Higgs Audio Hackathon Bay Area 2026 — Build With Eigen AI & Boson AI

Eigen AI is partnering with Boson AI to take over Circuit Launch in Mountain View from March 20–22, 2026 for a weekend of building upon and stress testing Boson AI's Higgs Audio alongside Eigen AI's full suite of foundation models — with the support of students, researchers, and builders from across the Bay Area academic and startup ecosystem.

Participants will build with Higgs Audio's ultra-low latency inference, expressive prosody modeling, and advanced voice cloning and audio understanding capabilities — all served through Eigen AI's high-performance infrastructure. Natural, seamless interactions are a key theme we're excited to see teams explore.

Schedule: When, Where and What

• March 20–22, 2026
• Circuit Launch, Mountain View
• **Friday: **Registration opens at 3:00 PM, opening ceremonies kick off at 6:00 PM.
• **Saturday: **Full day of building and testing. Tech talks from Boson and Eigen engineers and leadership throughout the day.
• **Sunday: **12:00 PM hacking ends, 2:00 PM demos and judging, rounding off the event with a 7:00 PM pub night where we distribute awards.

The Circuit Launch headquarters will be accessible from 8:00 AM – 12:00 AM each day of the event. No sleeping is allowed in the facilities.

Powered by Eigen AI Infrastructure

Eigen AI will host the Higgs model suite alongside a curated selection of open-source LLMs and multimodal models, served at scale for all hackathon participants. Our infrastructure ensures every team has the throughput and reliability they need to build without bottlenecks.

What participants get from Eigen AI:

• Reliable, high-throughput model serving powered by Eigen AI's inference platform
• Immediate access to Boson's Higgs Audio models, including exclusive unreleased checkpoints for real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and audio understanding
• Full multimodal experimentation across audio, text, and vision — participants may use any model in Eigen's suite, with one requirement: Higgs Audio must be a core component of your stack
• Direct access to Eigen AI and Boson AI engineering staff and founders — many of whom will be judges

The Venue

Circuit Launch provides dedicated prototyping spaces, high-speed internet, and whiteboards for collaborative development. Open until 12 AM every night of the event, this space is designed for effective and productive collaboration.

Why Attend?

Whether you're a builder, researcher, or engineer — this weekend is for you.

• Free food all weekend — catered local meals (and no, we don't mean just pizza).
• Merch for all participants — custom Boson backpack + Eigen AI swag.
• Large, meaningful prizes — including NVIDIA 5070Ti, Jetson Orin Nano, Raspberry Pi, Eigen AI credits, and project publicity.
• **Direct access to Boson AI & Eigen AI engineering teams. **Work alongside Boson AI engineers, including CEO Alex Smola, for technical guidance and feedback.
• **Hiring pipeline. **Top performers will be fast-tracked for roles at Boson AI.

Toronto Recap

The Toronto Higgs Audio Hackathon brought together 200+ participants, produced 50+ high-quality submissions, and directly informed improvements to audio models and infrastructure. The Bay Area edition builds on that momentum.

From multimodal voice conversion to real-time emergency simulators, participants explored the full potential of Higgs Audio. Several participants are now joining Boson AI full-time.

Notable Past Projects

EchoCharlieA multimodal voice conversion pipeline that transforms muted videos into fully voiced clips.Github: ikozl090/echo-charlieDemo: Watch demo

CypressA web-based training platform that simulates realistic 911 emergency calls.Github: RishiDinesh/emergency-dispatch-simulatorDemo: Watch demo

Higgs ExpressA fully interactive multimodal AI detective experience.Demo: Watch demo

Need for SpeechAn F1 AI commentator that clones David Croft's voice and provides real-time race commentary.Demo: naveentvelu/f1-live-commentator

Get Involved

• Sign up: luma.com/3vnw0e0q
• Boson models on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/bosonai
• Boson model release blog: Higgs Audio v2.5
• Eigen AI × Boson AI partnership: Read more
• Venue: circuitlaunch.com

See You in March

The Higgs Audio Hackathon is about community, experimentation, and pushing open-source audio AI forward. We'll see you at Circuit Launch!