AI Founder Fireside Chat
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❛o❛Building agents is getting easier, but what does it take to actually operate them at massive scale? Join Sola, Cognition, and Modal at a16z for a candid conversation about the infrastructure, tradeoffs, and hard lessons behind running agents on mission-critical problems.
Light bites will be provided. We hope to see you there.
Agenda:
- 6pm: Doors open
- 6:30 - 7:15pm: Panel discussion
- 7:15- 8:30pm: Networking
Panelists:
- Neil Deshmukh - Co-Founder & CTO @ Sola
- Akshat Bubna - Co-Founder & CTO @ Modal
- Walden Yan - Co-Founder & CPO @ Cognition
Moderated by: Kimberly Tan - Investing Partner, a16z
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Sola is an agentic process automation platform enterprises use to automate their core operational work across browser and desktop applications using computer use models.
Modal is a high-performance, developer-friendly AI infrastructure platform built for lightning-fast autoscaling, GPU orchestration and seamless deployment of ML workloads.
Cognition is an applied AI lab focused on building autonomous systems that can reason through complex, multi-step problems, including products like Devin and Windsurf.
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