Beta Update (July 6th) 9 hours · 4 focus tracks · a panel that includes Stanford's Dr. Joy Chen @ Saturday, July 11.

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📅 Coming up

Saturday 7/11 AI Education Hackathon

Education is the biggest industry AI hasn’t fully transformed yet.

Two years in, we’ve watched AI move from answering questions to teaching, adapting, grading, and personalizing at scale. But the winners in this category won’t be the products with the smartest model. They’ll be the products that improve real learning outcomes, earn teacher trust, and scale across millions of students.

On Saturday, July 11 at Stanford, we’re bringing together the builders who want to be that.

The setup

Beta × TAL Education Group — one of the largest education technology companies in the world — are co-presenting the Reinvented Education Hackathon.

• When: Saturday, July 11 · 9 AM check-in · 6:30 PM awards

• Where: Stanford, CA

• Team size: 1–2 builders

• Requirement: Cloud/AI partner integration

• RSVP → https://luma.com/beta-19of

It’s a one-day sprint. Doors at 9 AM. Awards at 6:30 PM. Everything in between is building.

Who’s in the room (Panel · 10:45 – 11:20 AM)

We’re running a panel called “How AI Reinvented the Education System” with:

• Dr. Joy Chen — Professor at Stanford University

• Daniel Rezac, M.Ed. — Head of Educator at Epic for Kids

• George Wang — General Manager at ClassDoji

• Heidi Perry — SVP at HMH Labs

Then everyone builds until the 5 PM Demo Showcase.

The EverMind challenge — “Learning that compounds”

The most interesting brief on the day comes from EverMind:

Build education AI that gets more valuable the longer it’s used.

The test: what can your build do in Session 5 that it couldn’t in Session 1?

To make it real, they’ve prepared four ready-made learner cards — fictional students with weeks of actual learning history that you load into memory. Your AI starts the day already knowing their goals, their sticking points, and what’s been tried.

The bounties are engineered to reward specific moments — not polish, not slides, but real memory behavior on stage:

• 🎯 Best Cross-Session Moment — an early session vs. a later one where memory changed the response

• 🧬 Best Self-Evolving Memory — your AI adapts mid-demo when you throw it a curveball

• 🔍 Best Memory Reveal — show what your build actually stored and recalled

EverOS runs in the cloud — nothing to host. Grab an API key at https://everos.evermind.ai and you’re building in ten minutes.

Four focus tracks — pick any

• 🧠 Autonomous Learning Agents — persistent AI mentors that track progress, design curricula, and evolve with the student

• 🏫 Intelligent Classroom Systems — multi-agent environments that orchestrate lessons, engagement, and real-time adaptation

• 🧪 Adaptive Evaluation Engines — dynamic assessment that goes beyond static tests

• 🌍 Lifelong Learning Agents — AI systems that grow with a person over years, not just sessions

• Join the Discord for team formation, credits, and setup support → https://discord.gg/cswGFwFumn

• EverMind Discord for the memory challenge → https://discord.com/invite/gYep5nQRZJ

Saturday 7/18 Beta X AMD AI Agent Hackathon

• The AI Agent Builder Challenge is a five-week intensive program that guides founders from ideation to production-ready AI companies, featuring technical mentorship from industry leaders like Alibaba Cloud and AMD. The sprint culminates in an August 15 Demo Day for the top 20 teams to pitch venture firms, with at least one startup guaranteed a $2 million investment from Beta Fund alongside comprehensive go-to-market support.

Friday 8/7 Snowflake X Beta Fund Agent & Token Economy Hackathon

Beta Fund Builders Club

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.

Join Discord

Cheers,
Beta University Team