Open Source AI Awards Night Lands in SF Oct 23 with Unsloth, Hugging Face Speakers
latkins · x · 2026-10-20
The Open Source AI Awards take place Friday, Oct 23 in San Francisco as the centerpiece of Open Source AI Week (Oct 16–25), with 307+ RSVPs. Speakers include Daniel Han (Unsloth), Alex Newman (Claude Memory), Lucas Atkins (Arcee AI), Irene Solaiman (Hugging Face), plus a Google DeepMind talk and a mystery guest. Awards span infrastructure, RL, security/alignment, benchmarks, agentic harness, and observability projects, plus community/maintainer honors — with community voting open. Winner Lucas Atkins joked about the awkwardness of being on both sides of the awards.
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