In two weeks, Assembling 2026 is coming!

On October 2, at Terra Gallery in San Francisco, nearly 50 guests active in the AI front line, along with 500+ Founders, Builders, Creators, Researchers, and Investors will gather here!

Three stages, a whole day.

The current lineup already includes nearly 50 guests from companies and institutions such as Microsoft AI, Nebius, Mercor, Qualcomm, Character.AI, M12, PLAUD, 1Password, Temporal, Fish Audio, TinyFish, Simular, Inferact, Visko, Octen AI, and Striker Venture Partners.

Free registration slots are open!

And this is not all. In the upcoming two weeks, new guests and surprises will join us.

We are discussing what is currently happening on the front lines of AI:

Agents, models and infra, Open Source, AI-native products, Voice & Creation, Robotics, GTM, entrepreneurship and investment...

From model training, AI infra and agents, to rapidly growing AI-native products; from new ways to interact with sound, images and content, to the commercialization, growth and investment of AI companies - we care not just about what everyone is doing today and how they are doing it, but also about where AI will go next starting from here.

On three stages, there will be deep conversations from the front lines, as well as Founder Demos, Workshops and product showcases. Beyond the stages, there will also be ample time for everyone to truly meet, discuss products, seek collaboration, and collide with new ideas.

If you are also an AI practitioner, this day is worth coming to San Francisco!

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Free registration slots are now open

In order to bring together more people who are genuinely involved in AI innovation, Assembling 2026 is now open for free registration applications to AI entrepreneurs, developers, industry professionals, researchers, students, and community partners!

If you are a Founder, or if you are working on an interesting AI project, feel free to apply for the Founder / Builder Pass; researchers, students, and community partners can apply for the Community / Researcher / Student Pass.

If approved, you can attend for free.

Slots are limited, and there are only two weeks left until the conference, so it's first come, first served.

In addition, a limited number of 200 early bird tickets are now available. By entering the discount code GUIXINGREN when registering, you can enjoy an additional 20% discount off the early bird price, on a first come, first served basis!

We also have a small number of on-site demo slots available. If what you are working on deserves to be seen by more people, or if it represents a different direction and judgment from the mainstream narrative, feel free to bring it to the Assembling 2026 event.

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Event Information

• Date: October 2, 2026

• Time: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM

• Location: Terra Gallery, San Francisco

• Scale: Nearly 50 guests / 500+ participants / 3 stages

• On-site: Deep conversations / Founder Demos / Workshops / Product showcases / Networking

• Catering: Lunch provided on-site

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Introduction of Guest Companies (Continuously Updated)

• Models, Computing Power and AI Infra

Microsoft AI — The core team responsible for autonomous AI model development at Microsoft has launched the MAI model family covering inference, programming, image, and voice directions, which is an important part of Microsoft's construction of autonomous cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Nebius — A full-stack AI infrastructure company listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NBIS), currently valued at approximately $60 billion. Revenue in Q2 2026 increased by 454% year-on-year to $582 million.

Micron — A globally leading memory and storage chip company providing essential hardware for AI data centers. In 2026, it has mass-produced HBM4 high-bandwidth memory for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform to support next-generation large model training and inference.

Mercor — Builds professional talent networks for leading AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, recruiting and vetting experts in engineering, law, finance, medicine, and other fields to support model training and evaluation. Completed a $350 million Series C financing in 2025, with a valuation of $10 billion.

Nexa AI (now a part of Qualcomm) — An important player in the field of edge generative AI inference, its Nexa SDK once topped the GitHub Trending chart and gained over 8,000 stars, allowing large models to run directly on mobile phones, personal computers, cars, and robotic devices.

Inferact — An AI infrastructure company founded by the vLLM founder and core maintainer, has completed $150 million in seed financing with a post-money valuation of $800 million, jointly led by a16z and Lightspeed, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Altimeter, Redpoint, and ZhenFund.

1Password — A leading global password management and identity security platform, with its latest public financing round valued at $6.8 billion. Its business is currently extending into AI agent identity and permission security.

Stardust AI — Focuses on data and evaluation infrastructure for enterprise AI, connecting real task data, expert standards, and user feedback to help AI systems continuously improve reliability; the founder is currently developing PreSeen, allowing agents to continuously learn from memory, feedback, and task execution.

Octen AI — Builds real-time search and retrieval infrastructure for AI agents, announced $10 million in seed financing led by Square Peg with participation from Argor in March 2026.

PhoenixAI — Creates a real-time analytics database layer for agentic AI workloads, enabling AI agents to continuously access, understand, and process changing enterprise data. In June 2026, the company completed an $80 million Series B financing led by Sky9 Capital, bringing total funding close to $100 million.

Yotta Labs  — Provides elastic GPU cloud services for AI training and inference, combining model quantization and a unified model API to help developers simplify deployment and optimize computing costs; it has also open-sourced the BloomBee distributed inference engine and AMD inference acceleration tools.

• AI Agents and Work Efficiency

Simular AI — Focuses on developing autonomous AI agents capable of operating in full computer environments like humans, executing complex tasks across browsers, desktop software, and enterprise legacy systems. The company has completed a $21.5 million Series A financing led by Felicis with participation from NVentures.

