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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

Kahani

Kahani is a browser-based adventure game where a player's one-line idea is expanded into a full "game bible": a mystery with 3 NPCs, 3 guarded clues, and fail states.

creative/musicvoice

Fahim Ahmed, Parth Mittal, Apoorva Agrawal +1

1st Place

Banana Peel

Imagine Reddit + Nanobanana had a baby, edit posts with your comments and contribute together in chains of edits!

creative/music

Rehan Sheikh, Blendi Bylygbashi

1st Place

WALL STREET BANANAS

WALL STREET BANANAS is a 1980s trading floor simulator where players walk a 2D floor and negotiate stock trades with 22 AI-powered NPCs, each with a distinct personality and exploitable weakness.

agentscreative/music
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
1st Place

AdSuperSense

AdSuperSense: The Next Generation of YouTube AdSense Problem: Standard mid-roll ads break video flow, causing viewer frustration and churn.

visioncreative/music

Sacha Morin, Tom Gernez, Barnabe Gauquelin

1st Place

Troubadour AI

Troubadour AI is an autonomous music orchestration agent that observes real-time events, reasons about emotional context, and dynamically directs adaptive soundtracks and narration using CrewAI, Snowflake, and ElevenLabs

creative/musicagents

Jidhnyasaa Mahajan, Jake Schwartz, Mihai Bulic +1

1st Place

It

It generates overlays in real time for esport livestreams, making it a lot easier for people to get into it.

creative/music
2nd Place

Edit Anything

Edit Anything is an interactive tool that lets users seamlessly edit images by selecting text directly on the image and editing it in-place.

visioncreative/music

David Ferris, Audrey Choy, Harsh Patel

2nd Place

Upbeat

Upbeat – AI Music Tutor for Everyone Upbeat - Accessible Music Education For All An AI-powered music learning platform that makes music education accessible to everyone, anywhere, anytime with a camera and internet.

educationvisioncreative/music

Divya Mahajan, Achin Gupta, Param Shah

2nd Place

Whatif

Whatif is an AI-native local studio using a swarm to help independent filmmakers build worlds with git enabled version control, generative story board building, character development, and streamlined pipeline to video ge

creative/musicagents
2nd Place

buddypia

マイクに向かって叫んで怪獣を操る、声が攻撃力になる対戦バトルゲームです。 プレイヤーの声をGemini AIがリアルタイム分析。迫力・創造性・感情の3軸でスコアリングし、ダメージに変換する。 5体の怪獣+5体のヒーローから選択。バトルシーンはImagen 4がリアルタイムに描く。属性相性もあり戦略性を確保。 Gemini TTSによる熱血実況と、Lyria Realtimeが戦況に合わせてBGMを生成。臨場感を最大化。

voicecreative/music
2nd Place

atelierAI

**NOTE: submitting the project again because of an error in loom video** Our project enables rapid prototyping in fashion design by turning a simple 2D sketch into a fully interactive and visual garment prototype in minu

creative/musicvision

Safinaz Elhadary, Jahnavi Kanukuntla

3rd Place

Art

Art is presented as static objects with text-heavy placards and audio guides, while the real reasons people care: conflict, emotion, symbolism, and the artist’s lived drama, are compressed into a few lines of static text

creative/musiceducation

Daniel Varoli, Mike Koch

3rd Place

Project Parallax

Project Parallax is a pioneer in director-authored adaptive cinema, allowing filmmakers to deliver personalized storytelling and intelligently use ad-spots in cinema while retaining complete creative control.

creative/music
Apple Mac Mini M4 (per team member)

lossfunk

Hitchcock: You call the shots - an AI-based film generator powered by Open Deep Research, Fal and ElevenLabs

creative/musicagentsvoice

Ayush Nangia, Adithya S K, jayesh sharma +1

Runner-up

ActinGym

Duolingo for performing arts, starting with acting. We use multimodal AI to analyze performances and deliver video-first coaching across public speaking, dancing, singing, content creation and acting.

creative/musicvision
Creative Flourishing Track

Mean It.

For the letter you can't quite write. Claude interviews you until your own words surface. Every line traced back to you.

creative/musicproductivity

Dev Trivedi, Pruthvi Kadam, Aakash Singh

Claude Track

Grey Matter

Your video has a watch time. Now it has a brain scan. Grey Matter maps cortical activation second by second, so you can see the exact moment attention spikes, drops, and dies before your CTA lands.

sciencecreative/music

Jessie Li, Ashlee Chae, Audrey Chan +1

20 Category Winners

Wooorld

World's biggest social VR platform to explore the world together from the comfort of your home. Wooorld includes social exploration, creativity, content creation, game and AI features.

voicecreative/music
20 Category Winners

The Signal Remains

U2’s tours remapped with styled Google Maps, tracing a cultural signal across continents. Hosted in the cloud for a dynamic, navigation-driven map narrative of late 20th-century history.

culture/heritagecreative/music
Finalist

FASHNAI

A real-time styling simulator where players dress a 3D character of themselves - or a character of their choice - based on a given theme.

creative/musicagents
Finalist

CORO

CORO is a real-time collaborative music engine that turns any audience into a live orchestra.

creative/musicagents

Rahil Singhi, Sariya Rizwan, Chinmay Shringi +1

Finalist

Aniket's Team

Full game: https://skywake.vercel.app/ Game studio workflow: https://skywake.vercel.app/studio Built a full 3D Game using Gemini Argon and created a fully agentic game studio harness in the process with 20+ managed agent

creative/musicagents
Finalist

DungDung

다른나라의 노래도 우리나라의 발을으로 따라 부를 수 있게 해주는 프로젝트입니다.

creative/musiceducation

Zimin Byun, Soyeon Kim, Sung Jo

Finalist

AGIRI

A喜利 (Agentic Oogiri) は、自分の大喜利スタイルをAIに学習させて、AIエージェント同士をバトルさせるゲームです。 ユーザーはまず「修行モード」でお題に回答し、AIが自分の笑いの傾向やクセを分析・記憶していきます。エージェントが育ったら「対戦モード」へ。相手のAIエージェントとリアルタイムでぶつかり合い、AI審査員が面白さ・意外性・完成度を採点して勝敗を決めます。試合が終わると、最も笑いを取ったボケをGeminiがイラ

agentscreative/music
Finalist

RauserHack

Live at http://beatbrain.ai/ BeatBrain.AI allows you to express your music ideas with only your voice, while learning about digital music creation!

creative/musicvoice