DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026 Overall Winner

1st Place Prize:
- Amazon Echos (Up to 5)
- DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2026 conferences - Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project

 

Crusoe: Build a Hermes / NemoClaw agent running Nvidia Nemotron on Crusoe Cloud Managed Inference

1st Place: NVIDIA DGX Spark
2nd Place: Mac mini
Contact: eacheampong@crusoe.ai

1st Place: NVIDIA DGX Spark
2nd Place: Mac mini
Contact: eacheampong@crusoe.ai

Build a Hermes / NemoClaw agent running Nvidia Nemotron on Crusoe Cloud Managed Inference
Your Harness, Our Inference: Build a Nemotron Agent

Get Started:

1. Register here first:
https://console.crusoecloud.com/request-foundry

2. Here is an example curl:

curl --location 'https://api.inference.crusoecloud.com/v1/chat/completions' --header 'Authorization: Bearer 42ffcJ8DTTyXkYJuqWWPeQ$2a$10$0yJ8QR8q0kPd.vo5thNGV.eOXwHcYR.BqVcyYKd.ghaZVaw8wGiEa' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{
"model": "hack-crusoe/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-FP8",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello, how are you?"
}
],
"max_tokens": 256
}'

 

Perfect Corp: Resilient Agents

$2,500 in cash 2 winners

1st Place: $1,500
2nd Place: $1,000
Contact: valerie_torres@perfectcorp.com

GET STARTED:

1. Click HERE (https://yce.perfectcorp.com/api-console/en/redeem-code/) to sign up & verify your email. 

2. Once you have verified your email, click HERE (https://yce.perfectcorp.com/api-console/en/redeem-code/), go to Account > Redeem Code. 

3. Enter: Pegasus1000

4. 1000 API Units ($179 Value) have officially been added to your account! 

 

Design and build an immersive web or mobile experience using Perfect Corp’s AI- and AR-powered technology suite to solve real-world consumer needs.
- Participants are encouraged to explore creative, innovative, and unexpected ways to leverage Perfect Corp’s APIs — from virtual try-on and AI skin analysis to personalized product recommendations, gen AI text-to-image creation, and fashion visualization — to create engaging, interactive experiences or shopping journeys.
- Participants are encouraged to explore creative and unexpected use cases for Perfect’s suite of APIs
- Must integrate at least 1 Perfect Corp API and demonstrate clear consumer or retail value
- Project page with short write-up & screenshots
- Demo video (1-3 minutes) showing the experience end-to-end
- Must participate in an exit interview if chosen as winner
- To be included in a blog article
- One questionnaire to fill out once chosen as winner

 

TrueFoundry: Resilient Agents $700 in cash 2 winners

1st Place: $500
2nd Place: $200
Contact: https://discord.gg/EQYVNZ538

How does your agent behave when an MCP server starts erroring out? An LLM server goes down? OpenAI or Claude errors out or browns out? The goal of this challenge is to see how user experience and the user side of things are handled when this infrastructure chaos happens and how your agent is configured and set up for success and resilience.