AI Dinner DC 🏛️ — OpenAI / OpenClaw 🦞 + Moltbook

A Symposium with the brightest minds in the Washington DC AI scene. We run Socratic Dialogues and eat some delicious food 🥗 🍲.

This Month's Topics OpenAI / OpenClaw & Moltbook — OpenClaw 🦞 and its latest purchase from OpenAI If You Don't Own Your Inference, Your Agent Isn't Yours — sovereignty, open-source, and the case for air-gapped AI. Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex vs Kimi K2.5 — The coding agents war continue. SeedDance 2.0 — Hollywood chagpt moment. World Models — Google Genie, World Labs, D4RT, and reality simulators. Funding: $7 Trillion in AI Infrastructure — Alphabet $185B, Amazon $200B. Is this a boom or a bubble? 50 States vs 1 Executive Order — Trump's EO targets state AI laws. DC is ground zero for the regulatory showdown. AGI & Consciousness — Hinton says LLMs understand, Goertzel says 2 years until AGI. Do you agree? 1.2M Jobs Cut in 2025 — SaaS apocalypse is coming, what's the moat? Discussions are structured around this blog post: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-february-2026. Agenda 6:30 PM Dinner starts 7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues 8:00 PM Presentations and Demos 9:30 PM Networking at a bar nearby

Socratic Dialogues We start with a quick round of intro around the room. We then discuss the latest in AI from structuring the conversation with these blog posts Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Ivo and Fed moderate the conversations.

Presentations And Demos 🚀 In this session, you’ll have the chance to share something you’ve learned that brings real value to the room—whether it’s a new model, a research paper, an AI coding project, or even an ethical debate. Add your presentation or demo here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7SxdTbdZYX3fsnA1PND3UJ3p7o7VcWBN2gP79cpa5I

Sponsors 🏅 Thanks to Charm and Christian Rocha for the generous sponsor to keep us running these events 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

DM us to sponsor or hosts this event or one of our next events: fed@flowai.xyz.

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