48 Hours · San Francisco · October 18–20, 2025
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Where artificial intelligence meets human ambition
48 Hours · San Francisco · October 18–20, 2025
Where artificial intelligence meets human ambition
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About the Event
NeuralHack is a 48-hour hackathon bringing together developers, designers, researchers, and dreamers to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence. From large language models to computer vision, from reinforcement learning to generative art — this is your canvas.
Whether you're a seasoned ML engineer or just wrote your first neural network last week, there's a place for you here. We provide the compute, the mentors, the community, and the coffee. You bring the ideas.
Challenge Tracks
Build the next generation of creative tools — text, image, music, video, or something entirely new. Push LLMs and diffusion models beyond their limits.
Apply AI to solve real-world problems — climate change, healthcare access, education equity, disaster response. Technology with purpose.
From autonomous perception to augmented reality — build systems that see, understand, and interact with the visual world in novel ways.
Build the tools that power AI — inference optimization, MLOps pipelines, edge deployment, data labeling, or evaluation frameworks.
The Venue
50,000 sq ft of hackable space — amphitheater, workshop rooms, nap pods, and a rooftop with Bay views.
Schedule
Every minute counts. Here's how we structure the weekend to maximize building, learning, and connecting.
Check-in & Registration
Badge pickup, swag bag, find your spot
Opening Ceremony & Keynote
Track reveals, sponsor intros, AI vision talk
Team Formation & Pitch Session
Find your crew or pitch your idea
Hacking Begins
Let the magic happen
Workshops & Mentor Sessions
Prompt engineering, fine-tuning, deployment masterclasses
Midnight Ramen & Lightning Talks
Fuel up and share progress
Submissions Close
Devpost submissions + 3-minute video
Demo Expo & Judging
Science-fair style demos, judge rotations
Awards Ceremony & After-Party
Winners announced, celebration, connections
Prizes
2nd Place
$25K
· Cloud credits
· Mentorship program
· Conference tickets
1st Place
$50K
· $50K cash prize
· GPU cluster access (6 months)
· VC intro meetings
· Incubator fast-track
3rd Place
$15K
· Hardware kits
· Online course access
· Swag package
$5K
Best GenAI
$5K
Best AI for Good
$5K
Best Vision
$5K
Best Infra
Supported By
Judges & Mentors
VP of Research, OpenAI
CTO, Anthropic
Head of AI, NVIDIA
Partner, a16z
Anyone 18+ can participate — students, professionals, researchers, indie hackers. You don't need to be an AI expert. We welcome all skill levels and backgrounds. Teams of 1–4 people.
Yes, 100% free. We cover venue, food, drinks, and provide compute credits for all participants. You just need to get yourself there.
No worries! We have a team formation session on Day 1 where you can pitch ideas or join others. Many of our best teams form at the event itself.
Every participant gets $500 in cloud credits (GPU instances) courtesy of our sponsors. We also have on-site GPU stations for quick experiments and inference testing.
Absolutely. You can use any pre-trained models, APIs, or open-source libraries. The hack is about what you build on top of them, not training from scratch. However, your project must be started during the hackathon.
Yes! We offer a hybrid experience. Remote participants get full access to workshops, mentor sessions (via video), and are eligible for all prizes except the grand prize. You'll need a stable internet connection.
Limited to 500 Spots
Registration closes September 30, 2025
Free to participate · Compute included · All skill levels
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