At the NYC edition of the Agents Hackathon, your mission is to build AI agents that uncover something truly novel about the world. Whether through scientific literature, online communities, real-world data, or visual information, we believe agents today — especially with access to tools like Claude, Perplexity, AWS, and others — are now capable of producing legitimate, original discoveries.

Inspiration for Your Project:

📚 Build an agent that reads thousands of arXiv papers to formulate an AI research idea that hasn’t been proposed before.
🛰️ Use satellite imagery and public data to identify unexplored land features or man-made structures.
🧴 Mine Reddit skincare and nutrition discussions to correlate lifestyle trends with skin health breakthroughs.

🚨 The only limit is creativity — and you could be the first in human history to demonstrate something new.

Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 — Breakfast • Check-in • Team formation (1–3 people)

09:30 - 10:15 — Keynotes from AI leaders

12:30 - lunch

10:30 - 17:30 — Build your agents and let them roam

17:30 - 18:30 — Team demos

18:30 - 19:30 — Awards & mingling

Who Should Come

This is a hackathon for experienced engineers and researchers looking to build advanced AI agents that go beyond standard LLM use — with tool-use, long-context reasoning, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

The Details

🧠 Claude, Perplexity, and AWS credits provided

🚀 AWS startup credits apply to companies pre-Series B

Location

Please register to see the exact location of this event.

New York, New York

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