AI Research Foundry London - a paper club for AI researchers

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

We meet once a month, or once every six weeks. Each time: one theme, a few papers, 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: King's Cross
Cost: Free, always
Seats: Limited. You will be asked for a LinkedIn or profile link.

Oct

6pm to 8:30pm