Baidu ERNIE Hackathon

​👋 About the Event

​Ready to unleash your creativity? Join the Baidu ERNIE Hackathon, a featured event hosted by the OpenAtom Foundation and Baidu!

​This is your chance to get hands-on with the newest ERNIE models and build applications with a lasting impact.

​🚀 Choose Your Track

​Pick the one that best aligns with your project and start building!

​🎬 Track 1: Multimodal Innovation Challenge

​Leverage the powerful ERNIE-4.5-VL models to create solutions that can see, read, and understand the world in new ways. Tackle tasks in document processing, video analysis, and image understanding across any domain you can imagine! We will provide qualified participants with GPU cloud resources and API tokens.

​🤖 Track 2: Hardware Innovation Challenge

​Go beyond the screen! Build a native AI hardware product with on-device deployment of ERNIE 4.5 models. From smart companions and wearables to industrial solutions, the possibilities are endless. We will provide qualified participants with GPU cloud resources, API tokens, and hardware devices as development support.

​💰 Prizes & Awards (Awarded PER Track!)

• ​🥇 First Prize (x1): ¥30,000 (~$4,100 USD)

• ​🥈 Second Prize (x1): ¥20,000 (~$2,800 USD)

• ​🥉 Third Prize (x1): ¥15,000 (~$2,100 USD)

• ​⭐ Open-Source Award (x2): ¥10,000 (~$1,400 USD)

• ​🏆 Finalist Award (x5): ¥3,000 (~$400 USD)

​🗓️ Key Dates

• ​Registration Opens: August 19, 2025

• ​Preliminary Submission Deadline: October 19, 2025

• ​Finals Submission Deadline: November 23, 2025

• ​Winners Announced: Late November 2025

​📍 Where to Join

​This hackathon is fully online! Our main hub for communication, team building, and support is the Ernie Large Models Discord Server.

​➡️ Click Here to Join Our Discord Server!

​📤 How to Submit Your Project

​Preliminary Round

​You will need to submit a 📝 Project Proposal that clearly outlines your idea.

​Note: Participants that advance will receive cloud computing resources or dev boards to help build their projects!

​Final Round

​You will need to submit a complete project package containing the following three items:

• ​🎥 Demo Video: A video (under 3 minutes) showcasing your project's features and highlights.

• ​📜 Final Project Document: A document that expands on your initial proposal.

• ​💻 Public Code Repository: A link to your public repository (e.g., GitHub). This repository must include a detailed README file with clear setup and testing instructions so our judges can evaluate your work.

​⭐ Optional Bonus Points

​Want to make your project stand out? Complete any of the following to earn bonus points:

• ​Contribute to the Core Projects: Submit valuable Pull Requests to the ERNIE or PaddlePaddle open-source projects.

• ​Share Your Assets: Release derivative models or datasets you created on platforms like HuggingFace, ModelScope, or AI Studio.

• ​Showcase Your Work: Post your demo video to platforms like YouTube, X, or TikTok and provide us with the public link.

• ​Educate Others: Write and publish technical blog posts or tutorials related to your project.

​📤Submit in One of Two Ways:

• ​Preferred: Post your submission with a GitHub repository link (public) in the #🏆｜ernie-hackathon channel on our Discord.

• ​Alternative: Send your submission via email to [email protected]

​Pro-Tip: You can submit your project as many times as you want before the deadline. We will judge your latest submission.

​☎️ Have Questions?

​Our team will be live in our Discord #⭕｜faq channel to help you out. Come say hi! 👋