Lexsi Labs, Cohere Labs and Hugging Face launch AI safety hackathon with $30k+ prizes
dhruv2038 · x · 2026-10-12
Lexsi Labs announced the AI Safety and Alignment Hackathon with Cohere Labs and Hugging Face, running free online Nov 1–21, 2026.
- Resources: open-weights Tiny Aya and Aya Expanse from Cohere; six open-source Lexsi toolkits (AlignTune, CuratorKIT, AuditKIT, SafeTune, CircuitKIT, AgentTune); artifacts hosted on Hugging Face
- Three tracks: fine-tuning/data curation, AI red teaming & safety, agentic fine-tuning; each submission must chain at least two toolkits and report before/after metrics
- Rewards: $30k+ in prizes, GPU credits for up to 800 teams, Demo Day for the top 20, plus interviews for DevRel/research roles
A kickoff event on Oct 31 introduces the open-source stack.
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