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Themes for this hackathon
It’s time to build.
Marc Andreessen
In an era where the impossible becomes possible every day, AI stands as a beacon of endless possibilities. It's not just a tool; it's a canvas for our imagination, a partner in our quests to reshape the world. You, as a builder and innovator, are at the forefront of this transformation. With AI, you hold the power to unlock solutions to age-old problems, to bring ideas to life that were once confined to the realms of fantasy.
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VoiceGen
Open source text-to-speech and real-time translation tools show increasing capabilities. An open problem is how to combine these capabilities with voice cloning and run them in on dege devices.
02
VideoGen
Currently state-of-the-art real-time video generation faces a significant challenge with latency. Intermediate representations like open-pose outputs or streaming diffusion models may be viable solutions to this problem.
03
LLMs
Open source model like Llama or Mixtral show great promise in non-technical application like entertainment. Additional training data and prompt engineering can be used to improve these models.
Participants will combine some or all of these themes to make a real-time interactive demo to showcase at the end of the hackathon.
Join as a team
Snacks and drinks
24 hours of coding
Space to network
Learn from experts
Compute provided
Win prizes
Free entry
Schedule
March 16
Day 1
9:00 - 10:00
Checkin
10:00 - 10:15
Opening Primer
10:15 - 10:45
Networking + Form Teams
11:00
Coding Starts
11:00 - 11:30
Early Lunch
11:30 - 17:00
Afternoon Seminars - Drop in
March 17
Day 2
12:30
Coding Stops
12:30 - 13:30
Demos + Presentations
13:30 - 14:00
Vote on Winners
14:00 - 16:00
Winner's Announcement
Speakers
Matthew Tang
Matthew is the Ecosystem Director at Virtual Protocol where he helps AI open-source contributors get rewarded. Previously, he worked at Boston Consulting Group and completed his MEng at the University of Cambridge.
Yanghua Jin
Yanghua is the Japan lead of Spellbrush. He is also a researcher on the niji/midjourney research team, focusing on training large-scale fundamental models. He has dedicated over seven years to exploring the potential of generative AI technologies in the field of Japanese Anime.
Josh Cho
Founder of Waktaverse AI, Stanford M.S. in Computer Science. Expert in AI x Vtuber space.
琥珀青葉
KohakuBlueleaf is the creator of LyCORIS - Lora beYond Conventional methods, Other Rank adaptation Implementations for Stable diffusion.
Cedric Wagrez
Head of data strategy & operations, Stability Japan.
Ricardo Fernandez
As the founder of Sustainable Karma AI system architecture, design and consultancy, Ricardo is on a mission to create sustainable AI systems that can heal our planet and empower humanity. With over 23 years of self-taught experience in conversational AI research, he has developed innovative concepts and theories that challenge the conventional paradigms of artificial intelligence.
Abi Aryan
Abi Aryan is the founder of Abide AI and a machine learning engineer with over seven years of experience in the ML industry building and deploying machine learning models in production for recommender systems, computer vision, and natural language processing—within a wide range of industries. She has authored research papers in AutoML, multi agent systems, and LLM cost modeling and evaluations and is currently authoring LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production for O'Reilly Publications.
Artur Sychov
Artur is Founder and CEO of Somnium Space. He has been navigating virtual worlds for more than two decades starting with Ultima Online in 1999, then Second Life and many more. Artur strongly believes in the ultimate future of Virtual Reality worlds with open and decentralized economy, amazing creation tools where imagination is the only limit. Artur is husband and a father of two wonderful children.