2 days ago
Did someone say... prizes? 🏆
With three weeks left, here's a reminder of what's on the line — and a nudge to get your project reviewed early.
Prize pool ($50,000+):
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🥇 Grand Prize: $20,000
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🥈 2nd Place: $10,000
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🥉 3rd Place: $6,000
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🏅 Track Winners (4 tracks): an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, each
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🔍 Best Use of Tavily: $3,000
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🌍 City Winners: $500 each (20 winners)
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💬 Most Valuable Feedback: $100 + NVIDIA swag (10 winners)
Note: each project can receive one overall award, or one track award plus one bonus award — not multiple overall prizes.
Submit early if you can. If your project…
5 days ago
FAQs
Hi everyone! Please check out our new FAQs page for this hackathon.
If you have any questions for the Nebius Team, please direct them to the Nebius Discord.
16 days ago
How to build a winning project 🏆
One thing that sets this hackathon apart: your feedback on the Nebius tools and NVIDIA models you use is a required part of every submission — not an afterthought.
Make your feedback count. For Token Factory, AI Cloud, and the NVIDIA model(s) you used, tell us what you used them for, what worked well, what needs work, how onboarding felt (zero to hello world), and whether you'd build with them again — and why. Be specific; "the docs were confusing" doesn't help anyone without naming the tool.
A few tips for a stronger submission:
- Name your project like a human,…
about 1 month ago
Here's how judging works 💡
How's your project coming along? If you're still looking for teammates or an idea, here are a few ways to get moving.
Team up. Post in the Nebius Discord or use the Participants tab on the hackathon site to find other builders looking to team up.
Push past the obvious. Judges love to see tracks pushed further than the basics:
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💻 Coding and Agentic Engineering: a code-completion wrapper is a start; an agent that plans, writes, tests, and iterates on a real repo with minimal human input is where it gets interesting.
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🚀 Best Apps and Agents: a…
about 1 month ago
Build Session Recording & Resources Available: Live-Coding Your First App with Nebius!
Hi Everyone,
The recording for our live build session with Nebius and NVIDIA is now available on our Devpost YouTube Channel. Whether you missed the live stream or want to follow along step-by-step while building your hackathon entry, you can rewatch the full walk-through anytime.
In this hands-on workshop, Jacquelyne Capur demonstrated how to build and iteratively refine an AI-powered browser video game in under 40 minutes!
- Introduced Nebius Token Factory, the $50K Nebius NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon tracks, Builders & Brews global events, and promo credit
- Configured Hermes Desktop Agent locally to interface directly with remote open-weight models…
about 1 month ago
[Starting in 1 hour] Live Build Session with Nebius
Hey Builder,
We're going live in one hour! ⏰
Senior Developer Advocate Jacquelyne Capur is about to build a real app with Nebius from a completely blank slate — first API call, connecting an AI coding agent to Nebius Token Factory, and live-coding a working application while swapping between models for vision, reasoning, and coding tasks.
Grab your coffee and hop in — you'll walk away knowing how to get set up and choose the right models for your own hackathon project.
When: Today, Tuesday, September 8 — 9am PT / 12pm ET (starting in 1 hour)
Join here: …
about 1 month ago
[Tomorrow] Live Build Session: Live-Coding Your First App with Nebius
Hey Builder,
Quick reminder — our live Build Session with Nebius is tomorrow! 👋
Join Senior Developer Advocate, Jacquelyne Capur, as she goes from a brand-new Nebius account to a working app, live and from scratch. No setup done in advance — you'll see your first API call, connecting an AI coding agent to Nebius Token Factory, and a real application built in real time, with model swaps along the way for vision, reasoning, and coding tasks.
Whether you're just getting oriented with Nebius or already sketching out your hackathon idea, this is a great way to see the…
about 1 month ago
🚀 Kickoff Tips
Welcome to the Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon!
Here are some tips to get you started.
Every project needs two things: it has to run on Nebius Token Factory or Nebius AI Cloud, and it has to use at least one NVIDIA open source model (Nemotron, GR00T, Cosmos, or Sonic).
Pick your track:
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💻 Coding and Agentic Engineering: build agents that write, run, and test code.
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🚀 Best Apps and Agents: practical applications or autonomous workflows people can actually use.
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🧠 Personal AI: always-on private assistants with persistent memory and tool access.
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🦾 Physical AI…
about 1 month ago
[Live Build Session Sep 8] Sign Up & Get Building: Live-Coding Your First App with Nebius
Hey Builder,
How fast can you go from a brand-new Nebius account to a working app?
Join Senior Developer Advocate, Jacquelyne Capur, for a Devpost Build Session on September 8 to find out. We're starting from scratch — no setup done in advance — and building in real time: your first API call, connecting an AI coding agent to Nebius Token Factory, and live-coding a real application. Along the way, we'll swap between different models to handle vision, reasoning, and coding tasks, so you'll see firsthand how to pick the right one for the job.
You'll walk away knowing how…