Announcing Advent of Haystack 2024 🎄
Join the Festive AI Fun!
December 2, 2024December is here, and so is the 2nd edition of the Advent of Haystack! This holiday season, we’re inviting the Haystack community to take part in our series of challenges around Generative AI use cases. From mastering the basics of Haystack to building advanced pipelines and intelligent agents with LLMs, this year’s Advent of Haystack is packed with interesting tasks. Whether you’re new to Haystack or a Gen AI pro, there’s something for everyone!
What is Advent of Haystack?
The Advent of Haystack is a festive series of 10 challenges, inspired by Advent of Code. Every couple of days, a new challenge will be released, designed to help you enhance your AI development skills while showcasing the power of Haystack.
Here’s what you can expect:
✨ Fun Coding Challenges – Get familiar with the most current AI use cases.
📖 Festive Stories – Enjoy your learning journey with holiday-themed tasks.
🏆 Surprise Prizes – Win gift cards, Haystack swag, and more!
💡 Gen AI Ecosystem Insights – Explore essential tools from the AI engineer’s toolbox, like Weaviate Vector Database, AssemblyAI models, NVIDIA’s NGC, Arize Phoenix, and MongoDB Atlas to build real-world applications.
Meet Our Amazing Partners
This year, we’re thrilled to team up with Weaviate, AssemblyAI, NVIDIA, Arize, and MongoDB!
These wonderful partners have helped us put together the challenges – so that this Advent of Haystack you can get even more out of the coding experience and explore Haystack in a realistic environment combined with other frameworks, vector databases, and additional tools.
How to Participate
1️⃣ Access the Challenges: Visit the
Advent of Haystack page to get started.
2️⃣ Solve the Challenge: Check out the hints and requirements on the challenge page to get started. We’ve included starter notebooks to make things easier. Got questions? Jump into the conversation on
GitHub Discussions or
Discord
3️⃣ Submit Your Solution: Submit your results using the challenge form provided for each challenge
4️⃣ Win Prizes: Complete and submit all challenges by December 31 for a chance to win amazing prizes
🫶 Share Your Haystack Story
We love learning about what our community is building with Haystack. It helps us understand the landscape, informs our roadmap - and frankly, it is just rewarding to see what you all are up to! So this holiday season, we invite you to share your Haystack journey with us! Whether you’re just starting out or have built an advanced tool, your story can motivate others to explore the possibilities of building with AI and inspire the whole team!
Publish your story on your blog, website, Medium, LinkedIn, or another platform. Share the cheer and earn perks! Learn more here.
Get Started Today
The fun starts TODAY, so don’t miss out!
💙 Join the first challenge: Fetching Holiday Wisdom for Santa 📖
Share your progress on social media using the hashtag #AdventOfHaystack and tag @Haystack_AI.
Let’s code, create, and celebrate this holiday season! Happy Hacking and Happy Holidays! 🎄✨
