Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- Developers, Startup teams
- Team size
- Open to individuals of local majority age, teams and established organizations, excluding Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and other restricted jurisdictions. Promotion-related personnel and conflicts of interest are restricted.
- Location
- Online; optional Builders & Brews city events
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- US$50,000 in cash prizes, including a US$20,000 grand prize, plus NVIDIA hardware and merchandise awards.
All deadlines
Original date: Registration deadline | No separate registration closing time stated; Join hackathon remained visible.
The time is unconfirmed or the event is cancelled and cannot be added.
Original date: Project submission deadline | Submission Period: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (9:00 am Pacific Time) – Friday, October 30, 2026 (10:00 am Pacific Time) | Time zone: America/Los_Angeles | Pacific Time remains UTC-07:00 on October 30.
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About this opportunity
Build developer tools, applications and agents, personal assistants, or physical AI systems using NVIDIA open models on Nebius Token Factory or AI Cloud. Open to individuals of local majority age, teams and established organizations, excluding Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and other restricted jurisdictions. Promotion-related personnel and conflicts of interest are restricted. Entry is free; optional builder credits are offered. No claim is made that all cloud usage is free.
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
- Open to individuals of local majority age, teams and established organizations, excluding Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and other restricted jurisdictions. Promotion-related personnel and conflicts of interest are restricted.
- Use at least one NVIDIA open-source model and either make runtime calls to Token Factory or deploy/run on Nebius AI Cloud.
- New projects and substantially updated existing projects are allowed. Source code must be public with an open-source license.
- Eligible jurisdictions worldwide excluding Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and comprehensively sanctioned or legally prohibited jurisdictions.
- No separate registration cutoff is published. Complete registration before submitting and check the official rules.
What to prepare
- Project description, selected track, public repository and README, a public video of up to three minutes, and product feedback. A working demo URL is required except for Physical AI; that track requires at least one minute showing hardware or key modules operating.
Sources
- Source platform
- Devpost
- Source domain
- nebiusglobalaihackathon.devpost.com
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.