AI Agents Hack with AI Alliance

Build the next wave of intelligent, open-source AI agents—context-aware, on-device, and built for the real world.

🌐 December 12, 2025 – January 25, 2026 | Fully online

🧠 Build context-rich, modular agents.

🛠️ Experiment with local inference and multi-agent systems.

⭐ Get expert support throughout.

🤝 Join solo or with a team.

🎁 Prizes: TBA

🧑🏻‍💻 Sign up before the Kick-Off — end the year building, start the next leading.

Enroll now!

About AI Alliance

AI Alliance is a coalition of leading organizations committed to advancing open, responsible, and collaborative AI. Their mission is to ensure AI innovation remains accessible and beneficial to all—through open-source tooling, research, infrastructure, and global cooperation.

By supporting this hackathon, AI Alliance empowers the community to explore what’s next for AI agents—from local-first deployments to enterprise-grade workflows and multilingual systems.

Challenge

Build intelligent AI agents that can run locally, adapt to context, and collaborate across workflows.

This hackathon challenges you to rethink what’s possible with AI agents—beyond chatbots. You’ll explore how agents can reason, collaborate, and operate autonomously in complex environments, both online and on-device. Whether you’re building for enterprise workflows, local devices, or multilingual users, your agent should be practical, modular, and impactful.

💡 Core Focus Areas:

🧠 Broad AI Agents

Explore general-purpose or task-specific agents that can reason, act, and adapt based on their environment. Think beyond chat—build systems that do.

🔓 Open Source

All solutions should prioritize openness—use open models, frameworks, or tools that others can build upon, remix, or contribute to.

📚 Context Engineering

Make your agent smarter with memory and state handling. Can it keep track of what happened before? Does it behave differently based on evolving context?

🔌 MCP (Model Context Protocol)

While no longer brand-new, MCP is still key to agent-to-tool interaction. Use it to create modular agents that can call external functions or plug into existing systems.

💻 On-Device Agents

Explore local inference. Build agents that run directly on laptops, edge devices, or mobile—keeping data private and interactions fast.

🏢 Enterprise Workflow Integration

Apply agent logic to real business use cases—automate tasks, process data, or make decisions in sales, HR, logistics, support, etc.

🌍 Agents in Local Languages

Move beyond English—build agents that understand and respond in local or low-resource languages to broaden access and utility.

🤖 Multi-Agent Collaboration

Design systems where multiple agents interact, share tasks, and coordinate intelligently to solve more complex challenges.

Suggested Technologies

Llama 4

Llama 4 is Meta’s new open-weight model with MoE routing, multimodal input, and record 10M-token context windows, positioned as an open alternative to closed frontier models.

👉 Read more about Llama 4

Together AI

Together AI is AI cloud platform which drives AI innovation. It contributes to open-source research, empowering developers to deploy AI models.

👉 Read more about Together AI

Prizes

🏆TBA

Please be aware that participation in lablab.ai hackathons is voluntary and subject to the specific rules and conditions outlined for each event. While we strive to provide a fair and rewarding experience for all participants, we cannot guarantee entry or success in securing prizes. All prizes and opportunities are subject to availability and participants must meet the established criteria to qualify. lablab.ai is not responsible nor held liable for any commitments or offers - including programs, giveaways, or prizes - made by third-party sponsors or partners of the hackathon. The availability and delivery of third-party prizes or benefits are solely at the discretion of the respective sponsors and are not guaranteed by lablab.ai. We reserve the right to make amendments, modifications, or cancellations to any part of the hackathon (including full cancellation of the event itself), including prizes and terms of participation, at our sole discretion. Whenever possible, we will endeavor to notify participants of significant changes within a reasonable timeframe. All submissions by participants must be original work, open source, and compliant with the MIT License unless specified otherwise. By participating, you agree to these terms, the overall event terms, and the lablab.ai general terms and are encouraged to review all event-related information carefully. Prize Distribution: lablab.ai and its partners reserve the right to distribute all prizes within a 90-day period following the end date of the hackathon. This period allows for the proper processing and verification needed to award prizes appropriately.

What to submit?

📋 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

lablab.ai

Topic: Hackathon Submissions Process

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Judging Criteria

Application of Technology

How effectively the chosen model(s) are integrated into the solution.

Presentation

The clarity and effectiveness of the project presentation.

Business Value

The impact and practical value, considering how well it fits into business areas.

Originality

The uniqueness & creativity of the solution, highlighting approaches and ability to demonstrate behaviors.

Hackathon Details

Join lablab.ai hackathon and innovate using the latest models in the market. Discover all the relevant details below.

🗓️ Where and when

The start date of the hackathon is mentioned according to the date specified on the hackathon page, cover and schedule. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord server.

🦸🏼‍♂️ Who can join?

Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of previous AI or coding experience! We encourage anyone with a passion for AI or an interest in exploring how it can be used in their field to join.

😅 What about teams?

If you don't have a team, don't worry! You can connect with other participants from all over the world on our dashboard or Discord server. We also recommend checking out our Discord server to find teammates and bounce around ideas. You can join the server here.

🛠️ How to participate

The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide.