What I learned from my AI startup’s internal hackathon

At a startup called Baseten, an internal hackathon was held where employees were given 8 hours to build their dream projects related to the company, resulting in several innovative features that accelerated the work of Baseten and widened its lead as the best-in-class infra provider for ML teams. The projects included infrastructure updates such as a byte range downloader to speed up model weights downloads, a redesigned infrastructure roadmap called "Beefeater" for multi-cluster deployment and data security, and faster inference services through WebSockets and a theoretical Federated Inference Engine. Additionally, the hackathon featured improvements to developer experience, including integrations with LangChain and GitHub, as well as Looker dashboards and updated documentation that made the platform more accessible to everyone. The winner of the hackathon was a feature called "I Stream 4 Ice Cream" which allowed builders to see all models stream their progress as they run inference, and the company plans to hold many more hackathons in the future.

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