Free AI events in Boston
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Oct
23
Fri
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
ARC Prize Research Summit 2026
Massachusetts Institute of Technologyby ARC Prize Foundation
A Cambridge forum for researchers advancing frontier AI reasoning, convened by ARC Prize with MIT. It focuses on work combining neural methods, program synthesis and formal reasoning.
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
Action Space Hackathon 2026
Microsoft New England Research and Development Centerby Action Space
A two-day Cambridge physical AI hackathon focused on counter-drone swarm defense. Teams work with Claude, hardware and multi-agent systems, with lessons in Isaac Lab, PPO optimization and real drone runs.