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WeaveHacks 3 - Self-Improving Agents Hackathon
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| With founders Dex Horthy (HumanLayer), Kwindla Kramer (Daily), Karan Vaidya (Composio), Christopher Chedeau (Frontend Enggr, Meta), David Loker (Dir. AI, CodeRabbit), Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee AI), Shadi Saba (Dir. AI/ML, CoreWeave), Ivan Porollo (Founder, Cerebral Valley). |
| Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco |
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Jan 31 (Sat) , 2026 @ 09:00 AM
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WeaveHacks is back (With Redis, Vercel, Browserbase, Daily, Marimo & Google Cloud)
On Jan 31-Feb 1, come to the Weights & Biases SF office (no online component, sorry) to have the most fun building agents you'll have this year. This time, we're highlighting self-improving agents.
Agent capabilities have advanced a lot over the last year. The next wave of agents will be different though - they'll be upgrading themselves. This can mean better memory systems, new forms of RL & fine-tuning, new ways of dynamic tool creation, self improving loops like Ralph, GasTown etc. Agents that run while you sleep. Whatever it looks like, we think you should build it!
We bring:
A killer office with ultrawide monitors & standing desks
Great food & drinks (breakfast, lunch & dinner)
Expert judges
A robot dog that yells at you
You bring:
Your ideas
A readiness to actually show up & craIf you don't know, WeaveHacks is our AI Agent Hackathon series. Our first one was last year in which over 200 builders came from across the country to network, build, & deploy agents. Due to popular demand, we are doing another one & this time we will have even bigger prizes.
Here is a peek at what to expect, from our 2nd WeaveHacks event: https://x.com/wandb/status/1981434285879157116/video/1
EXPECT:
$15k+ in prizes
Unitree g2 pro robot dog
Tons of food, snacks, drinks
A handful of excellent sponsors, who will have onsite assistance for integrating their tools. Only a few though - no hours-long presentations at the start. We're here to hack.
Expert judges who can offer specific feedback
Partner prizes to be announced
SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY JANUARY 31
9:00 AM: Doors open & breakfast
9:30 AM: Kickoff & initial presentation
10:15 AM: Hacking starts!
12:45 PM: Optional lunch presentation
Hacking continues...
6:30 PM: Dinner
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1
9:00 AM: Doors open, breakfast snacks
12:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Submissions due, judging begins
2:00 PM: Project presentations
3:30 PM: Finalist presentations
4:00 PM: CoreWeave Ventures office hours (tentative)
4:30 PM: Awards ceremony
nk out code
Good vibes
Will you make a research agent? A personal productivity assistant? A library for other agents to leverage? A new RL harness? What's the idea that's been on your mind? Whatever it is, no more excuses. This is your sign to build.
JUDGES:
Dex Horthy - @dexhorthy Founder of HumanLayer (YC F24), building safer & more reliable AI agents. Author of "12 Factor Agents"
Kwindla Hultman Kramer - @kwindla Co-founder & CEO of Daily, the developer platform for real-time video & audio. Creator of Pipecat, the leading open-source framework for building voice AI agents
Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux) - @Vjeux Frontend engineer at Meta. Co-creator of React Native, creator of Prettier (code formatter), Excalidraw, CSS-in-JS, & Yoga layout engine.
Matthew Berman - @MatthewBerman AI YouTuber & founder of Forward Future with 500K+ subscribers. M
David Loker - Director of AI at CodeRabbit Ex-Netflix Senior ML Specialist.
Lucas Atkins - @latkins CTO at Arcee AI, leading research & engineering on enterprise-grade generative AI.
Ray Fernando - @RayFernando1337 12-year ex-Apple engineer now building AI apps live on streams.
Karan Vaidya - @KaranVaidya6 Co-founder of Composio, the skill layer for AI agents enabling secure access to 200+ SaaS tools. a16z Scout
Allie Howe - @vtahowe Founder of Growth Cyber & host of the Insecure Agents podcast.
Sicheng Pan - Member of Technical Staff at Chroma Works on the data plane at Chroma (open-source vector database),
Aleksa Gordi - @gordic_aleksa Founder, ex-Google DeepMind, ex-Microsoft ML Engineer. Creator of The AI Epiphany YouTube channel.
Shadi Saba - Senior Director AI/ML at CoreWeave Previously head of ML distributed training at AWS Neuron.
Ivan Porollo - @iporollo Founder of Cerebral Valley, the premier AI community hosting hackathons with Mistral, Google DeepMind, & more.
Kapehe Sevilleja - @kapehe_ok Head of Developer Community at Vercel. Former flight attendant turned dev advocate with stints at Sanity.io & Auth0. Passionate about creating technical content & teaching others to code.
SPONSORS:
Your host: Weights & Biases! We build Weave, the smoothest LLM tracing & observability platform. 2 lines of code to instantly understand what your agent is doing. https://wandb.me/use-weave
Redis. The real-time data platform powering the fastest AI applications. Build agents with vector search, caching, & blazing-fast memory systems. https://redis.io/
Browserbase. The best web automation tooling. Stagehand writes the code, Browserbase runs it. Together, Browserbase & Stagehand help you automate the web. https://www.stagehand.dev/
Vercel. The platform for frontend developers, providing the speed & reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. Deploy your AI apps instantly. https://vercel.com/
Daily. The team behind Pipecat, the open-source framework for building voice & multimodal AI agents. Build real-time conversational AI with production-ready infrastructure. https://www.daily.co/
Marimo. The next-generation Python notebook built for reproducibility & sharing. Recently joined CoreWeave to supercharge AI workflows. https://marimo.io/
Google Cloud. You know them, but you may not know how they can help you. Get fast inference, cutting-edge models, & solid agent-building tools in ADK & A2A. https://google.github.io/adk-docs/
+ 2 more sponsors to be announced!
PRIZE POOL:
Grand Prize:
Unitree g2 pro robot dog + $2000 cash prize
General prizes
Grand Prize: Unitree G2 Pro robot dog (~$4,000 value) + $2,000 cash
Runner-up: $1,000 cash + Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses for each team member
Best Self-Improving Agent: $1,000 cash + TRMNL e-ink frame
Social Media Demo Prize: $1,000 cash to the project with the best demo video posted to X/LinkedIn
Sponsor prizes
Best Use of Weave: $1,000 cash + an electric scooter for each team member
Other sponsor prizes will be announced closer to event
APPLYING TO PARTICIPATE
Apply on Luma! Participants in our past hackathons get an instant acceptance. Beyond that, we prioritize hackers who have some kind of project they've built that they can point to (it doesn't need to be polished at all). Github or Devpost links are fine. No specific experience is required.
Note that we will likely hit max capacity on registrations before the event, so apply early, & mark yourself as going / not going as soon as you know (so you're not taking a slot from someone else).
Come ready to build agents
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