OpenAI Open Model Hackathon

Overview

Join the OpenAI Open Model Hackathon, an online event challenging participants to build innovative applications using OpenAI's open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss. Collaborate with industry leaders like Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Ollama, and vLLM to explore creative uses for these powerful models.

Requirements

This hackathon is open to participants who are above the legal age of majority in their country of residence. Please note that participation is limited to specific countries and territories. The submission deadline is September 12, 2025, at 12:00 AM UTC.

Prizes

Compete for over $30,000 in cash prizes and cutting-edge hardware. Top categories include Best Overall ($10,000), Best in Robotics (NVIDIA RTX6000 PRO GPU), Weirdest Hardware ($5,000 + NVIDIA RTX5090 GPU), Best Local Agent (NVIDIA RTX5090 GPU), Most Useful Fine-Tune ($5,000), Wildcard ($5,000), and For Humanity ($5,000).