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⚡ 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

And CV has a lot coming up in SF & globally this month — are you ready?

OpenEnv Hackathon SF with Meta: Build RL environments and post-train a base model across 10 tracks. $100K total cash prize pool. Judges from Meta, Hugging Face, UC Berkeley, Scale AI, CoreWeave, and more.
 
📍 Saturday–Sunday, March 7th–8th | Shack15, San Francisco
🔗 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

Gemini 3 Singapore: We’re wrapping up the APAC Tour in Singapore. Push the boundaries of what’s possible with Gemini 3 across AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Google’s new agentic development platform, Antigravity.

📍 Saturday, March 7 Singapore – Register Here

You Might’ve Missed

• Point Claude Code at this quant desk simulator and go wild — full article on how to simulate like a quant desk with every model, every formula, and runnable code. Multi-billion dollar vibes on a laptop 📈

• Dev tools that don't let you sign up via API are behind — YC's Jared Friedman says in the Claude Code age, if your agent can't onboard itself, your API is incomplete. Account management via API should be table stakes 🔑

• Building a humanoid robot with Pi05 for ~$10K in hardware — finetuned Physical Intelligence's model for a custom use case, built a working prototype in 3 months, and shared every lesson across hardware, software, and training 🤖

• trackers 2.3.0: OC-SORT is coming to Roboflow — next release adds OC-SORT for multi-object tracking. Demo on ice hockey footage looks clean 🎯

• Claude Code's 1st Birthday: 13,000+ applicants, 500 selected, 227 projects, 3 winners — global Opus 4.6 virtual hackathon with final presentations at Shack15 ⚡

• A dev built a 4D replay of Iran strikes with AI agent swarms — airspace clearing, GPS jamming, satellites, no-fly zones, ships at Hormuz — all visualized in real time using public data. CIA-level geospatial intelligence, open source 🌍

• Codex can now port any model to Hugging Face Transformers — implemented Roboflow's RF-DETR in ~600 LOC with modular inheritance, instance segmentation, fast/slow image processors, and tests. Just point it at a repo 🤯

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 will go live here: https://www.sentient.xyz/arena.

If you’d like to be notified when applications go live, please fill out this short interest form: https://form.typeform.com/to/Qd8yRsJR.
Spots are limited.

Open Jobs

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

AI Product Engineer at Agent Reliability Research Lab (SF)

- Building: Research lab building products for last-mile agent reliability & improvement

- About: $30m+ raised in just last 5 months, including Lightspeed • Team of <20 shipping like they’re 50+ headcount • Clients include Rogo, Delve, Propel, Clado

- Ideal candidate: Intense engineer with 2+ years of experience • Able to work hard, play hard with the team in-office • Strong quality taste in software • LLM native, and obsessively trying the latest and greatest tools

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

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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