What Was AI Engineer New York About?

Alex Volkov says Anthropic is likely to IPO on Wall Street, and the second New York Artificial Intelligence Engineer conference sat beside Wall Street, so the event focused on finance. Latent Space called the big theme autonomy versus security.

Two Sigma, Capital One, Bridgewater, Apollo, and Bloomberg were all there, along with OpenAI and Anthropic. Alex Volkov first told anyone he had a podcast while heading to Artificial Intelligence Engineer in 2023 to cover it. Since then the conference blew up, and SWIX, co-host of Latent Space and creator of the Artificial Intelligence Engineer category, has kept curating the lineup. The show had already gone live from Moscone West with Wolfram Ravenwolf during Artificial Intelligence Engineer, then from London, where Peter Gostev did an interview and Wolfram Ravenwolf joined as well. In New York the recording was not on Thursday, and none of Alex Volkov's co-hosts were in the city, so he brought a hallway debrief for people who missed the event.

People came first to learn, so the talks were going to deliver something, and the hallway conversations carried the rest of the signal.