Cerebral Valley is the world’s leading AI ecosystem in the US, with over 40,000+ top-tier developers as part of our community and 400+ company partners and VCs that we’ve worked with.
We’re best known for hosting some of the largest AI hackathons in the world alongside elite AI companies such as Meta, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and more.
Cerebral Valley hackathons are built around early releases of cutting-edge foundational models - previous hackathons have focused on the releases of GPT-4, Llama 3, Mistral v2, Claude and more.
Developers range in 66 countries
40,000 developers world wide
$150,000,000 in funding raised by founders after attending our events
Hosted 100+ events
Cerebral Valley is a global ecosystem. We run events and provide services worldwide.
We are based in San Francisco, which is our primary location.
Located within the iconic Ferry Building with panoramic views of the Bay, Shack15 provides the stage for diverse community to gather and connect. The venue hosts various notable events, such as the Meltwater Champions Chess Finals that had a $1.6M grand prize with Magnus Carlsen. Some of the major events we’ve hosted at Shack15 include the LlamaCon Hackathon, Llama 3 Hackathon, the GPT-4 API access launch, and more.