AI Safety Hackathon - Entrepreneur First x Meta

​Will you be one of the 40 most exceptional AI engineers, researchers or specialists to take part in our AI Safety Hackathon?

​Join a curated group of ambitious and talented people with a wide range of skills and backgrounds interested in short-term or long-term AI risks, from bias and misinformation to alignment and control.

​With over a decade of championing AI founders, Entrepreneur First is ready to welcome the next generation of founders in AI to join the ranks of Tractable, Sonantic, Magic Pony and many more in our portfolio. We’ve partnered with leading tech companies to give you access to:

• ​World-class AI research scientists and cutting-edge LLaMa model from Meta;

• ​Stable Diffusion model API from Stability AI;

• ​State of the art computing from OVH Cloud.

​Are you an outstanding ML/AI engineer, a PhD, a product or business specialist with a strong interest in building AI solutions? This hackathon is for you.

​The stakes are high. Failures of advanced AI systems could have catastrophic consequences and the models that exhibit safety, reliability, and robustness will be best placed to address new private and public markets.

​Now is the time to experiment with solutions that could give a glimpse into a safer future and access to billion-dollar markets.

​Are you up to the challenge?

​You’ll have two days to build a business proposal and an MVP in Meta's offices before pitching to an exceptional jury:

• ​Guillaume Avrin - keynote speaker, President of the Jury, and National Coordinator for Artificial Intelligence for the French Government

• ​Other members of the jury include:

  • ​Alexandre Défossez - PhD and Research Scientist at Meta/ FAIR Paris

  • ​Damien Henry - PhD and Senior Vice President of Product at Stability AI

  • ​Ania Kaci - PhD and Ambassador for Women in AI in France

  • ​Coralie Chaufour - Partner & General Manager at Entrepreneur First

​What to expect?

​Free participation - food and drinks provided

• ​Thursday, June 8th:

  • ​Applications and subjects submission open

• ​Sunday, June 25th:

  • ​Applications and subjects submission close

• ​Monday, July 10rd:

  • ​Kick-off

  • ​Building sprints

    • ​Mentors will include:

      • ​Research scientists at Meta AI (Louis Martin and Wassim Bouaziz)

      • ​Other AI Safety specialists (Timothée Chauvin, Jean-Matthieu Schertzer, Charlotte Clément-Cottuz)

• ​Tuesday, July 11th:

  • ​Building sprints

  • ​Presentation in front of the Jury, followed by drinks