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Build your AI Startup Hackathon

Build MVP in 7 days using the power of Generative AI!

  • 🛠️ Build your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in 7 days
  • 🤝 Find your team on the platform
  • 📈 Hours of educational context
  • 🦾 Generative AI tools to build with
  • 🏅 Further support for winners
  • 🤌 Assistance of Mentors
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Join Us! 🙌

Join the startup revolution at Build Your AI Startup Hackathon! From 17th to 24th of February, you'll have the chance to turn your big idea into a minimum viable product (MVP) in just 7 days.

Build your MVP fast and with ease, thanks to the support of a dynamic community and expert mentors.

Find your perfect co-founders on the platform and take your startup to the next level.

Learn from the best with hours of educational content, from workshops and talks to one-on-one sessions with industry leaders.

Build with cutting-edge Generative AI tools that will give your startup a competitive edge.

Further support for the most promising projects to help you bring your MVP to market.

Utilize Generative AI

Take your startup to the next level with Generative AI. This cutting-edge technology will help you automate processes, create unique content and much more. Join us to discover the endless possibilities.

Power of Generative AI

The Challenge

Get ready to take on the startup world! The challenge is simple: create an MVP that leverages the power of Generative AI to solve a real-world problem. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this is your chance to bring your startup to life.

Are you ready to join the startup revolution and build your MVP with Generative AI? Register now and let's make innovation happen.

🏆 Main Prize

As a hackathon winner, you will have the exclusive opportunity to participate in Nextgrid's Slingshot Accelerator program. You'll receive mentorship from industry leaders and cutting-edge technology to turn your AI innovation into a thriving business.

AI Slingshot

Hackathon Technology (AI Tools To Use)

OpenAI

GPT-3

GPT-3 is OpenAI's third-generation language model with 175 billion parameters, enabling human-like text generation. It's in open beta.

Codex

OpenAI Codex is an AI model that parses natural language and generates code. It powers GitHub Copilot, an auto completion tool, and is based on GPT-3. It has been trained on 159 GB of Python code from 54M GitHub repos.

DALL-E 2

DALL-E 2 is a 3.5B parameter generative language model that creates images from sentences. Its images are 4x better in resolution than its predecessor, with human judges preferring it to DALL-E 70% of the time.

Whisper

Whisper is a powerful speech recognition and translation model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data. It uses an encoder-decoder architecture to convert audio into text and it also supports language identification, phrase-level timestamps, and multilingual transcription.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a text-generating AI model trained on conversations and other human-generated text. It can generate responses, code, make suggestions and provide information in a natural conversational style. It was trained using RLHF and supervised fine-tuning with human AI trainers.

Cohere

Generate

Generate is a language model for writing and summarizing text, correcting spelling/grammar, and extracting entities.

Classify

Use Classify to quickly organize data by labeling text, performing content moderation, detecting user intent, classifying topics and analyzing sentiment.

Embed

Embed lets AI read Reddit posts about your company and show results in a graph. It also offers semantic search, topic modeling, and recommendations.

Multilingual Semantic Search

Text embeddings are key to machine language understanding, representing text meaning as numbers through an embedding model. Multilingual models can handle multiple languages effectively.

Sandbox

Sandbox provides open-source GitHub repos to quickly build ML apps with Cohere. It's easy for any developer, no ML experience required.

More AI models!

AI21 Labs

Platform for building AI applications. Access powerful language models with API. No NLP expertise needed.

Stable Diffusion

Latent text-to-image diffusion model for generating stylized and photo-realistic images. Pre-trained on LAION-5B, runs at home on consumer GPUs. Create art in seconds!

YOLOv7

The YOLOv7 algorithm is a big advancement in the field of computer vision and machine learning. It is more accurate and faster than any other object detection models or YOLO versions.

Build Your AI Startup Hackathon

Join lablab.ai and build your startup with generative AI. Find all the relevant details below.

🗓️ Where and when

The hackathon starts on February 17 and concludes on February 24. Over the course of the weekend, participants will gain unique insight from mentors, and engage in workshops, keynotes, and other sessions with lablab professionals. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform.

🦸🏼‍♂️ Who should participate?

Previous experience in AI is not required but welcomed. While many participants are industry experts, we also welcome people with other types of domain knowledge that want to understand & explore how AI can be used in their fields.

😅 How about teams?

If you don’t have a team you will be able to match and team up with other participants around the world. Finding & creating teams can be done from the dashboard you can access after you enroll. We also recommend checking our Discord server to find teammates and discuss ideas. You can join it here

🛠️ How to participate in the hackathon

The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide.

🧠 Get prepared / Use Lablab.ai to Learn About AI

To get prepared for the hackathon, we recommend you to start at our AI Tech pages where you can read and learn about all the available technologies. Find the information on how to ise them on the tutorials page.

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

  • Lina Marieth Hoyos
    Speaker

    Lina Marieth Hoyos

    YouTube comments with AI analyst

  • DoYeop Kim
    Speaker

    DoYeop Kim

    StartUp AI Founder

  • Adam Ścibor
    Speaker

    Adam Ścibor

    Co-Founder and CTO at Inverted AI

  • Omar Hedeya
    Speaker

    Omar Hedeya

    Investor, Leader, Analyst

  • Mathias Asberg
    Speaker

    Mathias Asberg

    Founder New Native

  • Paweł Czech
    Speaker

    Paweł Czech

    Founder New Native

Hackathon FAQ

Who can join the Hackathon?

We welcome domain experts from all industries, not just AI or tech. Successful AI solutions require a combination of technical expertise and domain knowledge. Coding experience is recommended.

Do I need a team?

You are welcome to join as a team or solo. If solo, we still encourage you to look for a team before the event, but ultimately it is your choice. We recommend you to join the Deep Learning Labs Discord channel: https://discord.gg/gCuBwBB35k and posting in the #looking-for-team channel to get to know your potential future team members.

Do I need a Github account?

It is recommended. At least one team member should have a Github account. You can create one for free if you don't already have one.

I have other questions.

Feel free to reach us on social media, or through our Discord channel.

Event Schedule

  • To be announced

Submitted concepts, prototypes and pitches

Submissions from the teams participating in the Build your AI Startup Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊

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