Garage Inference — Big Ideas, Cheap Models, Smart Engineering Wins
Hosted on Hackathon Raptors
Fetched about 5 hours ago
Friday, May 1, 2026
to Sunday, May 31, 2026
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1 month long
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInnovation
Event Type
online
$1,700
Prize Pool
The constraint is the creativity. A 72-hour hackathon focused on building remarkable products with the cheapest, smallest LLMs available. Pair weak models with smart architecture — RAG, tool use, fine-tuning, prompting chains — to prove that limited compute with strong engineering beats brute-force capability. $1,700 prize pool.
Judge Accessibility
Organizer email available25/25
Student-run event15/15
Actively looking for judges25/25
Small event (120 participants)10/10
No corporate sponsors10/10
New or emerging organizer10/10
Public registration available5/5
Online format (judge from anywhere)10/10
Top signals
Organizer email available
Student-run event
Actively looking for judges
Organizers
Alex Johnson
alex@example.org
Jamie Rivera
jamie@example.org
Sam Chen
sam@example.org
Estimated Audience
Mostly Students
ExperienceStudent
OccupationStudents
Beginner Friendly
Women in Tech
Technical Focus
AI95%
Web80%
Mobile25%
Industries
Healthcare
Education
Climate
Technologies
Python
React
OpenAI
Why this estimate
• Hosted by a university
• Open to students
• MLH member event
Estimate inferred from event metadata, not actual attendee data.