Google Vertex AI Hackathon

Welcome to Opening Stream for Google Cloud Vertex AI Hackathon! Join us for opening Talks and Hackathon Guide.

Hackathon Kick-Off

Ksenia Nekrasova and Katharina Beck from Google Cloud will open the Hackathon with inspirational words and onboarding into the Google Cloud products

Google Cloud's Opening

We will guide you through the website, and Discord community - to make sure you will succeed at the Hackathon 

Hackathon Guide

Let's go through the Technology for the Hackathon and how you can get access to it.

Technology and Challenge

Alex Erfurt, the representer of Google Cloud will join the stage to guide you through the AI models and the use cases for your Hackathon projects 

Guide into Google Cloud

After the Kick-Off stream, focus on finding your team for the Hackathon and start brainstorming your idea!

Team Formation time!

5-min tutorial for non-tech participants on the creation of GitHub account

GitHub for non-tech participants

Start of the Team Formation

Join Q&A space on lablab.ai Discord server for open session to discuss any questions you may have

Open Q&A with mentors

Submission Deadline

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LeapMind

Eden Chan

Tazik Shahjahan

News platforms are often driven by profit and incentivized to maximize user attention through echo chambers and increasingly polarizing news. This phenomenon has been observed in various media platforms, such as cable news during US elections, trending controversial videos on YouTube and TikTok, and the spread of fake news.

To address these challenges, Complementary Opposing News (CON) provides readers with a diverse range of news sources and challenges them to engage with opposing views. By presenting readers with complementary opposing viewpoints, CON aims to promote critical thinking and reduce polarization. Furthermore, CON plans to leverage Google Vertex AI to make playing devil's advocate a pro-social activity for opposing viewpoints to complement each other's understanding of the world instead of tearing each other down.

By using these technologies, CON aims to promote critical thinking by encouraging readers to play devil's advocate as they're exposed to opposing viewpoints in steel-manning arguments.

CON aims for a more informed and less polarized society, one chrome extension download at a time.
Down the road, CON hopes to become more than just an isolated chrome extension and expand internationally. By leveraging Google Vertex AI and Firebase for production-grade deployment to scale the solution to many more users and support multiple languages, reducing international conflict. 
Furthemore, CON is optimistic in using blockchain technologies  to incentivize communities for truth-seeking and become a platform for Socratic discourse.

Con's frontend is React, Typescript, Chakra UI, and backend is FastAPI and GCP. Con uses langchain and Google Vertex AI for ML models for sentiment analysis of articles and text generation and conversational assistance. 
CON hopes to expand the platform to offer data analysis and visualization to help users engage with a broad spectrum of opinions and determine the credibility and believability of different news.


Con plays devil's advocate to complement your understanding of the world as we read the news by challenging you to thoughtfully engage with opposing views. Con wishes for a more informed and less polarized society, one chrome extension download at a time.

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Team Idea

Submission