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AI lab hackathons, 2025 to now

What got built, and what won.

Every submission from hackathons run by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and the other big labs, with the winners marked and the code linked.

projects
31,980
hackathons
93
award winners
585
inferred from GitHub
433
1st Place | Apps for Your Life

Second Voice

A zero-training AI communication aid that turns unclear speech from people with dysarthria into clear, confirmable sentences using GPT-5.6, then speaks them aloud.

accessibilityvoice
1st Place | Developer Tools

Echo Canvas

A browser workbench for authoring, hearing, and explaining interactive spatial acoustics before committing to a game-engine-like audio pipeline.

creative/musicdev tools
2nd Place | Apps for Your Life

AirBridge for Windows

AirBridge turns an AirPlay-compatible speaker into a practical wireless audio output for a Windows PC and puts a GPT-5.6 agent in the control loop.

dev toolsvoice
2nd Place | Developer Tools

Sentinel

Catch security holes in your MCP server before you ship it. Static rules, GPT-5.6 review, and Docker-sandboxed probes-every finding mapped to the OWASP Agentic Top 10.

securitydev tools

Malik Bashaar Javaid

2nd Place | Work & Productivity

Pulse

An AI teammate that listens during cardiac arrest and holds the state the team leader is juggling: rhythm, shocks, drug timings, hands-off time. Deterministic engine, no LLM in the clinical loop.

healthvoice

MadLava

MadLava is a lightweight JVM profiling agent that turns methods, memory, exceptions, I/O and Spark driver behavior into safe, explainable evidence.

dev tools

Ángel Álvarez Pascua

MarkLang

MarkLang is a declarative AI orchestration language that makes multi-model workflows transparent through schemas, policies, execution graphs, runtime events, and provider routing.

dev toolsagents

Nawaraj Parajuli

Recall Tutor

Pick any topic and get a bite-sized AI lecture with visual cards, a recall quiz, and a live voice tutor who explains it out loud — at your reading level.

educationvoice

Junius Gunaratne

Ask

Ask is a desktop assistant that lets you select anything on your screen, ask a question, and get a concise answer without switching context. One question, without leaving your work.

productivity

Hermes Agent Android

Hermes agents running on Android Termux, connected to ChatGPT Codex 5.6-Sol. This fork modifies the hermes-provided web server so that it works on an Android web browser. Self-hosted, on-premise.

dev toolsagents

watsoncsulahack Rojas

Kobi

An ai companion that helps teachers build fun artifacts for their students as the class progresses, making end of class review a fun activity to look forward.

education

Anibal Andrade, Isaac Romero

Chief

Chief is your AI Chief of Staff. It connects to your work apps, filters out the noise, and turns scattered work into clear priorities, summaries, and next steps.

productivityagents

Clarke Adjorlolo

DecisionOS

DecisionOS turns complex signals into explainable, traceable decisions through scenario-based decision engines.

productivity

CarlJosef Nasralla, JulieJur

App-modular

This is a modular business application built to connect sales, payments, operations, delivery, and printing in one system.

productivity

Playwright Automation Studio

AST-first Playwright automation platform that turns Codegen scripts into governed, reusable page objects and tests, with optional AI review, pre-approval test runs, and GitHub PR workflows.

dev tools

Axiom

A marketing operating system that turns one business goal into researched, ready-to-run growth work.

productivity

Edison Espinosa

confIA

confIA turns a simple receipt photo into instant financial control, using AI to track expenses automatically—no manual entries, no spreadsheets, no friction.

financevision

Mateo Leonardo Solorzano Vega, Diego Paolo Andía Fernández, CESAR MIGUEL SALAZAR REYES

Nachtlauf

An overnight GPT-5.6 planner that reads redacted Codex metadata, predicts your next tasks, and safely routes work across your Mac, Mac mini, and Raspberry Pi.

agentsproductivity

Chilumba Machona

scalps

Definition-aware retrieval reduces an agent’s search noise and prevents it from reading arbitrary source slices.

dev toolsagents

SafeZone.os

SafeZone.os guides people to safe routes and shelter during natural disasters, reducing fatal accidents through prevention, real-time technology, and rapid emergency response.

security

Valeria Villacorta, Miguel Angel Vilca Mamani, Dev Kumar

ArenaOS

ArenaOS: The operating system where AI agents compete, collaborate, and are benchmarked in immersive environments.

agents

ProofGate

An evidence-first release gate for pull requests: AI agents reproduce, fix, and independently verify every finding across base, PR, and patched revisions before a human ever sees it.

dev toolssecurity

Md Safkatul Islam

Aegis-OS

Built with GPT-5.6 in Codex, Aegis-OS detects visible faults, guides corrective action, verifies the new state, and preserves audit-ready evidence even offline.

visionrepair/trades

ChatLibris

ChatLibris searches an academic index, synthesizes only the retrieved papers, and says unknown when the evidence cannot support an answer.

educationscience

DrHCodes Milojevic

Folio

Private finance help for contractors and small businesses, from messy transactions and cash-flow questions to clean records and ready-to-share documents.

financeproductivity

DreamTrace

Capture it before it fades. DreamTrace turns a just-woken voice memory into a provenance-aware, editable dream record—without presenting AI invention as remembered truth.

voiceproductivity

RewindBPF

A reversible safety runtime for AI agents: isolate writes, block sensitive reads, inspect the diff, then roll back or commit with evidence.

securitydev tools

Legacy Office Manager

An AI-powered office manager that helps small business owners organize schedules, communications, leads, and daily priorities through natural voice interaction.

voiceproductivity

Hopefamilygardens Hope

Smart Home Utility Optimizer

Smart Home Utility Optimizer is an advisory prototype for households using prepaid electricity meters. Track meter readings, view consumption trends, forecast depletion risk, and more.

productivity

Elikplim Kudowor

Red Eagle

A governed policy-to-action platform for supply-chain operations. It turns rules trapped in documents into explainable recommendations, authorized execution, and verified operational outcomes

agentsproductivity

Prathmesh Adsod, Purva Adsod

SpeakUpAndOUT

Turn memory, messages, and uncertainty into a clear, editable record map while preserving your voice and privacy.

voiceproductivity

Faith Atwater-Cheltenham

Mercora

Mercora turns a small business’s live inventory or capacity needs into owner-approved marketing, measurable customer demand, and better operating decisions.

productivityfinance

Arav Jain, Aarush Divakarla

Time Capture Club

Preserve the decisions, tests, risks, and return path behind meaningful work using a website check-list and a tried and true GitHub practice.

productivitydev tools

Kage

Kage can help anyone with no Coding experience write and create Apps, Websites, Agents or Tasks. Write the story, let Codex orchestrate, and Kage builds, governs, and grows with the user.

dev toolsagents

Joseph Balderrama

QLayer

QLayer is a Windows app that lets you use voice dictation with Codex without stopping your music, podcast, or YouTube video.

voicedev tools

TokenGuard

TokenGuard is a seat belt for vibe coding. It's a safety layer for AI coding tools that detects wasteful loops and budget risks, stepping in before agents burn more time, tokens, and money.

dev toolsagents

Daniel Enis, Tyler Belken, Luke Washam