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May 16 (Saturday) @ 12:00 PM       FREE
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AI-Memory Hackathon: Building your own Agent LLM Wiki
"Instead of just retrieving from raw documents at query time, the LLM incrementally builds & maintains a persistent wiki" - Karpathy

Recently, Karpathy popularised the idea of LLM Wiki. We decided to give it a go & try to extend on that idea & build one together with you.

$1,500+ Cash Pool
Main Prizes

Prize: $800 cash
Prize: $500 cash
Prize: $200 cash

Build LLM Knowledge Wiki
In this hands-on hackathon, you will use Cognee's open-source memory engine to build your LLM Knowledge Wiki

Your wiki should do thee base operations:

Ingest

Query + Self-improve

Lint

Check how Karpathy explains it here: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f

Show us what you got
You will have 3 minutes to stand out:

Present your idea & explain how you leverage agent self-improvement

Run a live demo that showcases your agent in action

Schedule
12:00 PM - Doors open + Networking

12:30 PM - Opening remarks + partner demos

1:00 PM - Hacking begins

4:30 PM - Project Submission Deadline - finalists selection

5:00 PM - Finalist presentation & judging

5:30 PM - Awards ceremony

6:00 PM - Event wrap-up & doors close

Technology & Venture Partners
Redis



About Cognee

Cognee is an open-source AI memory engine that transforms unstructured data into persistent, queryable memory. It enables AI agents to store, retrieve, & reason over information across time, making it possible to build more reliable, adaptive, & stateful AI systems.

About Redis

Redis is a real-time context engine that unifies streaming & vector data to power intelligent applications & AI agents with instant awareness. It enables developers to process & serve dynamic context at sub-millisecond speed with enterprise-grade reliability, delivering highly responsive & personalized experiences at scale.

About Pebblebed

Pebblebed is a technical early stage VC founded by Pam Vagata (cofounder of OpenAI, ran AI for Stripe, inventor of FBLearner Flow); Keith Adams (founded Facebook AI Research, was chief architect at Slack, 20th engineer at VMWare) & Tammie Siew (former Sequoia Southeast Asia investor, former Sequoia & Notable Capital backed founder)
 
 
 
 
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