🚀 The Build Small Hackathon is officially open for registration!
@HuggingFace × @Gradio + Anchor Sponsors @OpenBMB, @OpenAI, @NVIDIA invite you to build small, practical, and fun AI applications — using small models ≤32B, deployed as Gradio Spaces.
🏆 Prizes & support include:
$15,000 in cash prizes from @huggingface.
$10,000 Special Awards from @OpenBMB for projects using our models.
Additional cash prizes/support from more industry partners.
🎯 Two tracks:
🏡 Backyard AI — solve real problems for people (parents, shop owners, students…).
🍄 Adventure in Thousand Token Wood — creative, playful, delightful AI experiences where AI is the core.
🧠 MiniCPM models you can use (and compete for the special prize):
- MiniCPM-V 4.6 (image/OCR/multimodal)
- MiniCPM-o 4.5 (omni-modal)
- MiniCPM5-1B (lightweight text, local)
- MiniCPM4.1-8B (reasoning)
- VoxCPM2 (voice/TTS)
More: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/collections
📅 Timeline: Signup by June 3 | Build: June 5–15.
🔗 Join the official Hugging Face Org, build your Gradio app, host as a Space, and submit.
Event page: https://huggingface.co/build-small-hackathon
