AI Demo Day: Startups Building with Open-Weight Models

The AI race isn't just happening in the cloud. It is happening on your laptop, your server, your infrastructure.

Open-weight models have changed everything. You no longer need a credit card and an API key to build something powerful. You need curiosity, a GPU, and the willingness to run it yourself.

These are models you can download, fine-tune, deploy, and own. No usage limits. No data leaving your walls. No dependency on a vendor who can reprice you overnight.

What the founders you'll hear from tonight have figured out is this: the best AI products of the next decade won't be built on top of someone else's model. They'll be built by people who got their hands dirty running their own.

That's what tonight is about. Hear from innovative founders from
Geospan - Julia Tan and Beau Hobba
EnterOS AI - Maverick Cui
Base Compute - Lukas Wesemann
GenAIM- Jonathan Birch