We offer 2 great AI Infra platforms to the Hackathon teams :
OpenHackathon is proudly powered by Cursor, Google Cloud and IBM, providing robust and cutting-edge infrastructure to support your innovation and creativity.
Here’s what you need to know about the infrastructure and the resources available to you:
- Each team will be provided with a pre-configured Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and IBM watsonx environment, specifically set up by the organizers to ensure a seamless experience.
- The environments will include all necessary tools and resources to facilitate your project development.
- Shortlisted teams shall have full access to their dedicated environments to develop and finalize their projects.
Cursor AI
Cursor AI is a code editor designed to help developers build, understand and modify software faster. It combines a familiar coding enviroment with advanced AI capabilities, allowing developers to work with their entire codebase, generate and edit code, understand unfamiliar projects and solve problems using natural language.
Prompt and collaborate with Cursor directly in your environment, ask it to create new features, refactor existing code, explain complex functions or simply find and fix the bugs in your code while examining multiple files at once.
You can use Cursor’s agent capabilities to handle more complex development tasks, give it a high-level goal and it can explore your codebase, determine which files need to change, write or modify code, and help test and debug the implementation. This makes it particularly useful for rapidly turning ideas into functional prototypes.
Cursor supports a wide range of development workflows and technologies, making it useful for building web applications, APIs, AI-powered products, scripts and other software projects. Developers can also connect their projects to external tools, frameworks, APIs and services while using AI assistance throughout the development process.
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Vertex AI
Vertex AI offers access to the latest Gemini models from Google, including Gemini 3. Gemini is capable of understanding virtually any input, combining different types of information, and generating almost any output.
Prompt and test Gemini in Vertex AI Studio, using text, images, video, or code. Using Gemini’s advanced reasoning and state-of-the-art generation capabilities, developers can try sample prompts for extracting text from images, converting image text to JSON, and even generate answers about uploaded images to build next-gen AI applications.
You can also choose from the widest variety of models with first-party (Gemini, Imagen, Chirp, Veo), third-party (Anthropic’s Claude Model Family), and open models (Gemma, Llama 3.2) in Model Garden.
Use extensions to enable models to retrieve real-time information and trigger actions. You can also customize models to your use case with a variety of tuning options.
Hackathon Pre-Work:
You can begin experimenting and working on your hackathon projects with Google AI Studio.
You get a free access and have a very similar environment and tools to Vertex AI. So a great way to begin your journey to Google’s AI experience.
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IBM Bob
IBM Bob is IBM’s AI-powered development partner, working directly alongside developers in their codebase to help build quality software faster.
Bob can spawn focused agents and subagents that work in parallel on your codebase, each with its own context and tools, to handle long-running tasks and return only what matters. With Literate Coding, you can describe what you want in natural language and Bob generates the implementation in context — no need to switch between chat windows and your editor.
Beyond the IDE, Bob Shell brings agentic capabilities to your command line, letting you script repetitive tasks and embed Bob into your CI/CD pipeline. Bobalytics gives visibility into every agent’s contribution across your software delivery lifecycle, and Bob connects directly to IBM’s enterprise ecosystem (Red Hat, Instana, and more) so you get enterprise-grade architecture, security, and monitoring right where you code.