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What two winning teams built on Amass at HACK_002 in Vienna
On 26 and 27 September, Amass was a partner of HACK_002: Signal From Tomorrow in Vienna. Around 65 people, 25 teams and 19.5 hours Here is what two of the winning teams built on Amass
Written by Caroline, Event and GTM at Amass.
On 26 and 27 September, around 65 people spent 19.5 hours building at HACK_002: Signal From Tomorrow (https://events.teloscircle.com/hackathon-02/) in Vienna. The overnight hackathon ran at HOIV (Home of InnoVation) and was organised by Telos Circle, a Vienna nonprofit for startups and research. By Sunday morning, 25 teams had submitted 25 working projects across six tracks, three in general AI and software and three in science, biology and medicine.
What the winning teams built
Gina, the cycle assistant built by PJ Vang as team pJacked, won the Applied AI for You track. Gina is a women's health app for cycle-related and hormonal symptoms, and it runs on two agents. A research agent gathers evidence through Amass, and a second agent turns that evidence into a personal plan.
Read the full story: how Gina won its track in Vienna.
GenCite, built by Simon Chen and Lucia Ahcin as team Kinder schoko-bons, shared the AI for Scientific Discovery prize with miRacle. GenCite takes a list of candidate genes and adds context to each one from PubMed, Open Targets, the Human Protein Atlas and Amass. Every claim it makes has to cite the evidence it rests on.
Read the full story: how GenCite won the Scientific Discovery track.
Summing up
The two projects came from different blocks of the hackathon, one a consumer health app and one a research tool for gene lists. Both keep the step that gathers evidence apart from the step that writes the answer. In Gina the evidence passes from one agent to the next, and GenCite requires a citation for every claim.
Thank you to Telos Circle for running HACK_002, to HOIV for the venue, and to the jury, mentors and volunteers who gave up a weekend to make it work. Thank you also to Texterous, RISE, Eutema Research Services, Maritime (YC F26), Lovable, ElevenLabs, Project Europe, EWOR, Oxbridge Frontier Intelligence, European Mentorship Network, The Residency Vienna, AIM Austria and Proximata.
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