// Laude Lounge @ NeurIPS

• Jackson Clark // UIUC, SRE Gym/Stratus
• Lisa Dunlap // Berkeley, StringSight
• John Yang // Stanford, CodeClash
• Etash Guha // Stanford, OpenThoughts
• Lakshya Agrawal // Berkeley, GEPA

An evening of demos from research projects in Slingshots // One (and a sneak peek at Batch 2):

• BetterTogether // Dilara Soylu
• BizBench // Thomson Yen
• CodeClash // John Yang
• Stratus // Jackson Clark
• StringSight // Lisa Dunlap
• Terminal-Bench // Alex Shaw

On-camera talks on the Laude Lounge terrace featuring fireside interviews:

• Robert Nishihara
• Yejin Choi
• Omar Khattab
• Dilara Soylu
• Yoshua Bengio

Featuring:

• Rich Caruana // Intelligible AI
• Albert Gu // Cartesia
• Braden Hancock // Laude, Snorkel AI
• Mahesh (Maheswaran) Sathiamoorthy // Bespoke Labs

With Trevor Darrell, Sewon Min, and Alexei (Alyosha) Efros

While most NeurIPS presentations cover single papers, Latent Space engages domain experts to recap notable work in their field across the entire year, serving as a one stop "survey" for non-specialists to catch up. This year, Latent Space is inviting speakers covering 2025 in RAG, Codegen, Voice, World Models, Open LLMs, Datasets, and more. Open Q&A with invited Laude Lounge guests, presentations recorded and produced by Latent Space.

On-camera talks on the Laude Lounge terrace featuring fireside interviews with:

• Anastasios Angelopoulos
• Thomas Wolf
• Hanna Hajishirzi
• Jeff Dean
• Ion Stoica
• Aza Raskin

With demos from the open frontier AI stack:

• Michael Ryan // DSPy
• Etash Guha, Negin Raoof, Ben Feuer, Ryan Marten // OpenThoughts
• Lakshya Agrawal // GEPA
• Alex Shaw // Harbor
• Tyler Griggs // SkyRL
• Hanna Hajishirzi // OLMo 3
• Kaiyue Wen // Marin

And a very special Laude announcement by Andy Konwinski.