HETIC AI Agents for Founders Challenge 2026
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About this hackathon
A global online challenge for university students from HETIC Paris: build AI agents that save founders measurable time, using only free or open-weight models with human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Teams of 2–5.
- Status
- Deadline
- 2026-12-18
- Starts
- 2026-10-07
- Who
- Students (University students worldwide, 18+)
- Level
- Intermediate
- Prize
- €997 · €997 cash (Grand Prize €600 / Runner-up €250 / Critical Thinking by Design €147)
- Size
- —
- Format
- Online · International
- Location
- Paris (online; placed at organizer’s city)
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Original listing (Chinese)
The full original listing below is in Chinese, as published in the Hack123 newsletter.
一句话简介：巴黎 HETIC 面向全球高校学生发起的挑战赛，构建能为创业者节省可衡量时间的 AI Agent，要求仅使用免费/开源权重模型并保留人工检查点。
看点：纯线上、全球参与；2—5 人组队；聚焦创业者真实效率场景；要求开源权重模型与人工检查点设计。
奖金：997 欧元现金（大奖 600 / 亚军 250 / Critical Thinking by Design 奖 147）。
截止日期：12月18日 17:00（中欧时间）（线上，全球）
Summarized from the organizer’s page and public posts. Please confirm details on the official site before registering.