AMD X Beta Fund AI Agent Hackathon
Beta Hacks: AI Agent Hackathon
Beta Hacks is a high-velocity monthly hackathon for ambitious builders, engineers, and founders to rapidly prototype and ship functional products. Backed by top mentors, investors, and GTM operators, you will build solo or in teams to validate early-stage ideas. Ship your product and demo your technical execution and real-world potential directly to a community built for action.
💬 Discord:
Join our Discord for hackathon credits, team formation, and real-time tech support: https://discord.gg/cswGFwFumn
📅 Agenda
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Check-in & Snacks (Meet builders & form teams)
10:30 AM – 11:10 AM | Opening Remarks & Technical Workshops
11:10 AM – 12:00 PM | Build Phase (Morning Block)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch 🍔
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Build Phase (🚨 Submission Deadline at 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Final Demos (Strict 3-minute light-speed pitches for teams submitted on time)
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Audience Vote, Upgraded Feedback & Award Ceremony
⚙️ Hackathon Focus Tracks
Directional, not restrictive. Build across tracks or forge your own path.
🤖 Autonomous Task Agents Agents that plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks end-to-end without human intervention — research, coding, analysis, or any complex workflow.
⚡ High-Performance Agent Infrastructure Build the picks and shovels: faster inference, efficient orchestration, memory systems, or tooling that makes agents run faster and cheaper at scale.
🏭 Vertical AI Agents Domain-specific agents for healthcare, finance, legal, or education. Deep expertise baked into an agent that replaces specialized knowledge work.
🔗 Multi-Agent Collaboration Agent networks where multiple specialized agents delegate, cross-check, and self-correct to tackle problems no single agent could handle alone.
💼 Agentic Workflow Automation Replace repetitive knowledge work entirely — email triage, scheduling, research, reporting, or any cognitive task that currently takes a human hours a day.
🃏 Wildcard Any agent application outside these tracks. If it's useful and agent-powered, build it.
Submissions close exactly at 4:00 PM. Failure to match this 3-slide structure will omit your project from judging.
Slide 1: Team Introduction | Name, school/company affiliation, and team-to-problem fit blueprint.
Slide 2: Product Overview | Punchy one-line description, explicit friction point, and the architecture built today.
Slide 3: Project Demo | Embedded validation video (Max 2 minutes). Must show a working product.
Note: Venture judges and enterprise operators will provide direct feedback for each presenting team.
🏆 Prizes & Bounties
1. 👥 Audience Favorite Awards (Ranked-Choice Voting)
🥇 1st Place: $600 Cash
🥈 2nd Place: $500 Cash
🥉 3rd Place: $400 Cash
🏅 4th Place: $300 Cash
🏅 5th Place: $200 Cash
2. ⚡ Beta Fellowship
Outstanding teams bypass standard applications and roll directly into the 8-week Beta University pre-accelerator to scale prototypes into venture-ready startups. Selected teams secure a $25K investment from Beta Fund upon program completion.
3. 📱 Social Media King Bounty
1st Place: $500 | 2nd Place: $300 | 3rd Place: $200
Awarded to the highest public social media engagement. Links must be posted in Discord; cash sent 7 days post-hackathon.
🤝 Featured Partners & Developer Perks
Butterbase
The automated backend for apps built with AI. Use Butterbase via your AI assistant to handle databases, auth, file storage, serverless functions, and deployment with zero configuration.
Perk: $20 credits for every attendee (covers your first month on Launch plan). Only redeemable during the event.
Bounty: Best Use of Butterbase — $200 Butterbase Credits.
🛠 Butterbase Setup & Submission: All projects must be submitted through Butterbase MCP for judging. Setup before event day: