🌟 GenAI Assembling 2025 Year in Review

What we built, what we learned, and where we’re going next

Thanks for growing with GenAI Assembling this year.

In 2025, we set out to do something simple—but not easy: to build high-signal AI community in Silicon Valley, where builders, founders, researchers, and operators could think clearly together amid rapid change.

As the year wraps up, here’s a look back at what we built, what stood out, and what we’re taking forward into 2026.

2025 in events

This year, GenAI Assembling hosted 10 in-person events across the Bay Area:

• 7 open meetups & panels

• 3 closed-door salons for deeper founder and builder conversations

📍 Palo Alto · Menlo Park · Mountain View · San Jose · San Francisco
👥 Typical registrations per event: 300–500
🔥 Every event exceeded venue capacity

Each event was designed around a simple goal:
fewer surface-level takes, more time on real tradeoffs, constraints, and lessons learned.

A community that keeps showing up

Across all events, we saw ~3,000 total registrations in 2025.

What mattered most wasn’t just attendance, but continuity:

• ~30% of attendees joined 2+ events

• A growing core showed up repeatedly across cities and formats

That repeat presence turned one-off events into shared context—and made discussions sharper every time.

Beyond the room: what we explored in writing

Alongside events, we published insights on the questions that defined AI in 2025, including but not limited to:

• Agents moving from demos into real workflows

• Open-source vs proprietary AI debates

• Post–pre-training compute and inference constraints

• Reliability, evals, and production readiness

• Cost, latency, and deployment tradeoffs

Our goal wasn’t to chase headlines—it was to document how builders were actually thinking and building as the year unfolded.

Looking to 2026

In 2026, we want GenAI Assembling to be known as:

A builder-first AI community—one that witnesses and accompanies great teams from early ideas to real impact.

❤️ Thank you

To every speaker, partner, volunteer, and community member who showed up curious and generous—thank you.

If you want to be part of 2026:

• Come to an event

• Bring a friend

• help shape a future session

• or simply tell us what you’d like to see more of

See you in the new year.

🗓️ Up next

Jan 12 · Palo Alto | Beyond CES: The Rise of Agent-Native Hardware

🔗 https://luma.com/47iejors

Agents are breaking out of the screen—and hardware is becoming strategic again.
Featuring founders and professionals from Looki, Plaud, and Meta, this session explores what changes when AI must sense, decide, and act in the physical world.