thanks to John Alioto, Joseph C., Nicoleta Mocanu, Joe Golden, Ivan Schneider, and Eugene Yan for killer demos. The energy, curiosity, and collaboration were next-level. ☁️ Sponsored by Google Cloud AI #AITinkerers #AICommunity #GenAI #SeattleAI #BuildersNotTalkers

Productive day in Boston connecting with the power players here :) Also, keeping the site up :) usually there are 3 or 4 AI Tinkerers meetups happening somewhere in the world on any given weekday but today there are 8 :)

📆Tonight! AI Tinkerers Protocol Demo Night at WorkOS. This is going to be an awesome one, one of the best builder-focused events during Tech Week. Already have really strong demos lined from the core protocol teams + big tech & startup builders on MCP, A2A, AP2 and AG-UI. 250+ registered with long waitlist. Excited to host this alongside Dexter Horthy, and big shoutout to WorkOS, Michael Grinich & Tobin South for hosting us at their offices🌉 🍕Come through for the best pizza & demos of the week: https://lnkd.in/d86ywR4m