Alabi Ayobami (ThatLinuxGuyYouKnow)

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026

Online

The Laptop LLM Challenge: Build On-Device AI for the Hardware Africa Actually Has

$16,500 in prizes
Winners TBD
1863 participants

AWS Trainium Frontier Competition

Online

Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips

$40,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
450 participants

CockroachDB × AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory

Online

Agents that think. Agents that act. Agents that remember; reliably, globally, at any scale.

$8,750 in prizes
Winners announced
3698 participants

Build with Gemini XPRIZE

Online

$2,000,000 in prizes. Build with Gemini. Ship products that impact the world.

$2,000,000 in prizes
Winners announced
26421 participants

YouCam API Skin AI & Apparel VTO Hackathon

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Join YouCam API to Build the Future of Skin and Fashion Retail - Compete for $6,000 in prizes

$6,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1278 participants

ML Empowerment Build Challenge 2.0

Online

Learn AI, build real-world projects, and create impact through guided resources, mentorship, and a global community of student innovators. @mlempowermentfoundation on Instagram.

Non-monetary prizes
Winners announced
1183 participants

Build with DataHub: The Agent Hackathon

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Build AI agents with DataHub's open-source Context Platform.

$20,500 in prizes
Winners announced
3067 participants

Backblaze Generative Media Hackathon: Build with Genblaze on B2

Online

Build the next generation of AI media apps. Generate with Genblaze. Store on Backblaze B2.

$10,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1309 participants

Build-zero unilag

Lagos, Nigeria

Build 54: Where AI meets Africa's next big thing

Non-monetary prizes
Jul 24, 2026
41 participants

OpenAI Build Week

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Join a global week of building with Codex

$100,000 in prizes
Winners announced
46686 participants

Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud

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Build your own AI Agent on Qwen Cloud - compete for $70K in prizes across five tracks.

$45,000 in prizes
Winners announced
8455 participants

Slack Agent Builder Challenge

Online

Whether it's your first agent or your fiftieth - Slack is where it ships.

$42,000 in prizes
Winners announced
4418 participants

Agentic AI Build Week 2026

Ho Chi Minh City, Việt Nam

Largest AI Buildathon in Southeast Asia - (We have moved away from Devpost to our official portal - aitalent.genaifund.ai/hackathon. Read More Below)

Non-monetary prizes
Jun 9 – Jul 6, 2026
1586 participants

H0: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases

Online

Front-end in minutes. Back-end designed for scale.

$80,000 in prizes
Winners announced
9725 participants

USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026

Online

(* REGISTRATION EXPIRED JUNE 6 11:59 PM ET *) A global virtual AI hackathon empowering students to build solutions for real-world good—from everyday impact to career readiness.