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Gary Event 
With Simon Koser (Founder, Tzafon), Catherine Jue (CEO, Kernel), Marius Buleandra (Anthropic).
May 09 (Saturday) @ 10:00 AM
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
FREE

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We're inviting an exclusive group of local builders to spend a day at the first computer use hackathon in San Francisco.

Join us to build cool projects with open source AI & computer use. It can be anything from fine-tuning models to improved verification & data collection to full end-to-end projects.

Throughout the hackathon, you will get unlimited access to both KERNEL's open source infrastructure & Tzafon's computer use model series.

Schedule

9:30am: Doors open (please arrive on time before 10 am)

10:00am: Intro panel on the state of computer use

Marius Buleandra, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Simon Koser, Co-founder, Tzafon

Catherine Jue, CEO & Co-founder, KERNEL

10:30am: Start hacking

12:00pm: Lunch served ( Pizza / Salads available)

4:00pm: Final submissions

4:30pm: Winner presented

4:45pm: Post-event social mixer

Prizes

1st place: $10k + $10k in credits

2nd-5th place: $1k + $5k in credits

Teams

Teams up to 5. Solo applicants will be pre-matched with a team.

Signup

Because we have limited space we're asking that you change your RSVP if anything changes after you've signed up.

If you are applying as a team, please add all your teammates when signing up (group ticket).

About the organizers

Tzafon

Tzafon trains superhuman computer use action models that continuously learn.

KERNEL

Kernel builds crazy fast, open source infra for agents to access the internet

SF Compute

SF Compute runs large-scale, vetted GPU clusters. Need H100s for an hour? B300s for two years? You got it. Need to cancel? Just sell back what you don't need.

Nvidia

Hardware & software for model training & inference, supports this event with compute & their open source runtime ecosystem such as OpenShell.
 
 
 
 
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