Llama Impact Grant
Unlock a $100,000 Opportunity with Meta's Llama 3.1 Impact Grant

Next Hackathon
Band of Agents Hackathon
Starts Jun 12, 2026
🚀 Take your chance and build a proactive AI solution.
🌟 Expert mentors will guide you every step of the way.
🤝 Work alone or form a team to build something extraordinary.
💰 $22,250 prize pool for the winners!
🌉 Join us online or in person in San Francisco for an unforgettable experience!
🧑🏻💻 Sign up before the Kick-Off Stream to secure your spot!

Our AI hackathon brought together a diverse group of participants, who collaborated to develop a variety of impressive projects based on:
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Check out Upcoming Events →Unlock a $100,000 Opportunity with Meta's Llama 3.1 Impact Grant
Llama 3.2 is Meta’s latest advancement in open-source large language models (LLMs), designed to make AI more accessible across various platforms and tasks, especially with its new multimodal capabilities. This version focuses on lightweight models optimized for edge devices, while also introducing the ability to process both text and images, broadening the scope of AI applications.
For those joining the hackathon on-site, we’re thrilled to welcome you to the MindsDB venue in San Francisco, CA, for this unique event organized by lablab.ai! Here, you’ll gain exclusive access to top mentors, collaborate with a passionate AI community, and access on-site support to bring your AI ideas to life.
Don’t miss out—apply for a seat to secure your spot and join in person or online! ✨
To participate in our hackathon, you need to complete the application process. This applies to both online and onsite participants.
Hackathon Challenge
Join this hackathon to tackle real-world challenges using Meta’s Llama models
This event is part of the global Llama 3.1 Impact Grant series, giving participants the opportunity to indicate their participation on their Llama 3.1 Impact Grant application. By doing so, you’ll be eligible to compete in an additional specialized "Regional" track within the grant program. If you’re interested in applying for the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants, we recommend submitting your application after participating in the event.
For more details on the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants, visit: Llama Impact Grants.
Challenges:
1. Expanding Low-Resource Languages
🌐 Problem Statement: Many languages lack adequate AI support, limiting accessibility and cultural relevance.
Challenge: Develop models using Llama to support low-resource languages, ensuring culturally sensitive and locally relevant AI solutions.
3. Navigating Public Services
📌 Problem Statement: Government services can be complex & difficult to navigate, creating barriers for citizens.
Challenge: Use Llama to develop chatbots or assistants that help users navigate government websites, assist with tax filing, benefit access, and streamline permitting or grant-writing processes for agencies.
💡 Examples:
• CivicFix - An AI-powered WhatsApp bot for reporting local issues via voice, photos, or text, classifying and alerting authorities by severity and location for efficient action.
• Albert - the new AI in French public service, helps citizens with administrative tasks, offering 24/7 support on taxes, social services, and more for streamlined access.
• AIM Intelligence - offers AI-driven solutions to optimize decision-making, providing insights, automation, and analytics to empower businesses across industries.
• traversaal.ai - provides bilingual resources in English and Urdu, with upcoming expansions to Arabic for localized educational content.
2. Reducing Barriers for Llama Developers
🛠️ Problem Statement: Developing with Llama can be complex due to data preparation and evaluation challenges.
Challenge: Build tools that streamline Llama’s development process, including data preparation, prompt engineering, and evaluation.
Llama 3.1 is an open-source, advanced LLM by Meta AI. Optimized for NLP tasks, it offers various model sizes and focuses on transparency, safety, and accessibility.
Llama 3.2 by Meta is an open-source LLM with multimodal capabilities, processing text and images. It's optimized for edge devices, making AI more accessible across platforms and tasks.
AutoGen is an open-source framework simplifying the creation of multi-agent systems using LLMs, enabling coordinated AI interactions with humans and tools.
Together AI is AI cloud platform which drives AI innovation. It contributes to open-source research, empowering developers to deploy AI models.
Restack’s AI Framework lets engineers build and scale autonomous systems with event-driven workflows, real-time processes, and adaptive feedback loops.
Snowflake Inc. provides a leading cloud data platform for seamless storage, analysis, and sharing, supporting sectors from finance to healthcare with real-time insights.
MindsDB's Knowledge Base is an AI-optimized data store for efficient knowledge management, leveraging embeddings and vector databases for ML and AI tasks.
World’s largest collection of llama finetuned models (from huggingface) in a single API subscription, with OpenAI compatible API
Solo Tech provides on-device AI solutions, emphasizing data privacy, efficiency, and user control without cloud dependence for fast, customized experiences.
Hey builders!
Exciting news for teams participating in this hackathon! Our partners are offering exclusive benefits to help jumpstart your AI projects.
• Access credits by signing up through the form that will be shared on the day of the hackathon, November 8th.
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Featherless.ai empowers developers with seamless access to state-of-the-art AI tools, ensuring your projects are built on robust, high-performance infrastructure. On-site participants will receive 10 API keys with around 5 concurrent calls each, available for unlimited use over the weekend. Perfect for rapid prototyping and real-time project scaling.
• API keys will be distributed to the first 10 on-site teams who will claim it.
Important Notes:
• Credits are provided by our Partners and are subject to their delivery.
• Lablab is not responsible or liable if Partners does not provide the credits.
🎁 Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity. Gather your team and sign up now! ⏳✨
On-site prizes
Online prizes
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Best use of Restack :
💰 Cash: $1,000
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Best use of LlamaIndex :
💰 Cash: $1,000
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Best use of Solo Tech :
💰 Cash: $500
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Best use of MindsDB
Knowledge Base :
1st place - 💰 Cash: $1,000
2nd place - 💰 Cash: $750
3rd place - 💰 Cash: $500
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Best use of Together AI :
☁️ $2500 Together AI credits
🏆 The top two teams that are planning to continue developing their project will be invited to join an exclusive Meta & lablab NEXT digital incubation program.
🏆 Edge is offering the top 3 winning teams 1 month of free co-working in Downtown SF for each member (3-5 people).
🏆 The top winning team will receive 1 year of free Featherless Premium
📋 Basic Information
• Project Title
• Short Description
• Long Description
• Technology & Category Tags
📸 Cover Image and Presentation
• Cover Image
• Video Presentation
• Slide Presentation
💻 App Hosting & Code Repository
• Public GitHub Repository
• Demo Application Platform
• Application URL
For further details and guidance, please visit Submission Guidelines
Impact
Submissions from the teams participating in the Llama Impact Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊
Check out the roster and find teams to join

Next Hackathon
Band of Agents Hackathon
Starts Jun 12, 2026