We are excited to share our conversations from Earth Commons and Funding the Commons, hosted by Protocol Labs in Berkeley, April 13-14, 2024.

To kick off, here’s our discussion with the event organizers: Orinayo Ayodele, Beth McCarthy beth mccarthy (🪄,✨), and David Casey…

Thanks to everyone who joined us at #FtCBerkeley ! 🙌🌐

Together, we dove into Open Source and AI, discussed innovative funding mechanisms for public goods, and explored diverse impact verification models.

Ready to keep building on these ideas? 🚀

Congrats to Funding The Commons! The combo of big ideas 🤝 builder energy is exceptional

great vibes and inspiration at Funding The Commons #FtCBerkeley this weekend ✨

Era Qian (👩‍🚀, 🎯) - e/acc, Edge, and Funding The Commons - you've outdone yourselves. Loved the Open Source AI event today!

Awesome day at Funding The Commons with Alex Skidanov (alex.near) dropping some alpha and knowledge 📚

🥂 Cheers to public goods! #FtCBerkeley

✨ From fundraising and CRMs to email newsletters and Discord roles, this #FtCBerkeley panel offered a fantastic deep dive into scaling OS communities.

Adam Chen, Weaviate • vector database
Shannon Hong, OpenFuture
BenG, FAR AI
Cameron.near, Banyan Collective

'What are the building blocks we need to start building for a truly open AI, in parallel to the walled gardens - something we failed to do in 2010 as a tech community with social networks?' 🧩

Alex Skidanov (alex.near) from NEAR Protocol at #FtCBerkeley .

📸 More scenes from #ECBerkeley and #FtCBerkeley !

Make sure to share your favorite moments, using #LabWeekPG . 🌿

How has Day 2 of #FtCBerkeley been for you so far?

📸 👇 Some of our favorite shots. Make sure to share yours with us, too!

'Don't only think about accuracy. Think about how the solution is going to look for the end user.' 💻🙌

Great deep dive into Julia Kiseleva's work on AutoGen, a framework that enables development of LLM applications, at Microsoft Research.

#FtCBerkeley

Up next we have ⁦Shishir Patil⁩, Co-Founder of Gorilla LLM, speaking on the domain-specific finetuning of models, systems, and tools to enhance AI-human workflows.

Gorilla is a massive API store for LLMs that restructures AI flow to be more efficient and scalable! 🦍

🎤 Our speakers will be available in the workshop room after their individual sessions today, ready to dive deeper into conversation.

Join us to continue the discussion and connect! #FtCBerkeley 🙌

'Everyone wants human-level AI agents. But it's very difficult to define what 'good behavior' means for humans.' 💡

- Evan Miyazono from Atlas Computing at #FtCBerkeley .

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Breakfast is served! We start today at 10AM, so get here soon to get some breakfast and #EarthCommons swag before our sessions start.

An agenda is attached. Please note we will be recording and streaming the event today and will release details on how to access the sessions as…

Great to talk about Jolt yesterday Funding The Commons Berkley. Thanks for having me!

Day 2 of #FtCBerkeley begins! 🌐✨️ What sessions are you most excited about?

See agenda for Open Source AI Day below. 👇

Ready for Day 2 of #FtCBerkeley ? Doors open at 9am! 🚀

Also, make sure to watch this great recap of yesterday! 👇