Astra vs Fable vs Open Weights

Socratic dialogues with top AI engineers, researchers, and founders discussing new models, coding agents, harnesses, AI orchestrators, research papers, and more.

Topics:

• Three secret agent civilizations, OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack

• New models: GLM-3, Fable 5.1, Astra — down into the architecture rabbit hole

• AI engineering: Orca, Agent Grid, VSCode Agents, Codex, and Claude Code — keep up with the AI coding cycle

• Blog post: TBD

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

Agenda

• 6:30 PM Welcome — food, and drinks

• 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 5-seconds each intro round 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.

Presentations

Let's focus this event on sharing dev environments, AI tools, open source orchestrators.

Add yourself here to present: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJ93aZQBCevLpCS0VVUPlFfmQ_xDmyYmdw3LK_zbwSA/edit?tab=t.0

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