AI House This Weekend + Hackathon Recap

Hello everyone! AITX Team here with more updates this week.

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🏠️ AI House @ SxSW

AITX is excited to announce a 2-day event in collaboration with Manifold Labs, Akash, Toolhouse, and Groq: AI House @ SxSW.

In the spirit of SxSW, this event will shine a light on local AI talent to show the best of what the Austin AI ecosystem has to offer. There will be company demos, fireside chats, panels and opportunities to connect.

We’d like to thank Manifold Labs and Akash for opening up their new DeAI space for this event.

📝 Register Now!

Come out to support local AI companies, learn from others in the space and have some free food & drink.

👉️ Day 1: March 9 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST

👉️ Day 2: March 10 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST

Austin AI Community Hackathon Recap

We had winners for the following tracks: Community Choice, Local Hacks, Agents, Open Source, and Llama.

We also had a few teams win the SupplyPay bounties!

Let’s jump in to the teams and projects!

🏆️ Winners

Community Choice - Siga AI

Siga AI is a voice first design studio for generative AI. Our mission is to build generative AI tools that are accessible by everyone. Siga is the first platform of it's kind that allows you to design, just by talking. We like to refer to is as "Vibe Design."

Team: Shep Bryan, Claire Dubiel, Eddie Hudson, Andrew Suther

Local Hacks - TriageFlow

TriageFlow eliminates the endless grind of backlog prioritization by turning messy user feedback into clear, actionable tracking tickets. With AI-powered triage and prioritization, it slashes backlog grooming time wasted by PMs and engineers.

Team: Riley Hilliard

Agents Track - CloudPilot

Simplify cloud infrastructure with an AI-powered chat—just describe what you need, and it builds everything for you. Chat base AI assist SREs and Devops in a way that has yet to come to the space

Team: Esteban Puerta, Nathan Disidore, Jared Wolff

Open Source Track - Chadvertisers

Have you ever wanted to use the latest and greatest LLM from OpenAI or Meta, but couldn't afford it? Worry no more, because for the fair trade of targeted advertising, now you can use the most powerful chatbots for free! chadx is a chat+advertisement exchange, enabling our "Chadvertisers" to reach customers with a specialized match-making engine based on their prompts. They offer 3 tiers of ad aggressiveness, as well as the ability to control campaign reach and budgets to ensure maximum impressions per dollar spent.

Team: Isaac Chase, Nick Scipione

Llama Track - MediCast AI

Medicast AI transforms how healthcare professionals stay current with medical literature by automatically converting the most impactful research into personalized podcasts tailored to their specialty. This solution allows medical professionals to stay up to date with all of the current research. The platform makes continued medical education frictionless while improving patient outcomes.

Team: Zanir Habib, Kesav Varanasi, Pranav Varanasi

SupplyPay Bounty Winners:

1. Supply Pay Bounty Hunters

   In Bounty 1, they developed dual products: an AI-powered mobile application for truck drivers that automatically collects and transmits multimedia data even in connectivity dead-zones, and an intuitive map-based dashboard for cargo providers to visualize this information for critical business decisions. For Bounty 2, they created an AI phone agent that answers questions about FDA food traceability regulations, utilizing RAG over a comprehensive knowledge base. This agent includes a custom onboarding process that integrates with exporters' existing data systems to provide personalized regulatory compliance advice.

   Team: Danyil Blyschak, Abe Leininger

2. Logistik-ai

   An AI-powered logistics management system that uses Telegram for user interactions. This system helps manage the entire journey of truck drivers, from trip assignment to delivery completion, while keeping all stakeholders (managers, shippers, and consignees) informed.

   Team: Jorge Alejandro Diez, Victor Rojas, and Fredy Del Vecchio

3. Rowdy Otters

   A supply pay agentic interface that provides comprehensive experience for exporters and truck drivers. They leveraged Tavily and Langraph to dynamically reference up-to-date information from relevant websites. It also has voice and geolocation information provider.

