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

dev.to staff on April 03, 2024

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...
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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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Kathy • Edited

Can't wait to see what y'all come up with! 🧡

Join us in Discord if any questions come up :)

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Fahmi Noor Fiqri

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?

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Patrick Hyatt

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 oyster light sabered kangaroo

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Matt Ryan

Brilliant. Good choice for the 2nd challenge.

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Ben Halpern

Can't wait to see your submission Matt!

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Murat Terzioğlu

I normally do DevOps and have never tried Cloudflare workers... Seems fun to me!

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Ben Halpern

Good chance to play with something new

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Chrisogonas O. Mc'Odhiambo

Awesome! I'm excited to give it a shot 👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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Ben Halpern

Awesome!

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Mark Dembo

Super excited to see what people will build! 🧡

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Ben Halpern

Absolutely!

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programORdie

Nice challenge! I never used the AI, but ig this will result in awesome submission of lots of devs!

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Ben Halpern

You should submit!

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programORdie

I'm already working on something! I only slept 4 hours last night fighting with the cloudflare API...

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Bobby Iliev

Excited for this! Though the Workers AI service seems to have been down all morning 😄

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Bobby Iliev

It started working after 2-3 hours but kind of wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what's wrong with my code while it was an issue on their end :D

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Andrii

Hey, I'm trying to participate in the challenge and use the whisper model. It works ok with really small audios, but it almost constantly returns errors for bigger than a few sentence inputs
What are the limitations of file inputs here?
I'm on a free plan of course

InferenceUpstreamError: InferenceUpstreamError: ERROR 3010: Invalid or incomplete input for the model: failed to decode JSON: Request is too large

Example of audio from your documentation on which whisper returns error
raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure-Sa...

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Jess Lee

Hey @serafimsanvol! The best place to ask about this would be on the Cloudflare Developer Community Discord and in their #devto-ai-challenge channel.

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Andrii

Thanks, Jess!

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programORdie

I'm pretty sure this is becouse the file (request body) is to large

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Lev N.

Really excited to see everyone's creativity with this one!

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Nimit Savant

Let's go, I shared this on our community. Sounds like an interesting opportunity!

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Alex Anie

Thanks for posting this challenge!

I have some questions before I take this challenge.

  1. Can I participate as someone who lives in Nigeria?
  2. You talked about posting your submission; Is the post just about the project you created or you are required to create a technical Article to explain how the problem was solved?
  3. Is the readme file a technical Article or just an installing guide on how to deploy the project on Cloudflare?

I will be glad if my above questions are answered as this will determine if am eligible to participate in the challenge. Thanks for your time.

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Philip How

Hi Alex,

  1. You can see the full rules here that detail eligibility requirements (including country exclusions).
  2. You can see what the post requires by looking at the post template. But its a summary of your submission - including a bit about the journey you took to get there - nothing too in depth.
  3. The readme is just installation instructions!
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Alex Anie
  1. I have check and Nigeria is not listed so, I guess am go to go then 🥳
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Hikolakita

Can someone explain me? I didn't understand everything well, I never used Cloudfare.

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Ben Halpern

Cloudflare is a serverless edge compute platform that allows you to deploy code close to users via their "Workers" — and they have a bunch of new AI models you can run right in the workers.

So basically without hosting yourself you can tap into a bunch of AI models and run them on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

The challenge is coming up with the most interesting demo of the tech.

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Hikolakita

So I should do the best demo of the cloudfare's AIs? Like i should use their API to make something impressive?

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Jesus Guerrero

Let's do it! a perfect excuse to try AI from a developer stand point

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Jess Lee

💯

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Dale Nguyen

Thanks, excited to submit my first application :D

dev.to/dalenguyen/text-2-image-gen...

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sc0v0ne

Will there be projects with more extensive data for delivery in the future? I don't know about the other users, the challenge caught my attention, but I can usually pay attention on the weekend to create projects.

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Elijah

Am equally excited about this. Grateful to God I got this at the nick of time

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cricCode

I am late, but let's see what I can do in 1 day

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Nabil Alamin

Yesterday was a long one but I was finally able to round up everything, hope you like it...off to work 🏃‍♂️

dev.to/arndom/ending-maker-ai-5aeo

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Milad khormaee

Hi everyone, just released my own submission .Excited to hear your feedback
dev.to/itz-amethyst/ask-me-a-servi...
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Hikolakita

This is more or less urgent, please are we allowed to use libraries for our AI? Like Text-To-Speech? Please respond as quickly as possible.

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Gaurav Tewari • Edited

I was thinking of using text-to-speech with other worker ai model since currently there is no text-to-speech service/model in Cloudflare can we use any other 3rd party service?
I was thinking of using open ai's tts-1

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Vivek Verma

Hi everyone! I'm new to the platform...
can someone please tell me how to participate?.. are we suppose to start working on the challenge tasks right away and then later do the submission here directly or we need to do something else to participate to get into the challenge..
pls explain!

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Philip How

Hi Vivek,

You can start working on the challenge right away. Your submission post (with all of the required inclusions, GitHub repo etc) needs to be submitted by April 14 at 11:59 PM PDT.

There's no other steps you need to take to register for the challenge, but do join the Cloudflare Discord server if you get stuck!

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Romina

WaOo 🤩 I excited for this challenge

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Uzondu

Are you allowed to also to create
Web applications using cloudflare

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codingdudecom

Where can we see the winners of the challenge?

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programORdie

Is it allowed to use other APIs too? Like text to speech?

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Rishab Kumar

A bit late, but will still try to build something!

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Ranjan Dailata

Logged a major bug with the Wrangler Login/Publish - Wrangler Bug

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Trieu Le

My first application: AI Chatbot

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Mark Matute

g4m3 on

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Uzondu

I got something planned. Just wondering how to deploy it to cloudflare workers

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Uzondu • Edited

Looks interesting; seems l need to study more on using cloudflare workers and its AI models. What the discord for?
and how do I sign up

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Jess Lee • Edited

You can sign up for the discord by visiting discord.cloudflare.com and joining the #devto-ai-challenge channel. Here you'll be able to connect with other folks building with cloudflare and get some additional support from their team.

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Ananya Paw 🐾

Dang it, i missed the train

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fretny

I'm late to the party, when will the next challenge be there?

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SHOKIRBEK XASANOV

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deliberate

I'm Much Interested in this offer. So I'll do perfect simulation