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APRIL 1, 7PM-10PM
AI TINKERERS
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AI Tinkerers hosted a technical meetup in Antwerp for AI builders. The event featured deep-dive talks on training LLMs and building agents, alongside curated networking.
Active AI builders attended a deep-dive technical meetup featuring talks on foundation models and generative AI, including a demonstration of building LLM inference from scratch.
Active generative AI builders gathered for technical talks and work-in-progress demos from industry practitioners. The small group shared early-stage discovery and learning.
Best AI meetup in Brussels for builders
AI Tinkerers Brussels is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The Brussels chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Brussels chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Brussels meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Brussels chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Brussels is the best AI meetup in Brussels for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Brussels chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
AI Tinkerers Brussels is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Brussels chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.
GPT-4 is OpenAI’s large multimodal model: it processes both text and image inputs, delivering human-level performance on complex professional and academic benchmarks.
Llama 2 is Meta AI's powerful, openly accessible family of large language models (LLMs), featuring models from 7B to 70B parameters for research and commercial applications.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
PyTorch is the open-source machine learning framework: it provides a Python-first tensor library with strong GPU acceleration and a dynamic computation graph for building deep neural networks.
A/B testing is a randomized controlled experiment: it compares two variants (A: Control, B: Variation) to determine which one produces a statistically significant lift in a key metric.
Autonomous software systems that leverage LLMs to reason, plan, and execute complex, multi-step goals across external tools and data sources.
BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a foundational, pre-trained NLP model that uses a Transformer encoder to process text bidirectionally, capturing full word context for superior language understanding.
A 176-billion parameter open-access multilingual language model built by the BigScience research collective.
Claude-3 is Anthropic's state-of-the-art multimodal model family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), setting new industry benchmarks for intelligence, speed, and vision capabilities.
A high-performance integration stack for deploying Anthropic Claude models via Modal's serverless infrastructure and Hugging Face's model repository.
"Keep up the good work, really great to have a community like this!"
"Don't know the name of the guy who presented but he did an excellent job in adding a strong "tinkering sauce" to the demo. Q from audience "how far can you push this", A "let's find out" as he starts coding. Good stuff!"
"Would have loved to hear your "next steps" -> now that you have this model, what are you going to do with it? Nice that you were the only one who presented some code. Nice talk!"
"Great to see their offices, potentially some better indication as it took me a while to locate the actual office in the building."
"Great location for antwerp. Very central and easy access for everyone."
"Great first edition! Thanks for inviting me :)"
"Would have loved to hear more about your challenges/learnings. Nice talk!"
"Great & varied speakers in lightning format Loads of founders/CTOs/Freelancers"
"More engaging talks (yes, deeply technical talks can be engaging), more open environment ( boys clubs rarely feel very welcoming)"
"Have many presenters, made it engaging. Stick to the strict timekeeping."
Last updated: June 2026
