AGI House.

Timeline of AGI House Creation

By Jeremy Nixon

This project was created out of love, passion and awe. It was always about co-creative spirit. Over the years we've launched thousands of projects and been central to the creation of dozens of companies. Here's a timeline of the creation of the existing AGI Houses:

Timeline:

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1. Jeremy Nixon and Andrej Karpathy Created NeoGenesis (02/01/22)
2. Jeremy Takes on financial liability for NeoGenesis (Security Deposit) (02/02/22)
3. Jeremy comes up with the idea for an AI House w/ friends (08/30/22)
4. Jeremy, Andrej and Marco Created & ran the first Generative Image Hackathon (9/2/22)
5. Jeremy, Andrej and Marco created & ran the Generative Intelligence Hackathon (9/24/22)
6. Jeremy and Marco created and ran the Whisper Hackathon (10/22/22)
7. Jeremy purchased the http://agihouse.ai web domain (10/27/22)
8. Jeremy created the AGI House Slack (12/11/22)
9. Jeremy created and ran the davinci-003 ChatGPT Hackathon (12/12/22)
10. Jeremy brought Rocky on as house manager (12/27/22)
11. Jeremy, Kyle Morris, Chip Huyen, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, and Belinda Mo created and ran the Founder's hackathon (01/14/23)
12. New lease signed by Tim Shi & Rocky Yu (02/01/23)
13. Jeremy creates AGI House SF (01/08/24)

Later Hackathons run by Jeremy and Rocky (Prior to AGI House SF):

• Langchain Hackathon (02/25/23)
• GPT-4 Hackathon (03/25/23)
• ImageGen Segment Anything & ControlNet Hackathon (05/20/23)
• Agents Hackathon (CRV Agent Hackathon: MULTI·ON, AutoGPT) (06/24/23)
• Redpoint Imagine Hackathon (08/12/23)
• Custom LLM Hackathon (08/13/23)
• CodeGen Hackathon (09/09/23)
• Launch Your Own LLM Hackathon (09/16/23)

The backstory of our beloved machine learning hacker houses.

From NeoGenesis to AGI House.
By Jeremy Nixon
NeoGenesis
AGI House & NeoGenesis Lease
Future Forum

I founded AGI House as Neogenesis with Andrej Karpathy in February, 2021, where we held phenomenal future-tech events like the Future Forum. Marco Mascorro, Andrej Karpathy and I started hosting hackathons with fantastic technologists, like the creators of Stable Diffusion.


The hackathons were so productive that in September 2022, Marco and I had long conversations about a new creative idea - we could rename NeoGenesis to AGI House and mainly run AI focused events.

I had 4 house managers / Heads of Operation at NeoGenesis. The house manager's job is to help collect rent and help with events. First Ashley Zhang, then Daniela Velez, then Rebecca Chen, and then Rocky Yu. After running AGI House hackathons for ~3 months, Tim Shi told me that Rocky wanted to take on more responsibility & try to raise a fund. This sounded great to me, because running events is time consuming and I wanted to spend more time building my company (we just launched!). I decided to bring Rocky on {photo of my dated to-do list}, and he and Tim took on the next lease.


In May, I started to think about creating an SF branch of AGI House. We found a glorious space and have started running even more incredible events.


The unifying element between the two houses, AGI House Hillsborugh and AGI House SF, are that they share the same founding vision and the same person created both of them.


We've run multiple ~100 person events out of the AGI House slack in the past few weeks and will continue to do that. In the last 9 days, everything from our CodeGen hackathon w/ Amjad Masad (CEO of Replit) to our Launch Your own Large Language Model hackathon w/ Modal & Google, to our SF acceleration meetup w/ Garry Tan. Our hackathon with the creators of Stable Diffusion is coming up, and we’re going to run glorious hackathons all year long, so do keep in touch!