MIT AI Conference 2026

AI Hackathon Finalists

Meet the 10 teams building what comes next.

AMIRA

AMIRA is an AI-powered evidence navigation platform for women’s hormonal health that helps clinicians and patients understand what the evidence says, where it conflicts, and what remains unknown.

Anaphora Labs

Anaphora Labs is the AI-native operating architect that maps, redesigns, and automates how enterprises run.

Yaphet Lemiesa

Yaphet Lemiesa

Chief Research Officer

LinkedIn

Antemyth

AI that runs your company’s IT end to end.

Experative

Experative builds the memory and decision-making layer for autonomous scientific discovery, enabling self-driving laboratories to learn from every experiment and continuously improve what they do next.

Tom Burkart

Tom Burkart

Co-Founder, Head of Product

LinkedIn

FirstSignal

GPU

Developed GPU architecture that accelerates RISC-V and C programs with warp cores and vector lanes, achieving high performance on parallel workloads such as graphics, physics simulations, and AI model inference—all in 24 hours.

Haggl

Patients who challenge a medical bill usually win. Most who don't assume it's pointless. Haggl finds the errors and savings, then handles the calls, emails, and letters to win them.

Laufwerk

Your enterprise’s expertise should scale like software. Laufwerk provides a self-hosted platform to build and run AI systems that make it possible.

Sona8

Building the context layer for enterprise AI through voice agents that survey employees.

Vera Labs

At the intersection of AI & Real World Execution