Welcome to this week’s Beta Update 👋
*Note: You’re receiving this update because you previously registered for a Beta University–hosted or co-hosted event via our Luma calendar and opted in to receive communications from the hosts.
Saturday 4/18: MultiModel Hackathon with Beta Fund
The top 5 teams will get a direct opportunity to demo on May 2nd with 50K Investment Checks and up to 80K Cash prize
Topics: AI Video Agents for Vertical Industries, AI-Powered Content Automation, Voice + Video AI Agents, AI DevTools for Video, Physical AI + Simulation
Saturday 5/2: Builders of Tomorrow: AI Super Hackathon
💵 $50K investment opportunity from Beta Fund
🏆 $20K+ in cash prizes
Judges’ Choice - 1st Place $5,000
Judges’ Choice - 2nd Place $3,000
Judges’ Choice - 3rd Place $2,000
Best Product Continuity (Awarded 1 week post-event) $3,000
Best Social Media Impact, top 3 most likes and engagement (Awarded 1 week post-event) $1000, $600, and $400
Audience Favorite - 1st Place $2,000
Audience Favorite - 2nd Place $1,000
Best Technical Implementation $1,000
Best GTM Potential $500
Most Innovative $500
🎯 Only 20 teams selected to pitch live
🚀 Direct exposure to 20+ VCs in the room
We are moving beyond passive loops. The Seed Agents Challenge, hosted by Beta University, is a call to the world’s elite engineers to build autonomous agents that see, reason, and generate high-fidelity video in real-time. This is not about building “wrappers”; it is about defining the agentic frontier of AI video.
We have structured the competition across five strategic tracks to capture the full spectrum of generative video applications:
Vertical AI Video Agents: Real estate, product demos, and compliance.
AI-Powered Content Automation: Scalable “always-on” marketing pipelines.
AI DevTools for Video: Infrastructure, SDKs, and evaluation systems.
Physical AI + Simulation: Synthetic training for robotics and autonomous systems.
Most Creative: Out-of-the-box multimodal applications using Seedance 2.0.
The incentives are designed to identify and accelerate high-potential founders, featuring a $20,000+ total cash prize pool. Furthermore, top teams are eligible for Beta Fund 2 investment checks up to $50,000 and will pitch live to partners from NEA, a16z, Mayfield, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
To maintain technical integrity, all video generation must utilize BytePlus Seed models (Seed 2.0, Seedance 2.0, Seedream 5.0, or OmniHuman). Submissions require a precise 2-minute video: a 60-second live demo, followed by 30 seconds of technical architecture and 30 seconds of future vision.
April 27: Final Hard Deadline for all submissions via Betahacks.org.
May 2: In-Person Finale in Silicon Valley—20 selected teams will demo for our investor network.
For API keys, credit release, and real-time updates, join our Discord for more information and updates!
Join the Builders Club, the official Discord hub for future Beta Fund Hackathons.
We are centralizing a high-signal community of founders and engineers. This isn’t just another chat server—it is the direct pipeline to our investment team and ecosystem partners.
What’s on the line:
Direct Investment: On-the-spot investment checks for exceptional projects.
Hardware & Capital: High-tier prizes including Cash, Mac Minis, and more.
GTM Support: Direct access to Beta Fund’s resources to help you scale and move from hack to startup.
If you are building at the edge, join us to connect with mentors, find co-founders, and secure the backing your project needs.
Cheers,
Beta University Team
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