Join us for the Cloudflare AI Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!
Tags: cloudflarechallenge, devchallenge, ai, serverless
Published: 2024-04-03 17:21:07

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](https://dev.to/challenges/cloudflare)** 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](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/).  Your mandate is to **build a Workers AI application that makes use of AI task types from Cloudflare’s growing catalog of [Open Models](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/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](https://shop.forem.com)

**Additional Prize Category Winners (2)**
- $750 USD Gift Card or Equivalent
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the [DEV Shop](https://shop.forem.com)

**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](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/) or [Cloudflare Pages](https://pages.cloudflare.com/), 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: 

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Cloudflare Challenge Submission Template
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Please review our full [rules, guidelines, and FAQ page](https://dev.to/challenges/cloudflare) 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](https://discord.cloudflare.com) and hop into their [#devto-ai-challenge channel](https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/1224810884354936982). This will be the place to ask for technical help and meet community members building with Cloudflare. 

## Important Dates

- April 3: Cloudflare Challenge begins!
- <mark>April 14: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT</mark>
- 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!