AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon
Overview
Join developers, researchers, students, AI practitioners, and open-source contributors worldwide to build innovative AI applications on AMD Radeon™ GPUs and the ROCm™ software stack. The AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon is a fully online global competition featuring three innovation tracks: Agentic AI, Multimodal AI, and Physical AI. Participants can build individually or in teams of up to three members and compete for a share of USD $30,000 prize pool. Registered participants may also receive access to AMD GPU resources during the hackathon period.
🏆 $30,000 USD Prize Pool
💻 Free AMD Radeon GPU Access
🌍 Attend Online & Submit Online
🚀 Three AI Innovation Tracks
👥 Individuals or Teams (up to 3 members)
✅ Registration
To be eligible for judging, awards, and prize payments, participants must:
Register as a member of the AMD AI Developer Program before joining this virtual event
Global developers: AMD AI Developer Program
Only for developers in Mainland China: AMD Developer Program China
Meet all eligibility requirements outlined in the official Rules & Conditions document
🚨 Prize Eligibility Notice: Participants who are not registered members of the AMD AI Developer Program will not be eligible to receive prize money, even if their submission is selected as a winning project.
📅Hackathon Schedule
Submission Opens
Beijing/Singapore (UTC+8): July 15, 2026, 12:00 AM
Europe (CEST): July 14, 2026, 6:00 PM
US Pacific (PDT): July 14, 2026, 9:00 AM
Hackathon Ends / Final Submission Deadline
Beijing/Singapore (UTC+8): August 6, 2026, 11:59 PM
Europe (CEST): August 6, 2026, 5:59 PM
US Pacific (PDT): August 6, 2026, 8:59 AM
🎯 Choose Your Track
Choose one of three innovation tracks designed to showcase practical AI applications accelerated by AMD Radeon GPUs and ROCm.
🤖 Track 1: Multimodal AI
Create next-generation AI experiences that combine text, images, video, audio, and visual generation technologies. Examples include text-to-image systems, image editing applications, image-to-video workflows, content creation studios, style transfer tools, digital media enhancement solutions, and creator-focused applications. Participants are encouraged to demonstrate efficient deployment and acceleration using Radeon GPUs.
Judging Criteria (100 points):
• Functional completeness, practical value, and innovation: 80 points
• Operational performance on AMD Radeon GPUs: 20 points.
🎨 Track 2: Agentic AI
Build intelligent AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, memory management, and task execution. Example applications include personal productivity assistants, enterprise copilots, workflow automation agents, local knowledge assistants using RAG, developer productivity agents, and multi-agent systems. Projects should demonstrate local inference on AMD Radeon GPUs and showcase practical problem-solving capabilities.
Judging Criteria (100 points):
• Functional completeness and application value: 60 points
• Scenario innovation and user experience: included within functional evaluation
• AMD Radeon GPU and ROCm optimization: 40 points, including local inference execution and inference-speed optimization.
🦾 Track 3: Physical AI
Develop robotics and embodied AI solutions powered by AMD Radeon GPUs. Projects may focus on robotic manipulation, humanoid robotics, quadruped locomotion, autonomous navigation, robotics simulation, autonomous driving simulation, multi-agent robotics, or embodied AI research. Participants may leverage simulation environments such as Genesis, MuJoCo, or other open-source frameworks and demonstrate how GPU acceleration supports training, simulation, and inference.
Judging Criteria (100 points):
• Robot capability performance: 30 points
• AMD Radeon GPU and ROCm adoption: 20 points
• Innovation and originality: 20 points
• Real-world application value: 20 points
• Contributions to upstream open-source projects: 10 points.
🏆Total Prize Pool: $30,000 USD
Each track offers:
🥇 1st Place: $5,000 USD
🥈 2nd Place: $3,500 USD
🥉 3rd Place: $1,500 USD
💻 Free AMD Radeon GPU Access
Eligible participants may receive access to AMD Radeon GPU development resources during the competition period for model development, optimization, testing, benchmarking, and final project preparation.
⚡Where to apply AMD Radeon GPU
Radeon-hackathon-2026-07/README.md at main · AMD-DEV-CONTEST/Radeon-hackathon-2026-07
🌎Developer Community and Technical Support
Participants are not expected to work alone. Dedicated community channels will be available throughout the hackathon.
Discord Channel: [https://discord.gg/zt9caur5B3]
WeChat Group:
For questions, please send us email via: ai_dev_contests@amd.com
📚 Rules and Conditions
The attached Rules and Conditions document serves as the governing document for eligibility, judging methodology, submission requirements, code of conduct, intellectual property provisions, payments, and legal requirements. Participants are responsible for reviewing the complete document before submitting a project.