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🤝 Zero to Agent: Vercel x DeepMind Hackathon The era of AI agents is here and it's time to build. Join Vercel, Google DeepMind, and Cerebral Valley for a day of hacking — ship an AI agent and compete for prizes across three cities.

Register below by city (or for all? 👀)

📍 3/21, San Francisco – Register Here

📍 3/21, New York – Register Here

📍 3/21, London – Register Here

It's hackathon season — and CV has a lot coming up in SF and around the world this month. Are you ready?

⚡ Helion Hackathon Join us to push the boundaries of GPU kernel development with fellow developers, researchers, and ML engineers. You'll get hands-on access to Helion, PyTorch's new Python-native kernel authoring language that compiles directly to Triton.

📍 Saturday, March 14 | San Francisco, CA
🔗 Register here


🇫🇷 Gemini 3 Paris Gemini 3 is coming to Paris. Build with Google's most intelligent model yet, built for state-of-the-art reasoning, rich multimodal understanding, and bringing any idea to life. Backed by Google's AI Futures Fund.

📍 Saturday, March 14th | Paris, FR
🔗 Register here

You Might’ve Missed

• MetalRT: fastest TTS inference on Apple Silicon — 291ms latency, 8.4x real-time factor on M3 Max, 2.8x faster than mlx. Instant-feeling text-to-speech running entirely on device.

• Cold outreach actually works — here's what I learned interviewing 30 people in 4 days ~300 people reached out after one post. No need to send a whole essay — just share what you're currently working on or a recent thing you executed.

• Generate maps and 3D models from drone imagery — point it at drone footage and get full 3D reconstructions and map outputs. Clean pipeline from capture to model.

• Cursor's $200/month actually costs them ~$5,000 — the VC-subsidized AI coding playbook: burn cash, build dependency, then charge what it actually costs.

• Hand tracking demo — slick real-time hand tracking running live. responsive, and surprisingly low-latency

• Cyberpunk 3D map of Tokyo in Mapbox — use LUTs to fully customize the look of your maps in Mapbox Standard Style. Easiest way to do it? R's mapgl package - code included.

• What if AI agents ran the US government? — simulated US government officials as AI agents and let them pass bills. Turns out AI congress gets more done than the real one. Full policy simulator with Senate, House, Executive, and Supreme Court.

• Moda: monitoring & reliability built for AI agents (YC Launch) — AI agents fail silently in production — tool failures, hallucinated outputs, incomplete workflows. Moda helps you catch issues before users do.

• Cerebral Valley x Google DeepMind Asia Tour — Tokyo — second stop on the Asia Tour, a special event in Tokyo for Gemini 3. Supercell collectible figurines for winners, $150K in API credits, and all to play for.

CV Spotlight: Sentient Labs - Arena: Cohort 0

Sentient Labs is opening applications for Cohort 0, the first exclusive community of top AI researchers and developers who will compete on cracking the hardest problems in AI reasoning.
This carefully selected small group will lock in on building state-of-the-art AI agents and benchmarking them on Reasoning Arena.Becoming a Cohort 0 member means:
30K+ USD in prizes for Challenge 0, the first set of problems.
Top partners and speakers from OpenHands, OpenRouter, alphaXiv, FireworksAI, Dedalus Labs, and VCs like Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, and Pantera Capital.

Three weeks of networking, building, and hacking marathons in San Francisco, CA.
Shoutout to 700K+ people across Sentient Labs social media, including X and LinkedIn.
A chance to ship something big, go viral, and close your raise.
The applications are live March 4-10, 2026.

Events in San Francisco, CA will run March 13 – April 4, 2026. Cohort 0 is not required to be in-person, so if you are not in SF, we still welcome you to apply!
Applications are live now: https://www.sentient.xyz/arena.

Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] for job placement inquiries.

Engineering Manager at AI Documentation Startup (SF)

- Building: AI documentation platform used by 10,000+ companies to date

- About: Backed by A16z, YC & other Tier 1 VCs • Tech powers over 10,000 companies to date & rapidly growing • $20m+ funding raised with small team

- Ideal candidate: 3+ years experience leading teams of 4+ engineers to ship like crazy • Innate ability to motivate engineers to build from 0 to 1 with low ego • Strong in-person work culture & desire to collaborate heavily with the team

AI Engineer at Construction Automation Startup (SF)

- Building: AI agents for construction, “Harvey for real estate development”

- About: Backed by CEO of Blackstone & others • Harvard-founded • Clients include Tishman Speyer & premier real estate firms • Solving frontier geospatial AI problems

- Ideal candidate: Experience building production-ready agents • Python or typescript expertise • Strong preference for ex-founders or ex-founding engineers

Agent Engineer at AI Media Startup (SF)

- Building: Agentic media production platform, “Lovable for creatives”

- About: Well-funded preseed • Small but elite team of <5 • Founded by founder of Soundcloud and Dance • Founded raised $500m+ for previous companies

- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated experience in using LLMs in production & to build quickly • 4+ years of experience in professional software engineering at early stage startups • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team

If you’re interested in the above roles, please email [email protected] with your LinkedIn, resume, and why you think you’re the best fit. We’ll be in touch if there’s a match.

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