CoreWeave and W&B Host Agent Self-Correction Hackathon With $20K+ Prizes

Weights & Biases announced that its WeaveHacks hackathon has been renamed CoreWeave Hacks, co-hosted with CoreWeave and scheduled for September 12-13 in San Francisco. The event focuses on building autonomous agent loops that can catch and correct their own errors, with over $20,000 in total prizes.

Confirmed

The event takes place September 12-13 in San Francisco
Co-hosted by CoreWeave and Weights & Biases; formerly named WeaveHacks, now renamed CoreWeave Hacks
Theme: building self-correcting agent loops
Total prizes exceed $20,000
Best loop design wins a robot dog; prizes also include F1 race tickets

Why it matters

Self-correction is a core challenge in agent engineering; a hackathon dedicated to it could advance related practices and tooling
The CoreWeave-W&B partnership signals joint investment in the agent ecosystem by GPU cloud and experiment-tracking vendors

2026-09-02 ~ 2026-09-02 · 5 related posts

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CoreWeave and W&B Host Agent Loops Hackathon with $20k in Prizes — wandb · 2026-09-02 01:42 (UTC+08:00)
CoreWeave Hacks agent hackathon offers $20k prizes and robot dog — wandb · 2026-09-02 01:52 (UTC+08:00)

[source] CoreWeave and W&B Host Agent Loops Hackathon with $20k in Prizes — wandb · 2026-09-02
CoreWeave Hacks: Agent-focused hackathon with $20k prizes — wandb · 2026-09-02

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