Garage Inference — Big Ideas, Cheap Models, Smart Engineering Wins
Hosted on Hackathon Raptors
Fetched 10 minutes ago
Friday, May 1, 2026
to Sunday, May 31, 2026
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1 month long
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInnovation
Event Type
online
$1,700
Prize Pool
Organizers
Alex Johnson
alex@example.org
Jamie Rivera
jamie@example.org
Sam Chen
sam@example.org
Quality Score
Quality Score
72/100
High confidence
Organiser16/20
Event Maturity14/20
Sponsors18/25
Participants12/20
The constraint is the creativity. A 72-hour hackathon focused on building remarkable products with the cheapest, smallest LLMs available. Pair weak models with smart architecture — RAG, tool use, fine-tuning, prompting chains — to prove that limited compute with strong engineering beats brute-force capability. $1,700 prize pool.