Interview

Tony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia, was recently featured in the International Business Times for his work in AI research and community building. The article explores Tony’s long-term approach to developing impactful AI systems, combining academic research in multimodal generative systems and optimization with hands-on community work through Coffee & Code. “Many meaningful movements come from accumulating small, deliberate steps. You don’t need to solve everything at once to move somewhere worthwhile.