Google DeepMind said on the 24th it will hold an offline hackathon, "Gemini 3 Seoul Hackathon," for domestic developers in Seoul on the 28th.
Co-hosted by Google DeepMind, the Google AI Futures Fund, and AttentionX, the hackathon is a development competition focused on implementing real services using Google's latest AI model "Gemini 3." It started in the United States in September last year and will be held fourth in the Asia-Pacific region after Singapore, India, and Japan.
The core theme of the hackathon is a "production sprint," creating a working deliverable in a short period. Participants must deploy an application that can actually run on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Using Google's latest agentic development platform, "Antigravity," as well as AI Studio and Vertex AI, the goal is to build services that maximize Gemini 3's reasoning and multimodal capabilities.
Engineers from Google DeepMind will be on site to provide technical advice, and top-tier Google Developer Experts (GDEs) in Korea will run a "tech desk" to help participants solve technical issues in real time.
The total prize pool is about 221 million won ($150,000). The winning team and top finishers will receive Gemini API credits as prizes. As a perk, a 30-minute video mentoring session with the founders of the "Google AI Futures Fund" will be provided.
Participation is limited to those approved after pre-registration, and teams can have up to four members.
A Google official said, "This hackathon is a place where domestic developers can directly experience and implement Gemini 3's performance and agentic workflows with the Google DeepMind team," adding, "We hope to see outcomes that go beyond simple competition and create real business impact."