Apart Research

Pick a track. Ship something in three days. 1. Specification Elicitation: pulling formal specs out of code, docs, conversations. 2. Specification Validation: checking whether a spec captures intended behavior. 3. Spec-Driven Development and Evaluation: generating and ranking implementations from a spec. 4. Adversarial Robustness: stress-testing formal methods pipelines. Generalist engineers welcome. No formal methods background required, but expect to lean on teammates who have it. Top teams: invitation to the Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship (June - October 2026). Sign up now.

AIxBio Hackathon, T-3 days | With BlueDot Impact and Cambridge Biosecurity Hub. Three days out. Here's what's on the table this weekend: New keynote: Dr. JAIME YASSIF, Senior advisor at NTI. She co-chaired the NTI-RAND side event on AIxBio Governance at the Paris AI Action Summit and leads the Global Forum's push for tiered access to AI-bio tools. That makes three keynotes, alongside Prof. Kevin Esvelt (MIT Media Lab) and Dr. Oliver M. Crook (Oxford). Funding runway talk: Conor McGurk, Chief of Staff, Biosecurity at Coefficient Giving, on their biosecurity RFP. The RFP closes May 11, two weeks after the hackathon ends. Teams can prototype across the weekend and submit real applications two weeks later. Fast-tracks stack up: - ERA:AI Fellowship, 10 weeks of funded research at Cambridge. Top teams get fast tracked. - ERA AIxBio Fellowship, bio-focused summer cohort. Top teams get fast tracked. - CBAI fellowship fast-track. - Apart Fellowship invitation for top teams. Plus $13,000 in prizes across four biosecurity tracks and local hub prizes, in-person hubs in SF, Berlin, and London, and full remote. Who on your team should be building here? Sign up: https://lnkd.in/dz8fYGBv Local hubs: https://lnkd.in/dHWCJZjj

AIxBio Hackathon. April 24-26. Co-organized with BlueDot Impact and Cambridge Biosecurity Hub. New rewards on the table: top teams get fast-tracked into programmes from our co-organizers. ERA:AI Fellowship interviews at Cambridge. The Apart Fellowship. CBAI. BlueDot's talent and funding pathways. That stacks on top of: - $11,000 in prizes across hubs and tracks - Four tracks: DNA Screening, Pandemic Early Warning, AI Biosecurity Tools, Benchtop Synth Security - In-person hubs in SF, Berlin, London, and Boston Three days. One weekend. Real research output on one of the most neglected intersections in AI safety. Who on your team should be building here? Sign up: https://lnkd.in/dZjwEBsj

AIxBio Hackathon, April 24-26 | Co-organized with BlueDot Impact and Cambridge Biosecurity Hub Two keynotes: Kevin Esvelt (MIT Media Lab) runs the Sculpting Evolution Group. He was the first to identify the potential for CRISPR gene drives to alter wild populations, and has spent the last decade arguing for open research that advances biotech without expanding catastrophic risk. Oliver M. Crook (Oxford, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery) is an MRC Career Development Fellow. His group works at the intersection of Bayesian machine learning, structural biology, and biosecurity. Two angles on the same question: how do you build tools that keep biosecurity ahead of the risk curve when AI is accelerating both sides? Four tracks. $11,000 in prizes. Track sponsors: CBAI (DNA Synthesis Screening), Sentinel Bio (Benchtop Synthesizer Security), Fourth Eon Bio (AI Biosecurity Tools), Measuring AI Progress (Pandemic Early Warning). London 1st: $3,000. Top teams: invitation to the Apart Fellowship, Fast track to Era-AI and CBAI Fellowships. Four days to go. Hubs in SF, Berlin, London + full remote. Signup Here: https://lnkd.in/d6pfAGaj What is the biosecurity problem most worth a weekend of work?

The AIxBio Hackathon (April 24-26) is virtual-first, but if you want to work alongside other participants in person, we have confirmed hubs in four cities: San Francisco Berlin Cambridge/Boston London All talks, submissions, and collaboration happen on Discord and Zoom. Remote participants have the same experience. $6,000+ in prizes. Top teams: invitation to the Apart Fellowship and fast-track to the CBAI fellowship. Sign up: https://lnkd.in/dJ48CTmr Local hubs: https://lnkd.in/dHWCJZjj