🤖 Qloo LLM Hackathon 2025

Build the Future with LLMs + Cultural Intelligence

Join Qloo’s first global online hackathon, a month-long challenge inviting developers, builders, and creatives worldwide to explore what’s possible at the intersection of LLMs and Qloo’s Taste AI™ API.

Whether you're crafting a personalized lifestyle assistant, a smarter recommendation engine, or an app powered by deep cultural insight — this is your chance to create what truly matters.

📅 Event Details

🗓 Registration: July 1 – August 1, 2025
🌍 Mode: Online
🖥 Platform: Devpost
👥 Team Size: Up to 4 members (Solo submissions welcome)
💰 Prize Pool: $25,000 in cash

🧠 Why Join?

🚀 Access the world’s richest cultural intelligence platform
🤖 Power your project with Qloo’s API + your favorite LLM (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
🏆 Compete for global recognition and $25,000 in cash prizes
🎯 Build personalized experiences — no personal data required
💡 Create real prototypes with real-world potential

🔨 What to Build?

Create a project that integrates an LLM (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) with Qloo’s Taste AI™ API.
Your project should demonstrate how cultural and behavioral data can inform better systems, smarter recommendations, or more human AI.

🧩 Sample Use Cases:
• Cultural recommendation engines
• Taste-based personal assistants
• Discovery or research tools
• Smart travel/lifestyle/fashion/dining UIs
• Market-matching or audience prediction models
• Personalized content or product systems

📤 What to Submit

✅ Project Description: Text summary explaining your idea, features, and value
🎥 Demo Video: ≤ 3 minutes, must show working prototype, hosted publicly
🔗 Live Demo URL: Link to your working project
💻 Public Code Repo: With documentation (e.g., GitHub)
📎 No copyrighted content unless licensed

🏆 Prizes

🥇 Grand Prize: $10,000 (1 winner)
🎖 Honorable Mentions: $5,000 each (3 winners)
Total Prize Pool: $25,000

🧪 Judging Criteria

📌 Intelligent Use of LLMs
• Thoughtful application of LLMs enhanced by Qloo’s API

📌 Integration with Qloo’s Taste AI™ API
• Effective use of cross-domain affinities and privacy-first data

📌 Technical Implementation
• Solid build quality, frontend/backend integration, clean code

📌 Originality & Creativity
• Unique, unexpected, or impactful ideas

📌 Real-World Potential
• Could become a product or solve a real problem

🌐 Website: qloo-hackathon.devpost.com

Qloo LLM Hackathon