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Come & build the future of superintelligence.
Ten days, access to our newest models & $1M in prizes. The Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon is virtual, worldwide & free to enter if selected.
About the Hackathon
Apply to spend ten days building with Meta's newest models. Use the Muse Spark series, Muse Image & SAM 3.1 through Meta Model API, run Meta open weights models, & code faster with Muse Code agentic coding agent.
Bring a problem you know firsthand, or an idea that feels out of reach. Build it with the models, learn from the Meta team & partners in live workshops, & compete for a share in the $1,000,000 cash prize pool across two tracks: one for indie developers & one for startups.
Partners
We have an amazing set of inference partners supporting the event:
Baseten is offering $100 in credits & 2M TPM rate limits to select participants to use Meta's open-weights models.
Modal is offering $100 in credits to select participants to use Meta's open-weights models through Endpoints in addition to their serverless GPUs, sandboxes, & tools for LLM training.
Fireworks is offering $25 in credits to select participants to use Meta's open-weight models along with a workshop from Sinan Ozdemir
Participant Tracks
$1,000,000 in total prizes. Every project enters one track.
Indie developer track: For individual builders & students. Judged on creativity, technical ambition, & whether it works.
Startup track: For teams & founders building a real product. Judged on technical execution & whether it holds up in production.
Project Themes
Regardless of the track you choose, we're looking for projects in two main themes:
Build for Your World. Bring Meta's models into your domain. Solve a problem you know firsthand, free up time & mental space, & make something possible that wasn't before.
Push the Frontier. Use Meta's models to tackle challenges in software, robotics, manufacturing, energy, materials & beyond. Give a machine a new capability, accelerate a scientific experiment, or unlock a better way to understand & control a physical system. Show us what becomes possible when these models meet the real world.
Apply Now
Apply to participate. Participation is limited to a maximum of 20,000 accepted applicants. Applications will be evaluated against the selection criteria below on a rolling basis. No further applications will be accepted or evaluated once the cap is reached. Organizers reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to close the application portal & end the application period immediately once the participant cap is satisfied, even if such date is prior to the posted Application Deadline. Early application is encouraged.
Key Dates
Oct 13, 9:00 AM ET: Applications open. Applications are reviewed, & applicants notified, on a rolling basis.
Oct 25, 11:59 PM ET: Applications Deadline, or earlier if all 20,000 spots are filled.
Oct 26, 9:00 AM ET: Applicant approval notification sent by this time
Oct 26: Hackathon begins with kickoff livestream
Oct 27 - Nov 4: Live workshops from Meta & partners, plus office hours on Discord
Nov 4: Project submissions due by 9:00 PM ET
Nov 4 - Nov 8: Judging
Nov 9: Closing ceremony - live finals & winners announced
*Dates may be subject to change at Meta's sole discretion. Any change will be posted on this page.
How Applications are Reviewed
We aim for a mix of technical backgrounds & domains across participants. Applicants should best showcase their technical skills in the application form.
We review every application against two criteria, using only your answers on the application form:
Your project idea: how clear & feasible your proposed project is, & how well it fits one of the two project themes.
Your technical skill: the technical skill shown in the AI project you describe, including what you built & the techniques you used. Links to your GitHub, LinkedIn or a shipped product help us verify your experience & skill but are not required.
Both criteria are weighted equally. Applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Eligible applications meeting minimum scoring cut-offs will be accepted automatically, up to the first 20,000 acceptances. Eligible applications that do not meet the minimum scoring cut-offs will be accepted based on score received, if space allows. Answers to questions 13 to 16 help us improve our developer programs & are not used in selection.
Duplicate applications, false identity information or spam will be disqualified at Sponsor's sole discretion.
Participation is limited to up to 20,000 selected applicants. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis as they're received. Once spots are filled, the application will close.
Duplicate applications, false identity information or spam will be disqualified at Sponsor's sole discretion.
Open worldwide, except in countries where local law prohibits participation or the receipt of an award. Void where prohibited by law. Individuals and/or Organizations that are (i) the target of any trade sanctions or export control restrictions administered or enforced by the U.S., EU, United Nations, or UK; (ii) acting on behalf of anyone else who is the target of such trade sanctions or export control restrictions; or (iii) organized or located in Belarus, China, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, or any country or region that is the target of comprehensive economic or financial sanctions (which are the Crimea, Donetsk, & Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, North Korea, Iran) are not eligible to participate.
Employees, contractors, & interns of Meta & Cerebral Valley,government-affiliated individuals, & members of their immediate families (defined for these purposes as including spouse, domestic partner, parents, legal guardian, legal ward, children, & siblings & each of their respective spouses) & individuals living in the same household as such individuals, are not eligible.
View Application Overview & Event Waiver
Official Rules will be published before the Hackathon begins on October 26, 2026 & must be accepted by the selected participants.
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