AINU — Northeastern University's AI Club

Northeastern University — Est. 2024

Student-led teams shipping real AI work — startup growth, equity research, robotics — and the Chatathon hackathon.

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Fall 2026 teams

Three teams.
One community.

Keep scrolling — each track ships real, portfolio-grade output.

Growth

Content, strategy, and analytics for one Boston consumer startup at a time.

ICPpositioningshort-form contentanalytics

Investment

A selective equity research team writing institutional-quality memos on AI-driven mispricings.

Equity researchvaluationlong and short memos

Physical AI

Hands-on robotics and embodied AI: reinforcement learning, simulation, and sim-to-real demos.

ManipulationMuJoCoRLsim-to-realVLA

Chatathon 2026 — AI x Future of Work

Northeastern students race to prototype practical AI tools for agents, productivity workflows, decision support, workplace learning, and safer, more accessible work.

September 19, 2026Raytheon Amphitheatre, Egan Research Center

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Students collaborating around laptops during an AINU build event

Students presenting an AI project during an AINU event

Life at AINU

From the floor.

AINU students and judges reviewing project work together — Judging roundtable

Guest speaker presenting at an AINU event — Guest speaker night

AINU event shirt with Future of Work graphics — InnovAIte merch

AINU judges and builders discussing a project table — Final-round judging

Full lecture hall during an AINU session — Weekly session

AINU organizing team in matching InnovAIte shirts — InnovAIte 2024 crew

Students gathered around laptops during a build sprint — Build sprint

Builder floor during an AINU hackathon — The builder floor

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Fall 2026

Team applications open soon.

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