/ About this event
The loop is already spinning.
More than 80% of Anthropic’s code is written by Claude. Jeff Dean left Google after 30 years to build the loop for science. Direction-setting is increasingly the role left for humans.
This Sunday, we’re hacking self-improving AI systems.
Lilian Weng argues the near-term path to recursive self-improvement may run through the harness, not the model weights. The bottleneck? Evals.
A self-improvement loop is only as good as its evaluator.
That’s the hack: build the loop, build the eval, and see how far it can improve itself.
------------------------------------ ✨Schedule✨ 10:00 Sundai intro for newcomers 10:10 AI news 10:30 Idea pitching and team formation 14:00 Check in #1 and lunchs 16:00 Optional 5k run/bike 20:00 Final presentation
------------------------------------ ✨For newcomers✨
1. "How to Use Sundai Discord" (4mins video) https://youtu.be/qVl4QdROUIA Important - please install Discord on your phone, and on your mac / pc as an app. We cannot stress enough how essential this is.
2. "Intro for Newcomers" Read: https://github.com/sergeicu/sundai-global/blob/main/intro-for-newcomers.md Watch: https://youtu.be/u_X1KXmOGgY (9mins)
------------------------------------ ✨What is Sundai✨
Sundai Club is the largest MIT / Harvard AI hacker group that meets every sunday to build a new AI app from scratch by the end of the day.
We had done 110+ hacks back-to-back in the last 2 years - one for every sunday without stopping
------------------------------------ ✨Our mission at Sundai ✨
_"Push the envelope of what is possible to do with AI in a day."_
1. Grow the Best Hackers learn to build fast with AI
2. Build things that matter users / $$$ / github ⭐️s
3. Spread the Hacker Mindset teach the skills that we learn at MIT and beyond
------------------------------------ ✨Our Principles✨
Build. Ship. Shortcuts
- Build: The purpose of Sundai is to get together and build things. Every Sunday. - Ship: get off the localhost. Deploy a simple webapp demo that works on the internet. Go for less, to do more. - Shortcuts: Shortcuts is an ingenious move that a hacker makes to build a system that works. In order to build fast - you always need to think in shortcuts.
------------------------------------ ✨Our Story✨ https://www.sundai.foundation/about
✨History of Hacking at MIT✨ https://www.sundai.foundation/about/hacker
✨Our Constitution✨ https://github.com/sergeicu/sundai-global/blob/main/Constitution.md
------------------------------------ Terms of Participation:
By joining this event you agree to take care & vigilance of the following: - leave the room as you found it. All whiteboards, chairs and tables must be cleaned and re-arranged as you found them. All trash must be in the bin. - do not let any strangers enter into any building behind you where sundai is taking place. if you see anyone you do not recognize who is suspicious, please let us know immediately. - use only the dedicated spaces to a sundai hack. if unsure - ask explicitly. - be respectful and considerate of others who may be in the building and are studying or working. - if unsure - always ask.
You agree to these rules by coming to the event. Please read full terms carefully here: https://tinyurl.com/sundaiterms
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.
