LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon

About This Hackathon

This LLM Agents Hackathon, hosted by UC Berkeley RDI and in conjunction with the LLM agents MOOC, aims to bring together students, researchers, and practitioners to build and showcase innovative work in LLM agents, grow the AI agent community, and advance LLM agent technology. It is open to the public and will be held both virtually and in-person at UC Berkeley.

The hackathon is designed to have 5 tracks:

1. Applications Track: Building innovative LLM agent applications across diverse domains, from coding assistants to personal AI companions.


2. Benchmarks Track: Creating and improving benchmarks for AI agents, enabling standardized evaluation and comparison of different agent architectures and capabilities.


3. Fundamentals Track: Enhancing core agent capabilities such as memory, planning, reasoning, and tool use through novel frameworks and techniques.


4. Safety Track: Addressing critical safety concerns in AI agent deployment, including misuse prevention, privacy, interpretability, and broader societal impacts.


5. Decentralized and Multi-Agents Track: Advancing tools, frameworks, and applications for decentralized multi-agent systems, focusing on enhanced capabilities, interactions, and deployment.

We hope this hackathon with these specially-designed tracks can help demonstrate that we are entering a new phase of maturity and practicality of LLM agent technology where:

• Every developer can learn to use LLM agent technology for building innovative applications (Applications Track)


• Decentralized community collaboration can effectively bring the community together to build key technologies and infrastructure for LLM agents, serving as important foundations and public good for the community in AI (Benchmarks, Fundamentals, and Safety Tracks)

For Hackathon discussion, please join the Hackathon channel at LLM Agents Discord. For more comprehensive information about sponsors, LLM platforms, resources, and judging please review the main hackathon page. Moreover, please DO NOT USE Devpost for project submission. Instead, submit projects at this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3Y5BMGJFdI3PUIM1rtEEGI5u5kxesVxPnjb5rD4iAgSOeVw/viewform

Hackathon Tracks

For more information about the different hackathon tracks and our judging criteria for what makes a project in a certain track strong, please refer to the sections "Hackathon Tracks" and "Judging Criteria" on the main hackathon website. 

Timeline (may be subject to change)

Information regarding the hackathon start date, deadlines for sign up, and deadline for submission can be found under the section Timelines on the main hackathon website. Note the listed dates in the calendar/table are subject to change.

Oct. 23, 2024 - Dec. 16, 2024

University of California, Berkeley RDI

Online

$100,000