Who's building.

Analog and mixed-signal IC leader with a large San Diego footprint. Growing investment in AI at the sensor edge and industrial automation.

AI software for autonomous mobile robots. Powers the floor-scrubbing and shelf-scanning robots you see at Walmart, Kroger, and airports worldwide.

The global center of gravity for on-device AI inference. Ships the silicon and runtimes behind generative AI on billions of phones and the new wave of AI PCs.

Hivemind autonomy stack for defense drones. One of the highest-valued AI defense startups, headquartered in San Diego with teams in DC and abroad.

One of the world's most influential biological research institutes. Growing computational biology + ML program applying foundation models to genomics, neuroscience, and plant biology.

Independent biomedical research institute. Major computational drug discovery and protein design programs, increasingly integrating ML into every lab.

UC San Diego's hub for data science and AI research, spanning the School of Engineering, medical school, and social sciences. Major trainer of ML talent in the region.

The largest and most active angel network in Southern California. Actively funds early-stage AI and deep-tech startups across the San Diego region.

Data science and Python-centric meetup with heavy ML overlap. Focused on practical tooling, pipelines, and MLOps.

The largest and most technical ML meetup in the city. Monthly talks covering recent papers and applied industry work. Venue rotates between Qualcomm, UCSD, and downtown offices.

The meetup where SD's robotics community — hardware, software, and researchers from Brain Corp, SCOUT, UCSD, and the defense primes — actually shows up in the same room.

UC San Diego's flagship undergraduate deep learning course. Rigorous, well-taught, and open to auditing via extension in many quarters.