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The winners of the Tether challenge at Great Uni Hack 2026 are announced.
Tether sponsored a challenge at this one-day student hackathon at the University of Manchester: solve an everyday problem for your university or local community, with AI that runs fully on device with QVAC and devices that connect peer to peer with @Pears_p2p.
Here they are.
ALT Great Uni Hack winners, Tether challenge: 1st place Campfire, 2nd place DeadZone.
Winner: Campfire, a social app for students who find it hard to meet people on campus. They meet as avatars, and QVAC on the phone transcribes spoken answers, writes profiles, matches students, translates chats and screens incoming messages. The phones connect directly over Pears, with no server.
github.com/8-BitCode/1-Proje…
Second place: DeadZone, a revision app for lecture halls with no connection, like every one in the building where the hackathon took place. It turns lecture notes into quizzes you answer by typing or speaking, with the AI running on the laptop, and classmates on the same Wi-Fi can edit shared notes without internet.
github.com/Ali6461/DeadZone
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Three more projects got a mention from the judges:
- ScreenGuard covers card numbers, phone numbers and other personal data on screen while a student or a professor presents, using QVAC OCR on the laptop
github.com/Max-Friedman01/sc…
- Plate Reader checks car plates against a parking permit register from the camera of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, with QVAC object detection, so police officers could do it from AR glasses
github.com/t5115/plate-vr
- FOBE Care Plan AI transcribes and translates family visits on a charity's office PC and drafts the care plan, so the family worker can focus on the family instead of taking notes. The charity, Friends of Bright Eyes, supports disabled children in London
github.com/iaayan3913/AIM_GU…
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Do most people really need frontier AI?
"The majority of the people in the world don't need their AI models solving super complex mathematical problems."
@paoloardoino, CEO of Tether
QVAC retweeted
To watch 🤖
@tether VisionPsy model in real-life action powering 100% local (and private) vision skills on @G_Bionics robots.
One day your robot will hear you, answer you and walk across the room without asking a server for permission.
@G_Bionics already built one & showed it running on QVAC at Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano.
QVAC retweeted
One of the classic questions: does size matter? ☺️
computerworld.com/article/42…
Here are the winners of AI Yako, the one-week QVAC hackathon we ran with Node NBO in Nairobi. Three projects share the 3,500 USDt prize pool.
The AI Yako hackathon kicks off this Saturday, 24 October, at Node NBO in Nairobi, and demo day is 31 October.
Teams build AI that runs on their own device with QVAC, on three tracks: offline AI apps, moving a cloud product onto the device, and on-device agentic finance with WDK. Projects are judged with the internet switched off.
Register here: luma.com/tv34ngtp
ALT AI Yako, Own Your AI hackathon flyer by QVAC and Node NBO, 24 to 31 October 2026, Node NBO campus, Nairobi
Sauti Pesa by @swiftbotlab wins the Agentic finance with WDK track and 400 USDt.
It runs on QVAC and @WDK_tether, in Swahili and English: you review and confirm a payment, the app signs it offline, and it is broadcast once you connect.
dorahacks.io/buidl/50353
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All the projects from the hackathon are on DoraHacks:
dorahacks.io/hackathon/ai-ya…
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Tether & QVAC ran a hackathon in Lima with Peru's Ministry of Labor (@MTPE_Peru) and the Universidad de Lima (@udelima).
The ministry asked students to build AI tools that help workers find a new job with the skills they already have. Over seven days, 78 students in 16 teams worked on the problem.
The Minister of Labor, @JuanSheput, joined us for the award ceremony.
gob.pe/institucion/mtpe/noti…
We made search in TurboVec, the vector index behind RAG in QVAC, 2x to 8.2x faster and more accurate.
We measured it with a full scan of every vector, on Apple M5 Pro, @NVIDIAAI DGX Spark and @AMDRyzen Strix Halo.
It is available now in QVAC Fabric: github.com/tetherto/qvac-fab…
turbovec's own benchmarks put it 4.4x ahead of FAISS at 4 bits, with matching recall.
Our port returns the same top results as the Rust crate on all 1,000 test queries, and runs 1.08x to 1.32x faster on 8 threads.
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The rebuild also raises the embedding cap from 1,024 to 16,384 dimensions, and adds snapshots to save and reload an index, plus delete by id.
All of it is merged in QVAC Fabric, our llama.cpp-based engine:
github.com/tetherto/qvac-fab…
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Could you keep working if AI disappeared tomorrow?
@elchiapp, Head of QVAC, put that question to the room at Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, then showed AI that keeps running on your own phone and laptop when someone pulls the plug.
Full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=sNxvor77…