Inference-Time Compute Hackathon

$50k top prize. $100k+ total. 24 hours to build. Etched, Cognition, and Mercor are hosting a 24-hour hackathon! Build something that pushes the frontier of what AI can do and walk out with prize money, compute credits, and face time with industry founders. This is a 24 hour hackathon with three tracks: Agents: Multi-step systems that take a goal and execute. Tool use, planning, long horizons. Real-Time and Interactive: Sub-second loops, live multimodal. Talent Marketplace + Applied AI: Systems that judge capability of a person or a model. Autograders, preference ranking, rubrics,…