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Cohere and Qdrant Multilingual Semantic Search Hackathon

Build with the industry’s first multilingual text understanding model that supports 100+ languages

  • 🗓️ Take part in this 7-day virtual hackathon from March 10 to March 17!
  • 💻 Create AI applications utilizing Cohere's LLM-powered Multilingual Text Understanding model and Qdrant's vector search engine.
  • ✔️ Are you new to AI or an experienced data scientist? Designer, or business developer? Regardless of your experience and background, we welcome you and value your domain expertise.
  • 🐱‍💻 Join us for free and let's get started!
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Join Us! 🙌

Join our hackathon and use Cohere's powerful NLP models and Qdrant's fast and accurate vector search engine to build innovative AI applications.

Build Your AI Application!

Build your Application fast and with ease. Learn how to utilize state-of-the-art modern AI that will give you a competitive edge in the market.

Learn From AI Experts

Participate in the AI Hackathon and receive guidance and support from Cohere and Qdrant experts as you develop your project. Elevate your skills and become a top AI professional.

Register Now!

Anyone can participate in this event, regardless of their level of experience. Join us to see what you're capable of and take your skills to the next level. Don't wait, register now!

Cohere x Qdrant Challenge

👉 Build a solution that incorporates Cohere and Qdrant in one of five given categories.

Categories:

  1. Internal Knowledge base search: An internal knowledge base is a company-made resource consisting of process documents and tools that members of the organization need to do their jobs properly
  2. Legal document search: As the name suggests, this help us retrieve legal documents that outlines an agreement between two or more parties that has been signed by mutual assent and in all other respects can be relied upon in court
  3. Forum Search: A forum is an online discussion board where people can ask questions, share their experiences, and discuss topics of mutual interest. Forums are an excellent way to create social connections and a sense of community
  4. Customer review: An evaluation of a product or service made by someone who has purchased and used, or had experience with, a product or service
  5. Recommendations: A filtering system that seeks to predict and show the items that a user would like to purchase or see

Projects will receive additional points if they use Multilingual Sematnic Search or Generate endpoint

🏆 Prizes

Main Prize

Winner

$2,000 cash prize

$5,000 Cohere credits

$5,000 Qdrant Cloud credits

Virtual coffe with Nils Reimers, Director of Machine Learning at Cohere

Top 5

Category Winner

$500 cash prize

$2,000 Cohere credits

$2,000 Qdrant Cloud credits

All finalists will receive swag and get featured on Cohere’s App Examples page

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Endpoints

Cohere

Learn about how developers are using NLP to improve everyday apps and experiences with Cohere's endpoints.

Generate

Generate is a versatile language model that can be used to write or summarize text for a variety of purposes, including writing product descriptions, blog posts, ad copy, summarizing articles, correcting spelling and grammar errors, and extracting entities.

Embed

Embed allows you to task AI with reading all Reddit posts about your company and displaying the results in a easy-to-understand graph, as well as perform tasks like semantic search, topic modeling, and recommendations.

Classify

Sort through a vast amount of information by using Classify to label text and applying it to tasks like content moderation, chatbot responses, identifying user intent, classifying topics, and analyzing sentiment.

Multilingual Semantic Search

Text embeddings play a crucial role in enabling machines to understand language. They are numerical representations of text (such as a document, email, or sentence) that capture its meaning through an embedding model. A multilingual embedding model is able to do this effectively for multiple languages.

This video shows how Cohere's multilingual embedding model can represent many languages.

🔗 Useful Links:

Qdrant

Qdrant is a vector similarity engine & vector database. It deploys as an API service providing search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more!

qdrant
  • Qdrant API docs are available here
cohere access

Cohere Access

Sign up for Cohere

Cohere's API is currently free-to-use for everyone. Sign up for Cohere and start integrating NLP into your builds now!

qdrant access

Qdrant Access

Sign up for Qdrant

Feel free to decide to manage the Qdrant vector database on your own or use Qdrant Cloud to perform the semantic search is up to you. A 1GB free cluster avaliable for anybody upon registration.

