On an upcoming YC hackathon with Anthropic, Morph, etc., and updates to the outreach initiative
Hi everyone! With current members of this initiative, in around a month, I have been able to help them land:
16 peer review opportunities with NeurIPS, a top AI conference, and an IEEE AI conference.
16 industry-focused hackathon judging opportunities (including an AWS hackathon).
2 conference committee invitation with a top AI conference.
Here are reviews from current members: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FfQJbVlRmRGxhj4JbFQD6YSScdAvGY_PrTLo9ebrHPs/edit?usp=sharing
Two members of the outreach initiative will also be judging a YC hackathon.
Interested in judging the hackathon or similar hackathons?
Feel free to apply to the outreach initiative!
Also, most of the opportunities that I come across through the outreach initiative are from sending out 100-300 messages every week.
Interested in attending the hackathon at the YC offices?
Anthropic and Morph LLM will be hosting the AI Coding Agents Hackathon where you can help build the next generation of AI Coding Agents—tools that can build websites, games, update themselves, and just in time software.
Thank you to Tejas Bhakta for sharing this opportunity with me!
Tejas is the founder of Morph (YC S23).
Morph's (YC S23) Fast Apply model is like Cursors's Fast Apply model. Its being used for fast, reliable edits by top AI code gen companies like Framer, create.xyz, and more. They also provide embeddings, and reranking models so its a one stop shop for coding agents.
Drop-in API or full on-prem.
The Morph team is made up of ex-Tesla Autopilot engineers who've trained models at the largest scale. They're building Morph so teams building AI coding agents can focus on building unique features their customers love.
Try their APIs for free at https://morphllm.com.
About me:
My name is Jason and I work with top immigration lawyers on educational resources related EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and O-1. Most of the profile-building insights I share in this newsletter come from my work with these lawyers.
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Land speaking opportunities.
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Land conference committee positions.
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Get in touch with reporters.
Find independent references.
Get involved in top member organizations in their field.
Work with other profile-builders.
Judge hackathons.
My contacts database (these are universities, event organizers, and people involved in relevant organizations that I have spoken to, you can mention my name if you decide to reach out to them). Also, next week, I will be speaking to someone who has won six hackathons to see if he can share insights on how to land hackathon judging opportunities.
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