Self Improving AI (SIA) Agents - Emergency Hackathon (by AGI House SF & Nebius)
🚨 A paper dropped last week that changes how self-improving agents get built. We're convening an emergency hackathon this Saturday to hack towards the next great leap! 🚨
GitHub & the Paper SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates (Hebbar et al., 2026)
Framework Overview
Today, every agent's harness and weights get tuned by people. SIA closes the loop, a language-model agent that rewrites both its own harness and the underlying weights.
The numbers are not subtle:
502% improvement on single-cell RNA denoising
91.9% runtime reduction on GPU kernels
56.6% gain on LawBench
We're inviting you to join us to innovate on the Self-improving AI (SIA) agent framework this Saturday!
Tracks
Applied AI Track (use SIA on a real domain task)
Framework Enhancement Track
Research Track (novel evaluation or self-improvement methodology)
Prizes: Meta Ray Bans for the first prize of each track
Agenda
10:00 AM — Doors open, fresh coffee and bagels
10.45 AM — Opening remarks
11:30 AM — Hacking begins and Teams form (2-4 people). Tracks chosen. Research team circulates for technical support.
12:30 PM — Catered lunch.
6:00 PM — Hacking ends. Demo session begins — 3-4 minutes per team plus live Q&A from judges.
8:00 PM — Judging deliberation (private). Cleanup begins.
8:30 PM — Awards. Winners announced per track. Prize distribution. Group photo.
9:30 PM — Adjourn
Sufficient GPU credits will be provided thanks to our partner, Nebius. Nebius is the ultimate cloud for AI innovators, and will be providing H200s through their Nebius Token Factory, including instant model access for Deepseek, Qwen, GLM, Gemma, NVIDIA Cosmos.