Hugging Face ran a hackathon using AI agents to reproduce all 6,000 ICML 2026 accepted papers.
“AI agents have made it much easier to conduct experiments, to write up results.”
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Hugging Face's open-source Robot Worldwide Hackathon launched thousands of builders into robotics, many for the first time.
“After that, I did nine other hackathons and I won six out of it. So, it gave me really good boost.”
Hugging Face kicks off the 'Build Small' hackathon celebrating small, fine-tunable models over large API providers.
Microsoft announced winners of the Agent Academy Hackathon for building AI agents with Copilot Studio.
Microsoft launches Agents League Hackathon 2026 with $50K prizes, requiring use of new Microsoft IQ intelligence layers.
“All submissions must integrate at least one Microsoft IQ intelligence layer”
OpenBMB promotes its compact MiniCPM models for cheaper, edge-friendly AI deployment at a 'Build Small' hackathon.
“instead of asking how can I use the largest model possible, a better question is can I build a useful project with a compact model that is better, cheaper and easier to deploy”
Cohere engineers introduce tiny open models for a 'Build Small' hackathon community session.
“Cohere is this like magical kind of company that has somehow managed to both embrace open source and consistently release open models and also build an actual business.”
Microsoft launches Agents League hackathon with $55K in prizes from June 4-14
“If you've been waiting for an excuse to ship your AI agent, this is it.”
Modal pitches its developer infrastructure for building and scaling AI applications at a Hugging Face hackathon.
“in a nutshell, if you haven't heard of it, is uh it's really infrastructure for developers to build and scale scale AI applications and workloads”