Source: https://events.trymimetic.com/events/sf/open-intelligence-a-documentary-premiere-nov-2026

# Open Intelligence: A documentary premiere

📅
November 21, 2026

🕐
4:30 PM PT

📍
Gray Area / Grand Theater

🎟️
Free · Approval required

## What we're seeing

- **Approval required**

## About This Event

What does "actually open AI" look like?

This short documentary traces the inference layer of AI: the infrastructure that determines whether AI can run affordably and at scale. It follows the parallel evolution of two open-source projects, SGLang and vLLM, and asks whether open, accessible intelligence is truly achievable or still gated by who can afford to run it. We're asking whether open, accessible intelligence is truly achievable or whether it remains gated by who can afford to run it.

This is a [Speakeasy production](https://speakeasyproductions.film/) sponsored by Modal.

**Agenda**

4:30 - Welcome reception

5:15 - Documentary premiere

5:45 - Q&A with [Charles Frye](https://x.com/charles_irl) from Modal

6:15 - Mingle and make new friends

## Hosted by

[Modal](https://luma.com/modal-labs)

[Modal Events](https://luma.com/user/Modal_Events)

## Location

📍 [Gray Area / Grand Theater, 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA](/events/venue/gray-area-grand-theater)

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