LOCALHOST NYC: Sovereign AI Hackathon 🗽

​No one should own your AI except for you.

​LOCALHOST is New York's Sovereign AI Hackathon, hosted at The School by dmarz and Brenner. Sponsored by Variant, Darkbloom, Tinfoil, Cognee, and Superlinked. For one day, 50 to 100 researchers, builders and product people take over The School in Williamsburg to hack on open weights, open harnesses, open memory and private AI. The School is an Arts, Culture, and Technology Hub pushing the frontier of arts and technology, expect to meet open source AI developers and researchers as well as a painter and sculptor. There might even be an AI Psychosis After party for the winning projects.

​$10k in prizes + infra credits

​What the day looks like

​9:00 Doors open

​Curated talks and ideation sessions

​Several hours of hacking

​Presentations from selected submissions

​19:00 Doors close

​Finer grained schedule details will come out closer to the event

​Note:

​Spots are not guaranteed. Please make sure that you can join in-person before applying for the event!