$110,000 for the Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition
@googlegemma and @kaggle want an offline coding agent that runs on everyday hardware. It should work through real git repos, reproduce bugs and draft patches.
Entries are scored automatically on SWE-bench-style tests, so the leaderboard picks the winners.
Entry deadline: Nov 25. That is also the last day to join or merge teams.
Final submissions: Dec 2
https://t.co/kRlFvfFiTX
What did you ship this week?
Drop it below. A repo, a demo, a screenshot, a prototype that only half works. All of it counts.
Stuck somewhere? Say where. Someone here has probably hit the same wall.
Looking for your next hackathon? https://t.co/uxz8VZ2DCM
$150,000 in cash for Google Quantum AI's Kaggle competition
@GoogleQuantumAI and @kaggle want you to use AI agents and classical optimization to shrink the circuits that future quantum computers will need to run.
Every qubit and gate you remove makes a useful quantum algorithm easier to run on real hardware.
Three benchmarks:
Fusion plasma stopping power
Decoded quantum interferometry
FeMoco simulation, the chemistry behind fertilizer production
It runs on kickmix, Google's open-source library in Qualtran. It can fuzz test circuits at 60 billion gates per second on one CPU core.
Deadline: Jan 20, 2027
https://t.co/Xub89iWqXV
$150,000 in cash for Google Quantum AI's Kaggle competition
@GoogleQuantumAI and @kaggle want you to use AI agents and classical optimization to shrink the circuits that future quantum computers will need to run.
Every qubit and gate you remove makes a useful quantum algorithm easier to run on real hardware.
Three benchmarks:
Fusion plasma stopping power
Decoded quantum interferometry
FeMoco simulation, the chemistry behind fertilizer production
It runs on kickmix, Google's open-source library in Qualtran. It can fuzz test circuits at 60 billion gates per second on one CPU core.
Deadline: Jan 20, 2027
https://t.co/Xub89iWqXV
$500,000 for Mozilla's Human-Scale AI Incubator
@mozilla Mozilla Foundation is funding 7 projects. It wants small models and tools built for one specific community or problem, not general-purpose chatbots.
What you get:
$300,000 and 12 months of support
Up to $200,000 more over two more years if the project keeps growing
Who can apply: teams whose technology already works and is being used or piloted by real people. An idea on its own won't get in.
Applications close: Nov 20, 11:59 PM PT
https://t.co/E3ZOAjeTJM
$500,000 for Mozilla's Human-Scale AI Incubator
@mozilla Mozilla Foundation is funding 7 projects. It wants small models and tools built for one specific community or problem, not general-purpose chatbots.
What you get:
$300,000 and 12 months of support
Up to $200,000 more over two more years if the project keeps growing
Who can apply: teams whose technology already works and is being used or piloted by real people. An idea on its own won't get in.
Applications close: Nov 20, 11:59 PM PT
https://t.co/E3ZOAjeTJM
Over $600,000 in hackathon prizes, and every deadline is this week.
Here are 11 of the biggest ones closing soon 👇
➤ Hermes Agent Plugin Hackathon by @NousResearch
Deadline: November 11, 2026 | Prize Pool: $20,000 cash
Build any plugin you want Hermes Agent to have. Accepted plugins go live in the Hermes Marketplace.
➤ AI Builder Hackathon 2026 by @VictoriaVR
Deadline: November 11, 2026 | Prize Pool: €20,000
Build browser-native AI tools that turn plain language into 3D scenes, NPCs and interactive worlds.
➤ Nimiq Mini Apps Competition Cycle III
Deadline: November 11, 2026 | Prize Pool: $17,000
Build a Mini App on the Nimiq Pay framework in one of four categories: Pay, Save, Earn or On/Off Ramp.
➤ RYO-CHAN Hackathon 2026
Deadline: November 11, 2026 | Prize Pool: Up to $15,000 in RYO-CHAN tokens
Build agents, dashboards or new skills for a no-code AI trading platform. The grand prize winner also gets a trip to Tokyo HQ.
