Hackathon Challenge

Grounded AI For Enhanced Productivity

Engage with and learn how Coral, Cohere’s Knowledge Agent, was built with Chat and RAG capabilities with Cohere's API - Create grounded, innovative solutions that enhance productivity, ensuring reliable and verifiable AI responses in real-world applications.

Leverage Coral's retrieval-augmented generation to create inventive, productivity-boosting solutions. Explore two Tracks:

Track 1: RAG Document & Query Mode: Craft reliable, creative responses to enterprise challenges.
Track 2: RAG Connector Mode: Seamlessly integrates co.chat and rag with external systems to supercharge productivity.

Judging Criteria

Projects will be assessed on a scale of 1 to 10, based on the following criteria:

1. Innovation

How innovative, creative, and unique is the idea? Was a novel approach applied to solve the problem?

2. Technical Complexity

Is the project technically impressive and complex? How technically sophisticated, advanced, and elegant was the solution?

3. Commercial Viability

Is there business potential? How original is the business concept with a focus on human impact?

Projects will be assessed on a scale of 1 to 10, based on the following criteria:

🏆 Hackathon Prizes

🥇 1st Place

Flight and hotel to New York for 3 team members
Lunch in 1792 private restaurant and tour of New York Stock Exchange
Attend the Closing Bell ceremony and the billboard showcase
$5,000 USD in cash prize
$5,000 Cohere credits

🥈 2nd Place

Flight and hotel for 3 team members to Toronto
Meeting with the Cohere team
$3,000 USD in cash prize
$3,000 Cohere credits

🥉 3rd Place

Virtual Meeting with the Cohere team
$2,000 USD in cash prize
$2,000 in Cohere credits

All three winners will receive a congratulatory billboard displayed at Times Square

Please note, prize distribution is the exclusive responsibility of Cohere and its affiliated partners. All aspects of communication, recipient information sharing, and clarification requests regarding prizes will be overseen by Cohere and its partners. It is important to note that while we work with our partners to try to ensure a prompt distribution process, the delivery of prizes may take up to 90 days. The lablab team bears no responsibility for any prize distribution matters. For all distribution-related inquiries, please direct your communication to Cohere and its affiliated partners.

About Cohere

Cohere’s world-class large language models (LLMs) help enterprises build powerful, secure applications that search, understand meaning and converse in text.

Resources

Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide
Cohere documentation guide on getting started
Cohere LLM University

Example Use Cases

A financial tool that instantly converts complex 10-K filings into concise, accurate, and citation-backed summaries.
An educational platform offering simplified, clear explanations of intricate tech concepts to professionals with non-technical backgrounds.
A management system for quick, accurate, and compliant creation and distribution of product recall notices.

Hackathon Guidelines & Registration

Data

This is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Data/Docs) hackathon. Participants are encouraged to bring their datasets and documents and leverage the web search connector.

Please review Cohere's Data Usage and Privacy Policy before building your project. You may also opt to use Open Source Data for this Hackathon

Access Cohere, lifting the rate limit

Upon kick-off, you will receive an invitation link to Cohere via email.

Register a new email address that has not been used on Cohere's platform before
This registration will provide you with the production key with no rate limit

It's important to note that the hackathon sign-up link remains valid for the entire duration of the event. After the hackathon concludes, your Production (Prod) Key will transition to a Trial Key, so make the most of this opportunity!

Due to the nature of this Hackathon and with Cohere owning the org access, there will be no opt-out option.

Event Schedule

To be announced

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