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Amazon Nova AI Hackathon
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About this hackathon
Amazon's generative AI hackathon built on the Nova model family (Nova 2 Lite/Sonic, Nova Act, etc.). Five tracks: agentic AI, multimodal, UI automation, voice AI and open; judges include AWS VP Jeff Barr.
- Status
- Deadline
- 2026-03-17
- Starts
- 2026-02-04
- Who
- Open to all
- Level
- Intermediate
- Prize
- $40k · $40,000 cash + $55,000 AWS credits
- Size
- —
- Format
- Online · International
- Location
- Seattle (online; placed at organizer’s city)
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A voice-native OS agent that sees your screen. Powered by Amazon Nova Lite for routing and Nova Pro for visual reasoning, Sai turns any app on your Mac into a voice-controlled interface. No DOM needed
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Project Memoria: The Dementia Assistant
Project Memoria helps dementia patients recall conversations, find lost objects, and get grounded answers with an Amazon Nova-powered agentic memory system.
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Title AI
Title AI is the first platform that can autonomously search any US county recorder website and produce a complete title commitment report disrupting $3.6 trillion real estate industry.
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Flare detects AWS anomalies with AI, calls the on-call engineer with a root cause analysis, and stays on the line as a voice triage assistant to pull live infrastructure data on demand.
Original listing (Chinese)
The full original listing below is in Chinese, as published in the Hack123 newsletter.
Amazon 主办的大模型应用黑客松，使用 Nova 系列模型（Nova 2 Lite/Sonic、Nova Act 等）开发生成式 AI 应用。
看点：五大赛道任选（Agentic AI/多模态/UI自动化/语音 AI/自由发挥）；评委含 AWS VP Jeff Barr；现金+AWS积分双奖励
奖金：$40,000 现金 + $55,000 AWS 积分
截止日期：2026年3月17日 8:00AM GMT+8（线上）
Summarized from the Chinese “Beginner Hackathon Series” newsletter. Eligibility, dates and prizes are subject to the organizer’s official page.