AGI House Newsletter

⭐️ Recap of AGI House Creativity Gala @ AGI House

On July 30th, AGI House hosted an invite-only gala exploring how AI is reshaping creative workflows and human expression. The panel brought together leaders from tech, venture, and entertainment for an unforgettable conversation at the intersection of AI and creativity.

Featuring: Emmett Shear (fmr CEO, OpenAI & Twitch), Jason Kwon (CSO, OpenAI), Oliver Trevena (Co-Founder, Caliwater), Jeffrey Evans (Co-Founder, Mantis VC), Rocky Yu (Founder, AGI House). Moderator: Melanie Uno (Host and Investor, Icons Capital)

Watch the panel here.

🗓️ Upcoming Events

Consumer AI Demo and BBQ - August 24th @ AGI House

Join us for the AGI BBQ Series — an ongoing gathering where the most innovative consumer AI founders come together to demo their latest AI-native products, swap insights, and connect over sizzling Brazilian BBQ.

Set in a relaxed, backyard-style atmosphere, each event showcases a curated lineup of emerging consumer AI tools, from personalized agents to creative AI apps. Founders demo in a casual, no-pitch format, while guests, including top VCs and industry operators, explore what’s next in consumer AI.

Whether you’re a builder, investor, researcher, or just AI-curious, come hungry for both smoked picanha and breakthrough ideas. Good food. Good people. Great demos.

💡Reinforcement Learning Renaissance: Greylock x AGI House

Forty researchers and founders packed into AGI House for a high-energy deep dive into the latest RL breakthroughs. Jiayi Pan (TinyZero / Adaptive Parallel Reasoning) and Tyler Griggs (SkyRL) explored how verifiable-reward RL can unlock new reasoning skills — and why async rollouts, sharper reward models, multi-agent planning, curriculum tuning, and AlphaEvolve-style evolution could define the next frontier.

📚What we’ve been listening to, reading, and using…

• The Reinforcement Learning Renaissance: Explainer on how AI progress is shifting from bigger pre-training to post-training with reinforcement learning as the new driver of capability gains

• Figma IPO Design is Everyone’s Business: A strong reminder that in an AI-first world, design will be the factor that separates the good from the great.

If you’ve been using any AI tools you love, we’d love to hear about them.

AGI House Consumer AI Hackathon Recap - August 2

This past Saturday, we were thrilled to host AI Consumer Build Day at AGI House with our partners from Inworld AI, OpenAI, Lightspeed, Windsurf, Fetch.ai, Tenstorrent, BITKRAFT Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and more. It was a full day of learning, hacking, and rethinking the future of consumer experiences.

🥇 1st Place: Morning Roundtable – custom morning podcasts brought to you by personalized AI hosts

 🥈 2nd Place: Pike Piker – a 10x Peloton that transports you to unseen worlds

 🥉 3rd Place: Video-Based Virtual Try-On – find the perfect dress and generate a video of you wearing it

Thank you to everyone who participated and special shoutout to the winners.

Winner of the Windsurf Deal - Poll Results

Last week we asked you: Who really won the Windsurf deal: Google or Cognition? The votes are in, and Google edged ahead with 56.52%, leaving Cognition close behind at 43.48%. The debate clearly isn’t over… Will your vote change at Cognition’s next round?

💼We’re hiring, and our portfolio companies are too

• Rome is the modern enterprise supply chain platform. We are a five-person team of former YC founders and Palantir engineers, backed by General Catalyst and the founders of Dropbox & Perplexity. Hiring: Founding Engineer. Email [email protected] if interested.

• Develop Health is building AI automation to enable prescribers, with the goal of becoming the agentic clearinghouse in healthcare. Backed by Wing VC and other leading investors, they are reimagining how care is delivered through intelligent, end-to-end workflows. Hiring: AI Engineer, Product Engineer, and Platform & Security Engineer (Bay Area). Email [email protected] if interested.

• AGI House is building the infrastructure for AGI and looking for exceptional candidates to join our core team. Hiring: AI Researcher / PhD in Residence, Product & Frontend Engineer, and Operations Manager. Email [email protected] if interested.

Full job descriptions will be posted on our website: AGI House

Till next time,

AGI House Team

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