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AI Tinkerers will host a 3-hour hackathon challenging coders to automate real-world problems, with support from Sparkles, Cloudflare, and Anthropic.
Past
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person hackathon, "Agents vs Wall Street," with a $10k cash prize, sponsored by Primer and OpenStocks.
AI Tinkerers hosted a cofounder speed dating breakfast focused on Vertical AI. This in-person meetup facilitated connections within the AI community.
AI Tinkerers hosted a screening of the General Magic movie.
Less than a month out, the Cerebral Valley AI Summit lands in London on June 24, with a strong lineup including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Alphabet board member Martin Chavez. Founded by Eric Newcomer, it’s a one-day, invite-only, curated small-room event (a couple hundred leaders) to network and discuss—apply here: https://reg.newcomer.events/cvl2/start.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, exploring AI advancements.
Poolside’s 2-day in-person London model research hackathon (29th May) will focus on Laguna XS.2 33B-A3B and requires improving the model itself (fine-tuning/post-training, computer use/multi-agent, RL/eval design, quantization, inference optimization). Apply via the event page; the winning team gets an NVIDIA DGX Spark™.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Nad Chishtie, Head of Design at Lovable.
AI Tinkerers - London hosted a VIP dinner with Kiro on building software factories. Shanice Walker organized the in-person event.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Julien Bek, Partner at Sequoia.
AI Tinkerers - London hosted an in-person demo night.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup featuring an Ask Me Anything session with Tom Occhino, CPO at Vercel.
Builders participated in an intense, in-person global hackathon focused on Conversational Agents, involving team collaboration and vying for prizes exceeding $200K, supported by ElevenLabs.
AI Tinkerers London and Accel hosted an exclusive session where GoCardless co-founder Matt Robinson shared founder lessons and investment insights with select AI engineers.
Builders pushed knowledge and retrieval projects at the focused one-day hackathon, competing for a £5k+ prize pool with support from sponsors including ElevenLabs and Redis.
The AI Tinkerers London meetup fostered community and shared knowledge. Attendees explored AI innovations.
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The AI Tinkerers London meetup was an in-person event focused on artificial intelligence. Luke Harries organized the gathering.
AI Tinkerers partnered with MongoDB for a Demopalooza event. Attendees showcased AI projects, fostering community and knowledge sharing.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Guillermo Rauch, founder of Vercel.
Builders focused on agents, tooling, and infrastructure participated in a one-day in-person hackathon with over £10k in prizes, supported by sponsors like ElevenLabs.
Join Prolific on Thursday 9th October in London for a drinks reception with AI leaders on why AI leaderboards miss the mark—covering underrepresentation of open-source models and misalignment with real-world ability. You’ll take part in roundtables, exchange evaluation approaches, and network—register: https://luma.com/p1k55qst?utm_source=AITinkerers.
Executives will learn how conversational AI elevates customer experience through product demos and a panel featuring leaders from Just Eat and Kraken, supported by ElevenLabs.
The AI Tinkerers London community gathered for an in-person meetup.
Builders joined Open Court and AI Tinkerers for a mini hackathon focused on rapid AI prototyping, featuring a fireside chat with Tom Blomfield and supported by various sponsors.
The AI Tinkerers London community gathered for an in-person meetup. Organizers Luke Harries facilitated discussions.
The AI Tinkerers London community gathered for an in-person meetup. Organizers Luke Harries facilitated discussions on artificial intelligence.
Join a small invite-only crowd of 200 founders and investors at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in London on Wednesday, June 25—featuring Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber) with Alex Kendall (Wayve), and Dylan Field (Figma) plus top European AI CEOs. Apply via the AI Tinkerers network for £49 (vs £499 full price): https://ai-tinkerers.cerebralvalleysummit.com/.
Join Langflow, Twilio and TurinTech for a dev hackathon on AI agents + MCP in London, 20–21 June at Tab Centre (Shoreditch). Apply: https://lu.ma/hacking-agents-hackathon-london (space very limited). Timeline: 20 June 5pm doors, 11pm close; 21 June 3pm submissions, 5pm judging. Prizes up to £1,000; teams up to 4; solo welcome.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup organized by Luke Harries.
AI Tinkerers London held an in-person meetup focused on artificial intelligence. The event provided a platform for community engagement and discussion.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup.
Builders tested AI's ability to create an MVP in just over two hours. A £1,000 cash prize was sponsored by Vanta.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup on February 11, 2025. The event focused on artificial intelligence.
Participants engaged in a three-hour, AI-first coding sprint to build MVPs quickly, culminating in project pitches and prizes, with support from Iterate and Entrepreneur First.
AI Tinkerers, ElevenLabs, and a16z are hosting a worldwide hackathon on Feb 22–23. Apply now at https://hackathon.elevenlabs.io. Seven hackathons in San Francisco, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Seoul, plus Online; limited spaces, with prizes from Mistral, Vercel, and Windsurf.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup. The event featured discussions and activities related to artificial intelligence.