TinyFish — Focuses on enterprise-level web agent infrastructure, enabling AI agents to reliably execute data collection, price monitoring, and multi-step operations in complex, dynamic real websites. The company has completed a $47 million Series A financing led by ICONIQ Capital and has become one of the first five partners of Microsoft Windows 365 for Agents.

Brix — Builds a global recruitment infrastructure native to AI, integrating talent search, expert vetting, recruiting networks, and AI recruiting agents on the same platform. The company is incubated by HF0, selected for NVIDIA Inception, and has completed nearly $10 million in seed financing.

Kylon — A new generation AI-native work platform aimed at enterprises, redefining how people collaborate with AI. Kylon positions AI agents as more than just passive tools responding to commands; they act as "digital team members," equipped with independent memory, a complete business background, and clear permissions, autonomously undertaking complex work while integrating with existing enterprise systems. Its applications cover core scenarios including R&D, finance, sales, marketing, customer support, and enterprise operations, helping teams of various sizes truly embed AI into their daily business processes, achieving a leap from supplementary efficiency to autonomous execution.

Puffo AI — Explores a new type of AI workspace for multi-agent collaboration, allowing multiple agents to continuously communicate, discuss, divide tasks, and review together, achieving complex tasks as a team. The core founding team hails from renowned global tech and fintech giants like Square, Circle, and OKX.

Walnut AI — Uses long-term memory and AI agents to help users expand and manage professional networks, launching Walnut Card in July 2026, turning business cards exchanged at the event into contacts that can be followed up sustainably.

IDitor — Focuses on personal knowledge management and collaborative thinking tools; its flagship product, Echo, organizes users' dialogues, decisions, and background information through persistent AI memory, enabling continuity of context across conversations and collaborative advancement of long-term projects.

• Consumer AI and Smart Hardware

Character.AI — A platform for AI character interaction that allows users to create virtual characters, engage in personalized dialogues and role-playing. Co-founded by Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the Transformer paper, and former Google researcher Daniel De Freitas, the company completed $150 million in Series A financing led by a16z in 2023, achieving a valuation of $1 billion.

PLAUD AI — Combines AI recording hardware with smart note-taking, transforming meetings, calls, and daily conversations into transcriptions, summaries, and searchable knowledge through products like Plaud Note and NotePin, with over 2.5 million global users.

ZooWork & Gensmo — Explores practical applications of AI agents from work automation to fashionable consumption: ZooWork turns professional capabilities into executable task agents; Gensmo provides personalized outfit suggestions, virtual fitting, and shopping recommendations, with official downloads exceeding 1 million.

Ditto —An AI dating platform for university students that understands user preferences through iMessage, automatically matches individuals, and schedules offline dates. In February 2026, it announced a $9.2 million seed financing round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Gradient.

Dex — Combines AI with children's education hardware to create a language learning camera for children aged 3-8, allowing kids to obtain multilingual explanations, interactive stories, and exploration tasks by photographing objects around them, with content adjusted according to age and language level. The product supports 16 languages and over 30 dialects.

• Multi-Modal Generation and World Models

Fish Audio — A rapidly rising AI voice generation platform that achieved $21 million in annual recurring revenue and accumulated over 8 million users within its first year. The company has completed a $52 million seed financing round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today.

Visko — Focused on developing "Live Model," a real-time world model company whose first model, Orbis, can continuously generate interactive videos with long-term memory and visual consistency based on user input. The company has completed a $10 million Pre-seed financing round led by Llama Ventures, with UC Berkeley Professor Michael I. Jordan as an advisor.

Tripo AI (VAST) — Concentrates on AI 3D generation and world models, enabling rapid generation of editable 3D assets from text or images, serving scenes in gaming, film, 3D printing, and embodied intelligence. In 2026, it completed approximately $200 million in total financing and launched its world model research project, Project Eden.

• Venture Capital

M12 — A venture capital fund under Microsoft, founded in 2016, primarily investing in early to B-series tech companies, focusing on AI applications, developer tools, and enterprise infrastructure.

Striker Venture Partners — An early-stage venture capital institution focusing on AI, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, established with a $165 million initial fund in 2025. Past supported projects include Airtable, Reflection AI, Dyna Robotics, Lepton AI, and Voyage AI.

Leonis Capital  — A venture capital firm focused on AI-native startups, driving investments through cutting-edge technological research, supporting tech founders in transforming AI research achievements into products and businesses.

Arcanum Capital — An early-stage venture capital institution established in 2020, with supporters including "Silicon Valley Godfather" Tim Draper and other industry leaders.

Acorn Pacific Ventures — An early-stage venture capital institution rooted in Silicon Valley and connecting the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on industrial digitization and startups with proprietary core technologies, leveraging a trans-Pacific industrial network to support businesses in expanding to the US and Asian markets.

• Brands, Media, and Ecosystems

Lexicon Branding — Known for creating names for brands such as Windsurf, Vercel, Capcut, BlackBerry, Pentium, Swiffer, Febreze, Sonos, and Azure.

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