Your Dose of Reg.exe, Week {3}
Major achievements in open-source projects, Qwen 3 model updates showing impressive performance, voice agent discussions, geographic meetups across SF/Amsterdam/Tokyo, and amazing research papers.
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Ask for Help
Sohrab Hosseini (Orq.ai) is seeking contacts at Mistral and Datadog for a Hackathon productsummit.ai partnership. Benjamin Trom (Mistral) suggested Sophia Yang from Mistral partnerships.
Job Board
Philippe Mizrahi (Linkup) posted a Staff Backend Engineer position for their fast-growing AI startup. Building "Google for AI agents" with a team from Spotify, Lyft, McKinsey backgrounds, focusing on internet-scale infrastructure optimization. 📰 Job posting at their Sentier office.
Achievements
Arnaud Jean (AWS) was selected as keynote speaker for World AI Cannes 2026 alongside Yann LeCun. 🎭 Event website scheduled for February 12-13, 2026.
Plakar crossed 2¹⁰ ⭐️ on GitHub, with Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade celebrating the milestone. Also, Gilles entered the Top 3 most active GitHub contributors in France. 📰 LinkedIn post.
Sam Bhagwat (Mastra) shipped Mastra Templates with pre-built agent projects for common use cases like PDF chat, text-to-SQL, and browser automation. Zero to prototype in seconds with
npx mastra@latest create --template [name]. 📰 LinkedIn announcement.
Lightpanda became one of the top 10 fastest growing open-source startups worldwide according to Runa Capital analysis. 📰 LinkedIn post.
Knowledge
Leonard Strouk (.omics) discovered Future House platform branded as "AI Agent for Scientific Discovery" performing well on literature reviews. 🔬 Platform link.
Julien Seveno (Lightpanda 🐼) shared three research papers:
Energy Based Transformers for adaptive computing allocation: 🔬 Research site
In-context learning as implicit Bayesian inference: 🔬 ArXiv paper
LLMs are Bayesian in expectation, not realization: 🔬 ArXiv paper
Computer Vision
Kevin Kuipers (Reg.exe) shared an open-source Photoshop clone with AI agent capabilities built with Vercel AI SDK. The tool featured sequential processing, image generation, AI inpainting, and background removal. 🎞️ YouTube demo.
Audio and Speech
Benjamin Trom (Mistral) inquired about real-world Voxtral usage experiences and offered setup assistance for testing scenarios, and Guillaume Lesur (Wire) confirmed Voxtral evaluation was on Wire's roadmap with results to be shared upon completion.
Autonomous Agents
Marek Kalnik (Theodo) discussed emerging prompt injection attack strategies and the need for new escaping techniques in agent security.
Language Models
Gabriel Olympie @Human-Centric highlighted impressive Qwen 3 update performance scores, noting it wasn't a thinking model. The coder version demonstrated capabilities "slightly above deepseek v3.1" with web development demo available at 📰 Hugging Face Space.
Anirudh Kulkarni (Google Labs) shared context length degradation research and praised Qwen/Kimi improvements. Referenced paper on model performance after specific context lengths: 🔬 ArXiv study
Jules Belveze (Dust.tt) and Kevin Kuipers (Reg.exe) discussed context length extrapolation effectiveness with Gabriel Olympie noting personal preference for under 16k context usage.
Programming
Anirudh Kulkarni (Google Labs) announced upcoming Jules CLI development. Explained differences between Gemini CLI (local dev) and Jules (remote async agents in VM), with Jules CLI combining local dev benefits with remote environment safety.
Kevin Kuipers (Reg.exe) inquired about Kilo Code and 16x Prompt offering AI coding context management. Someone expressed skepticism about Kilo Code's advertising without user testimonials, noting ubiquitous ads but lack of authentic feedback.
New members
Théo Matussière (CTO @ Ecair) - Former research engineer at Facebook AI and ML engineer at Nabla, now building financing solutions for ecological transition. Developing his cycling skills around Polygone in Paris.
David Leroy (Co-Founder & CEO @ Blynt AI) - Former AI lead at Snips and Sonos with a decade of voice tech experience. Building AI Voice Companions for real-time conversation capture and workflow automation. Based in Annecy, France.
Hannah Bull (ML Engineer @ Entalpic) - Started her new position in September working on ML for materials discovery. Previously worked on ocean weather forecasting and sign language translation. Multilingual speaker planning to join Station F run club.
Nico Martin (Aity) - Joined Hugging Face as a Machine Learning Engineer focused on WebML/WebAI.
Geographic hubs
🇺🇸 San Francisco
Marc Klingen (Langfuse) hosted an AI Lightning Talks event with Cloudflare featuring voice agents and evals discussions. 🎭 Event on July 25th was sold out.
Jules Belveze (Dust.tt) shared SF networking insights, mentioning meetings with Symbolica.ai's head of engineering, Delty.ai founders, and Persona's tech team.
Lior Oren (Replika) announced Replika's CEO visit to San Francisco from August 3-7, seeking recommendations for AI events and companies.
Anastasia Wolter (SOTA 🛸) visits SF until August 1st, actively seeking community meetups and events.
🇫🇷 Paris
Kevin Kuipers (Reg.exe) hosted the 🍕 last TechLunch.exe before the summer break with Anicet Nougaret (Ariana), Frédéric Barthelet (Alpic), Joël Schillio (Alasta), Loïc Berthelot (Dropmagic), Paul Sanglé-Ferrière (Cubic), Stan Girard (Quivr), and Stéphane Béreux (Jimini). Topics were: Bootstrap vs VC-money, AI adoption for Engineers and MCP.
A 🖼️ gallery looking back at the first half of 2025 was shared. 150 engineers and researchers joined the TechLunch.exe over the months to share a slice of pizza and dive into great tech topics.
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Sohrab Hosseini (Orq.ai) finalized details for the GenAI Product Summit in October, focusing on real-world GenAI applications in products. 🎭 Private summit with limited capacity.
Kevin Kuipers (Reg.exe) arrived in Amsterdam to serve on the jury for the Power of Europe Hackathon, organized by the Tech Makers team (and Timothy Lindblom (Natively.dev). The 🎭 event is sponsored by Orq.ai, Mistral AI, Koyeb, Weaviate and Kilo Code.
🇯🇵 Tokyo
Kevin Kuipers is planning a TechLunch.exe gathering for 8-9 people in August, with Alex Pereira (2501.ai) considering connections at Rakuten and Spotify.
🇨🇳 Shenzhen
Benjamin Trom (Mistral) plans to visit Guangdong around December, with Gus@Memobase.io offering connections in Guangzhou or Shenzhen.