AI Dinner 10 — A2A vs MCP

A slow month is a rare opportunity in the AI world — let's be grateful 🙏 and use this time to build and learn... OK 😅, strike that. Turned out to be another very busy month with tons of updates. Let's focus our next event on A2A demos and foundational research papers. Agenda 6:30 PM Dinner and networking, tonight Mexican food 🌮 🥑 🍺 7:00 PM Socratic Conversations:(10m) Greycroft intro by Ian Sigalow, introductions around the room (10s per person), and announcements. (30m) Latest AI updates from Apr 23 to May 21 https://site.flowai.xyz/ai-socratic-may-2025 (45m) Research papers reading:5m https://aman.ai/primers/ai/top-30-papers - Fed 15m pre-training data - Kirill Igumenshchev 15m tokenizer - James Augeri (30m) A2A demo - Dustin Zubke, with the support of Andrew Hamilton and Yuval Ziegler for the MCP side. 9:00 PM Networking

The AI NYC 🗽🍎 is a community of top-tier applied AI researchers, engineers, and founders meeting regularly to cut through the noise of the AI news cycle, bridging the signals across all verticals. Some of our past discussions include: MCP Workshop: we focused the entire event on learning how MCP works and showing demos. DeepSeek Study Group, we read the R1 and V3 papers and went into the rabbit hole of reasoners and show how to install DeepSeek. SOTA RAG: integrating search and retrieval mechanisms like HyDE with LLMs for enhanced knowledge retrieval in real-time applications. Sponsors Greycroft is sponsoring space and food

Flow AI, Trebuchet, and Amol are moderating the event. CryptoCoutur is the vibe curator.

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