

Mon, Jan 20
|Online
GPT-4o-mini Hackathon
🚀 Develop a creative and effective AI Assistant using the GPT-4o-mini model, focusing on its ability to drive real business value. ✍️ Receive support and feedback from industry experts 🤝 Join individually, as part of your team or create a team with other participants
Jan 20, 2025, 9:00 PM – Jan 27, 2025, 1:00 AM
Online
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We invite you to participate in an innovative challenge that not only pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence but also emphasizes business-oriented solutions using the GPT-4o-mini large language model. This hackathon is designed to inspire participants to deliver impactful, real-world applications that showcase both technical prowess and business value. With a 128,000 token context window, participants will explore complex AI interactions with direct relevance to solving business challenges.
If you wish, we can assist your team in transforming your project into a business at any stage, help with choosing the country for company registration, expand the project to the international market, streamline accounting and reporting, interact with tax authorities, and more.
Hackathon Challenge
Your task is to develop a practical, commercially viable solution leveraging the extended 128,000 token context window of the GPT-4o-mini model. Beyond technical execution, we encourage you to focus on delivering business-oriented outcomes that demonstrate how AI can drive tangible value in various industries.
Here’s a list of potential products or assistants that your team can develop during the hackathon:
💡 Resume Assistant - an AI assistant that helps users create, format, and optimize resumes based on their experience, job requirements, and industry standards.
💡 Psychological Support Assistant - an AI-driven assistant for emotional support and mental well-being. This assistant can engage users in supportive conversations, provide coping strategies, and suggest mental health resources in a non-therapeutic, conversational way.
💡 News Aggregator - a smart news aggregator that curates content from multiple sources, offering summaries, filtering by user preferences, and providing insights into trending topics. It could also offer sentiment analysis of the news.
💡 Lecture Archiving Assistant for Students - an AI assistant that archives lectures and notes from various subjects, categorizes content, and enables students to search, summarize, and access key points quickly.
💡 Marketing Content Generator - an AI assistant that helps businesses create tailored marketing content across channels—social media, blogs, or email campaigns—by analyzing market trends, audience behavior, and competitor content.
💡 Interview AI Assistant: Build an AI assistant that helps users prepare for job interviews by simulating interview scenarios for specific roles, providing personalized feedback, and offering tips to improve responses based on the job description.
💡 Startup AI Assistant: Develop an AI assistant to guide aspiring entrepreneurs through the process of starting a business. It can suggest business names, help create a business plan, and provide marketing and growth strategies by analyzing market trends and competitor insights.
These examples are intended to spark your imagination—they are not exclusive. We encourage you to think broadly and creatively, whether by enhancing these ideas or by exploring entirely new applications where a large context window can be uniquely beneficial.
Prizes
Winners can customize their prize by selecting options within their allocated budget:
1st Place: $1,500 USD
2nd Place: $1,000 USD
3rd Place: $500 USD
Participants can choose from the following categories:
MasterClass Plus subscription (education platform)
Specific course(s) on Udemy (education platform)
Adobe prepaid subscription cards
Emirates Gift Card
Steam Gift Cards
Amazon Gift Cards
Microsoft Store Gift Cards
Visa and Mastercard Gift Card
How it Works:
After winners are announced, they can select items from the prize list to create a customized prize package within their prize budget. Additionally, as a prize, an item not listed above can be selected by mutual agreement between the participant and the hackathon organizers.
Additionally, each winner will have the opportunity for a personal two-hour consultation with our top managers and experts! What will be covered during the consultation? The winner will learn the details of starting a business, attracting investments, building a team, and finding partners and clients directly from professionals who have gone through this long journey! You will gain invaluable experience and support.
Deliverables
Participants must submit:
1. A Working App:
Provide a link to the app, which can be a web app or a Telegram Mini App, showcasing its functionality and effectiveness in real-world business scenarios.
2. Source Code Repository:
All submissions must adhere to the following rules regarding the repository:
Use GitHub exclusively for source code hosting.
Grant organizers access to the repository within the first 24 hours of the hackathon.
Include only previous code in the first commit if starting from an existing codebase.
Maintain a clear README.md file and place it in the root directory of the repository, along with presentation.pdf (project presentation).
Commit changes regularly to document progress during the hackathon (avoid committing large code pieces at once). Be prepared to verify authorship and timing of the code if requested by the jury.
No commits are allowed after the hackathon deadline.
The repository must contain:
The complete source code developed during the hackathon.
A README.md file (following the format below).
A presentation.pdf file containing the final pitch presentation.
README.md Format:
1. Project name
2. URL of the working web app
3. Link to presentation.pdf in the repository
4. Optional link to a video screencast
5. History section clearly describing:
Any pre-existing code or assets used, along with their purpose and scope.
The new work completed during the hackathon.
If no pre-existing code or assets were used, clearly state that the project was developed entirely from scratch.
3. Final Pitch Presentation:
Submit a presentation explaining:
How the solution addresses a business problem.
Its scalability and market potential.
Demo outputs that demonstrate the app’s effectiveness in solving real-world business problems.
Judging Criteria
Innovation: Originality of new features or contributions developed during the hackathon.
Business Impact: Clear demonstration of the commercial potential of the solution, including a solid business case and market analysis.
Feasibility & Scalability: How easily the solution can be scaled and deployed in real business environments.
Technical Performance: Effective use of GPT-4o-mini’s capabilities.
Clarity & Persuasiveness of Presentation: How effectively the solution and its business value are communicated.
Timeline
The hackathon will take place over a period of 7 calendar days, starting from 20 January, 2025 to 27 January, 2025.
Technical conditions
Each team must have its own access to GPT-4o-mini. Additionally, teams are required to host their web application on their own server.
Source Code Rules
1. Participants may use:
Their own source code written before the hackathon.
Third-party source code for which they have usage rights (e.g., open-source).
Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate code.
GPT-4o-mini as the exclusive LLM/vLLM. Other neural networks, models, or tools may be used for all additional purposes.
2. Only new code developed during the hackathon will be judged. Pre-existing code must:
Be included in the first commit.
Be described in the History section of the README.md file.
3. Starting from scratch is not a disadvantage, as judging focuses exclusively on new contributions.
Intellectual Property Rights
All rights to the solution developed during the hackathon, including source code, documentation, and other materials, remain with the team.
Teams are free to use, share, or commercialize their work without restrictions.
Support
Participants can seek guidance and ask technical questions through the dedicated Telegram chat. Regular check-ins and tips will be provided to assist participants in navigating the challenges of model fine-tuning.
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