Report from an NYC party tied to the 'AI psychosis' summit, covering company booths, Anthropic's Claude demo, and event atmosphere.
Business Insider's Sydney Bradley went to an "AI Psychosis Summit" in New York City.
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"One, two, three — AI PSYCHOSIS!"No, a bot didn't say that. The hosts of an "AI Psychosis Summit" on Thursday shouted those words at a jam-packed New York City gallery space.Put together by a hodgepodge group of friends who, for the most part, met online, the AI Psychosis Summit was an attempt to bridge the New York tech scene with the downtown art world in the name of AI.Artists presented projects made in an AI-obsessed mania. Others showed off their vibe-coded apps. The crowd sipped on Diet Coke while a DJ played booming techno beats."This all started from a tweet," said Wesam Jawich, one of the event's hosts.Jawich, a former Google engineer, teamed up with digital artist Matt Van Ommeren (better known online as "Quasimatt"), artist Macy Gettles, and crypto startup founder Mauricio Trujillo Ramirez (who goes by "Bunny" online and in the tech scene).
Hosts of the AI Psychosis Summit: Mauricio Trujillo Ramirez, Macy Gettles, Wesam Jawich, and Matt Van Ommeren.
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"Thank you for joining us in our psychosis," Van Ommeren told the crowd, which drew in everyone from finance bros to AI-pilled software engineers and content creators.
The party drew in hundreds of people, with a line down the block at one point in the evening. After blowing up on X, the party drew in over 1,000 RSVPs. Ramirez claimed the event landed on Andreessen Horowitz's radar and that the VC firm gave the organizers some bitcoin to support the party. The event organizers didn't share how much A16z sent, and the firm didn't provide a comment.Ramirez thanked A16z at the event, as well as the crowd-favorite AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini.
The crowd was jam-packed into a tight gallery space in downtown Manhattan.
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