NVIDIA x Red Hat Small Models Hack Winners: Evacuation Sim and EEG Communication Aid
NVIDIA Developer · youtube · 2026-11-07
NVIDIA Developer streams interviews with winning teams from the NVIDIA x Red Hat Small Models Hack in Raleigh, where devs built real-world apps with open models totaling 33B parameters or fewer.
Winners:
- Escape Red Hat (Best Use of Nemotron Lightning): an interactive evacuation simulator where five AI-controlled occupants make independent decisions during emergencies
- Unspoken (Best Use of NeMo Gym): a multimodal assistive communication system combining speech, lip movements, eye gaze, and EEG signals for people with severe speech difficulties
Both teams demo their projects and explain how they built them on NVIDIA's AI ecosystem.
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