Google Gemma hardware hackathon at AGI House offers $45k prizes, $15k for LiteRT track
agihouse_org · x · 2026-10-17
AGI House announced a Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon spotlighting LiteRT, Google's framework for high-performance on-device AI:
- Builders can run Gemma via LiteRT-LM across edge platforms to turn ideas into locally-running apps
- The 'Best Use of LiteRT' award is $15,000, part of a $45,000 cash prize pool plus partner hardware awards
- 100 selected builders will join the Google DeepMind Gemma team and hardware partners for a full day of building
The focus is offline assistants and intelligent edge devices.
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