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What happens when Lightning AI's frontier training infrastructure meets Validia's safety & security expertise?

A hackathon where you build smarter, ship faster, & deploy agents in a secure manner.

We're excited to host a hackathon right here in New York City, where we'll challenge you & your team to build autonomous agents that work the way you work - faster than ever before.

What You'll Build With:

You'll have full access to two powerful resources working in tandem:

Lightning AI Studios provides the infrastructure to build, train, & deploy your AI agents with the same tools used for frontier model development. Access to serious compute, seamless workflows, & OpenClaw - the framework for building personalized autonomous agents that understand your unique context & workflows.

Validia's team brings deep expertise in the safety & security behind AI models. We specialize in building detection for unsafe prompts, jailbreak attempts, & distillation attacks against your models.

The Challenge:

Build a personalized autonomous agent using Lightning AI's OpenClaw studio that adapts to how you & your team actually work - & does it safely. Your agent should solve a real problem & demonstrate what's possible when you combine cutting-edge AI infrastructure with genuine security built in from the ground up, not bolted on after the fact.

Think: agents that learn from your unique work patterns, automate repetitive workflows specific to your domain, & orchestrate complex tasks - all while staying resilient against the threats that make real-world AI deployment risky. Can your agent handle adversarial inputs without breaking? Does it know when it's being manipulated or probed? Can it maintain context about how you operate without leaking sensitive information or being distilled by a bad actor?

The best submissions won't just be the most capable agents. They'll be the ones that are hardest to break.
 
 
 
 
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