--- title: Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge... description: DEV Community announced the Week 3 winners of its Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, themed 'Slow and Steady' around open-weight models and open-source AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/congrats-to-the-hacktoberfest-open-source-ai-challenge-week-3-slow-and-steady-winners--ndbgpowxt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Winners! | daily.dev og:description: DEV Community announced the Week 3 winners of its Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, themed 'Slow and Steady' around open-weight models and open-source AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/congrats-to-the-hacktoberfest-open-source-ai-challenge-week-3-slow-and-steady-winners--ndbgpowxt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NdbGPOwXt.png og:image:alt: Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Winners! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Winners! **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DEV Community announced the Week 3 winners of its Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, themed 'Slow and Steady' around open-weight models and open-source AI that rewards laziness. Many submissions were offline automations that keep personal data on the user's own machine and cost nothing to keep running once set up. The overall winner receives $250, a DEV++ membership, and a badge. Featured category winners get $200 each, and partner category winners get $100 each, covering partner tools like Auth0, Browserbase, ElevenLabs, MongoDB Atlas, and others. Week 4, the final challenge, runs through October 31 with a 'spooky' or Día de los Muertos theme. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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