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Cohere Hackathon

Take your coding skills to the next level with world class LLMs!

  • πŸ—“οΈ This 7-day virtual hackathon from January 27 to February 3 will be your time to shine!
  • πŸ’» Construct AI apps with the latest LLM-powered technology from Cohere and try the newly released Multilingual Text Understanding model
  • βœ”οΈ There's no prerequisite level. Just starting out with AI? Or perhaps you're a veteran Data Scientist? A Designer? A Business Developer? We want you and your domain expertise!
  • πŸ±β€πŸ’» Sign up now for free and let's get going!
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Cohere

Cohere API provides access to state of the art, affordable, and easy-to-deploy large language models capable of powering the next generation of game-changing AI native applications.

Powerful NLP Model

Cohere trained their models on billions of words to understand the nuances and context markers of human communication.

Flexible API

The Cohere API works with many different libraries that fit every stack. Cohere's Python, Node, and Go SDKs make AI easy to integrate into your app.

The Future of software

Build innovative and extremely powerful applications that were previously not possible. The future of software development is AI native.

Cohere Challenge

πŸ‘‰ The challenge of this hackathon is to come up with the most original and innovative solution using Cohere's Generate, Classify, Embed, or Multilingual Semantic Search

Prizes and Awards

πŸ₯‡ 5000 API credits + 1000 USD cash
πŸ† 4000 API credits + 1300 USD cash to be distributed among the finalists

Additionally, all winning teams will receive exclusive Cohere Swag and have the chance to: Meet Cohere Product Manager for a virtual coffee & record a video of their demo that will be promoted on Cohere's channels!

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.

πŸ‘‰ Check out multilingual model Github repo

πŸ‘‰ Try out this cool multilingual movies search and recommendation demo

Semantic Search Sandbox + Resources

We encourage you to explore semantic search with Basic Semantic Search notebook, Cohere’s docs and Toy Semantic Search sandbox. Sandbox is a collection of experimental, open-source GitHub repositories by Cohere that make building applications for developers fast and easy, regardless of ML experience.

πŸ‘‰ Check out basic Semantic Search example notebook by Cohere

πŸ‘‰ Build a simple Semantic Search engine with Cohere

πŸ‘‰ Check out docs on how to build a Try out semantic search

πŸ‘‰ Try out Toy Semantic Search sandbox

Cohere AI Hackathon

API Access

Signup for API Access

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

Signup for API access

Cohere AI Hackathon details

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

πŸ—“οΈ Where and when

The hackathon starts on January 27th and ends on February 3rd. Over the weekend, you'll have the opportunity to learn from Cohere 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 Cohere API

To get started with Cohere NLP API please signup using the following link: https://cohere.ai/signup. Your trial API key are free and has and can handle up to 100 calls per minute free of charge. 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 Cohere technology page where you can find all the relevant information about the API and how to use it plus cohere tutorials and cohere boilerplates.

Applications build on Cohere

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

Perfect Prompt

Perfect Prompt is a one stop shop for prompt engineering and image generation. It allows you to experiment with your prompt before submitting it several times to a image generation model.

\debait;

an AI-system capable of debating complex topics.

TALDERA

Users can call Tal;dera to extract message history and generate summaries of previous message chunks, given parameters such as number of messages, start time/date, output format, and chunk sizes. Summaries are given in an organized, embedded format, and are linked to where the conversations took place in the chats

Health E AI Assistant

By combining a custom conversant persona and grounded QA, Health-E is able to aid in processing patients, extracting relevant information to fill out forms, and providing advice common knowledge advice on applicable scenarios if prompted with a question.

