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Smol.ai founder Shawn Wang says the AI Engineer World’s Fair has sold out of primary sponsorships

Only afterparty sponsorship packages remain for the June event

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swyx@swyx#214inAI

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

10:40 AM · Jun 5, 2026 · 15.9K Views
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Users are excited about the AI Engineer World's Fair because of its rapid sponsor tier sellouts, useful market map of top companies, and status as the industry's best and fastest-growing event.

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Philip Kiely@philipkiely

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Best event in the industry. Excited to see everyone there in 3 weeks!

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swyx@swyx

@aiDotEngineer we're also launching our special data track - here's a preview

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Excited to be speaking about RLMs at this year’s Worlds Fair!

DM if you’ll be in SF for it

@a1zhang I may be hitting you up for some spicy takes 👀

swyx@swyx

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

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swyx@swyx

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

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swyx@swyx

@aiDotEngineer (if you are still waiting for CFP responses, sorry we got >2000 of them, way more than the past, most responses should go out today)

swyx@swyx

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

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swyx@swyx

@aiDotEngineer lmao designer vincent back at it again with the frontier capability tests

swyx@swyx

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

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David Hoang@davidhoang

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Excited that @Atlassian is sponsoring! ❤️

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Tina@TinaJucyBlue

@swyx @aiDotEngineer sponsorships sold out but actual attendees still tbd is such a perfect snapshot of where ai infra is rn

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swyx@swyx

@aiDotEngineer tix and info here https://ai.engineer/wf

see you soon, it'll be ~bigger than every prior AIE combined.

swyx@swyx

3 weeks left til @aidotengineer world's fair!

if you want to get on this year's map of top ai engineering companies, theres a few spots left

we are sold out of: - presenting sponsors - model lab sponsors - platinum sponsors - gold sponsors

the big spots left are for the official afterparties - welcome reception, networking night, and world cup quarterfinal bundles

if interested - drop a note to sponsorships@ai.engineer detailing size/scale of interest

(below is 2025, we are recruiting 2026 now)

if you are attending - BOOK YOUR HOTELS BY TMR AS THE ROOM BLOCK DISCOUNT EXPIRES TMR

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swyx@swyx

@davidhoang @aiDotEngineer @Atlassian yayyy you coming right

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Jahanzaib Ahmed@jahanzaibai

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Honestly the sellout tier list tells you more about where AI engineering money is flowing than any market report.

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Daniel Smidstrup@DanielSmidstrup

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Hope it becomes a great time!

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Vibhu Sapra@vibhuuuus

@swyx @aiDotEngineer woooow vincent the most AI pilled pushing devin to limits haha

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Rick Blalock@rblalock

@swyx @aiDotEngineer soooo many 😂. i just realized i should’ve done my abstract like i was talking to an agent to hack it 😂

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@Coldly@Just_Codly

@swyx @aiDotEngineer booking hotels by tmr or you sleep in the parking lot energy lol

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Ferbin@Ferbin08

@swyx @aiDotEngineer 2000+ submissions in one year is wild.

are you getting robotics and hardware pitches or is it still like 95% LLMs?

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Roman Builder@RomanGweb3

@swyx @aiDotEngineer that map of top ai eng companies is lowkey the most useful market map nobody asks for. the year-over-year logo churn alone tells a whole story

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Tech News@tech_summaries

@swyx @aiDotEngineer four sponsor tiers sold out three weeks early. this category barely had a name in 2023

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Kai@seekairos

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Bold take — most people miss that part.

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Sanket Datta@sanketdattta

@swyx @aiDotEngineer Getting on the map is useful, but only if the market already knows what box to put you in. Event visibility helps, but weak positioning just turns sponsorship into expensive ambiguity.

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