➤ PayPal AI Hackathon by @PayPal
Deadline: November 12, 2026 | Prize Pool: $67,500 cash plus credits
Build anything that uses both PayPal and AI. No set tracks or problem statements.
➤ Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition: Paper Track by @kaggle
Deadline: November 12, 2026 | Prize Pool: $35,000 cash
Write up to 3,000 words on how you tuned, evaluated or built agent tooling around Gemma 4. Top papers get shown at NeurIPS workshops.
➤ AI4Elections Hackathon by @Risenetworks
Deadline: November 12, 2026 | Prize Pool: ₦10,000,000
Build responsible AI tools for Nigeria's electoral process, with INEC as a partner. Open to Nigerian citizens 18 and over.
➤ Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon by @airwallex
Deadline: November 13, 2026 | Prize Pool: $100,000 in prizes and API credits
Build AI agents on Airwallex APIs that run real financial workflows: global accounts, FX, payouts and cards.
➤ NEAR Hackathon by @NEARProtocol
Deadline: November 14, 2026 | Prize Pool: $250,000 in NEAR
Build AI agents, autonomous payments or cross-chain apps across 13 tracks. No sign-up needed, just a public repo and a demo.
➤ Lexsi AI Safety and Alignment Hackathon
Deadline: November 14, 2026 | Prize Pool: $30,000+ in prizes and compute credits
Fine-tune, red team and align Cohere Labs open-weights models across three tracks.
➤ 2026 Epic AI MegaJam by @EpicGames
Deadline: November 15, 2026 | Prize Pool: $65,000 cash
Build a playable game in Unreal Engine or UEFN in four days, using any AI tools. The theme drops at the Nov 11 kickoff.
Find more opportunities at https://t.co/khOBx861cX
$1,000,000 in cash for Meta Start Developer Competition
Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026: @MetaVRDevs build a VR experience for Meta Quest and Meta VR Glasses that works end to end with your hands. Controller support is optional.
New apps count. So do big updates to apps you've already shipped.
Tracks: Entertainment, Gaming and Productivity, plus special category awards.
20 cash prizes, from $20,000 to $100,000. The top prize in each track is $100,000.
You need to be a Meta VR Start member to enter. Not one yet? Apply first, then register on Devpost.
Deadline: Nov 18, 12:00 PM PT
https://t.co/eTNACnNHxc
$1,000,000 in cash for Meta Start Developer Competition
Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026: @MetaVRDevs build a VR experience for Meta Quest and Meta VR Glasses that works end to end with your hands. Controller support is optional.
New apps count. So do big updates to apps you've already shipped.
Tracks: Entertainment, Gaming and Productivity, plus special category awards.
20 cash prizes, from $20,000 to $100,000. The top prize in each track is $100,000.
You need to be a Meta VR Start member to enter. Not one yet? Apply first, then register on Devpost.
Deadline: Nov 18, 12:00 PM PT
https://t.co/eTNACnNHxc
$250,000 for building on NEAR
The two week hackathon by @NEARProtocol is in its final days. Build AI agents, autonomous payments or cross-chain apps with NEAR Intents, NEAR AI Cloud and Chain Signatures.
13 tracks.
Total prize: $250,000
Grand prize: $55,000
Every track pays $10,000 for 1st, $3,000 for 2nd and $2,000 for 3rd
All prizes are paid in NEAR.
To enter, submit a public repo and a demo. One person can enter up to 2 projects.
Deadline: Nov 14, 11:59 PM UTC
https://t.co/eMRZWevIyd.
Did you know @Instadapp started as a hackathon project?
In August 2018, brothers Sowmay and Samyak Jain built the first version at @ETHIndiaco in Bengaluru. It was a simple interface on top of MakerDAO, and it won.
Fast forward
• Kyber Network gave them a grant to keep building
• $2.4M seed round in 2019, then $10M in 2021
• Reported peak of about $12B in locked value
• The team has since rebuilt the product as Fluid
The weekend build was the first version, not the last one