   Team: George Li, Kris Pan, Hiram Riddle, Jacob Lizarraga, Kaitlin Kuehl

UPCOMING EVENTS

🏘️ The Future of Real Estate with AI - Proptech House at SXSW 2025

• When: Sunday, March 9 | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM CST

• Where: 800 Congress Ave 800 Congress Ave · Austin, Te

• What: US Proptech Council is proud to present the Proptech House at SXSW 2025, a premier gathering place for the brightest minds in real estate technology.

📣 AI for Influence: How AI Helps You Stand Out, Build Trust, and Scale Impact

• When: Wednesday, April 2 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST

• Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos St · Austin, TX

• What: Tony Guarnaccia, Founder of Guestify.AI, equips entrepreneurs, coaches, and business leaders to seize attention, sharpen messaging, and own their niche through top podcast appearances.

⚙️ Build with AI (Austin): Hands-On Workshop for Agentic AI with Google Cloud

• When: Thursday, March 20 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST

• Where: Google Austin Google Austin, 500 W 2nd St Austin 78701 · Austin, TX

• What: An immersive event designed to propel you to the forefront of AI development. Experience a unique blend of hands-on workshop, insightful sessions, and networking opportunities galore, all focused on building the next generation of intelligent applications.

🤖 Hack AI

• When: Thursday, March 20 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST

• Where: Capital Factory Austin, Texas

• What: ​​​A monthly session for builders all over the Austin area to learn about and build the latest AI technology.

💾 Hack the Future – SeedAI’s SXSW House

• When: Sunday, March 9 | 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM CST

• Where: 309 E 3^rd Street Austin, TX

• What: SeedAI House programming will explore the leading edge of AI and public policy, featuring an electric mix of key policymakers, industry visionaries, and subject matter experts. Register here to join Meta and SeedAI for a day full of panel discussions, open-source AI demos led by developers from Texas and across the country, and experience Ray Ban Meta AI glasses and Quest 3S mixed reality headsets.

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COMMUNITY STORIES

Houston Secures Apple's AI Server Manufacturing Facility

Apple is moving forward with plans for a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in northwest Houston, producing servers for its "Apple Intelligence" AI products that were previously made overseas.

Need-to-know:

• The facility appears to be an expansion of Foxconn's existing complex in northwest Harris County near Sam Houston Race Park

• Local educational institutions like Lone Star College are already preparing to help train workers for the specialized server manufacturing roles

• Northwest Houston offers an ideal ecosystem with strong transportation infrastructure and a 5.5% industrial vacancy rate, below the Houston average

Learn more here.

Texas A&M Tests AI for Detecting Swine Respiratory Disease

Researchers at Texas A&M's Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach program are evaluating whether AI could help veterinarians detect pneumonia in pig lungs, potentially improving food animal vaccine monitoring.

Need-to-know:

• The AI demonstrated perfect consistency in evaluating lung images, though it's not yet as accurate as veterinarian evaluators

• Human experts were individually consistent but often disagreed with each other when evaluating the same images

• This technology could eventually support the work of veterinarians who monitor vaccine effectiveness at processing plants

Learn more here.

Texas Moves to Criminalize AI-Generated Child Pornography

A package of bills targeting AI-generated child pornography is advancing in the Texas Legislature, with the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice sending three bills to the full Senate.

Need-to-know:

• Senate Bill 20 would criminalize possession of offensive material depicting children, whether the images are of real or AI-generated children

• Senate Bill 1621 updates existing child pornography laws to better address AI-generated content

• Law enforcement officials testified that the problem is worsening with advancing technology, expressing strong support for the legislation

Learn more here.

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT

This week, we’re highlighting Riley Hilliard, the Local Track winner of last week’s hackathon (the one holding the mac mini).

This was Riley’s first time entering a hackathon and he one with his project: TriageFlow.

You can connect with Riley here.