Prizes

$5,000 in cash

Cal Hacks

Grand Prize: Creativity Track

$5,000 in cash

Cal Hacks

Grand Prize: Developer Tools & Productivity Track

$5,000 in cash

Cal Hacks

Grand Prize: Social Impact Track

AirPods Pro 2

Cal Hacks

Best Beginner Hack

Custom Backpacks

Cal Hacks

Hacker's Choice

Flipper Zeros

Cal Hacks

Best Hardware Hack

$2500 in API credits

Anthropic

Best Use of Claude 4

Google Pixel Watches

Google

Best Use of Gemini

$3,000 in cash

Fetch AI

Best Use of Fetch AI

$2,500 in cash

Unify

Best Use of Multimodal AI Agent

$500 API credits, project on all Groq socials, office tour with the team, guaranteed Groq internship interview

Groq

Best Creative Use of Groq

Gift Cards

Orkes

Best Use of Orkes

500 Vapi credits

Vapi

Best Voice-Powered AI Project

1000 Vapi credits

Vapi

Most Ambitious Vapi Project

$4,000 for LLM Agents Pinnacle Award in Agents - up to $2,500 Pioneer Award in Agents - up to $1,000 Trailblazer Award in Agents - up to $500 * Bonus: Special Winners’ Dinner Post-Closing Ceremony!

Nobel Era & Berkeley RDI

Best Projects Leveraging LLM Agents

$400 in cash

InspectMind

Most Efficiency Improvements Award

$1,536 in cash + one year free subscription to Nitrode

Nitrode

Neural Overdrive Prize

$464 in cash + one year free subscription to Nitrode

Nitrode

Nitrode Turbo Mode Award

Airpods 4 - Noise Cancellation

Letta

Most Creative Usage of Letta