Join the Google AI Studio Multimodal Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!

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We're excited to announce our first challenge with Google AI!

Running through September 14, the Google AI Studio Multimodal Challenge invites you to build and deploy innovative applets that showcase the incredible power of Gemini's multimodal capabilities.

There's one prompt for this challenge but three chances to win! We hope you give it a try.

Our Prompt

Your mission is to build and deploy an applet on Google AI Studio that shows off the power of Gemini in multimodal content understanding and/or generation.

Your applet must meet these requirements:

Built on Google AI Studio
Deployed using Cloud Run
Utilize at least one of the below multimodal functionality:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash-supported image, video, or audio understanding
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (free tier available for Sept 6-7)
- Live API (free tier supports 3 concurrent sessions)
- Imagen (requires paid tier)
- Veo (requires paid tier)

Think interactive storytelling experiences, tools that process audio and visual content, platforms that understand and generate content across multiple media types. If you can think it, you can build it!

Important Notes:

Use of paid APIs are purely optional and won't enhance your chance of winning
"Build Apps with Google AI Studio" DEV Education Track submissions do not count towards this challenge, you must build and deploy a new, original applet.

How To Participate

To participate, create your Google AI Studio account and publish a post using the submission template below.

Your applet should demonstrate creative and practical applications of Gemini's multimodal capabilities. Think beyond basic demos - how can multimodal AI solve real problems or create delightful experiences?

Google AI Studio Challenge Submission Template

Be sure to review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules.

Please note: additional eligibility requirements are listed below.

Prizes

We'll select three winners for this challenge. Each winner will receive:

$1,000 USD
DEV++ Membership
Exclusive DEV Badge

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

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Eligibility Requirements

This specific challenge includes the following restrictions:

Territories and regions excluded:
Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Yemen,
Crimea, the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), the so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).
Additional participant exclusions for this challenge: Government institution employees, Google employees
Open only to 18+

These challenge-specific restrictions are in addition to all eligibility requirements and exclusions detailed in our General Contest Official Rules and Google AI Studio Multimodal v25.09.03 Contest Rules.