Advent of Multimodal AI Hackathon
December 11-13, 2024 | Global Virtual Event
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Welcome to the Advent of Multimodal AI Hackathon
Hosted by Intel® Liftoff for AI Startups, together with Prediction Guard, Pixel ML and The Mango Jelly, this hackathon invites AI innovators from all over the world to come together for three days of pure creative coding, innovation, and problem-solving.
For 72 hours, we’ll push the boundaries of Multimodal AI—a powerful technology that unites data from text, images, audio, and video, empowering AI systems to understand the world in more nuanced and impactful ways.
Multimodal AI is shaping the future across fields like healthcare, education, e-commerce, and entertainment, driving new solutions that can handle the complex nature of real-world data.
Registration deadline: 9 December
Who’s This For?
If you’re an AI developer, startup founder, or student ready to harness the potential of multimodal AI, this hackathon is designed for you. Especially for AI startups, it’s a unique opportunity to gain marketing exposure and vie for a spot in the Intel® Liftoff program.
Event Highlights
Platform
Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud with dedicated learning resources, Jupyter notebooks, and access to Intel GPUs and CPUs
Community
Connect with participants on our hackathon Slack channel.
Tracks
Dive into themes like Multimodal Applications, Model Inference, RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), and AI Vision.
Prizes
3 winning teams will receive $10,000 in Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud credits, a feature on the Intel® Liftoff blog, and an interview on our podcast.
Why Join?
Visibility
Make a mark with Intel® Liftoff’s global community.
Networking
Connect with top talent, Intel® Liftoff for Startups technical team, and peers in AI.
Celebrate AI Innovation
Collaborate and celebrate breakthroughs in the world of AI.
Meet Our Contributors
Our contributors include Intel® Liftoff team members and startups who designed the Multimodal AI challenges and will serve as judges for the three-day virtual hackathon.
Adam Cuzzort
CTO
Prediction Guard
Sean P
Co-founder & CEO
Pixel ML
Divya Upadhyay
Co-founder
The Mango Jelly
Rohit Kashyap
Co-founder
The Mango Jelly
Rahul Unnikrishnan Nair
Head of AI
Intel® Liftoff
Desmond Grealy
Head of Tech
Intel® Liftoff
Get a Sneak Peek at the Daily Challenges
3 days of virtual AI challenges – with each new challenge released daily at 9 AM.
The challenges could involve playing with stable diffusion, LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation – all designed to ignite your creativity.
On the last day, it’s time to bring it all together: you’ll be tasked with building an application in a Jupyter Notebook environment, based on the skills and knowledge you’ve accumulated over the 3 days.
Schedule:
Open Time: 9:00 AM PST, Close Time: 6:00 PM PST
Submission Limit: Up to 3 attempts per challenge.
Winners Announcement: Following day
Digital
Canvas
Objective: Perform a sequence of image-to-image transformations following a chosen theme, focusing on hardware efficiency (Intel GPU) and final image quality.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Thematic
Synthesis
Objective: Perform a sequence of image-to-image transformations following a chosen theme, focusing on hardware efficiency (Intel GPU) and final image quality.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Creative
Storytelling
Objective: Develop a chatbot using models available on Intel developer cloud (openLlama 3b, Camel 5B, llama7b variants) or any huggingface model less than 7 B for creative storytelling. Session transcripts demonstrating prompt responsiveness and bot creativity.
Note: Emphasis on using the smallest possible model for efficiency.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Capstone Project
Combine all you’ve learned in a final Jupyter Notebook-based application, integrating Weaviate and Prediction Guard LLM services
Capstone Project
- Extra points for incorporating Weaviate or Prediction Guard services.
- Receive unique marketing opportunities with blog articles and podcast episodes, with the added chance for startups to secure an Intel® Liftoff membership.
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Advent of Multimodal AI Hackathon
Registration deadline: 9 December
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