AI Research Hackathon
Hosted by Iterate + Elsa Ibos + Yoan Di Cosmo + Darijan Ducic + Boardy Boardman + Henri Bonamy + Modal Events
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What to look forward to
Teams of 3–5 will spend 48 hours building AI systems that run experiments, improve themselves, and collaborate as research-agent swarms, with partner tools, benchmarks, compute credits, and lab mentorship. Final demos will be judged by researchers and investors, with cash and partner prizes up for grabs.
Inside the event
SF AI Research Hackathon
November 14-15, 2026 · San Francisco
Over 48 hours, teams will push AI to do research on its own: systems that improve themselves, run their own experiments, and work together as swarms of research agents!
You'll be building with real tools, models and benchmarks from the partners of this hackathon, then pitching live in front of judges, VCs, and leading researchers.
November 14-15, 2026
Day 1 (9am–late): Kickoff, hacking, mentorship
Day 2 (until 7PM): Final builds, demos, judging, awards
Teams of 3-5
Tracks
To be announced
What you get
- GPU compute credits
- API credits
- 1:1 mentorship from partner labs
- Benchmarks, datasets and starter repos
Prizes
- Cash prizes for the top teams
- Compute and API credits
- Thematic prizes from track partners
Sponsors
- OpenAI: The AI research company behind ChatGPT and Codex, building models and tools for developers and researchers.
- Modal: A serverless cloud platform for running AI models, experiments, and data workloads at scale.
- past.dev: A long-term memory API for AI agents, helping them retain context, track changing facts, and share knowledge across teams.
- Cognition: The company behind Devin, an AI software engineer that helps developers build, test, and debug code.
- Voyager Ventures: A venture capital firm investing in frontier energy, industrial and physical AI companies.
- Boardy: An AI networking platform connecting people with relevant founders, investors, and collaborators.
In-Person Attendance: all team members must be physically present at the venue for the duration of the hackathon. Remote participation is not permitted.
Food and drinks provided throughout the weekend
Brought to you by Iterate × Boardy.
San Francisco, CA
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