​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.

​Agenda

• ​9:30 AM – Doors Open

• ​9:45 AM – Kickoff

• ​11:00 AM – Hack

• ​1:30 PM – Lunch

• ​4:30 PM – Demos

• ​7:00 PM – Closing + Awards

​Hosted by:

​Gradient - The seed fund designed for founders in AI.

​Lambda - 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.

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

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

​GDM Gemma - Gemma is the most capable open models from Google Deepmind

​Note: 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.

​Maximum team size is four.