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In Partnership with Eigen AI, we will be taking 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 and Eigen AI‘s 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. At Boson, our goal is to create intelligence that feels natural rather than artificial. 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 6:00pm.
- Saturday: Full day of building and testing. Tech talks from Boson and Eigen engineers and leadership will take place throughout the day.
- Sunday: 12:00pm hacking ends, 2:00pm demos and judging, rounding off the event with a 7:00pm pub night where we distribute awards.
The Circuit Launch headquarters will be accessible from 8:00am - 12:00am each day of the event. No sleeping is allowed in the facilities.
In Partnership with Eigen AI
Eigen AI will host the Higgs model suite alongside a curated selection of open-source LLMs and multimodal models, served at scale for hackathon participants.
This collaboration means:
- Reliable, high-throughput model serving
- Immediate access to Boson’s Higgs Audio models, including exclusive access to unreleased checkpoints for real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and audio understanding.
- Support for multimodal experimentation across audio, text, and vision. Participants may use any model in Eigen’s suite. The only rule: Higgs Audio must be a core component of your stack.
- Opportunities to chat with and hear from Eigen 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 12am every night of the event, this space will provide opportunities for effective and productive collaboration.
Why Attend?
If you’re a builder, researcher, or engineer, this weekend is for you.
What you get:
- Free food all weekend—catered local meals (and no, we don't mean just pizza).
- Merch for all participants (custom Boson backpack + EigenAI swag)
- Large, meaningful prizes including (but not limited to) NVIDIA 5070Ti, Jetson Orin Nano, Raspberry Pi, Eigen AI credits, project publicity.
- Direct access to Boson AI & EigenAI engineering teams. Participants will interact directly with Boson AI engineers, including CEO Alex Smola, for technical guidance and feedback on their projects.
- We’re hiring. Top performers will be fast-tracked for roles at Boson AI.
Toronto Recap
Our Toronto Higgs Audio Hackathon brought together 200+ participants, produced 50+ high-quality submissions, and directly informed improvements to our audio models and infrastructure.
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. Bay Area 2026 builds directly on that momentum.
Notable past projects:
- EchoCharlie
A multimodal voice conversion pipeline that transforms muted videos into fully voiced clips.
- Need for Speech
An F1 AI commentator that clones David Croft's voice and provides real-time race commentary.
Demo
Get Involved
- Sign up: https://luma.com/3vnw0e0q
- Boson models on Hugging Face 🤗: https://huggingface.co/bosonai
- Boson model release blog: https://www.boson.ai/blog/higgs-audio-v2.5
- EigenAI serving Boson models: https://www.eigenai.com/blog/2026-01-15-eigenai-bosonai-partnership
- Venue: Circuit Launch
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!
