Smol.ai founder Shawn 'swyx' Wang opens the AI Engineer World's Fair with a focus on local AI and NVIDIA Blackwell hardware

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Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer@altryne

A candid hallway track interview with the man himself - @swyx

Mini Podcast if you will, he's told me about a huge milestone tomorrow, things that have surprised him about @aiDotEngineer and ... a few things on the personal side!

0:00 — Daily Context AIE Newsletter 0:47 — @aiDotEngineer Growth 1:23 — Workshop Lines & Skills Track 2:28 — Jam Corner & Music 3:52 — AI Engineer Essay Anniversary 4:26 — Intensity, Integrity, Intentionality, Insanity 4:52 — AGI Pills & Insane Perks 5:56 — Livestream & YouTube CTA

Hope you enjoy this "behind the scenes" chat with the guy who made this whole thing happen.

Also chatting with us, @kentcdodds @liadyosef @WolframRvnwlf @RayFernando1337 @Gangadhar_P

Hallway track remains unmatched!

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Sarah Chieng@MilksandMatcha

The AI Engineer conference series has always been one of the most serendipitous meeting places famous for the 'hallway track'

@swyx curates an unimaginably high density of talent, exchange of ideas, and quality talks

I'll be around @aiDotEngineer on Tuesday and Wednesday. Would love to grab lunch, coffee or catch up :). I'll also be hanging around the @cerebras Token Billionaires lounge for folks who want to come by.

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

We actually kickstart things early tomorrow with 2 workshops on Local AI

See you guys tomorrow

Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

MASSIVE NEWS

Teamed up with NVIDIA to make Local AI The Default

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Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer@altryne

Yooo, this @aiDotEngineer WF is crazy.

They have an official doggo (@mochipomsky), a .. daily newsletter (The Daily Context) with the Mayor (@swyx) announcements, Robots giving out stickers (and assaulting humans) and wolfs doing evals (@WolframRvnwlf)

If you're not here , follow me for more FOMO coverage

Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer@altryne

Just landed in SF for (my 6th?) @aiDotEngineer

Excited to hang out with AIE regulars, meet new folks, check out workshops and cover this on @thursdai_pod this week!

Also a speaker again this time around, 10:45 on Wednesday - come thru this one gon be gud!

Who's here?

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jason@jxnlco

Is that how big the keynote area is? Oh my god.

Allie Howe@vtahowe

Wow how @aiDotEngineer has grown!!

More than double the size of last year. Excited to emcee here tomorrow and introduce some of my friends cc @dexhorthy

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Philipp Schmid@_philschmid

At @aiDotEngineer this week. Will talk about agents and evals! You can find me at the @GoogleDeepMind both, at my talks or send me a DM!

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Stefania Druga@Stefania_druga

First day of @aiDotEngineer conference. So good catching up with old and new friends! The Self Improvement Agent workshop was very popular:D @DynamicWebPaige @altryne @GeoffreyHuntley @RayFernando1337

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DataCamp@DataCamp

@TheAhmadOsman Local AI is having a real moment. Our AI engineering path covers running models locally with hands-on labs: http://datacamp.com/tracks/associate-ai-engineer-for-developers

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Sarah Chieng@MilksandMatcha

everyone go follow my husband

Tyler Fong@tyler_fong_

Round 2 of @aiDotEngineer

The NVIDIA team will have a special setup on Thursday with some exciting Local AI surprises. @exolabs @swyx

I'll be around the conference Thursday, come by to chat or explore open job roles

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👩‍💻 Paige Bailey@DynamicWebPaige

🙌 @ycombinator in the morning and afternoon, @aiDotEngineer workshops for midday!

So good to see Swift and Ryan from @MLHacks, @altryne, and @Stefania_druga, this week is bringing every single friend from around the world to SF ❤️

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

@tthomson Not streaming but it will be recorded and posted later

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ben hylak@benhylak

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María Benavente@merybenavente

cool to see @raindrop_ai as a sponsor at @aiDotEngineer

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Sarah Chieng@MilksandMatcha

@jxnlco come to our tokens billionaire lounge

jason@jxnlco

goign to ai engineer?

I'll be manning the booths with the rest of our team on wednesday and thursday for AI Engineering Summit

as well as a talk and a workshop tuesday ~

come hang and meet the team!

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Peter Yang@petergyang

@jxnlco Sign my autograph on Tuesday pls

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

@leosharp00 Yes!

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

You’ll also learn more about what we’re cooking at @OsmanticAI and how we’re making Local AI The Default :)

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Maximillian Piras@MVXMXM

Excited to speak again at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair! This year I'm presenting "mousepower": on how agents break our measurement frameworks, which weren't built for systems that output tirelessly in parallel. If execution is now cheap & judgment is the new bottleneck, how do we measure value at the speed of compute?

AI Engineer@aiDotEngineer

The 2026 World's Fair is completely sold out 🫡

✅ The largest AI industry expo on earth ✅ Sold out on Leadership track for CTOs & VP AI's ✅ Sold out on Workshops tomorrow ✅ Sold out on ALL late bird tickets 🙌 65 side events still FREE all over SF (see website) What we will never sell out: Our commitment to publishing all the best AI engineering content for free online on YouTube.

We have now opened limited overflow tickets for our expo and engineering tix — no seating guaranteed, sessions are first come first served.

If you ARE one of our attendees, DO come down to Moscone for New Engineer Orientation tonight from 5p-9p to meet new friends and skip the morning crush for tomorrow. We expect EXTREMELY heavy last minute registration and need your help to load balance across days.

Please give your speakers and sponsors all the love for all the effort they are putting into making this the greatest show we have ever done!

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Travis@tthomson

@TheAhmadOsman Are you streaming it anywhere?

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Dave Charland@Dave_Charland

You mention having a pair of PRO 6000's for the demonstration. I've been going back and forth on waiting for Mac Studio Ultra 5, and investing now in a ThreadRipper platform with a Pro 6000 with intent to add another, or going all in on DGX Cluster. What's the better first move?

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AI Engineer@aiDotEngineer

@MVXMXM welcome back!!

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