Introduction

Participants are encouraged to set up their environments and toolchains prior to the hackathon. We’ve also partnered with open-source projects and toolchains that could accelerate your project development. We’ll be holding onboarding sessions and office hours where you can learn about each tool’s capabilities and ask the team questions.

Tools and Technologies

Optional open-source tools available to participants:

  • BentoML + Open LLM // OpenLLM, by BentoML, is a framework for fine-tuning, serving, and operating production-ready Large-Language models (LLMs) via its integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and BentoML.
  • ChainML + Council // Council, by ChainML, is a robust AI agent platform enabling users to create sophisticated agents for complex tasks with seamless deployment and scalable oversight features.
  • MLC-LLM // MLC-LLM is a universal framework for developing, optimizing, and deploying large models natively on-device, accelerated with local phone/laptop GPUs with no need for server support.
  • Qdrant // Qdrant is a high-performance, scalable, secure, open-source, similarity (vector) search engine and database, essential for building the next generation of AI/ML applications.

Tool Chain Virtual Onboarding & Office Hours

We’re hosting onboarding and office hours over the next 3 weeks with our open source project and toolchain partners. RSVP below if you're interested; a great resource for setting up the environments and toolchains for our mobile-first gen AI hackathon and beyond. 

  • Aug 29 @ 3PT: Microsoft for Startups on how to provision and manage Azure Cognitive Services
  • Aug 31 @ 3PT: Qdrant on how to harness a high-performance, scalable, secure, open-source, similarity (vector) search engine and database
  • Sept 5 @ 3PT: MLC-LLM on how to develop, optimize, and deploy large models natively on-device
  • Sept 7 @ 3PT:  BentoML on fine-tuning, serving, and operating production-ready LLMs
  • Sept 12 @ 3PT: OpenVINO on optimizing and deploying AI inference on a range of Intel platforms
  • Sept 14 @ 3PT: ChainML on the Council AI agent framework to empower devs to create and deploy customized, application-ready AI agents with predictable behavior

Inspiration

If you need even more ideas, we asked our friends and families about features they’re looking forward to seeing with the advancement of AI, and here are some that we thought were fun: 

  • Health and wellness: Wellness/journaling app that correlates unstructured data from free-form journal entries with wearable/health data
  • Creativity: Photo app that generatively edits photos based on user preferences (favorite selfies, photographic compositions, stylization)
  • Lifestyle: Generative bedtime picture book creator where your child is the main character
  • Generative interfaces: Android keyboard with generative functionality that adapts to different contexts: productivity vs. social apps, texts to your family vs. specific friends, intent-based adaptive menu options, etc.

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