Aria Multimodal Hackathon

Join the Aria Multimodal Hackathon and unleash your creativity by building intelligent applications with Rhymes AI’s open-source model, Aria.

🌟 Be one of the 10 teams: gain exclusive access to Rhymes AI’s Aria API!

🚀 Take on the challenge to innovate using Aria, Rhymes AI’s open-source multimodal model.

🤖 Build cutting-edge applications by integrating text, images, video, code, and more with Aria’s AI capabilities.

🌍 Collaborate with a team (up to 4 members) or take on the challenge individually!

🎓 Gain insights from industry experts through workshops and sessions designed to fast-track your project.

🏆 Compete for a chance to win $5,000 in prizes!

Apply for a seat

About Rhymes.ai

Rhymes.ai is an innovative company focused on developing advanced multimodal AI solutions that integrate diverse data types—such as text, images, and video—into seamless outputs. Committed to efficiency, versatility, and open-source collaboration, Rhymes AI transforms how industries leverage AI to build powerful applications.

Through its flagship Aria model, Rhymes AI empowers developers, researchers, and businesses to create sophisticated AI tools capable of understanding and generating multimodal content with ease.

Hackathon Challenge

The challenge is to develop innovative solution that seamlessly integrate multiple data types—such as text, images, video, and code—into cohesive, intelligent application using Rhymes AI’s powerful multimodal model, Aria.

Whether your focus is building smarter healthcare tools, enhancing content creation platforms, optimizing customer service systems, or advancing AI research, your challenge is to design applications that fully demonstrate the potential of Aria by offering enhanced functionality, improved performance, and impactful real-world solutions.

Key requirements:
• Use Aria as the foundational model, building or fine-tuning it to develop your own application.
• Teams can have up to 4 members, or you may choose to work individually.
• All submissions must be open-source and shared through a GitHub repository.

The challenge is to develop innovative solution that seamlessly integrate multiple data types—such as text, images, video, and code—into cohesive, intelligent application using Rhymes AI’s powerful multimodal model, Aria.

Apply for Exclusive Access!

With high demand for early access to Rhymes AI’s groundbreaking Aria technology, we’re excited to offer 10 API keys to selected teams. These teams will gain exclusive access to Aria’s API, provided by Rhymes.ai, and have the chance to participate in the upcoming Aria Multimodal Hackathon.

How It Works

1. Register for the Aria Multimodal Hackathon: Complete the registration form and express your interest.
2. Form Your Team: Gather your team members and create your team profile on the lablab.ai platform.
3. Selection Process: Based on the information provided in your registration, we will carefully select the most qualified teams.

Teams selected for this unique opportunity will be notified by email and granted access to the Aria API to kick off their participation in the Hackathon.

✨ Don’t miss out on this chance to work with cutting-edge technology! Gather your dream team and apply now for your spot.

Technology

Aria is the flagship Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by Rhymes AI, specifically designed to handle multimodal inputs like text, images, and video. This open-source model focuses on efficiency and high performance. During inference, Aria activates only 3.9 billion parameters from its total 25.3 billion parameters, making it one of the fastest multimodal AI systems available today. Aria processes diverse data formats seamlessly, leveraging its 64K-long multimodal context window to deliver comprehensive insights. This capability allows it to handle long-form content, such as captioning 256-frame videos in just 10 seconds, with remarkable speed and precision.

Aria’s efficiency and performance set it apart from other leading AI models. It outperforms Pixtral 12B and Llama-3.2-12B on several benchmarks, including MMMU and MathVista. When handling complex tasks like long video processing, it surpasses GPT-4o, while in parsing lengthy documents, it outshines Gemini 1.5 Flash. These results make Aria a clear leader in tackling complex multimodal challenges.

Designed to foster collaboration and customization, Aria’s Apache 2.0 license ensures full transparency. Developers and researchers have full access to the model’s open weights, code, and demos. This openness encourages innovation, empowering the community to fine-tune and optimize Aria for diverse use cases, such as healthcare, content creation, AI research, and customer service.

Key Features of Aria:

• Multimodal Native: Seamlessly processes text, images, and videos within a unified model.

• Lightning-Fast Video Processing: Captures and captions 256-frame videos in just 10 seconds.

• Open-source model: Fully available for developers to modify, customize, and extend.

• Apache 2.0 License: Grants full access to weights, code, and demos.

Winner

💰 Cash: $3,000

2nd Place

💰 Cash: $1,500

3rd Place

💰 Cash: $500

Please be aware that participation in lablab.ai hackathons is voluntary and subject to the specific rules and conditions outlined for each event. While we strive to provide a fair and rewarding experience for all participants, we cannot guarantee entry or success in securing prizes. All prizes and opportunities are subject to availability and participants must meet the established criteria to qualify. lablab.ai is not responsible nor held liable for any commitments or offers - including programs, giveaways, or prizes - made by third-party sponsors or partners of the hackathon. The availability and delivery of third-party prizes or benefits are solely at the discretion of the respective sponsors and are not guaranteed by lablab.ai. We reserve the right to make amendments, modifications, or cancellations to any part of the hackathon (including full cancellation of the event itself), including prizes and terms of participation, at our sole discretion. Whenever possible, we will endeavor to notify participants of significant changes within a reasonable timeframe. All submissions by participants must be original work, open source, and compliant with the MIT License unless specified otherwise. By participating, you agree to these terms, the overall event terms, and the lablab.ai general terms and are encouraged to review all event-related information carefully. Prize Distribution: lablab.ai and its partners reserve the right to distribute all prizes within a 90-day period following the end date of the hackathon. This period allows for the proper processing and verification needed to award prizes appropriately.

What to submit?

📋 Basic Information

• Project Title

• Short Description

• Long Description

• Technology & Category Tags

📸 Cover Image and Presentation

• Cover Image

• Video Presentation

• Slide Presentation

💻 App Hosting & Code Repository

• Public GitHub Repository

• Demo Application Platform

• Application URL

For further details and guidance, please visit Submission Guidelines

Judging Criteria

Application of Technology

How effectively the chosen model(s) are integrated into the solution.

Presentation

The clarity and effectiveness of the project presentation.

Business Value

The potential impact and practical value of the solution.

Originality

Uniqueness and creativity in addressing the challenge.

Hackathon Details

Join lablab.ai hackathon and innovate using the latest models in the market. Discover all the relevant details below.

🗓️ Where and when

The start date of the hackathon is mentioned according to the date specified on the hackathon page, cover and schedule. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord server.

🦸🏼‍♂️ Who can join?

Teams with a passion for AI are encouraged to apply! Whether you're experienced or new to AI, if you're ready to innovate with Rhymes AI’s Aria API, this is your chance. Only 10 teams will be selected, so gather your team and apply now!

😅 What about teams?

If you don't have a team, don't worry! You can connect with other participants from all over the world on our dashboard or Discord server. We also recommend checking out our Discord server to find teammates and bounce around ideas. You can join the server here.

🛠️ How to participate

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.