07/05/2026
…and Armenia showed up! 🇦🇲
Last week, we wrapped up our sponsorship of the 5th edition of Hack-Nation's Global AI Hackathon.
This was a massive event: 5,500+ applicants from 65+ countries, 2,000 selected builders, simultaneous hubs running at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, ETH Zürich, London, Paris, Delhi, and yes, Yerevan.
Companies like OpenAI, Databricks, Google, SAP, Mozilla, World Bank Group Youth Summit, ElevenLabs, and DSV-Gruppe set the challenges. Judges came from Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Microsoft, and the University of Oxford. This was not a local hackathon. This was the global real thing.
And Armenia showed up! 🇦🇲
TUMO Labs hosted the Armenian hub, where around 100+ students gathered to compete on the global stage. Among them, 17-year-old Daniel Hakobyan from Vanadzor, who built solo through the night and took first place in the DSV-Gruppe challenge, competing against teams from across Europe and beyond. Full stack, real AI, live demo, built in 24 hours by one person sitting in Yerevan.
We are so proud to have been part of this as a sponsor, alongside some of the biggest names in global tech. Moments like these remind us why we do what we do at Eleveight AI. We build infrastructure, but the real point of that infrastructure is enabling exactly this kind of talent to compete, to create, and to win on the world stage without needing to leave home to do it.
Huge congratulations to Daniel, and to every participant from the Armenian hub. And thank you to TUMO Labs, Hack-Nation, and all the co-sponsors for making Yerevan one of the global hubs where the future of AI is being built.
We'll keep sponsoring. Keep building. Keep showing up.
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