Founded December 19, 2022
Hack, Build, Compete
We give high-school and university students an 80-GPU cluster, a real research problem, and someone to review their code. Everything they build ships open source.
NVIDIA H100 GPUs
Members train on the same class of hardware as a corporate lab.
Public repositories
Everything we have shipped, free to read and reuse.
People on the team
3 officers, 5 members, 3 fellows.
reported
Students reached
We publish this once our program records are verified.
Three pillars
Every program serves at least one. The best ones serve all three.
Building Impact
We ship open AI research and tools.
Papers, models, datasets, and software, released publicly by default. Anyone can read the work, run it, and build on it.
Developing Talent
Students get compute, problems, and mentors.
Members train models on our cluster, enter competitions, and co-author research that goes to peer review.
Fostering Community
We run the hackathons and workshops.
Weekend events and open repositories where students meet people building the same things, then keep building together afterwards.
5 projects
What we have built
Two research projects, two tools people use daily, and the hackathon where most of us met.
Latest research
CNM-BERT
BERT treats 樹 as an arbitrary ID and throws away the components a reader sees instantly. CNM-BERT feeds that structure back in and lifts out-of-vocabulary accuracy by 9.8 F1 for about 5% more training time.
What makes it credible
80 H100s, pointed at students
A training run that would take three weeks on a laptop finishes here overnight. That single fact decides which ideas a student can actually test, and it is why our members co-author papers instead of reading them.
Access is tiered and every job is logged. The CTO signs off on allocations under our compute policy, so a first-year member and a research lead get different quotas and both know why.
Cluster
80× NVIDIA H100
Access
Tiered, logged, CTO-approved
Cost to members
Nothing
Output licence
Open source
3 officers
Meet the team
Every officer publishes their own address and answers it.
Thomas Wu
CEO & Co-Founder
Sets direction, holds final decision authority, and leads partnerships. Wrote LinkDown.
Liqian (Eric) Yan
Co-Founder & CFO
Runs the money through Hack Club Bank, approves spending, and owns safety and security escalation. Leads the CNM-BERT research and built Resonaite.
Zigao Wang
CTO
Sets technical direction, governs the H100 cluster, and owns platform security and access control. Wrote Ollmao.
Partners
Organizations we have worked with. Hack Club is our fiscal sponsor and holds the charitable status.
Backed by Hack Club
Your donation is tax-deductible and Hack Club issues the receipt. LinkScape runs as a fiscally sponsored project of The Hack Foundation dba Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Hack Club holds the charitable status and every dollar moves through Hack Club Bank.