Qloo Hackathon Draws 3,000 Developers to Build Taste-Aware AI Agents
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New York – November 04, 2026 -- Nearly 3,000 developers worldwide entered Qloo's Global Agentic Hackathon, building functional AI applications on the company's Taste AI infrastructure, with finalists set to pitch live on Jason Calacanis's This Week in Startups podcast on November 5.
Qloo offers $25,000 in prizes plus a separate $25,000 investment pledge
The competition, hosted on Devpost, pays $15,000 for first place, $6,000 for second and $4,000 for third. Calacanis, an entrepreneur and angel investor, has separately pledged a personal $25,000 investment in his favorite project, giving one team a route to early-stage backing.