Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- University students, Secondary school students, University developers
- Team size
- University and high-school students across China, solo or cross-school teams
- Location
- Preliminaries online; grand final offline in Hangzhou (48-hour hackathon + pitch)
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- CNY 60,000 grand champion; CNY 30,000 per track champion; plus hardware, compute tokens and interview fast-track with partner companies
All deadlines
Original date: Registration and the preliminary round open on September 8; participants submit a creative demo.
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Original date: September 8–October 7; register on Taobao using the official Chinese search term for Tmall AI Hackathon given in the registration instructions.
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Original date: November 5–8: qualifying participants gather in Hangzhou for the in-person grand finals.
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About this opportunity
Open to university and high-school students nationwide, individually or in cross-school teams. Preliminary entries are creative demos judged 80% by experts and 20% by popularity vote, selecting roughly 100-150 finalists. Intel provides on-device AI compute via Core Ultra, Alibaba Cloud provides cloud compute and model adaptation. The joint challenge is listed in the industry track of China International College Students' Innovation Competition (2026).
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
What to prepare
Sources
- Source platform
- Register in Taobao App by searching '天猫AI黑客松'
- Source domain
- www.ithome.com
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.