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Deploy a Serverless AI App on Cloudflare Workers

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We are so excited to share that DEV’s second-ever challenge is one that is sponsored where we can offer more substantial prizes! It is an opportunity to build on top of one of the Internet’s most important platforms. Thank you to Cloudflare for supporting our growing community. 💗

Running through April 14, the Cloudflare 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.

Here is what our winners will receive:

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.

Read on to learn about our prompt and how to participate!

Sponsored by Cloudflare

The Cloudflare Developer Platform offers everything your teams need to deliver serverless applications. Compute, storage, and services to deploy your full-stack applications including image optimization, and video streaming.

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Key Dates

  • Contest start: April 03, 2024
  • Submissions due: April 14, 2024
  • Winners announced: April 16, 2024

Badge Rewards

Cloudflare AI Challenge Participant
Cloudflare AI Challenge Participant
Cloudflare AI Challenge Winner
Cloudflare AI Challenge Winner

Winners

Congratulations to our Cloudflare AI Challenge winners! Read the full announcement post here.

Build a Workers AI Application

Multiple Models

Triple Task Types

Challenge Prompt

Build a Workers AI Application

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
  • Object Detection
  • Speech Recognition
  • Translation
  • And More!

In addition to being able to win the overall prompt, we have two more prize categories you can work towards! These prize categories will each include an additional judging criteria.

Prize Categories

  • Multiple Models: awarded to a project that leverages many models per task - the more models the merrier!
  • Triple Task Types: awarded to a project utilizing three or more task types.

Judging Criteria:

  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Demonstration of underlying technology

Prize Categories

Multiple Models

Awarded to a project that leverages many models per task - the more models the merrier!

Triple Task Types

Awarded to a project utilizing three or more task types.

Cloudflare AI Challenge FAQ

Participation

Can I submit to the prompt more than once?

Yes, you can submit multiple submissions to the prompt but you’ll need to publish a separate post for each submission.

Can I work on a team?

Yes, you can work on teams up to four people.

  • If you collaborate with anyone, you’ll need to list their DEV handles in your submission post so we can award a badge to your entire team! Please only publish one submission per team.
  • DEV does not handle prize-splitting, so in the event that your submission wins a gift card and shop gift, you will need to split that amongst yourselves. Thank you for understanding!

How old do I have to be to participate?

Participants need to be 18+ in order to participate.

If I live in X, am I eligible to participate?

For eligibility rules, see our official challenge rules.

Are Cloudflare employees eligible to participate?

Unfortunately, Cloudflare employees cannot participate in this challenge.

Submission

Can my submission include open source code?

Riffing on open source code and borrowing and improving on previous work/ideas is encouraged but it’s important your changes are significant enough to ensure your submission is valid.

When does riffing become plagiarism?

It will depend, but transparency is important, license compatibility is important. You can use someone else’s code to give you a jumpstart to demonstrate your ideas on top of someone else’s base, but not just re-package the base.

It should be clear to the judges what you added to the project in terms of the code and conceptual inspiration. This means, you should clearly state what you were building on and what elements are original to this new submission.

When building on existing code, we expect a significant change that adds something tangible to the output. i.e. a new animation, and new sprite, a new function, a new presentation. Not just changes to the source - i.e. changing colours, changing one sprite, changing one function.

What happens if my submission is considered plagiarized or invalid?

Anything deemed to be plagiarism will not be eligible for prizes. Incidental plagiarism may simply result in your disqualification from the challenge (regardless of the number of other valid submissions you have published). Egregious plagiarism will result in your suspension from DEV entirely. Any non-generic, non-trivial usage of prior work, including open source code must be credited in your submission.

Do submissions have to be in English?

Non-english submissions are eligible for a completion badge but not eligible for prizes due to the current limitations of our judges. We will not be judging on mastery of the English language, so please don’t let this deter you from submitting if you are not a native English speaker! We hope to evolve this in the future to be more accommodating.

Do I need a license for my code?

We strongly recommend including a license for your code, here are some you may consider: MIT, Apache, BSD-2, BSD-3, or Commons Clause.

Can Cloudflare employees participate?

Unfortunately, Cloudflare employees cannot participate in this challenge.

Can I use AI?

Use of AI is allowed as long as all other rules are followed. We want to give you a chance to show off your skills in realistic scenarios. If you use AI tools to help you achieve your submission, all the power to you.

How do I embed my GitHub Repo directly into my DEV post?

You can use the {% embed https://... %} syntax directly in your post. Click here for more information on our markdown support.

Judging and Prizing

Can there be ties?

In the event of a tie in scoring between judges, the judges will select the entry that received the highest number of positive reactions on their DEV post to determine the winner.

How will I know if I won?

Winners will be announced in a DEV post on the winner announcement date noted in our key dates section.

When will I receive my prizes?

The DEV Team will contact you via the email associated with your DEV profile within, at most, 10 business days of the announcement date to share the details of claiming your prizes.

What steps do I need to take to receive my gift card or equivalent prize?

The winner (including each member of a team) may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release, and provide any additional tax filing information (such as a W-9, social security number or Federal tax ID number) within seven (7) business days following the date of your first email notification.

When will I receive my DEV badge?

Both participation and winner badges will be awarded, in most cases, the same week as the winner announcement.

Cloudflare AI Challenge Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends April 14 2024 11:59 PM PT. Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulation. All entires must be submitted during the content period. For Official Rules, see Cloudflare AI Contest Rules and General Contest Official Rules.