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

  • Sandra Kublik
    Speaker

    Sandra Kublik

    Developer Relations at Cohere

  • Kemi Tijani
    Speaker

    Kemi Tijani

    Sales and Strategy - Customer Engagement NLP at Cohere

  • Roy Lim
    Speaker

    Roy Lim

    Marketing Events Manager at Cohere

  • Meor Amer
    Speaker

    Meor Amer

    NLP at Cohere | ML Visuals at kDimensions

  • Izabel Cvetkovic
    Speaker

    Izabel Cvetkovic

    lablab.ai Hackathon winner

  • Anastasiia Strakhova
    Organizer

    Anastasiia Strakhova

    Community Manager at New Native

  • Volodymyr Palii
    Speaker

    Volodymyr Palii

    Senior Full-stack Developer

  • Olesia Zinchenko
    Organizer

    Olesia Zinchenko

    Social Media Manager at NewNative

  • Mathias Asberg
    Speaker

    Mathias Asberg

    Founder New Native

  • PaweΕ‚ Czech
    Speaker

    PaweΕ‚ Czech

    Founder New Native

  • Elizabeth Marchuk
    Organizer

    Elizabeth Marchuk

    Social Media Specialist at New Native

  • Luis Serrano
    Speaker

    Luis Serrano

    Author of Grokking Machine Learning | AI scientist and communicator

  • Arjun Patel
    Speaker

    Arjun Patel

    Data Scientist | Origami Artist

  • Jakub Zakrzewski
    Organizer

    Jakub Zakrzewski

    Event Manager at 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 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 Hackathon event and making it to the end πŸ‘Š

Semantic Assist

Semantic Assist

Semantic Assist is a Chrome extension made with JavaScript for the ordinary users to Semantically search in any Articles or Even any YouTube Videos. Keeping its usability in mind and short attention span of users we have made this Chrome Extension.

Kraken
Psy Q Bot

Psy Q Bot

Psy-Q Bot is a chatbot that has been trained to answer psychology-related issues and can provide its sources for verification and further reading.

The Incremental Experience
Cohere EmbedCohere GenerateCohere Coral
Coherent Fox

Coherent Fox

Coherent Fox is an audit generator for Python code based on pre-trained BERT model.

Coherent Fox
JasonAI

JasonAI

First Conversational B2B sales chatbot to automate Sales Development Representatives

JasonAI
CoDY the AI Therapist

CoDY the AI Therapist

Co:DY uses advanced LLMs to simulate a conversation between a therapist and user β€Žin a webpage setting. It is capable of recognizing emotions, generating relatable β€Žresponse with respect to user input, and giving tailored suggestions and feedback.β€Ž

The Cyber Savvy Ninjas
replit
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Insight

Insight

Understand yourself better through stories of yourself from 'alternate reality'. A language model learns about your personality and tell you about a story that can help you understand yourself and your decisions in life

Yesew team
BlogGPT

BlogGPT

This project offers a unique platform for creative expression with three distinct functions: writing poems, stories, and posts. It provides users with a convenient and user-friendly interface to unleash their imagination and their creative ideas to life.

Neural Ninjas
Streamlit
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OneMusic

OneMusic

OneMusic is a music analytics tool enabling musicians to be the next viral hit!

OneMusic
Streamlit
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scripttwolife

scripttwolife

Scrip2life is a new tool that utilises LLM from Cohere to save time by breaking down the script and generating summaries, character traits, and backstories for actors to use as inspiration while preparing for their upcoming auditions.

we-r-artiste
replit
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Pampushka Chatbot

Pampushka Chatbot

The core idea of our project is to create an assistant for interviewing purposes which can be utilized by companies that are hiring employees.

Pampushka
CinematixAI

CinematixAI

Harness the power of AI for script breakdown and understanding

Cinematix AI
Cohere Coral
TubeTalk

TubeTalk

TubeTalk is an application that helps any YouTube content creator to better understand their community and understand how their viewers interact and what they think about the videos they post.

LastMinute
Smart Study

Smart Study

Assist students in their studies so that they can learn and practice efficiently

Seeker
Cohere CoralCohere Generate
AI Job Interview Assistant

AI Job Interview Assistant

This project is going to give user the real interview experience and confidence at the same time

Confidence Builder with AI
Cohere Coral
Project Peace

Project Peace

Project Peace is a cutting-edge AI tool designed to detect and detoxify toxic texts. It leverages Cohere’s Multilingual pretrained models to identify instances of toxic language, including hate speech and profanity in multiple languages and then detoxify.

Project Peace
Streamlit
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Cohere CoralCohere ClassifyCohere Generate
notifAI

notifAI

notifAI is a note-taking tool that assists users with understanding textbook material. It allows users to either type or take a picture of a textbook page and, in turn, returns a summary of the selection along with a few main points.

