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Hackathons, Bounties & Grants

Discover AI hackathons, coding bounties, grants, and developer challenges. Win prizes building with the latest AI tools and APIs.

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AI Trading Agents Hackathon

$55,000 prize pool. Design, build, and deploy trustless AI trading agents using ERC-8004 or Kraken CLI. Powered by Surge and Kraken.

$55,000prize pool
Mar 30, 2026 - Apr 12, 2026
by Lablab.ai / Surge / Kraken
AI Agents
Trading
ERC-8004
+2
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AI Math Olympiad Progress Prize 3

$2,207,152 prize pool. Build AI systems that can solve mathematical olympiad problems. Sponsored by AI|MO on Kaggle.

$2,207,152prize pool
Feb 1, 2026 - Apr 14, 2026
by AI|MO / Kaggle
Python
LLM
Mathematics
+2
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Google DeepMind: Design AGI Benchmarks

$200,000 prize pool. Design benchmarks to test cognitive abilities of AI systems. The largest-prize Kaggle competition right now from Google DeepMind.

$200,000prize pool
Feb 1, 2026 - Apr 15, 2026
by Google DeepMind / Kaggle
Python
Machine Learning
LLM
+2
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AI Agent Olympics — Milan AI Week

Build the next generation of autonomous agents at Milan AI Week. Hybrid event with on-site demo day at Fiera Milano. Enterprise-grade AI agent solutions.

Prizes + Incubationprize pool
May 13, 2026 - May 20, 2026
by Lablab.ai / Milan AI Week
AI Agents
Autonomous Systems
Enterprise AI
+1
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NVIDIA Nemotron Reasoning Challenge

$50,000 prize pool. Improve reasoning performance in NVIDIA's Nemotron LLMs through fine-tuning, prompting, and inference optimization techniques.

$50,000prize pool
Feb 15, 2026 - Jun 15, 2026
by NVIDIA / Kaggle
NVIDIA
Nemotron
LLM
+3
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AMD MI355X GPU Inference Optimization

$1,100,000 grand prize pool. Optimize LLM inference performance on AMD's MI355X GPUs. The single largest AI competition prize pool active right now.

$1,100,000prize pool
Mar 1, 2026 - Sep 1, 2026
by CrunchDAO / AMD / GPU Mode
AMD
MI355X
GPU
+3
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Rise of AI Agents Hackathon — Dubai

$60,000+ prize pool. Design, build, and launch real-world AI Agents as part of Dubai AI Week. On-site at Deriv Offices, Business Bay.

$60,000+prize pool
Sep 1, 2026 - Nov 30, 2026
by Lablab.ai / Deriv
AI Agents
Autonomous Systems
LLMs
+1
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Children's Speech Recognition Challenge

$70,000 combined prize pool from the Gates Foundation. Build speech recognition systems that accurately transcribe children's voices across languages.

$70,000prize pool
Feb 15, 2026 - Apr 5, 2026
by Gates Foundation / DrivenData
Speech Recognition
ASR
NLP
+2
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Agentic Economy on Arc

$10,000 prize pool. Build agentic economic applications using Circle's Nanopayments with USDC settlement on Arc. Hybrid event in SF.

$10,000prize pool
Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 26, 2026
by Lablab.ai / Arc / Circle
Arc
Circle
USDC
+2
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Competition Networks & Platforms

The top platforms hosting AI hackathons, developer challenges, and coding competitions. Bookmark these to never miss an opportunity.

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DevpostHackathon Directory

World's largest hackathon directory — software, AI, design, and hardware challenges.

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KaggleAI & Data Science

Premier AI & data science platform with Community Hackathons up to $10K.

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Lablab.aiAI Hackathons

100K+ builder community. Tool-specific AI hackathons for Claude, GPT, Llama & more.

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MLHStudent Hackathons

200+ student hackathons worldwide per season with 150K+ participants.

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ML ContestsML Aggregator

Meta-aggregator for ML, AI, data science & robotics competitions.

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AnthropicAI / LLM

Built with Claude hackathons — $15K+ API credits and AI agent challenges.

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MicrosoftCloud & AI

AI Dev Days — $10K per category, Build 2026 tickets, Azure credits.

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Google DeepMindAI Research

Gemini API challenges and ML competitions via Kaggle with up to $50K+.

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IBM TechXchangeEnterprise AI

watsonx & Granite model challenges — $5K team prizes + conference.

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NVIDIAGPU & Inference

GPU-focused hackathons with hardware prizes including signed RTX cards.

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VercelWeb Development

v0 & Next.js hackathons co-sponsored with NVIDIA, Supabase & more.

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ReplitCloud IDE

Bounties marketplace + periodic AI Agent build challenges.

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SupabaseBackend & Database

Quarterly Launch Week hackathons with AI + database challenges.

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Hugging FaceOpen Source ML

Spaces challenges, model competitions & collaborative ML sprints.

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Dev.toDeveloper Community

Community challenges sponsored by AWS, Cloudflare & more.

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ContraFreelance

AI build challenges for freelancers — portfolio-building + cash prizes.

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HackerEarthHiring & Enterprise

Enterprise hackathons with hiring pipelines. Strong in India & APAC.

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UnstopInnovation

International platform for tech, business & innovation challenges.

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DeveloperWeekConference Hackathons

800+ participant hackathons in SF, NYC & virtual. Multi-track prizes.

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Cerebral ValleyAI Community

In-person AI builder scene with Anthropic, Redis & CopilotKit.

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AI TinkerersBuilder Meetups

In-person hackathons in major cities — build + network with AI builders.

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