Name: Open Model Hack - Gradient x Google Deepmind
Start: 2026-09-12T09:30:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-09-12T19:30:00.000-07:00
Location: San Francisco, CA

The AI community building the future of intelligence.

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Open models are improving faster than most teams can evaluate them. Every release introduces new capabilities, new tradeoffs, and new decisions around inference, fine-tuning, serving, and production performance.

Together with Gradient and Google DeepMind, we’re bringing AI engineers, researchers, technical founders, and open-source builders together in San Francisco to build with the latest open models, compare approaches, and see how they perform on real problems.

 - The seed fund designed for founders in AI.

 - The GPU cloud built for AI. Lambda provides on-demand compute for training, fine-tuning, and inference at scale, and is powering this hackathon with cloud credits for all participants.

 - The API platform for AI agents. Nango gives your agents production-ready tools and integrations with hundreds of external services through a single API.

 - The AI gateway for inference. Respan routes, evaluates, and optimizes your model calls across providers — one endpoint for building with open models.

- Gemma is the most capable open models from Google Deepmind

 This event is fully in-person in San Francisco. Capacity is strictly limited. All attendees must apply and be approved prior to the event. Unapproved or pending applicants will not be admitted at the door.