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AI Week Oct 16-25, 2026

Open Source AI Awards

Awards for the people of open-source AI — celebrating the projects, maintainers and contributors moving the field forward — followed by an evening of connecting with the people building open source AI.

When & Where

  • Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 — awards night
  • Time: 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Format: Awards ceremony, then an evening of connecting with the community
  • Where: Founders Inc. 2 Marina Blvd Building C Floor 3 (B300), San Francisco, CA 94123

Award Winners

Project Awards

  • The Bedrock Award — Best AI Infrastructure
    🏆 Winner: vLLM
  • The Reward Signal Award — Best Reinforcement Learning Project
    🏆 Winner: Harbor
  • The Guardrails Award — Best Security & Alignment Project
    🏆 Winner: NeMo Guardrails
  • The Reality Check Award — Best Benchmark or Evaluation Project
    🏆 Winner: ExploitGym
  • The Mission Control Award — Best Agentic Harness
    🏆 Winner: Hermes Agent
  • The Glass Box Award — Best Observability Tool
    🏆 Winner: Arize Phoenix

Individual Awards

  • The Community Lifeline Award — Outstanding Community Support
    🏆 Winner: Daniel Han (Unsloth AI)
  • The Unsung Maintainer Award — Outstanding Project Stewardship
    🏆 Winner: Quentin Gallouédec (Hugging Face)
  • The Open Knowledge Award — Outstanding Educator
    🏆 Winner: Sebastian Raschka · LLMs from Scratch
  • The Naming Things Is Hard Award — Most Spectacularly Questionable Project Name
    🏆 Winner: Claude Mem — now “CMEM”

Speakers

Come hear great talks and keynotes from the community, including:

Daniel HanDaniel HanUnsloth“The State of AI: Open and Closed Models”
Ahmad M. OsmanAhmad M. OsmanOsmantic“Local AI: Progress and Possibilities”
Matt WhiteMatt WhiteOpen Intelligence Foundation, Columbia University“Open Intelligence”
Irene SolaimanIrene SolaimanHugging Face“The Hugging Face Incident: How an Open Model Defended Against A Closed Swarm”
Ian BallantyneIan BallantyneGoogle DeepMind“Gemma: Dropping the Weights Is the Easy Part”
Lucas AtkinsLucas AtkinsArcee“The Open Paradox: What the future of open models might look like as models become more capable”
Alex NewmanAlex NewmanClaude Mem“How to Succeed in Open Source AI: 0 to 100k Stars in One Year”

Fireside Chat

Peter Walker (OpenRouter), in conversation with Basil Chatha (Latent Space).

Peter WalkerPeter WalkerOpenRouter
Basil ChathaBasil ChathaLatent Space
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