What to look forward to
Teams of 3–5 will spend 48 hours building AI research systems that can run experiments, improve themselves, and collaborate as agent swarms, using partner models, tools, and benchmarks. Participants will receive GPU and API credits, lab mentorship, and prizes, then pitch their work to judges, investors, and leading researchers.
Inside the event
SF AI Research Hackathon November 7–8, 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. After the London AI x Science Hackathon, so many researchers asked us to bring the format to San Francisco that we're doing it, right in the home of the labs pushing this frontier. November 7–8, 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 To be announced 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
Meet in San Francisco, CA
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Last checked: Oct 13, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.