Multilingual Semantic Search Hackathon details

Join lablab and Cohere, and Qdrant for a week to innovate and build the new generation of NLP powered applications. Find all the relevant details below.

🗓️ Where and when

The hackathon starts on March 10th and ends on March 17th. Over the weekend, you'll have the opportunity to learn from Cohere and Qdrant experts during workshops, keynotes, and mentoring sessions. 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.

🔐 Access to Cohere API and Qdrant Cloud

  • To get started with Cohere NLP API please signup using the following link: https://cohere.ai/signup. Your trial API key is free and can handle up to 100 calls per minute free of charge. You can find more information about the API here.
  • Access to Qdrant Vector Search Cloud and get a free forever 1GB cluster. Find more information about Qdrant here.

😅 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

To get prepared for the hackathon, we recommend you to start at our Cohere technology page and Qdrant technology page where you can find all the relevant information about the API and how to use it plus Cohere and Qdrant tutorials, biolerplates, etc.

Applications build on Cohere

Learn about the winning projects from previous episodes of the Cohere hackathons.

Perfect Prompt

Prompt simplifies prompt engineering and image generation by allowing pre-submission experimentation for improved results.

\debait;

an AI-system capable of debating complex topics.

TALDERA

Call Tal;dera to extract and summarize message history based on parameters like number of messages, start time/date, output format, and chunk sizes.

Health E AI Assistant

Health-E combines custom conversational personas and grounded QA to assist in patient processing, extract relevant information for forms, and provide common knowledge advice when prompted with questions.

VidSummarizer

vidSummarizer helps you to analyze sentiment & summarize of your audio & video files into simple text within few seconds. It also increase accessibility for users who are deaf.

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

  • Pawel Czech
    Speaker

    Pawel Czech

    Co-founder/Partner

    • Sandra Kublik
      Speaker

      Sandra Kublik

      Community

    • Olesia Zinchenko
      Organizer

      Olesia Zinchenko

      Product Marketing Manager

    • Anastasiia Strakhova
      Organizer

      Anastasiia Strakhova

      Event Specialist at NewNative

      • Liza Marchuk
        Organizer

        Liza Marchuk

        Smm

        • Mathiass Asberg
          Speaker

          Mathiass Asberg

          Founder

        • Varun Kumethi
          Mentor

          Varun Kumethi

          Researcher

        • Elle Neal
          Mentor

          Elle Neal

          Data Scientist

        • Ari Jankelowitz
          Mentor

          Ari Jankelowitz

          community ambassador

        • Nils Reimers
          Mentor

          Nils Reimers

          ML

          • Bharat Venkitesh
            Mentor

            Bharat Venkitesh

            ML Engineer

            • Robin Gainer
              Mentor

              Robin Gainer

              Account Executive

              • Jay Alammar
                Mentor

                Jay Alammar

                • Meor Amer
                  Mentor

                  Meor Amer

                  Dev Rel

                  • Naman Parikh
                    Mentor

                    Naman Parikh

                  • Lewis Stott
                    Mentor

                    Lewis Stott

                    Customer Success Lead

                    • David Stewart
                      Mentor

                      David Stewart

                      Solutions Architect

                      • Henok Ademtew
                        Mentor

                        Henok Ademtew

                        Research Intern

                      • Jay Alammar
                        Mentor

                        Jay Alammar

                        • Kacper Lukawski
                          Mentor

                          Kacper Lukawski

                          Senior Developer Advocate

                        • Yusuf Sarıgöz
                          Mentor

                          Yusuf Sarıgöz

                          AI Researcher

                          • Andrey Vasnetsov
                            Mentor

                            Andrey Vasnetsov

                            CTO

                          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 Cohere and Qdrant Multilingual Semantic Search Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊

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