๐ Welcome to the AIFoundry ET-SoC1 Hackathon
Port real models. Run them on real silicon. Share the results. โก
This is a community hackathon for people who want to make open AI workloads run closer to the edge: vision, speech, audio, local language models, robotics, drones, and weird benchmark ideas that deserve to touch hardware. ๐ค
๐ Ready to join?
First step: join the Hugging Face organization so you show up with the rest of the teams, follow shared resources, and get the latest hackathon updates.
๐ Join the AIFoundry Hackathon Org
Bring your teammates too. The org page is the public roster for people, teams, models, demos, and board results around the hackathon. ๐
๐งฉ Pick a quest
| Quest | What you can build |
|---|---|
| ๐๏ธ Vision | Denoising, detection, camera-first edge workloads |
| ๐๏ธ Speech + audio | Whisper-style kernels and streaming-friendly pipelines |
| ๐ง Local LLMs | GGUF and llama.cpp flows on ET-backed runtimes |
| ๐ค Robotics + drones | Perception, control, and low-power deployment paths |
| โ๏ธ Systems | Faster kernels, better memory movement, cleaner board runners |
| ๐งช Wildcard | Bring your own open model and make the benchmark reproducible |
๐ฆ Model repo
The model repo is the technical home for examples, docs, benchmark artifacts, and the submission path:
๐ Open the ET-SoC1 model repo
Start from an existing port, improve a kernel, add a new model, or package a small demo that shows why your port matters.
๐งญ How participation works
- ๐ค Join this Hugging Face organization.
- ๐ฏ Team up or go solo.
- ๐ฏ Pick a model, kernel, benchmark, or demo target.
- ๐ Use the model repo to follow the technical path.
- ๐ Submit your port or improvement.
- ๐ The ET-SoC1 board workflow runs and comments back with results.
๐ฑ Good first contributions
- โก Improve an existing DnCNN, YOLO, Whisper, or LLM benchmark.
- ๐ Add a new open model with a pinned Hugging Face reference.
- ๐ Make a kernel faster and document the board result.
- ๐ฌ Package a small demo that shows the workload in action.
- ๐ซถ Help another participant reproduce a run.
๐ฌ Need help?
Join Discord and ask in #Lab:
Tell us what you want to port, what hardware access you need, and whether you are looking for teammates.