WeaveHacks 3: Self-Improving Agents Hackathon with Weights & Biases

WeaveHacks is back (With Redis, Vercel, Browserbase, Daily, Marimo and Google Cloud) On Jan 31-Feb 1, come to the Weights & Biases SF office (no online component, sorry) to have the most fun building agents you'll have this year. This time, we're highlighting self-improving agents. Agent capabilities have advanced a lot over the last year. The next wave of agents will be different though - they'll be upgrading themselves. This can mean better memory systems, new forms of RL and fine-tuning, new ways of dynamic tool creation, self improving loops like Ralph, GasTown etc. Agents that run while you sleep. Whatever it looks like, we think you should build it! We bring: A killer office with ultrawide monitors and standing desksGreat food & drinks (breakfast, lunch and dinner)Expert judges A robot dog that yells at you You bring: Your ideasA readiness to actually show up & crank out codeGood vibes Will you make a research agent? A personal productivity assistant? A library for other agents to leverage? A new RL harness? What's the idea that's been on your mind? Whatever it is, no more excuses. This is your sign to build. If you don't know, WeaveHacks is our AI Agent Hackathon series. Our first one was last year in which over 200 builders came from across the country to network, build, and deploy agents. Due to popular demand, we are doing another one and this time we will have even bigger prizes. Here is a peek at what to expect, from our 2nd WeaveHacks event: https://x.com/wandb/status/1981434285879157116/video/1 EXPECT: 🎁 $15k+ in prizes🐕🤖🤖 Unitree g2 pro robot dogTons of food, snacks, drinksA handful of excellent sponsors, who will have onsite assistance for integrating their tools. Only a few though - no hours-long presentations at the start. We're here to hack.Expert judges who can offer specific feedbackPartner prizes to be announced SCHEDULE: SATURDAY JANUARY 319:00 AM: Doors open & breakfast10:30 AM: Kickoff & initial presentation11:15 AM: Hacking starts!6:30 PM: DinnerSUNDAY FEBRUARY 19:00 AM: Doors open, breakfast snacks12:30 PM: Lunch1:30 PM: Submissions due, judging begins2:00 PM: Project presentations3:30 PM: Finalist presentations4:00 PM: CoreWeave Ventures office hours (tentative)4:30 PM: Awards ceremony JUDGES: Allie Howe — @vtahowe Founder of Growth Cyber and host of the Insecure Agents podcast. Kwindla Hultman Kramer — @kwindla Co-founder & CEO of Daily, the developer platform for real-time video and audio. Creator of Pipecat, the leading open-source framework for building voice AI agents. Matthew Berman — @MatthewBerman AI YouTuber and founder of Forward Future with 500K+ subscribers. Shadi Saba — Senior Director AI/ML at CoreWeave. Previously head of ML distributed training at AWS Neuron. Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau — @Vjeux Frontend engineer at Meta. Co-creator of React Native, creator of Prettier (code formatter), Excalidraw, CSS-in-JS, and Yoga layout engine. George Cameron — @grmcameron Co-founder & CPO of Artificial Analysis, the leading independent benchmarking platform for AI models and API providers. Tracks performance, pricing, and quality across the LLM ecosystem. Itamar Friedman — @itamar_mar Co-founder & CEO of Qodo (formerly CodiumAI), building AI-powered code integrity tools used by hundreds of thousands of developers. Previously founded and led teams in AI research and engineering. Talon Miller — @tallonmiller Principal GTM Architect at Redis, helping developers leverage the real-time data platform for AI applications. Expert in vector search, caching, and high-performance memory systems for agents. Lucas Atkins — @latkins CTO at Arcee AI, leading research and engineering on enterprise-grade generative AI. Rohan Rastogi — in/rastogirohan GTM at Vercel, helping developers ship AI-powered applications on the leading frontend platform. Brings deep expertise in developer tooling and go-to-market strategy. Jen Ben Arye — in/jen-ben-arye Co-Founder of Prod Israel, building tools and community for product managers in the Israeli tech ecosystem. Background in product leadership and startup building. Aleksa Gordić — @gordic_aleksa Founder, ex-Google DeepMind, ex-Microsoft ML Engineer. Creator of The AI Epiphany YouTube channel. Ivan Porollo — @iporollo Founder of Cerebral Valley, the premier AI community hosting hackathons with Mistral, Google DeepMind, and more. Karan Vaidya — @KaranVaidya6 Co-founder of Composio, the skill layer for AI agents enabling secure access to 200+ SaaS tools. a16z Scout. Aditya Sharma — @adityas129 Founder of Keel, building infrastructure. Ray Fernando — @RayFernando1337 12-year ex-Apple engineer now building AI apps live on streams. Sicheng Pan — in/sicheng-pan-0129 Member of Technical Staff at Chroma. Works on the data plane at Chroma (open-source vector database). SPONSORS: Your host: Weights & Biases! We build Weave, the smoothest LLM tracing & observability platform. 2 lines of code to instantly understand what your agent is doing. https://wandb.me/use-weave Redis. The real-time data platform powering the fastest AI applications. Build agents with vector search, caching, and blazing-fast memory systems. https://redis.io/ Browserbase. The best web automation tooling. Stagehand writes the code, Browserbase runs it. Together, Browserbase & Stagehand help you automate the web. https://www.stagehand.dev/ Vercel. The triangle platform for developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. Deploy your AI apps instantly. https://vercel.com/ and create with V0 v0.app Daily. The team behind Pipecat, the open-source framework for building voice and multimodal AI agents. Build real-time conversational AI with production-ready infrastructure. https://www.daily.co/ Marimo. The next-generation Python notebook built for reproducibility and sharing. Recently joined CoreWeave to supercharge AI workflows. https://marimo.io/ Google Cloud. You know them, but you may not know how they can help you. Get fast inference, cutting-edge models, and solid agent-building tools in ADK and A2A. https://google.github.io/adk-docs/ + 2 more sponsors to be announced! 🎁 PRIZE POOL: Grand Prize: Unitree g2 pro robot dog + $2000 cash prize General prizes Grand Prize: Unitree G2 Pro robot dog (~$4,000 value) + $2,000 cashRunner-up: $2,000 cash + Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses for each team memberThird Place: $1,000 cash + TRMNL e-ink frameSocial Media Demo Prize: $1,000 cash to the project with the best demo video posted to X/LinkedIn Sponsor prizes Best Use of Weave: $1,000 cash + an electric scooter for each team memberOther sponsor prizes will be announced closer to event APPLYING TO PARTICIPATE Apply on Luma! Participants in our past hackathons get an instant acceptance. Beyond that, we prioritize hackers who have some kind of project they've built that they can point to (it doesn't need to be polished at all). Github or Devpost links are fine. No specific experience is required. Note that we will likely hit max capacity on registrations before the event, so apply early, and mark yourself as going / not going as soon as you know (so you're not taking a slot from someone else). Come ready to build agents 🙂