While the World’s Fair officially kicks off today a bunch of keen developers were in early, taking part in a hackathon that is offering $35,000 in prizes and credits.

Teams worked to develop AI-powered apps, but with a twist. The organizers weren’t really looking for basic apps that can just perform a single function or task. Instead, the organizers explained, they were looking for code that will learn and develop with minimal user input.

For example a team calling itself SplatForge wrote an app from scratch that had a 93% success rate in identifying and manipulating objects virtually. It linked up with Google’s Gemini engine, which then began suggesting improvements to the application’s performance.

“It adds new edge cases that the AI can improve from,” said the team leader “This is something I feel is missing today.”

Team Rote claimed that they have built the fastest AI system in the world. “Today an agent computer use can operate a real browser or desktop app, but that live reasoning