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Join us for the Cloudflare AI Challenge:

$3,000 in Prizes!
#cloudflarechallenge#devchallenge#ai#serverless
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
•Apr 3

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
•Apr 4

Wait but how do i join??

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Michael Tharrington
•Apr 3

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
•Apr 4

@iamspathan @nikoldimit It's a great opportunity. Time for everyone to build the
Serverless AI worker apps.
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Sohail Pathan
•Apr 4

Thanks @ranjancse .
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Philip How
•Apr 4
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
•Apr 4

Love this idea!

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Devarshi Shimpi
•Apr 3

Excited for the challenge!

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Ben Halpern
•Apr 3

Do you have any ideas yet?

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Devarshi Shimpi
•Apr 3

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
•Apr 3

Great
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Murat Terzioğlu
•Apr 3

I normally do DevOps and have never tried Cloudflare workers... Seems fun to me!
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Ben Halpern
•Apr 3

Good chance to play with something new

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Matt Ryan
•Apr 3

Brilliant. Good choice for the 2nd challenge.

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Ben Halpern
•Apr 3

Can't wait to see your submission Matt!

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Chrisogonas O. Mc'Odhiambo
•Apr 3

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

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Ben Halpern
•Apr 3

Awesome!
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Ahana Sharma
•Apr 4

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
•Apr 4

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

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Mark Dembo
•Apr 3

Super excited to see what people will build! 🧡

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Ben Halpern
•Apr 3

Absolutely!
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Kathy
•Apr 3 • Edited on Apr 3

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

Join us in Discord if any questions come up :)

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programORdie
•Apr 3

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
•Apr 3

You should submit!

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programORdie
•Apr 4

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

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

{"result":null,"success":false,"errors":[{"code":7009,"message":"Upstream service
unavailable"}],"messages":[]}%
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Nimit Savant
•Apr 4

Let's go, I shared this on our community. Sounds like an interesting opportunity!
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Alex Anie
•Apr 4

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
•Apr 4

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
•Apr 4
1. I have check and Nigeria is not listed so, I guess am go to go then 🥳
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