All too often, truly transformative AI research lives in obscurity before the world catches up to its significance. While the discourse du jour incessantly hypes the latest techniques and trends, quiet pioneers working at the edge of their field go unnoticed for years. Weights Unknown is an AI research conference to bring these people together. It is a gathering for the curious and contrarian, for the souls who seek the researcher’s research that lives off map and builds the foundation of the field for the next few decades.