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AI21 Labs Hackathon #2

Embrace Technology as Your Collaborator

  • πŸ—“οΈ This will be a 7-day virtual hackathon on 21 - 28 April
  • πŸ’» Access AI21 Labs' state-of-the-art language models to build innovative applications
  • πŸ’‘ Meet and learn from AI21 Labs and Lablab experts
  • πŸ‘₯ Join the community and find your team
  • βœ”οΈ All levels are welcome, AI tutorials and mentors are there to help you
  • πŸ“– AI tutorials and mentors to help you
  • πŸ† Prizes and awards of up to $9000 API credits + $3500 cash
  • ⭐ Receive a certificate of completion and Wordtune premium for submission
  • πŸ±β€πŸ’» Sign up now! It's free!
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AI21 Labs

AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.

State of the Art Models

The company has built state of the art Jurassic-1 language models that that can process any language comprehension or generation task. No NLP expertise needed.

Creators of Wordtune

Wordtune, AI21’s premier product, is the first AI-based writing companion that understands context and meaning. It helps you rephrase your writing to say exactly what you mean.

NLP Revolution

AI21 Labs is advancing the field of Natural Language Processing through scientific and engineering innovations. We are at the start of a revolution in NLP and AI21 aims to take the lead.

Get one month of Wordtune premium

Each complete project submission comes with one month of Wordtune premium and a certificate of completion.

Wodrtune premium

AI21 Labs Challenge

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

Prizes

πŸ₯‡ 1st Place

  • $5000 API credits
  • $2000 cash

πŸ† Finalists

  • $4000 API credits (distributed among finalists)
  • $1500 cash (distributed among finalists)

Additionally, all finalists will receive the special lablab certificates, swag, and will be promoted on our channels.

Hackathon Technology

Additionally, you can use:

LangChain

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

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.

πŸ‘‰ Checkout Redis Side Quest

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating stylized and photo-realistic images.

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.

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.

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.

AI21 Labs Hackathon details

Join lablab and AI21 Labs for a week to build and innovate with NLP. Find all the relevant details below.

πŸ—“οΈ Where and when

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.

πŸ¦ΈπŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ 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.

πŸ” Access to AI21 Labs API

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.

πŸ˜… 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

πŸ› οΈ 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.

🧠 Get prepared

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.

AI21 Labs

API Access

Signup for API Access

AI21 Labs Studio is free-to-use for everyone. Sign up for AI21 and join the NLP revolution!

Applications build on AI21 Labs

Learn about the winning projects from previous AI21 Labs Hackathon.

WebIndexer

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

MedBrief provides a summary of a lengthy patient report and catches significant medical terminology to save review time by 40%.

Test English AI

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.

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

  • Liza Marchuk
    Organizer

    Liza Marchuk

    • Olesia Zinchenko
      Organizer

      Olesia Zinchenko

      Product Marketing Manager

    • Anastasiia Strakhova
      Organizer

      Anastasiia Strakhova

      Event Specialist at NewNative

      • Jakub Zakrzewski
        Organizer

        Jakub Zakrzewski

        Product Manager at New Native

      • Pawel Czech
        Speaker

        Pawel Czech

        Co-founder/Partner

        • Mathias Asberg
          Speaker

          Mathias Asberg

          founder

          • Laszlo Gaal
            Mentor

            Laszlo Gaal

            Full Stack Developer

          • Fabian Stehle
            Mentor

            Fabian Stehle

            Dev at NN

          • Jack Yulzari
            Mentor

            Jack Yulzari

            Product

            • Theodoros Ampas
              Mentor

              Theodoros Ampas

              Technical Mentor

            • Dimitrije Pesic
              Mentor

              Dimitrije Pesic

              Student

            • Yotam Shinan
              Mentor

              Yotam Shinan

              Developer Advocate

              • Simon Olson
                Mentor

                Simon Olson

                Founder

              • Laszlo Gaal
                Mentor

                Laszlo Gaal

                Full Stack Developer

              • Yuval Belfer
                Mentor

                Yuval Belfer

                Developer Advocate

                • Yury Brankouski
                  Mentor

                  Yury Brankouski

                  CPO

                  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 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.

                  Do I need a Github account?

                  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.

                  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 AI21 Labs Hackathon #2 event and making it to the end πŸ‘Š

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