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[AMD] Best Use of AI powered by AMD GPUs - 1st Place

Sentinel

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Los Altos Hacks X · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
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2nd Place

Sentinel

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Cheesehacks · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
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2nd Place | Developer Tools

Sentinel

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OpenAI Build Week · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
SE
Third

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TillyHacks · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
Best Inference (Wafer)

Datalake

Universities own a multi-billion-dollar AI training corpus they can't sell. Datalake's Wafer agent loop catalogs ownership and labels research in one pass — mes

Uncommon Hacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
PydanticpytestPythonReact+9
Source pending review
KA
Best Use of Daytona

Katena

Building RL environments is very hard, and there's many vectors of reward hacking. We automate the first layer of defense against weak RL environments.

Daytona HackSprint w/ Braintrust - SF, July 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
DockerJavaScriptOpenAI APIpytest+4
Source pending review
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Best Social Impact

Ligands

An AI-powered pipeline that lets you ask a simple question, "Does this drug bind this protein?" and automatically handles all the computational bottlenecks behi

HackIllinois 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
DockerFastAPIGraphQLJavaScript+11
Source pending review
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Best Use of AI - Mac Mini with Apple M4 chip

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Hacktech by Caltech 2026 · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
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Best Use of VoiceOS and HypeScribe

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SCU Hack-a-Stack - Endurance Track · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
Best Technical Execution

SignalGap

SignalGap finds the waiting-room patient who looks stable only because no one has looked again, separating current clinical risk from the value of fresh reasses

Vitalitics 2026 · 2026

HealthcareSocial Impact
DockerFastAPINext.jsPlaywright+7
Source pending review
SE
Finalist

Sentinel

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UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 · 2026

EducationProductivity
OpenAI CodexDockerFastAPIGemini+18
Source pending review
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Graduate (Masters/Doctoral) Runner Up

Towerguard

TowerGuard quantifies the Cost of Doing Nothing in America's air-traffic-controller staffing crisis.

USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
AnthropicClaudeCloudflareFastAPI+8
Source pending review
Second Place Overall

Gemini Movie Detectives

AI movie quiz game built on Gemini and retrieval-augmented generation

Google AI Hackathon · 2024

EducationArtificial Intelligence
DockerFastAPIGeminiGoogle Cloud+8
Source verified