Factored announced that the Factored: AI & DATA Hackathon 2026 will start September 25 with participants having 10 days to build a world-class AI-first solution for a realistic banking application and make decisions around reliability, explainability, privacy, fairness, and scale.

Factored (backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund and deeplearning.ai) helps leading tech companies select, upskill, and build world-class data science, machine learning and AI engineering teams much faster and more cost effectively. Our engineers have been personally vetted, educated, and mentored by some of the most talented and recognized AI educators and engineers from Silicon Valley, Stanford University and deeplearning.ai.