Fireworks x Microsoft x NVIDIA buildathon offers $18K prizes plus a DGX Spark
sophiamyang · x · 2026-10-27
Fireworks AI, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are hosting a Deploy Buildathon in San Francisco on Nov 2 with $18K in prizes ($10K/$5K/$3K) plus an NVIDIA DGX Spark. Challenge: pick a task, deploy an open model to production, build an eval, and beat a frontier model on quality, latency, or cost. Teams of 2–5, registration subject to approval.
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