Armenia Hosts 24-Hour AI Hackathon with OpenAI Support

“Hack Armenia” 24-hour hackathon brings together AI specialists to develop practical solutions

Public Radio of ArmeniaAug 10, 20261 min readOriginal: Public Radio of Armenia

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Armenia held a 24-hour hackathon focused on large language models on August 8–9 at AI9 Startup Campus, bringing together developers, researchers, students and AI specialists to create practical solutions for the country. Supported by Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry and Agency of Digital Government, participants worked in teams to develop prototypes evaluated by a jury including officials from OpenAI and local tech companies.

Winning teams received prizes in OpenAI API credits: $12,000 for first place, $7,500 for second, and $5,000 for third. Eleveight AI provided an additional $5,000 prize in GPU computing resources. Organized by the Armenia LLM Summer School, AI9 Startup Campus and YerevaNN, the initiative aims to convert research and knowledge into commercial products and innovative projects within Armenia's growing tech sector.

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