A paper club for AI researchers · London

Frontier research,
pulled apart.

AI Research Foundry London brings together AI researchers from academia, big tech and startups. We dig into the nuances and nitty-gritty of AI systems. One idea at a time.

Registration opens soon Free. Limited seats. Curated room.

A / The community

Why

London has communities for builders. It has events to show off what you built. It has nothing for researchers to sit down and go deep on one shared idea. So we are making it.

Who

AI researchers in academia, big tech and startups. It is a community, not a sales pitch. Free forever. We curate the room so the right people end up in it. Led by Shubham Jain.

How

Read

Come having read the paper if you can. We share links to summaries, so you know what you are about to hear.

Discuss

We start with the paper. Then the room opens up. Questions, doubts, nitty gritty details.

Go deeper

Seminar room energy. Lots of curiosity. A hunger to push the frontier.

When

loss sessions →

We meet once a month, or once every six weeks. Each time: a paper, a discussion, and a room of people who care about the details.

B / Sessions

In September, Dwarkesh Patel and Jerry Han published Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data. It started a conversation about how much data drives AI progress. We are starting the community right there.

Session 01: Data Is All You Need

Data creation, curation and scaling.

When
Thursday 22 October 2026, 6pm to 8:30pm
Speakers
Joshua Placidi - Imperial College London
Yash Bhalgat - Google DeepMind
Maximilian Croci - Microsoft AI
Pierre-Carl Langlais - Pleias
Where
Pillar VC, 1a Birkenhead St, King's Cross, London WC1H 8BA
Cost
Free, always
Seats
Limited. You will be asked for a LinkedIn or profile link.
Registration opens soon
Oct
22
6 - 8:30pm