Written by: Jun Kai Chang (Luc), Julia Ponder, Saumya Jain (Sam), Yinghan Ma, Dr Sam Donegan, Dr Anurag Ganugapati
Hey MLAI community!
Prefactor is live on Product Hunt today, and the team would love your support.
Most agents pass their tests and fail in production. Prefactor lets teams evaluate their AI agents in real time, so they know whether their agents are actually doing what they’re supposed to. It scores every action as it happens and flags drift or misbehaviour the moment it appears, so teams can step in before a small issue becomes a big one.
Launch day offer: The first 50 signups will receive their first one million agent steps, or spans, free.
An upvote and a comment would mean a lot to the small team behind Prefactor.
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Click here!: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/prefactor
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The Nexus 2026 “AI-Powered Innovation for Cities” Startup Competition is inviting startups and scale-ups to showcase AI-driven solutions addressing the challenges of future cities. AI can be either a small part or a core component of your innovation.
Selected applicants can access:
Cash prizes, including up to $5,000 for first place
Complimentary acceleration and business support
China market-entry and expansion opportunities
Potential future travel to Nanjing as part of the Melbourne Nexus delegation
Applications close 31 July 2026.
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Your LinkedIn photo is doing more selling than you think. Make sure it is saying the right thing.
Join MLAI for a professional photoshoot designed to help founders, operators and builders look confident, credible and genuinely like themselves. With expert creative direction, you will walk away with polished, professional content ready for LinkedIn, your website, speaker profiles and social media.
No awkward posing. No stiff corporate headshots. Just great photos that make you look as impressive as the work you are building.
Thursday 20 August
10:30 am–2:30 pm
Stone & Chalk Melbourne Startup Hub, Melbourne, VIC
In this 3‑hour, hands‑on session you’ll go from idea to real object: use Claude to design a 3D model in plain language, learn how modern FDM 3D printers work, and get a physical print of your design after the event. No CAD, coding, or 3D printing experience needed.
You’ll:
Learn 3D printing fundamentals (FDM basics, filament types, slicers, supports, failures).
Design your own object with AI and export it as an STL file.
Slice it in Bambu Studio and queue it on a Bambu Lab A1 and X2D printers.
You get:
1 custom 3D model you designed yourself (file is yours to keep).
1 physical PLA print, with pickup or postage options if the print is long.
Enough understanding to keep experimenting on your own.
Who it’s for:
Curious beginners, students, makers and creatives.
Not for production‑grade engineering parts or complex multi‑part assemblies.
What to bring:
Laptop or tablet with a modern browser; everything else (filament, tools, AI access, printing) is provided.
Saturday 08 August | 11:00 am - 2:30 pm
Stone & Chalk Melbourne, 121 King St
Discounts for Australian startup founders available
🔗 Register here: Print Anything
Melbourne’s AI buildDay, running out of Stone & Chalk.
This day is all about building. Bring an idea, a project you’ve been stuck on, or just turn up curious - what you build is totally up to you.
We give you OpenAI credits to power your tools - use them in Codex to build what you’d like!
Not sure what to build? We’ll have a set of problem briefs ready on the day - pick one and run with it.
You’ll build for a few hours, then we run demos so everyone can show what they pulled together. Low-key and a lot of fun.
The day starts at 9am, but you can come and go any time that suits.
What to bring: your laptop and charger - and an idea (or come find one here).
Schedule:
9:00 - 9:15 - Quick intros: a quick rundown of how the day runs (it’s simple - build, then demo).
11:30 - 12:15 - Demos: we’ll pick a few people to show what they built.
12:15 - 1:00 - keep building and networking.
Non-technical? Perfect - that’s exactly who these days are for. You learn by doing and getting your hands dirty, no experience needed.
Saturday 15 August | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Stone & Chalk Melbourne, 121 King St
🔗 Register here: Melbourne | AI buildDay with MLAI x OpenAI x S&C.
AI is everywhere in the headlines. This session is about what’s actually working on the ground in healthcare.
MLAI kicks off a new series exploring what AI genuinely makes possible, one industry at a time. First up: healthcare. A panel of practitioners and technologists will unpack real deployments (clinical workflows, admin automation, patient-facing tools) and separate what’s delivering value from what’s still hype.
Whether you work in healthcare, build for it, or just want to see AI applied outside the usual tech-demo context, this session is for you. Expect a moderated panel, live Q&A, and a chance to tell us what use case you’d want AI to solve in your world.
Format: 90-minute panel discussion + Q&A + networking
Tuesday 15 September | 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Stone & Chalk Melbourne, 121 King St
🔗 Register here: AI Hype to Practice
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