Frontier Paper Club — NYC
Papers. People. Possibilities.
How do we know an AI agent is actually getting better? What makes a research result hold up beyond its benchmark? And which ideas are ready to become systems people can depend on?
Frontier Paper Club is a monthly gathering in New York for researchers, engineers, and founders exploring the next generation of AI. Sponsored by Betaworks and Blobfish.ai, we bring together people developing new methods, building agent systems, and testing what works in practice.
Each session centers on 2–3 papers, benchmarks, or technical implementations selected around a shared research question. Topics span AI agents, reinforcement learning, post-training, reasoning, memory, evaluation, and simulation environments.
Presentations are brief and technically grounded, leaving plenty of time to examine the work together: the assumptions behind a method, the strength of its evidence, the details needed to reproduce it, and the failures that suggest where research should go next.
📝 Want to present your work?
Have research or an implementation you’d like to discuss with New York’s AI community?
We’re accepting submissions covering:
- AI agents, reasoning, planning, and memory
- Reinforcement learning and post-training
- Benchmarks, evaluation methods, and agent reliability
- Simulation environments and synthetic training data
- Reproductions, negative results, and practical lessons from deployment
Share a link to your paper, benchmark, project, or slides, along with what you’d like to present. Submissions will be considered for upcoming sessions.
Questions? Contact sam@blobfish.ai.
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5:30pm Arrivals & introductions
Meet fellow researchers and builders. Share what you’re working on and the questions you’re hoping to explore.
6:00pm Research presentations & benchmark discussion
Presenters walk through the problem, approach, key results, and limitations. Each talk is followed by audience questions and technical discussion.
8:00pm Open conversation & networking
Continue the discussion, exchange implementation notes, and meet potential collaborators.
The detailed schedule will be announced with the speaker lineup.
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