Austin AI Community Hackathon - Hosted by AITX & webAI
The 2nd Austin AI Community Hackathon!
Join AITX and webAI for a weekend of heads down building and collaboration with some of the top developers in Austin's growing engineering community.
Upon approval, participants will receive a series of Hackathon Guides via email, packed with essential information about judging criteria, available compute resources, and project guidelines to help you hit the ground running.
Tracks for the Hackathon include:
Red Hat AI Open Source Track: Best submission of tools that enable easier access to open source AI.
Local Track: Best submission leveraging infrastructure provided by Austin-based companies. If you are a local company interested in getting local engineers building on your platform, please reach out to team@aitxcommunity.com
Agents Track: Best submission built utilizing AI agents capable of independent, meaningful action.
Llama Track: Submissions leveraging Meta's open source Llama models.
Community Choice: Best submission as voted by fellow participants and attendees at Hack Fair.
It all culminates in Hack Fair - a science fair-style showcase where participants will demo their submission to the community, including local investors, operators, and potential collaborators, for a chance to win the Community Choice Prize.
Huge thanks to our sponsors - this Hackathon would not be happening without them.
webAI is a private, end to end AI solution that empowers businesses to create, distribute, and own the specialized intelligence employees need to do their best work. The platform runs locally—no cloud required—to guarantee security, efficiency, and complete data control, so enterprises can truly make AI their own.
Antler is an on ramp to venture capital and helps you launch your startup from scratch. We surround you with everything you need to build at lightning speed in our in-person Founder residencies. For more information on Antler US 👉 https://www.antler.co/location/us
Toolhouse is a developer platform to quickly build, manage, and run AI function calling. Toolhouse takes care of every aspect of connecting AI to the real world, from performance optimization to prompting to integrations via function calling, with all foundational models, in just three lines of code.
Red Hat AI is a big player in the open-source AI ecosystem. It actively contributes to numerous projects, including InstructLab, which enables fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) on consumer-grade hardware, and vLLM, a library designed for efficient LLM inference and model serving. Additionally, Red Hat offers an enterprise-grade AI platform that supports end-to-end development of AI-powered applications.
Meta
Meta is building the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
Groq
Groq builds fast AI inference technology. GroqCloud™ delivers exceptional AI compute speed, quality, and energy efficiency for enterprises and developers with its LPU™ AI inference technology. Build fast with Groq at console.groq.com.
Akash is the first open-source marketplace for cloud compute, designed to unlock the power of underutilized compute resources — particularly high-performance NVIDIA GPUs essential for AI and machine learning.