Open Source LLM Hackathon - Hosted by RunPod

Excited to see you all tomorrow! You'll know you've arrived when you see 4 RunPod cybertrucks outside. May 18 Schedule: - 9am - 10am: check in, social - 10am - 10:15am: introduction by RunPod team, theme - 10:15am - 11:30am: Speakers --- 10:15am: Simon Mo, vLLM --- 10:30am: Gavin, Etched --- 10:45am: Matt Palmer, Replit --- 11:00am: Matt Brockman, Julius --- 11:15am: Alpay, Openchat --- 11:30am: Dylan, Evergreen - 11:30am - 11:45am: sponsor shoutouts - 11:45am - 12pm: run down of prizes, introduction to judges, and description of each prize track - 12pm - 1pm: hacking begins - 1pm - 2pm: lunch (chipotle 🌶️🌶️🌶️) - 2pm - 6pm: hacking - 6pm - 7pm: dinner - 7pm - 12am: hacking (space will be open overnight if attendees would like to stay at RunPod HQ) May 19 Schedule: - 12am - 9am: hacking - 9am - 10am: breakfast - 10:30am: submissions due - 11am - 12:30pm: presentations - 12:30pm - 1pm: judges discuss winners - 1pm - 1:30pm: winners announced, prizes given - 1:30pm - 1:45pm: closing notes - 1:45pm - 3pm: space stays open for social - 3pm: end of hackathon Prizes: - Best use of RunPod Serverless: $50K in RunPod credits and NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs for each team member. - 1st place overall: $25K in RunPod credits. - 2nd place overall: $10K in RunPod credits. - 3rd place overall: $5K in RunPod credits. - Best use of Nomic (Nomic embed or visualization with Nomic Atlas): $500 cash - Best multimodal transformer project (sponsored by Etched): everyone on the winning team gets to go skydiving - Best use of Replit Core: 1 year membership for Replit Core (with compute credits) Judging criteria + judges will be announced tomorrow morning. See you there!