Open Source AI Hackathon: Meet Dobby
About the Hackathon
Having raised $85M in seed round funding, Sentient has quickly grown into an AI research powerhouse. Shortly, Sentient is releasing its first ever Loyal, community-owned, community-aligned model—Dobby, and this event is the first exclusive opportunity to build with it.
Join us in San Francisco for this in-person Hackathon to build the next $100m viral AI agent on top of Dobby. Event winners get cash, inference credits from our event sponsor Fireworks, and ownership of Dobby in the process!
- 1st: $2000 + Dobby ownership + $5000 in Fireworks credits
- 2nd: $1000 + Dobby ownership + $2500 in Fireworks credits
- 3rd: $500 + Dobby ownership + $1000 in Fireworks credits
- 4th-10th: Dobby ownership
All attendees will receive $25 in Fireworks AI credits to build their ideas during the event!
About Sentient
Sentient, one of the newest and most exciting companies operating in open-source AI space, is enabling AI loyalty—the idea that safe AGI can only be achieved if it is made open-source, ownable, controllable, and verifiable by its builder community. Dobby is the first ever loyal model by Sentient, and through the fingerprinting campaign, this model is co-owned and verifiable by the Sentient community. See our open-source library to learn more about fingerprinting: https://github.com/sentient-agi/oml-1.0-fingerprinting
About Our Event Sponsor
🔥 Fireworks AI empowers developers and hackers to turn ideas into production-ready AI applications. Built by deep learning and infrastructure experts from PyTorch (Meta) and Google, Fireworks delivers cutting-edge performance, seamless iteration, and scalable infrastructure.
Why Fireworks?
- Start fast: Deploy and fine-tune open-source LLMs or image models instantly.
- Iterate quickly: Optimize with 9x faster RAG workflows, 128k context models, and ultra-fast image generation.
- Scale effortlessly: Support thousands of personalized models with 99.9% SLA reliability.
- Deploy anywhere: Use your cloud, including air-gapped environments, with full privacy.
From hackathon projects to production, Fireworks AI makes it simple to build, iterate, and scale innovative AI solutions.
About Our Venue Sponsor
🪐Edge is a research & development lab advancing edge intelligence, co-founded by Transformer author. It currently operates the largest No.1 Open Source Community & Co-working space in SF - 🏰 Open Source Campus 🌳 🧑🏻🚀 Join the movement - learn more about their upcoming events and new co-working space.
About Our Community Supporters
Dabl Club is a global community of over 50,000 AI & web3 engineers and entrepreneurs. Dabl Club's network of local city guild leaders organize engaging and educational events for engineers and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to connect 1 million new developers with AI and web3.