The Challenge:

  • Build a multimodal AI agent that applies advanced reasoning and decision-making to solve a real-world problem in a specific vertical. The agent should use tools, take actions, and be demonstrable through an interactive UI, showcasing its ability to think, plan, and execute effectively.

  • Participants should utilize at least 3 sponsor tools in their project 

  • Participants will build and compete, each pitching their ideas and solutions in 3 minutes

Requirements

What to Submit

  • 3-minute demo recording along with all details required from Devpost

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$17,300+ in prizes
+ other prizes
Best use of Deep Lake (Activeloop)
3 winners

1st: Meta Quest 3S 128GB + $1000 in Activeloop Deep Lake Credits for the team
2nd: $750 in Activeloop Deep Lake Credits for the team
3rd: $500 in Activeloop Deep Lake Credits for the team

Best use of Stytch
$1,500 in cash
3 winners

$1k for first place team + Rayban Meta glasses per person on the team

$500 for 2nd place team

Best use of Vessl AI
$300 in cash
1 winner

300$ amazon gift card + $500 Vessl Cloud credits for the team

Best use of LlamaIndex
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1000 for the winning team

Best use of Fly.io
1 winner

$5k in credits for the team

Best use of apertureDB (ApertureData)
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1,000 for the team with best use of ApertureDB + 2 months of ApertureDB Cloud Basic Tier free per team member + featured blog post

Best use of ZenML
$500 in cash
1 winner

$7K in ZenML Pro credits and $500 cash for the team

Best use of HappyRobot
$500 in cash
1 winner

$500 cash for the team + $2,000 in credits

Best use of Agno
$3,000 in cash
3 winners

1st: $1500 cash for the team
2nd: $1000 cash for the team
3rd: $500 cash for the team

Best use of AgentQL
$500 in cash
1 winner

$500 cash for the team

Best use of Sambanova
3 winners

$2K in credits for 1st place team
$1K in credits for 2nd place team
$500 in credits for 3rd place team

Best use of Weave (W&B)
3 winners

$5k in Weave Pro subscription for the team, 1 e-scooter per team ONLY

First Place Overall
1 winner

First Place Overall

Second Place Overall
1 winner

Second Place Overall

Third Place Overall
1 winner

Third Place Overall

Fourth Place Overall
1 winner

Fourth Place Overall

Fifth Place Overall
1 winner

Fifth Place Overall

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Saroop Bharwani

Saroop Bharwani
Senso

Paige Bailey

Paige Bailey
Google Deepmind

Luke Whiting

Luke Whiting
Fly.io

Kaustav Das Sharma

Kaustav Das Sharma
Gumloop

Caspian Zhao

Caspian Zhao
Dosu

Pavitra Bhalla

Pavitra Bhalla
Dosu

Laurie Voss

Laurie Voss
LlamaIndex

Jaejun Lee

Jaejun Lee
Vessl AI

Zain Hasan

Zain Hasan
Together AI

Reed McGinley-Stempel

Reed McGinley-Stempel
Stytch

Anna Marie Clifton

Anna Marie Clifton
Zapier

Sonam Gupta

Sonam Gupta
ApertureData

Sam Stowers

Sam Stowers
Weights & Biases

Hamza Tahir

Hamza Tahir
ZenML

Ruggiero Dargenio

Ruggiero Dargenio
Duenders

Rohan Rao

Rohan Rao
Nvidia

Ashpreet Bedi

Ashpreet Bedi
Agno

Taher Poonawala

Taher Poonawala
HappyRobot

Ching-Yu Hu

Ching-Yu Hu
Costanoa Ventures

Jon Turdiev

Jon Turdiev
AWS

Emanuele Fenocchi

Emanuele Fenocchi
Activeloop

Mikayel Harutyunyan

Mikayel Harutyunyan
Activeloop

Pushkar Nandkar

Pushkar Nandkar
Sambanova

Vasanth Mohan

Vasanth Mohan
Sambanova

Rachel-Lee Nabors

Rachel-Lee Nabors
AgentQL

Henry Shi

Henry Shi
super.com

Judging Criteria

  • Idea - 25%
    Idea - Unique value proposition delivered by a vertical-specific agent using advanced reasoning, action, and tool use.
  • Technical implementation - 25%
    Technical implementation - Surprise and inspires judges and participants through the novel use of tools in a unique way.
  • Tool Use - 25%
    Tool Use - Integration of at least 3 sponsor tools to enable sophisticated agentic behavior
  • Presentation - 25%
    Presentation - Present a live demo in 3-minutes that clearly demonstrates the agent’s impact. Keep it to 1 overview slide.

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