/ About this event
The model frontier is advancing quickly. The more interesting question now is: what can we build now that we couldn't build before? ✨
A new generation of models can hold context, reason across steps, use tools, and carry work forward - opening up new possibilities at the application layer.
For this SF Tech Week edition of Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out, we're bringing together model builders, founders, operators, and investors to explore what’s newly possible: what AI can now reliably take on, which products are becoming viable, and where durable advantage comes from as frontier capabilities become more accessible.
Expect a fast-moving conversation grounded in what people are actually building, followed by live demos from early-stage teams.
🎤 Speakers Jaidev Shah | Memory & Personalization, Google DeepMind Aryan Vij & Jai Bhatia | Co-Founders, Turnstone (YC W26) Alan Zong | Co-Founder & Partner, UpScaleX | Moderator
⚡ Run of Show 5:30 – 6:00 PM | Welcome & Networking 6:00 – 6:30 PM | Rapid-Fire Conversation A candid discussion with model and application leaders. 6:30 – 6:55 PM | Builder Showcase Selected founders take the stage for rapid live demos of what this generation of models is making possible. 7:00 – 8:30 PM | Drinks, Bites & Curated Networking
🎯 What We’ll Get Into - What became possible with this model generation. Which products can exist now that couldn't before? - AI coworkers and new forms of work. What meaningful responsibilities can agents take on, and where should humans stay in the loop? - Consumer AI beyond chat. What can become a recurring part of how people create, learn, plan, communicate, or manage everyday life? - Differentiation at the application layer. When teams have access to similar models, what actually creates durable product advantage? - From demo to repeated use. What changes when powerful model capabilities meet real users, persistent context, latency, failures, and edge cases?
💡 Builder Showcase A rapid-fire showcase of early-stage teams building on the new model generation. Selected founders will have 3 minutes to demo what they’re building and show what’s newly possible at the application layer. Interested in demoing? Reach out to zidi@upscalex.ai with a short intro to what you’re building.
🚀 Event Hosts, Community Partner & Sponsors
UpScaleX is a San Francisco and Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders’ community investing in AI-native applications, agentic economies, and vertical AI, built to empower the next generation of AI innovators.
OpenAI Codex is an AI coding agent built for real software engineering work - helping developers move from idea to implementation across coding, testing, review, and increasingly agentic, multi-step workflows. It brings frontier model capabilities directly into how builders create and ship software.
Silicon Foundry is an innovation advisory firm at the intersection of emerging technology, startups, investors, and global enterprises - helping organizations understand what’s next and turn new technologies into strategic opportunities.
🌙 What is Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out?
Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out is a recurring gathering for founders, operators, investors, and researchers building at the frontier of agentic AI. Each edition centers on a question that is actively changing how AI products get built - bringing together the people developing the underlying technology and the founders turning it into products people actually use.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
