AI21 Labs Challenge
The challenge for this hackathon is to build an innovative solution using AI21 Studio

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Each complete project submission comes with one month of Wordtune premium and a certificate of completion.
The challenge for this hackathon is to build an innovative solution using AI21 Studio
Additionally, all finalists will receive the special lablab certificates, swag, and will be promoted on our channels.
Platform for building AI applications. Access powerful language models with API. No NLP expertise needed.
The LangChain library has been developed to assist developers in building applications that combine LLMs with other technologies, allowing them to create truly intelligent and innovative products.
Redis is a real-time data platform that functions as a blazing fast vector database, ML feature store, and data serving layer across a variety of workloads.
Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating stylized and photo-realistic images.
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.
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.
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.
Join lablab and AI21 Labs for a week to build and innovate with NLP. Find all the relevant details below.
The hackathon starts on April 21st and ends on April 28th. During the week, you'll have the opportunity to learn from AI21 Labs and lablab experts during workshops, keynotes, and mentoring sessions. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform.
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.
To get started with AI21 Labs API please signup using the following link: https://studio.ai21.com/sign-up/. After signup, you will get $90 worth of credits. You can find more information about the API here.
If you donβt 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
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.
To get prepared for the hackathon, we recommend you to start at our AI21 Labs technology page where you can find all the relevant information about the API and how to use it plus AI21 Labs tutorials and AI21 Labs boilerplates.
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AI21 Labs Studio is free-to-use for everyone. Sign up for AI21 and join the NLP revolution!
Learn about the winning projects from previous AI21 Labs Hackathon.
Web Indexer is a question answering tool that aims to improve user experience by providing specific information, answers, and sources in a clear and understandable way.
MedBrief provides a summary of a lengthy patient report and catches significant medical terminology to save review time by 40%.
Test English AI is a web application designed to provide personalized reading test preparation for English learners, with AI-generated texts and tasks that improve specific skills and expand vocabulary.


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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.
You are welcome to join as a team or solo, if solo. We encourage you to look for a team before the event. 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.
It is recommended, that at least one team member has a Github account. You can create one for free if you don't already have one.
Feel free to reach us on social media, or through our Discord channel.
Submissions from the teams participating in the AI21 Labs Hackathon #2 event and making it to the end π
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