After a marathon 48 hours of coding, the winners of the AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon have been announced.
In third place — winning $1,000 in cash, a further $1,000 in MiniMax credits, $5,000 in Atlas AI credits, and 200 million Voyage AI tokens — was Team Rote. The crew claimed that they'd been able to make an AI engine that was the fastest on the planet by collecting agent usage and making it available to multiple people across the network.
Coming in second was Team PodMan, which built a tool that orchestrates tasks using a single agent on DigitalOcean servers, managing data in real time to prevent merge errors and improve efficiency by storing and reusing executed commands using a specialized MongoDB database. As such, the 500 million Voyage AI tokens will be very helpful with further use of MongoDB, and the other prizes of $1,500 in cash, $2,000 in MiniMax credits, and $5,000 in Atlas AI credits will be welcome too.
But the judges were most impressed with Team SplatForge, which clinched the top spot using Google Gemini to identify and move objects in virtual environments in 3D. Key to its success was that the software learned to find and classify new objects. The ability for systems to learn and develop was a key point behind the hackathon and something the judges were specifically looking for. The hacking session, held at the offices of the Shack15 social club in the San Francisco Ferry Building, was clearly grueling. One developer was asleep on a couch by the time the final presentations were made. We didn't wake him to check which team he was on, but since he was up and about by the time the awards were made, we hope he had a good wake-up call.
