A sold-out event that billed itself as the world's first generative AI conference was held this week in San Francisco.
Austin-based AI startup Jasper hosted the one-day Gen AI event at the Pier 27 conference center.
The event drew more than 1,000 attendees. Tickets went for $450 and were sold out, according to CNBC.
- Speakers included OpenAI VP of product Peter Welinder, Anthropic CEO Dario Andrei, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, and New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, who recently wrote about his "very strange" conversation with ChatGPT.
- The agenda also included a number of speakers from AI startup Jasper, the event's host.
- Jasper, founded in 2021, has been known for its writing assistant platform, which uses a generative AI engine to produce content for websites, social media posts, and blogs.
- In December, the startup released a conversational chat interface to generate original writing content for business use cases.
