Open Source AI Awards Night (Open Source AI Week)
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Join us for the Open Source AI Awards, the celebration at the heart of Open Source AI Week. We’re bringing the community together to recognize the people and projects moving open source AI forward—and give the often-unsung work of building, maintaining, and supporting this ecosystem its moment in the spotlight.
We’ll kick off with keynotes from open source AI leaders, followed by community talks and the awards ceremony. Then stick around for a social, where you can meet fellow builders, connect with the people behind the projects, and see open source AI projects and models in action.
This year, we’ll honor contributions across the following categories:
Project Awards
The Bedrock Award — Best AI Infrastructure
The Reward Signal Award — Best Reinforcement Learning Project
The Guardrails Award — Best Security & Alignment Project
The Reality Check Award — Best Benchmark or Evaluation Project
The Mission Control Award — Best Agentic Harness
The Glass Box Award — Best Observability Tool
Individual Awards
The Community Lifeline Award — Outstanding Community Support
The Unsung Maintainer Award — Outstanding Project Stewardship
The Open Knowledge Award — Outstanding Educator
The Naming Things Is Hard Award — Most Spectacularly Questionable Project Name
Come hear great talks and keynotes from the community including:
Fireside with Peter Walker, OpenRouter - Moderated by Basil Chatha, Founder Forward Deployed and Co-host at Latent Space
Gemma: Dropping the Weights Is the Easy Part - Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
The State of AI: Open and Closed models - Daniel Han, Unsloth
The Hugging Face Incident: How an Open Model Defended Against A Closed Swarm - Irene Solaiman, HuggingFace
Local AI: Progress and Possibilities - Ahmad M. Osman, Osmantic
How to Succeed in Open Source AI: 0 to 100k Stars in One Year - Alex Newman, Claude Mem
The Open Paradox: What the future of open models might look like as models become more capable - Lucas Atkins, Arcee
Whether you’re nominated, or coming to cheer everyone on, expect good company, a few surprises, and plenty of well-deserved recognition. Come celebrate the work—and the people making it happen.
Doors open at 5:00 PM for bites and social. The night kicks off at 6:00 PM and runs to 9:00 PM. Then we will have a 30 minute social and opportunity to meet the speakers. Please come early to secure your spot. It will be first come first serve.