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Nous Research, NVIDIA, and Stripe are hosting the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon for building AI agents that can handle real business operations. Prizes include cash, NVIDIA DGX Spark, and Stripe credits.
A developer built a from-scratch Rust inference engine with custom GPU kernels that outperforms vLLM on Nemotron-30B decoding, achieving 75.7 vs 57 tok/s, submitted to the Build Small hackathon.
A developer built a pocket Charles Spurgeon AI assistant that runs fully offline on a fine-tuned Gemma model. It can answer theological questions, prepare sermons, and grade sermon drafts in Spurgeon's voice.
At Anthropic's Claude Builder Day event in San Francisco, the model Fable was urgently taken down, leaving hundreds of developers from around the world unable to use the model they had just started to love, turning the event into a hackathon without a protagonist. Tech blogger Robert Scoble was present.
Anthropic originally planned an invite-only hackathon for top global developers with unlimited access to Fable 5, but it was halted by government intervention. Developers used Opus 4.8 as a substitute and still achieved good results.
Meta employees express frustration and lack of enthusiasm for CEO Mark Zuckerberg's planned companywide AI hackathon, citing low morale, heavy workloads, and distrust after recent layoffs.
A technical blog post describing a hackathon project where five different small AI models run a simulated economy, revealing that emergent market behavior differs when using heterogeneous agents compared to a single model, and that the price is a residue of agent decisions rather than a controllable dial.
A field report on building a multi-model finance drama game where each agent runs on a different lab's small model, demonstrating the engineering challenges and benefits of model heterogeneity.
Day 1 of the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon: team brainstorming ideas including context-aware Chinese correction, AI whistling coach, and AI shelter cat adoption helper.
Announcement of the Build Small Hackathon starting in 6 hours, featuring 3,300 builders, a 32B parameter cap, $48,000 in cash prizes, 2x RTX 5080s, and $100k in Codex credits, with kickoff at 9 am PT on June 5.
A one-day hackathon in San Francisco co-hosted by Cognition, Mercor, Etched, and Anthropic AI with a $50k top prize and $100k total awards. Registration closes June 12.
OpenBMB is hosting the Build Small Hackathon with $40k+ in prizes, focusing on building apps using small models (≤32B parameters) with Gradio on Hugging Face Spaces. Registration closes June 3, 2026.
Bitrig is hosting its first-ever hackathon, Bitrig Hacks, at YCombinator's Mountain View headquarters, with registration now open for individuals and teams.
Garry Tan highlights that retrieval is the key bottleneck in voice AI and introduces Moss, an open-source tool achieving sub-10ms vector search, alongside a hackathon at YC office on June 6-7.
Gradio's third global hackathon, 'Build Small,' is focused entirely on local AI models under 32 billion parameters, with prizes from OpenAI, NVIDIA, OpenBMB, and Cohere worth over $40k cash plus hardware and credits.
A hackathon called 'Build Small' with a maximum of 32B parameters, designed to run on a laptop, has attracted sponsors including OpenAI, NVIDIA, OpenBMB, and Cohere, offering over $40k cash, RTX 5080s, and codex credits.
OpenAI is co-hosting an autoresearch hackathon this Saturday with Raindrop AI and Modal, focusing on building self-improving systems like agents and models.
At the Physical AI Hackathon, a team built a 'Panda Master' using a modified ReachyMini robot that speaks via GPT, while an Agilex Robotics arm draws fortunes in real-time.
A solo developer won the Anthropic hackathon by building and open-sourcing a sophisticated multi-agent system with Claude Code, featuring 38 specialized agents and 156 skills, earning $15,000 and gaining 153,000 GitHub stars.
EazoAI launches a global hackathon with a $300K prize pool, enabling participants to build and publish apps instantly without code or DevOps, emphasizing real user adoption over polished demos. The event spans San Francisco, NYC, Shanghai, and online.