ABG Hunters
Cohere CoralCohere Generate
coLink

coLink

coLink is an API-as-a-service bridge between clients and CohereAPI to scale NLP access to small and medium sized businesses.

UCC Team
replit
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jour

jour

A low-friction, conversational 
 daily journaling experience

Ahmed - Chan Enterprise
AI Assistants

AI Assistants

An AI Assistant that can act as a customer service agent and assist customers

AI Assistants
SentientAI Newsboy

SentientAI Newsboy

Newsboy is your personal assistant for finding fresh, relevant and trustworthy news around the world. With Newsboy you assume an active position in the habit of informing yourself by being able to search for the exact information you are looking for.

Sentient AI
JobAdvocate

JobAdvocate

Revolutionize Your Job Search with JobAdvocate - An AI-powered platform that offers personalized cover letter and email generators, helping you land your dream job with ease.

PakDev
Streamlit
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Ask Quran

Ask Quran

Ask Quran enables one to perform semantic search of the Quran and other Islamic literature with a simple chatbot interface.

Menlo Park Lab
medal
Vercel
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Cohere Coral
FINXAI

FINXAI

The AI Portfolio Manager, automatically contruct, trade and manage your investments in the financial markets without having to hire an expert or risk to do it yourself.

FINXAI
Cohere CoralCohere Classify
OutTHERe

OutTHERe

Our system can recommend activities\services based on user current emotions.

ASU-FITers
Cohere Coral
NegotiazeAI

NegotiazeAI

NegotiazeAI is a B2B web based product that helps businesses increase their sales and interaction with customers by producing AI generated responses based on personalized needs of the customer and negotiates to buy the product they’re interested in.

NegotiazeAI
RacoontAI

RacoontAI

Generating bed time children stories using a combination between Embed and Generate Cohere API

Engels
Wanna become iOS Developer

Wanna become iOS Developer

I want to become iOS-Developer. But I decided first of all to collect people as someone collects pencils into the container.

AI isnt AI
Ainfer

Ainfer

Ainfer is an AI-powered tool that can extract information from articles in a matter of seconds! With Ainfer, you can get instant answers to your questions, summarize articles, and work with multiple files simultaneously.

Ainfer
Compass

Compass

Our tool uses Co:here's Embed and Generate APIs to find similarities between descriptions of a favored character given by users, and all available League of Legends champions.

Bing Chilling
Cowriteme

Cowriteme

Cohere based AI co-author to help writers students to create an amazing piece of story with amazing storyline

CowLover
Slyngshot

Slyngshot

With just a drag and a drop, you can connect all sorts of NLP components and see your creation come to life. No technical know-how required! Whether you're a seasoned NLP expert or a beginner, Slyngshot makes NLP workflow creation fun, and fast.

Slyngshot
EmoPulse

EmoPulse

Emo Pulse aids Sales Agents and Revenue Team with: 1.) Real-time Emotions Tracking of clients, 2.) Actionable Insights for next steps in the sales conversation 3.) Efficient Follow-Ups 4.) Conversation Summaries for future reference and strategy planning

Guide
Vercel
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Voice Clue

Voice Clue

Voice Clue is an AI powered assistant that generates descriptions about a given keyword and reads them in spoken language in 7 English accents

WeM2
Streamlit
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Docs Buddy

Docs Buddy

Docs Buddy is a medical search engine that uses cohere embeddings and Google search to provide fast and accurate results for healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical associates.

team phoeniks
Cohere CoralCohere GenerateCohere Classify
CYCLOPS

CYCLOPS

An assistant that uses both voice and vision to solve users requirements

Quantum Analytics limited
replit
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Cohere Coral
SymbiotAI

SymbiotAI

If you can create a good prompt you can start monetizing your skills. We connect users who know how to work with AI models with those who use them without any knowledge.

SymbiotAI
Project Kala

Project Kala

This project leverages Generative AI to help foreign-language teachers to create personalized and compelling stories based on the learner’s skills level and interests.

Kala
Streamlit
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Cohere
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