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swyx announced a $10,000 weekend competition to kill his SaaS using any coding agent and model, with up to $500 in token spend; the finish line is extended to Wednesday.
swyx proposes a hackathon where participants get $1,000 in tokens to clone an expensive enterprise SaaS over a weekend, with a $10,000 prize for the winning open-source clone, aiming to show that such SaaS can be easily replaced.
Stability AI is partnering with Music Hackspace and MUTEK to host a 48-hour hackathon in Montreal on August 22–23, bringing developers and sound enthusiasts together.
China's GOAI Global Open-source AI Challenge is open to developers, researchers, startups, and contributors worldwide, with four tracks and RMB 5 million in total prizes.
Google AI Developers shares a video on building AI-native apps with the Google ecosystem for the Build with Gemini XPrize Hackathon, which runs through August 17.
A group of kids aged 9 to 16 took part in a startup hackathon, earning $587.85 in two days. One of them emailed Mark Cuban and others seeking collaboration, but in the end, only his mom replied.
Cognizant hosted its first-ever OpenAI Codex Hackathon with 10,000 associates across six Indian cities, aiming to build AI fluency and translate skills into enterprise solutions.
Google Cloud announces the Agentic Cinema hackathon, inviting developers to build agentic AI filmmaking experiences using Gemini. Submissions open July 27 - September 7, 2026.
Alibaba Cloud's Agentic AI Hackathon, powered by Qoder, has officially kicked off in Vietnam with a room full of builders and big ambitions.
The Proto team from BrianHie's lab will participate in the re:AGENT hackathon (August 15-16 in San Francisco), a weekend for building AI scientists, datasets, and pipelines for biological design. Applications close July 30.
A free four-day hackathon at a private beach resort in Goa brings together builders, designers, AI and crypto enthusiasts, and founders to ship products with $50k+ in bounties, no catch except competitive selection.
Alibaba Cloud and Bosch Digital co-hosted AINNOVATION DAY across three Chinese cities, where over 120 participants developed over 40 AI and cloud solutions in a sprint format.
The AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon, running July 10–August 6, 2026, features three tracks (multimodal AI, agentic AI, physical AI) and a $30,000 prize pool, with PyTorch as the official framework on ROCm-enabled AMD GPUs.
A Devin and ElevenLabs sponsored hackathon in Dubai on August 8, offering free credits and prizes to build voice-first AI agents.
Hosting an auto-research hackathon this Saturday in SF at a mansion. Interested participants can DM or comment to join.
Announcement of the One Shot Challenge, a free-to-enter hackathon where participants use a single prompt to an AI model to create games or worlds, with prizes including GTA VI copies and a PlayStation 5, sponsored by Lionsgate AI, Sony, NBA, and World Labs.
Six MIT students built the wearable device Human Operator in 48 hours, using a camera and Claude API to let AI briefly take over body movements, winning first place at MIT Hackathon. It is currently a prototype.
OpenAI announces Build Week, a global challenge starting July 13 with over 40 events worldwide to foster innovation using GPT and Codex.
SAAG (Simplify, Automate, Agentify, Guard) is a practical methodology for deciding where AI fits in a business, emphasizing simplification before automation and agentification, with guardrails for risk mitigation.
The PyTorch Foundation supported the ExecuTorch Hackathon in San Francisco, where over 100 participants built real-time on-device AI applications using PyTorch and ExecuTorch on Snapdragon-powered Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra devices. Winning projects included SafeScreen AI, SixthSense, and Toddle AI, showcasing local execution benefits for responsiveness, privacy, and offline capability.