Hugging Face kicks off Open Source AI Week with ExecuTorch edge-AI hackathon
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-10-19
Hugging Face opened Open Source AI Week with a party at Founders, Inc., followed by the ExecuTorch Hackathon (Oct 17-18) sponsored by Meta, Qualcomm, GitHub, PyTorch Foundation and others. Teams of 3-5 build on-device AI with ExecuTorch across three tracks: Compute (Snapdragon X Elite Copilot+ PCs), Mobile + XR (Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy XR), and IoT (Arduino VENTUNO Q boards), capped at 200 participants.
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