searchifyHow Sami got into GTC.
The passes were expensive, and there was no volunteer program. His agent, Claude with Searchify, found another way in.
The original · Claude + Searchify · 16 September to 8 October
Three weeks, one human in the loop.
16 September
Is there a way in?
Sami asks his agent how to get into GTC Berlin. Claude, with Searchify, finds the dates and venues, the pass prices, and the key fact: there is no open volunteer program. The way in goes through people.
30 September
14 research agents, 159 tool calls
Claude sends out 14 Searchify agents at once. They map which NVIDIA teams run the event (events, developer relations, the German office), find that the free-ticket contest already closed, and spot this hackathon on 18 October.
30 September, evening
Claude drafts, Sami sends
Claude writes personal messages. It never sends anything itself; Sami reads them and sends two waves from his own mail.
1 October
A no, and a yes
The registration team says no. Someone on NVIDIA's events team answers warmly and asks colleagues.
8 October
An exhibit ticket
The ticket arrives. And on 18 October Sami is at the hackathon his agent found three weeks earlier.
The recreation · nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL + Searchify for Tavily · 2026-10-18 17:24
One question to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL.
I'm a 19-year-old student startup founder in Berlin (computer vision, hackathon winner). How can I get into NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026? Find out: the dates and venues; whether there is a volunteer program; any student or academic formats; ticket prices and discounts; any free ticket route such as a contest or a hackathon; and which NVIDIA teams (roles only, no names, no email addresses) organise it. Use the tools, cite sources, and finish with the most realistic way in.
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 dates venue"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC 2026 Berlin student volunteer program tickets"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 hackathon free ticket contest"}
read {"urls": ["https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc", "https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/faq", "https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/pricing", "https://developer.n
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 volunteer program"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 hackathon free ticket student"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 organisers team developer relations ecosystem"}
read {"urls": ["https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/faq"]}
search {"query": "\"GTC Berlin\" volunteer program 2026"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 \"student experience\" OR \"student pass\" OR \"university\""}
read {"urls": ["https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/student-experience"]}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 \"volunteer\" OR \"volunteers\" OR \"volunteering\""}
✓GTC Berlin runs 20 to 22 October 2026, keynote on 21 October at the Tempodrom, conference at STATION-Berlin.
✓There is no open volunteer program; GTC volunteers are NVIDIA staff or interns.
✓It names student or academic formats (an academic discount, an academic or student experience event).
✓It gives pass prices: academic conference pass about 1,053 euros and an exhibits-only pass about 357 euros, or an education discount.
✗It identifies the Golden Ticket contest as the free-ticket route AND says it is already closed (deadline 10 September 2026).
✗It points to the Nebius Build Week hackathon in Berlin on 18 October 2026 (with NVIDIA mentors / a Nemotron challenge).
✗It concludes that the realistic way in goes through people: contacting NVIDIA's events team or developer relations directly.
4 of 7 found.
Nemotron gets every fact right. It misses the three calls that got Sami in: the contest had already closed, this hackathon was the stage, and the way in was writing to people.
Facts: open models are ready. Judgment: that is what an eval on your own logs has to measure.
As of 30 September 2026 · 9 open models on Nebius Token Factory · Searchify for Tavily
Same question, the day Sami asked it.
Each model is told that today is 30 September 2026, and Tavily only returns pages dated by then. Same question, same tools, same judge, same 7 checks. 0 of 9 models get all 7.
GLM 5.1
5 of 7
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
4 of 7
DeepSeek V4 Pro
4 of 7
gpt-oss 120B
3 of 7
Nemotron 3 Ultra
3 of 7
DeepSeek V4 Flash
3 of 7
Reflection Beam
3 of 7
Qwen3 235B
3 of 7
Nemotron 3 Super
2 of 7
No model gets all 7. The best: GLM 5.1 with 5.
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 dates venue"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 volunteer program"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 student academic ticket discount"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 hackathon contest free ticket"}
read {"urls": ["https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/pricing", "https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc-golden-ticket-contest", "https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/gtc/acad
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 volunteer program crew"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 organising team roles NVIDIA events team"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 volunteer crew staff program application"}
search {"query": "Nebius hackathon NVIDIA GTC Berlin October 2026"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA Inception program GTC Berlin 2026 startup free pass"}
read {"urls": ["https://nebius.com/events/nebius-nvidia-ai-builders-hackathon", "https://nebius.com/events/nvidia-gtc-berlin-2026"]}
search {"query": "\"GTC Berlin\" volunteer 2026"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC conference organising team \"events team\" \"developer relations\" roles"}
read {"urls": ["https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc-golden-ticket-contest", "https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-berlin-presents-startup
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 free virtual pass keynote livestream"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 virtual free pass livestream"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 \"NVIDIA Inception\" startup exhibit pass"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin free virtual pass 2026 watch online"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 community keynote watch party Berlin free"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin keynote free livestream online 2026"}
search {"query": "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 \"Startup Grind\" OR \"keynote watch party\" OR \"community event\" free"}
✓GTC Berlin runs 20 to 22 October 2026, keynote on 21 October at the Tempodrom, conference at STATION-Berlin.
✗There is no open volunteer program; GTC volunteers are NVIDIA staff or interns.
✓It names student or academic formats (an academic discount, an academic or student experience event).
✓It gives pass prices: academic conference pass about 1,053 euros and an exhibits-only pass about 357 euros, or an education discount.
✓It identifies the Golden Ticket contest as the free-ticket route AND says it is already closed (deadline 10 September 2026).
✓It points to the Nebius Build Week hackathon in Berlin on 18 October 2026 (with NVIDIA mentors / a Nemotron challenge).
✗It concludes that the realistic way in goes through people: contacting NVIDIA's events team or developer relations directly.