According to DeepLearning.AI, Buildathon, a rapid AI product-building competition, will be held on August 16, 2025, in Menlo Park, in partnership with AI Fund. The event is designed to foster AI innovation by bringing together AI builders for a day of coding, prototyping, and networking. Featuring a keynote by Andrew Ng, the Buildathon offers participants the opportunity to develop and showcase practical AI solutions within a limited timeframe. This competition highlights emerging trends in AI prototyping and collaborative development, emphasizing practical applications and business impact as teams compete to build scalable products. For AI startups and enterprises, Buildathon presents a unique platform to spot talent, discover new tools, and identify promising business opportunities in real-time AI product development. (Source: @DeepLearningAI Twitter, July 29, 2025)

According to @AnthropicAI, the first Claude Create-a-thon, co-hosted with @socraticainfo in New York City, brought together over 50 creative builders to develop advanced AI artifacts using Claude's platform. Participants built a range of practical AI tools and prototypes in just a few hours, showcasing rapid development cycles and real-world applications of generative AI. The event underscored the growing trend of collaborative AI innovation and highlighted how tools like Claude can accelerate product ideation for startups, enterprises, and independent developers (source: @AnthropicAI, June 3, 2025).