Issue no. 32 - Early June: HackAIThon, MemGPT and LuminaLog Startup Building
6/3/2024 - 6/9/2024
Intro
Hey, here is another edition of my newsletter where I give an overview of the events and ideas that were top of mind this week. I am an entrepreneur and creative technologist living in San Francisco. Get comfortable, play this song and give this newsletter a read!
Table of Contents
Intro
Craft Ventures HackAIthon
MemGPT Meetup
Building LuminaLog.com
Conclusion
Craft Ventures HackAIthon
This is a hackathon that is organized for the second year in a row by Craft Ventures. The theme is AI agents. It is unusual for a hackathon to be hosted on a Tuesday and Wednesday. I was excited to participate anyway. It was a very well organized and well funded hackathon. The food and snacks were high quality, the sponsors were there with prominent people in the space serving as judges and speakers. The prizes here pretty big too, $10,000 for the first prize and $5,000 for second and third.
Here I built a set of AI agents on CrewAI that helped you with self-development. You would write your daily journal, then send it off to the group of agents which then would analyze the entry, come up with a list of advice, insights and action items. The AI agents were hosted on CrewAI Plus platform. Which automatically deploys your CrewAI GitHub repo onto a server and gives you a production ready API endpoint. Then I wrote code on the front end to display a UI that would trigger the request, send the journal content and then display the response and save it in a database.
You can find the code for the CrewAI agents here:
https://github.com/kon-rad/luminaAgents
And here is a video demo:
MemGPT Meetup
On Thursday I went to catch a meetup around the open source - long term memory AI agents project called MemGPT. This was only a short walk from my home and I am very interested in the leading projects in this space of long term AI memory like this one so I had to attend. I am interested in this space because my startup LuminaLog.com is built upon and can be improved by various techniques for implementing AI long-term memory.
Building LuminaLog.com
This week I had published a new reel on Instagram to summarize and describe the AI journaling app. I made some improvements to the landing page and UI on mobile mode. This week was not very high in output on this startup because I did the Hackathon. On Friday there was a coworking event down the street from me where I met people building in AI and crypto. I watched a discussion featuring Illia Polosukhin the co-founder of Near protocol and co-author of the ‘Attention is All You Need’ paper which is one of the most influential in the current AI boom.
Conclusion
This week I participated and built a AI agents for self development proof of concept app. I demoed it to the judges and met many really cool people at this hackathon. I improved the AI journaling startup LuminaLog by improving the UI, landing page new sections and creating content on Instagram. I attended the MemGPT meetup to stay up to date on latest long-term memory AI agents tech.
