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Hackathons

48 to 72-hour bursts, online and in-person — Bali, Lisbon, São Paulo, Berkeley. Cash prize pools, travel stipends for selected attendees, and the chance to ship a real piece of work in a weekend.

Upcoming

Next hackathons

Travel stipends are need-based — say so when you register, and we'll cover travel for selected applicants without institutional support. Online hacks are open to anyone with a working laptop.

Hackathon Open

Compression Crawl · online

72-hour online sprint on long-context KV-cache compression. Open to anyone, judged on a held-out Pareto.

$8,000 prize pool · 10–12 Jul 2026

Hackathon Coming up

Agentbench Weekend · Bali

48-hour hybrid hack. Travel stipends for 12 selected attendees without institutional support.

$15,000 prize pool · 22–24 Sep 2026

Past hackathons

Every past hack ships a recap and open-source code from the top teams.

Hackathon	Format	When	Pool	Winners
Compression Crawl · Vol II	Online · 72h	Apr 2026	$8,000	tomek_w, henrik.l
Mech-Interp Marathon	Lisbon · in-person	Feb 2026	$12,000	sofia_k, mariana_f
Agentbench Weekend · Bay Area	Berkeley · hybrid	Nov 2025	$18,000	minou, priya.a
South-South Hack	São Paulo · online	Sep 2025	$15,000	lina_chr, adaeze.o
Open-Source Inference Sprint	Online · 48h	Jul 2025	$10,000	kenji, ravi.p
Reproducibility Rumble	Berlin · in-person	May 2025	$6,000	danielb, anya.p