HACKATHON

2007 → 2026

2007 · Early Hackathons

Every winner was a programmer.

2026 · Claude Code Hackathon

AI Hackathon at Anthropic.

ANTHROPIC

2026 · Claude Code Hackathon Winners

Four of five were not engineers.

1LAWDOMAIN EXPERT
2HEALTHDOMAIN EXPERT
3TRANSPORTDOMAIN EXPERT
4MUSICDOMAIN EXPERT
5ENGINEERING1 OF 5

AI turned domain expertise into software.

The advantage moved from knowing syntax to knowing the problem.

LLM Stats Score · Top 15

Frontier models, ranked.

A public scoreboard of the intelligence moving into everyday tools.

LLM Stats Score · scale starts at zero Source: llm-stats.com · Aug 9, 2026
An AI developer assembles a glowing layered neural network and an emerging artificial brain with an AI assistant

AI Developer + AI

Builds a newAI model.

Deep technical expertise turns frontier intelligence into the next frontier.

SAME FRONTIER AI · NEW MODEL
A doctor uses AI to connect a patient scan, diseased cells, molecules, and a precise new treatment pathway

Doctor + AI

Designs a newtreatment method.

Medical expertise turns the same intelligence into a new path to care.

SAME FRONTIER AI · NEW TREATMENT
A student glances sideways while secretly copying AI-generated homework answers into a notebook

Student + AI

Secretly copiesthe homework.

The answer is finished. The learning is not.

SAME FRONTIER AI · COPIED ANSWER

Equal intelligence.

People in America stand beneath the Statue of Liberty as a glowing frontier AI brain shines within reach

AMERICA

You’re incredibly lucky.

People in an unnamed restricted country face a locked digital barrier separating them from a glowing frontier AI brain

MANY COUNTRIES

No access to U.S. AI models.

AI creates a weight-loss drug.

A dense 38-step AI analysis pipeline converges on a blue-and-white capsule in the output box

Is this drug safe?

DOMAIN EXPERTISE DECIDES.

01

Dig into the fundamentals

02

Understand the essence

03

Debate with AI

04

Be a pioneer

Thank you

START TONIGHT · 2007 → 2026