Global Innovation Build Challenge (GIBC) V2 is built around the challenge of designing, optimizing, and deploying robust systems from the ground up to solve complex global problems. Organized as a premier, fully online, student-led international hackathon hosted by Kang Chiao International School (KCIS), Xiugang Campus, this iteration follows the benchmark established by GIBC V1. GIBC V2 offers an advanced engineering platform where student developers, researchers, and innovators design high-impact computational technology. Throughout the 10-week hacking period spanning July 11 to September 21, 2026, participants will have the flexibility to register, form teams of up to six members, and submit their solutions. All projects will be evaluated on an international stage by an elite panel of 10–15 industry professionals and expert judges, culminating in a virtual closing award ceremony on September 28, 2026.
The three challenge tracks are structured around real-world industry problems that require technical autonomy, structural optimization, and domain-specific integration:
Track 1: TECH (Foundational LLM Development) Build and train a Large Language Model (LLM) capped strictly at 50 million parameters to push transformer architectures to their absolute limits. Your solution should include a custom-designed network architecture, data curation pipelines, and training methodologies developed entirely from scratch.
Track 2: Applied (Medical Technology & Financial) Build a data-driven solution that leverages empirical, real-world datasets to resolve critical enterprise and societal challenges. Your solution must implement predictive machine learning models, diagnostic pipelines, or automated fintech architectures to streamline complex decision-making processes within the healthcare or financial sectors.
Track 3: Open (General Technical Invention) Create a functional prototype that demonstrates technical novelty, cross-disciplinary engineering, and total creative autonomy. This track imposes no architectural limits or resource constraints, encouraging developers to build the next major innovation outside conventional structural boundaries.
To be eligible for judging, your Devpost submission must include a project description, source code link, demo video, built-with list, team information, and screenshots. Strong submissions across all tracks must show a working prototype, feature a complete end-to-end flow, handle real-world complexity, and be documented clearly.
Prizes include a Grand Champion award of $300 in Featherless AI credits and an Official Grand Winner Certificate. Track winners receive Golden, Silver, or Bronze recognition with certificates and MeDo Membership bonuses. All participants receive an Official Certificate of Participation, Featherless AI free LLM inference access, Interview Cake course access, .xyz Registry domain access, and MeDo credits upon registering.