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Cohere Thanksgiving AI Transformers Hackathon

Come to the Cohere Thanksgiving Hackathon and let's build, create, and innovate together! This is a perfect opportunity to use your skills and creativity to support a cause or make a difference. You could build a business idea or a social cause project – it's up to you! 👉 There is not only incredible prizes up for grabs, this is also a perfect opportunity to get into the absolute 🔥🔥🔥 hottest 🔥🔥🔥 trend in technology.

Sign up now and let's make a difference this Thanksgiving! Both seasoned AI / Tech pros as well as people with other domain knowledge are welcome, our team matchmaking system will make sure you find a team to work with, or create your own and invite your friends / colleagues.

Cohere NLP

Cohere provides through it's API unprecedented access to affordable, 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.
Cohere Sandbox: Introducing the new Sandbox for developing and deploying advanced natural language processing (NLP) projects, quickly.

Cohere Challenge

The challenge for this hackathon is to create an innovative solution using Cohere API

👉 Get inspired by Thanksgiving! We challenge you to build something that goes beyond feasting – be inspired by what you are thankful for and how can you use this experience to build something that will benefit others around you. 🦃

Have an idea that isn't related to the theme? Feel free to join us anyway!

*You can get additional points if your project uses Cohere’s Generate endpoint.

Prizes and Awards

🥇 $5000 API credits + $1000 cash
🥈 $3000 API credits + 800 cash
🥉 $1000 API credits + 500 cash

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

The challenge for this hackathon is to create an innovative
solution using Cohere API

Cohere NLP Hackathon details

Join lablab and Cohere during 48h to innovate and build the new generation of NLP powered applications. Find all the relevant details below.

🗓️ Where and when

The hackathon starts on November 18th and ends on November 20th. 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.

🦸🏼‍♂️ 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

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.

😅 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.

🧠 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.

Sandbox

Cohere

Sandbox is a collection of experimental, open-source GitHub repositories that make building applications and/or showcasing how such applications are built using large language models fast and easy with Cohere. Sandbox repositories aim to enable all developers, regardless of ML experience, to:

Conversant: A framework for building conversational agents on top of the Cohere API.
Route Generation: Build a functional chatbot that recognizes users' intent from descriptions.
Grounded QA: A powerful, contextualized, factual question-answering Discord bot.
Topically: A suite of tools that help you make sense of text collections.
Toy Semantic Search: A simple semantic search engine built with the Cohere API
View all features

Applications build on Cohere

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

Perfect Prompt

Prompt engineering and image generation tool.

Tip of my Tongue

An application that improves the efficiency of chat-based support systems.

Turing Test

A tool for finding and browsing books based on short prompts, keywords, or story plot.

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

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

Speaker
Kemi Tijani
Sales and Strategy - Customer Engagement NLP at Cohere
Speaker
Kristina Stephan
Talent Programs Manager at Cohere
Speaker
Edward Kim
Manager, Machine Learning at Cohere
Speaker
Sandra Kublik
Developer Relations at Cohere
Mentor
Mathias Asberg
Founder New Native
Speaker
Paweł Czech
Founder New Native
Organizer
Anastasiia Strakhova
Community Manager at New Native
Organizer
Olesia Zinchenko
Social Media Manager at NewNative
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.

Do I have to use Cohere's Generate?

You can use other APIs but with Generate you will be able to get some additional points.

I have other questions.

Feel free to reach us on social media, or through our Discord channel.

Event Schedule

To be announced