Name: Hack AI - AI talks, Network and Hack
Start: 2025-08-07T23:00:00.000Z
Location: Capital Factory

Hack AI — Austin’s Monthly AI Builders Social

First Thursday each month • 6:00 – 8:00 PM • Capital Factory (downtown) 16th Floor Austin City Limits

What to expect
• Two technical talks on AI
• Fast rundown of the latest models, tools, and research
• Open hack + networking block — build, brainstorm, or just chat over pizza and beer

Agenda
6:00-6:20 PM – Welcome & intro
6:20-6:40 PM – What is an agent? Understanding/Building an agent from first principles: Ford Lascari
6:40-7:00 PM – Raising the Bar on LLM Benchmarks: Aditya Patil, Apurva Shrivastava and Ganesh Bankey
7:00-8:00 PM – Hack / network

Who should come
Founders, engineers, product folks, designers, investors, and anyone curious about AI — beginner to expert.

Food & drinks provided (pizza, beer, soda, water).

Sponsors
• Capital Factory — Texas’s startup hub connecting founders to investors, mentors, and customers
• Linkt AI — Applied-AI consultants turning ideas into revenue-generating products
• Adrenaline Interactive — In-game advertising tech that converts gamers into customers

Questions? Email Reid → [reid@linkt.ai](mailto:reid@linkt.ai)

Bring your laptop, your curiosity, and your best AI hot takes. See you Thursday!

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Serhii K

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aditya Patil

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Mark Brown

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Firus Hanov

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