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November
Monday
09:00–20:00 2026 · San Francisco time
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Make your own frontier November 2 | San Francisco Fireworks, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are handing you one challenge: take open models and make your own frontier, on a task you define. Train a specialized model, build a smarter harness, route across models, whatever gets you there. Best result wins $10,000! The challenge Pick a task you care about and deploy a model that serves it in production. Build an eval using your own data, synthetic data, or a public set. Then measure the tradeoffs your deployment makes: quality vs. efficiency, accuracy vs. latency, pass rate vs. cost. Tune at least one dimension against your baseline, show the business value, and show how far you pushed it.
Think you can make it? Let's see it! Top prizes + additional 1st place: $10,000 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $3,000
+NVIDIA DGX Spark, and others! Agenda (subject to change) 9:00 AM Doors open 10:30 AM Build begins 4:30 PM Submissions close, judging begins, reception & networking 7:00 PM Demos and awards Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks served throughout.
Early bird gets the worm! Must have an approved registration and once we are at max capacity the doors will be closed.
Teams must have 2-5 members- single person teams will not be accepted. Every participant must register.
For Microsoft's Data Privacy Notice please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/data-privacy-notice#mainoverview All registrations from this event will be shared with our co-hosts Microsoft and NVIDIA
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