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Join us for the Cloudflare AI Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!

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!

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Ben Halpern

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

This is the official tag for submissions and announcements related to the Cloudflare AI Challenge.

#devchallenge

This is the official tag for submissions and announcements related to DEV Challenges.
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John

Wait but how do i join??

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Erik Giovani

@alienretro You can find all the info here
dev.to/challenges/cloudflare

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Philip How

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.

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Jess Lee

Love this idea!

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Craig Dennis

Love this idea!

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Michael Tharrington

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. 🧡

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Ranjan Dailata

@iamspathan @nikoldimit It's a great opportunity. Time for everyone to build the Serverless AI worker apps.

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Sohail Pathan

Thanks @ranjancse .

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programORdie

My illustrated image to fairytale generator is done! Here is the link:
dev.to/programordie/ai-fairytale-g...

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Craig Dennis

So excited to see what y'all build!

Whateverify repo: github.com/craigsdennis/whatever-i...

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Florian

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

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Ben Halpern

Get started!

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Ben Halpern

You are free to license the code in any way you wish. The challenge is principally for demonstration, so you can be as permissive or restrictive as you wish.

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Ahana Sharma

I'm thrilled to participate in the Cloudflare AI Challenge and look forward to showcasing my skills. Thank you for this incredible opportunity!

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Ben Halpern

Awesome Ahana, can't wait to see your submission.

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Devarshi Shimpi

Excited for the challenge!

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Ben Halpern

Do you have any ideas yet?

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Devarshi Shimpi

Yes, I have some planned in my notes..
Planning to build on one probably! This challenge will help out!

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Ben Halpern

Great

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