Join the Prolific Winter Summit (Feb 4th): hear Cohere, Prolific, AI Safety Institute, IBM and more on accelerating AI application development. Agenda: 11:00–11:30 registration; 11:30–12:45 innovation; 12:45–1:45 networking lunch; 1:45–4:00 deep dive; 4:00–5:00 happy hour. Apply: https://lu.ma/uzlu98de.
AI Tinkerers London hosted an in-person meetup focused on artificial intelligence. The event was organized by Louis Knight-Webb.
AI Tinkerers has partnered with Tessl for the free virtual conference AI Native Dev Con on November 21st. Speakers include Guy Podjarny (spec-centric development), Lize Raes (integrating AI into coding), Jason Hand (LLMs for observability), and others. Register here: https://tessl.co/4fkHop6.
Join the London Consumer AI Hackathon (9–10 Nov) by a16z + ElevenLabs with support from Synthesia, Captions, Luma, and AI Tinkerers. In-person only—remote teams can’t join. Sign up: https://dub.sh/elevenlabs-hackathon. Judges include Mati Staniszewski (ElevenLabs) and Sriram Krishnan (a16z). Prizes: demo at next AI Tinkerers event, 4x Airpod Maxs, 4x Meta Raybans, ElevenLabs merch, partner credits.
AI Tinkerers London held an in-person meetup focused on AI. The event was organized by Louis Knight-Webb.
The AI Tinkerers held an in-person happy hour focused on casual networking and impromptu project demonstrations. Attendees shared code and hardware in a relaxed setting.
AI Tinkerers London held an in-person meetup organized by Louis Knight-Webb.
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[demo] Japanese TTS built on top of MetaVoice-1B
Interesting things: some models in our stack were trained on
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https://github.com/kotoba-tech/kotoba_speech-release
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The AI Tinkerers London community gathered for an in-person meetup.
AI Tinkerers London held an in-person meetup focused on artificial intelligence. The event brought together enthusiasts to discuss and explore AI topics.
Engineers gathered for practical insights on foundation models, featuring talks on fine-tuning large language models and generative AI applications, hosted by Monzo.
The technical gathering featured six rapid, hands-on talks on foundation models and generative AI, with support provided by Onfido and Mystic.
Engineers gathered for practical large language model work, featuring demos on frontier tooling and application showcases, with pizza and drinks provided by sponsors.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on building with foundation models, featuring lightning talks and deep dives on topics like WebGPU, LLM deployment, and model comparisons.
Best AI meetup in London for builders
AI Tinkerers London is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The London chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 125,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local London chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers London meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is UK's Shortest Hackathon 2026 on September 2, 2026. Subscribe to the London chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers London is the best AI meetup in London for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The London chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
AI Tinkerers London is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The London chapter is part of a 253-city network with 125,000+ members worldwide.
OpenClaw is the viral, open-source, autonomous AI agent: a self-hosted 'digital employee' that executes real-world tasks across your local machine and messaging platforms 24/7.
PostgreSQL (Postgres): The world's most advanced, open-source object-relational database (ORDBMS), built for reliability and extensibility.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
ActivityStreams 2.0 is the W3C standard for encoding social interactions and metadata using a JSON-LD based syntax.
AI: The computational system driving human-level problem-solving (e.g., GPT-4, AlphaGo), actively transforming sectors like healthcare and finance with predictive analytics.
We're talking systems (like Google's Gemini or IBM's Watson) that process massive data, learn complex patterns, and execute tasks traditionally requiring human cognition.
Creative Commons (CC) provides the standardized legal infrastructure for global content sharing and open-source collaboration.
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.
The programmatic interface for Claude Code: build production-ready AI agents with full access to code execution and rich tool use.
Codex is OpenAI's autonomous AI software engineering agent: it executes full development tasks in a sandboxed cloud environment.
"The event format was great, please continue organizing it. Thorough people selection made it really valuable. Q&A section with Eric was also great and inspirational"
"Great theme this time round. Loved the design focus, Nad was a fab speaker and really insightful. Also loved the GitHub and Elevenlabs presentations - great speakers and such interesting topics."
"Make sure there is a person to greet people at the reception, standing for 30 minutes, and waiting is not a good experience. Luckily, everyone was in the same boat, and we had great conversations."
"1. Choosing great speakers. 2. Thank you for catering for gluten free people. 3. Lots of Q&A. 4. Pub session at the end was nice to carry on speaking."
"Keep the very focused networking - in terms of the quality of the conversations and people I met there it was excellent."
"Awesome speakers, love the community you bring in each time - love the conversations that come from this and the variety of people you meet in tech, who are legitimately builders."
"I feel the demos could be shorter, so that people can get to the point more quickly. I'd have loved to stay longer at the venue for networking."
"Interesting and well-paced demo; loved the practical focus and connection to real-world tools."
"Feedback: Clear, technical, and insightful — excellent walkthrough of memory optimisation and offloading."
"I loved the engaging presentations and the opportunity for hands-on tinkering with AI projects."
Last updated: August 2026