Frontier Paper Club

Frontier Paper Club - NYC Papers. People. Possibilities. How do we know an AI agent is actually getting better? What makes a research result hold up beyond its benchmark? And which ideas are ready to become systems people can depend on? Frontier Paper Club is a monthly gathering in New York for researchers, engineers, & founders exploring the next generation of AI. Sponsored by Betaworks & Blobfish.ai, we bring together people developing new methods, building agent systems, & testing what works in practice. Each session centers on 2-3 papers, benchmarks, or technical implementations selected around a shared research question. Topics span AI agents, reinforcement learning, post-training, reasoning, memory, evaluation, & simulation environments. Presentations are brief & technically grounded, leaving plenty of time to examine the work together: the assumptions behind a method, the strength of its evidence, the details needed to reproduce it, & the failures that suggest where research should go next. Want to present your work? Have research or an implementation you'd like to discuss with New York's AI community? We're accepting submissions covering: AI agents, reasoning, planning, & memory Reinforcement learning & post-training Benchmarks, evaluation methods, & agent reliability Simulation environments & synthetic training data Reproductions, negative results, & practical lessons from deployment Share a link to your paper, benchmark, project, or slides, along with what you'd like to present. Submissions will be considered for upcoming sessions.