merge(happy_hour) -> advancing_together

the vibe

The night before Advancing AI — kicking things off with the builders who make GPUs earn their keep. Join a select group of founders, engineers, operators, and investors who are Advancing AI. Meet the people you'll be sitting next to all week, a night early, in a more relaxed and intimate setting. It's the kickoff: an evening on value maxxing, getting the most out of every dollar of inference and every hour of infra. Expect a few lightning talks with live demos from teams shipping real AI-native workloads, then drinks, bites, and the good kind of hallway conversation. Tonight, we gather the builders. Tomorrow, we continue Advancing AI. Speakers & Demos Bradley Kammerer, Member of GTM Staff, OpenAI — value-maxxing through token efficiency Vasily Prokopov, Senior Solutions Architect, DigitalOcean — "Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build" Richard Chen, Technical Staff, RadixArk — "SGLang in 5 Minutes: What It Is and Why It's Fast" Victor Su-Ortiz, Global Product Marketing Manager & Developer Relations, MiniMax — talk on native multimodality Agenda 6:00 PM — Doors, drinks, bites & arrivals 6:30 PM — Lightning talks + live demos: value-maxxing your inference & infra 7:30 PM onward — Open bar, bites & conversation 9:00 PM — Doors close Note: 111 Minna is a 21+ venue — please bring ID. Registration: This one's for the people building and backing AI-native companies — founders, engineers, operators, and investors. Space is limited. Request to join below, we're confirming early…