🧠 From Self-Learning to Full-Stack: The Coming Wave of AI Engineering 🧠
Week of May 19th, 2025
Upcoming Events
🌁 SF Bay Area
Tue, May 20th: Frontier Founders Dinner
Thu, May 22nd: 🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 AI Startup Growth
Wed, May 28th: SF DEMO NIGHT 🚀 (w/ The GenAI Collective)
Mon, Jun 9th: 🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 MySQL & Gen AI: Powering Tomorrow's Startups
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Join us on Wednesday, June 4th, at the AWS GenAI Loft for a special celebration you won’t want to miss. Register now and be part of something extraordinary! 🔥
🗓️ Hungry for even more AI events? Check out SF IRL, MLOps SF, or Cerebral Valley’s spreadsheet!
🗽 New York
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If one wasn’t enough… we’re hosting another exclusive event in NYC on Tuesday, June 3rd. Space is limited, so register now! ⭐️
🏛️ Washington DC
Thu, May 22nd: Inbox Intelligence: GenAI x Notion Mail Series – Part 1
☔️ Seattle
Tue, May 27th: Seattle Demo Day – ROAM
🏙️ Chicago
Tue, Jun 24th: GenAI Collective Chicago: The Future of Work
NYC Hackathon: AI Agents/MCP | 5/30
Langflow, DigitalOcean, Twilio, TwelveLabs and Torc.dev are joining forces to host an epic AI hackathon in NYC!
Attendees can play single-player or form teams of up to 4. Technical experts will be on-site to help developers get up and running using agents and MCP and provide support throughout the event. Expect plenty of food, drinks, and, of course, prizes for the best hacks.
This is a hackathon designed for devs, by devs. No slides, no pitches, just demos of cool hacks. The NYC chapter is proud to support this event in partnership with Datastax. Rahul Verma will be representing our community as one of the judges.
Space is limited, so apply now to secure your spot!
AI News Roundup
Written by AJ Green
Windsurf releases SWE-1
The News: AI development platform Windsurf just introduced SWE-1: a proprietary suite of models crafted to cover the complete software engineering lifecycle, extending far beyond basic code generation.
The details:
The SWE-1 suite includes three models: SWE-1 (premium), SWE-1-lite (replacing Cascade Base), and SWE-1-mini.
Benchmarking shows SWE-1 surpasses all non-frontier and open-weight models, just trailing Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
Unlike traditional tools, SWE-1 supports editors, terminals, and browser-based dev environments.
Its “flow awareness” tech creates a collaborative timeline between user and model, easing dev handoffs.
Why it matters: SWE-1 is a central outcome of OpenAI’s $3B acquisition of Windsurf. By gaining full control over its model stack, Windsurf removed third-party dependencies and established itself as a full-stack AI platform. In a market shifting toward vertical integration, OpenAI positioned itself to shape the future of developer infrastructure.
Google’s AI Coworker is Coming
The News: Google is preparing to unveil an “always-on AI coworker” at I/O 2025, a persistent AI agent designed to assist developers throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
The Details:
The agent offers full lifecycle support, assisting in coding, debugging, documenting, and maintaining software projects.
It provides automation and augmentation, freeing developers to focus on high-impact architecture and strategy.
It’s designed for tight integration with Google’s AI tools, including Gemini Code Assist and upcoming XR hardware.
The coworker is persistent and collaborative, capable of tracking project context and adapting across long-term workflows.
Why it matters: This new AI tool marks a shift in software engineering. Google is responding to competitive pressure and the rise of agentic AI with a bet on augmentation over automation. The result could mean faster product cycles, broader access to development tools, and a changed dynamic between humans and machines in technical teams.
Partner Spotlight: ProductHunt
At GenAI Collective, we don’t just spotlight innovation — we bring it to life.
That’s why we teamed up with Product Hunt, the iconic launchpad for icons like Figma and Notion, to build Demo Night — a live, no-fluff series where AI founders show what they’re building and get raw feedback from the room.
What started in a living room has become one of the most electric moments in the AI ecosystem, where co-founders meet, products go viral, and communities collide.
🗓️ Join us May 28 in SF for the next one!
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About AJ Green
AJ Green is a founder, writer, scout, chairman, and respected community leader in the AI and startup space. A former athlete turned tech entrepreneur, AJ is on a mission to make AI the great equalizer—scaling startups, connecting ecosystems, and turning disruption into opportunity. Borderline obsessed with building the infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native companies and the intelligence that power them.
About Noah Frank
Noah is the co-founder of Aurix and has spent his career both working at startups and advising global leaders on innovation strategy. His work and body of research focus on AI policy, anticipatory governance, and effective decision-making. When not working to make emerging tech work for all, you can find him making music with his band. 🎸