We are so excited to be partnering with Cloudflare for the second DEV Challenge — with cash prizes and the opportunity to build and certify your AI skills. It is an opportunity to build on top of one of the Internet’s most important and innovative platforms. Thank you to Cloudflare for providing this opportunity for our community to learn and build. 💗
Running through April 14, the Cloudflare AI Challenge will be an opportunity for you to dip your toes (or really, an entire foot and maybe a leg) into AI. There is one prompt for this challenge, but a couple ways to win.
The Prompt
For this challenge, you will be deploying a serverless AI app on Cloudflare workers. Your mandate is to build a Workers AI application that makes use of AI task types from Cloudflare’s growing catalog of Open Models.
Cloudflare’s development platform offers a plethora of Open Models and the ability to accomplish many tasks related to text, images, and audio. Here is just a small taste of what you can do:
- Text Generation (10+ Open Models to choose from!)
- Object Detection
- Speech Recognition
- Translation
- And More!
Judging Criteria
All submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
- Innovation
- Creativity
- Demonstration of underlying technology
Additional Prize Categories
In addition to being able to win the overall prompt, there are two more prize categories you can work towards:
- Multiple Models: Awarded to a submission that leverages many models per task.
- Triple Task Types: Awarded to a submission that utilizes three or more task types.
Clearly there is a theme with these additional prize categories: the more, the merrier!
Prizes
Our three winners will receive the following prizes:
Overall Prompt Winner (1)
- $1,500 USD Gift Card or Equivalent
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
Additional Prize Category Winners (2)
- $750 USD Gift Card or Equivalent
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
How To Participate
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template provided below. As part of your submission, you will need to provide a deployed solution on Cloudflare Workers or Cloudflare Pages, and include a link to a public code repository with a working README file that has installation instructions.
Cloudflare offers a free trial with no credit card necessary that will get you up and running in no time.
Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in:
Cloudflare Challenge Submission Template
Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.
Need Technical Help?
We encourage everyone who's curious about the challenge to join the Cloudflare Developer Community Discord and hop into their #devto-ai-challenge channel. This will be the place to ask for technical help and meet community members building with Cloudflare.
Important Dates
- April 3: Cloudflare Challenge begins!
- April 14: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- April 16: Winners Announced
- April 17: Stay tuned for next DEV challenge
We can’t wait to see what you build! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.
Good luck and happy coding!
Top comments (83)
Excited to see what folks build! The frontend challenge was pretty epic, and while I'm excited for the next runback of that one, this one could be really interesting.
Reminder to follow the tags if you want to keep up with this challenge and challenges in general.
#cloudflarechallenge
#devchallenge
Wait but how do i join??
@alienretro You can find all the info here
dev.to/challenges/cloudflare
If anyone wants an idea (that I won't have time to implement), then I thought about building a tongue twister game that scores on the quickest time to say the tongue twister and validates submissions using Whisper. You could probably generate new phrases using one of the LLM models too.
Love this idea!
Love this idea!
Woohoo! Let's get rolling with another challenge. I'm excited to see what kinds of apps y'all cook up!
Side note: I'm really loving all the orange in this cover image. 🧡
@iamspathan @nikoldimit It's a great opportunity. Time for everyone to build the Serverless AI worker apps.
Thanks @ranjancse .
So excited to see what y'all build!
Whateverify repo: github.com/craigsdennis/whatever-i...
My illustrated image to fairytale generator is done! Here is the link:
dev.to/programordie/ai-fairytale-g...
Great challenge I already have an idea to have some fun with the Cloudflare workers and ai models I hope it can be realized in time for the deadline :D
Get started!
I'm thrilled to participate in the Cloudflare AI Challenge and look forward to showcasing my skills. Thank you for this incredible opportunity!
Awesome Ahana, can't wait to see your submission.
Excited for the challenge!
Do you have any ideas yet?
Yes, I have some planned in my notes..
Planning to build on one probably! This challenge will help out!
Great
Can't wait to see what y'all come up with! 🧡
Join us in Discord if any questions come up :)
Brilliant. Good choice for the 2nd challenge.
Can't wait to see your submission Matt!
Awesome! I'm excited to give it a shot 👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Awesome!
I'm really excited to join this hackathon! I've been wanting to try CloudFlare AI for quite a while now and this hackathon is just the right push for me to start building.
One question, I'm planning to use Vectorize but it's not available for CloudFlare Free plan. Is there a plan to make Vectorize available for Free plan or do I have to try the Pro plan?
This was a fun Saturday evening hackfest for me.
My submission, dev.to/pathyatt/greater-than-ficti..., generates images of animals in fictional universes (like Marvel).
While there is a front-end to handle a small subset of options, the Worker (API) is not limited to the selections I've provided. The world is your
oysterlight sabered kangarooI normally do DevOps and have never tried Cloudflare workers... Seems fun to me!
Good chance to play with something new
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