AI Socratic — Escaping the Sandbox

Socratic dialogs with top engineers, researchers, and founders from leading AI startups. We discuss new models, research papers, ethics and more.

By request of our audience, we will be piloting a new style of talk this month and prioritizing deep technical topics. We are bringing in Ritiz Tambi from Veris AI to talk about RL Fine-tuning / open-model benchmarking.

Topics:
- Blog post https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-aug-2026

Participation is highly selective, conversations are high-signal and low-noise.

Agenda

• 6:00 PM Welcome

• 7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues

• 8:00 PM Presentations

• 9:00 PM Networking at a bar nearby

Socratic Dialogues

We begin this session with a quick round of intro to get to know each other.

Then we dive into the topics, reading the last article in aisocratic.org/blog — experts on the current topic are encouraged to share anything they know on it.

Sponsors

Veris AI is hosting us this month in the awesome space in Soho.

We're an exclusive community of of top-tier engineers, researchers, and founders working frontier AI. We meet monthly to discuss new models, papers, frameworks, and more.

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