Challenging AI Developers

Innovation and collaboration are at the heart of the AMD mission to empower the AI community. This year, AMD once again invited AI developers from around the globe to participate in its highly anticipated AI Developer Contest, challenging them to push the boundaries of technology and create groundbreaking projects using AMD hardware. Participants competed across three exciting categories—Generative AI, Robotics AI, and PC AI—showcasing their skills, creativity, and the power of AMD technology to solve real-world challenges. 

Each category offered a grand prize of $10,000 USD, alongside additional rewards for second- and third-place winners. This marked the third consecutive year of this prestigious contest, which continues to drive innovation and inspire developers worldwide. To foster academic innovation and champion diversity in technology, AMD also had two special categories- Women in Technology and University Program. 

The top 20 teams were invited to showcase their projects at the Advancing AI event, where the first-place winners in each category were honored with awards presented by AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. This event marked a celebration of talent, creativity, and the future of AI innovation. This contest was a collaborative effort involving teams from engineering, marketing, operations, and developer relations, all of whom played pivotal roles in its success. This united approach ensured that the program reached a diverse pool of developers, including participants from academic institutions and underrepresented groups in tech, reflecting on the commitment by AMD to accessibility, diversity, and innovation.

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Total Applicants

118

Countries of Participation

669

Hardware Awardees

34

Prize Winners

Contest Categories

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Category 1: Generative AI

Instinct™ MI210 or Radeon™ PRO W7900
This category challenged developers to create applications that solve real-world problems utilizing ROCm software combined with either an Instinct MI210 GPU via cloud access or an Radeon PRO W7900 graphics card.

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Category 2: Robotics AI

Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit
This category challenged developers to create AI vision-guided robotics applications using camera inputs and control output with ROS and AI targeting the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit and Vitis™ AI software or PYNQ™.

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and modern computer technologies concepts. Business, Technology, Internet and network concept.

Category 3: PC AI

AMD Ryzen™ AI
This category challenged developers to create applications for PCs using vision, speech, or domain-optimized LLMs utilizing Ryzen AI Software on Ryzen AI-powered PCs.

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Generative AI Winners

Generative AI Winners with Instinct MI210

1st Place

Mather

By: Amandine Flachs, Alexandre Borghi
Mather is a Mistral fine-tune designed to help students with their math problems.

First Place ($10,000)

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2nd Place Award

Generative BI (ChatBI) with AMD MI210/MI300X and EPYC

By: XIN CHUN
This project focuses on enhancing data analysis capabilities using large language models, specifically by fine-tuning and deploying models on AMD hardware. It aims to improve SQL generation accuracy for data analysis tasks and explores the implementation of intelligent agents for business knowledge queries

Second Place ($5,000)

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3rd Place Award

Storyteller

By: MHudo and uhudo
Storyteller is an application that uses AI to generate an adventure fantasy story in which the user can participate in creation and direction of the story

Third Place ($3,000)

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3rd Place Award

Audio Sensing Digital Assistant

By: Team BoardWare-Genius: Vera, Benson Ou, gongyj, Ivan, Lizzie Zirong Liu
This digital assistant transcends linguistic and platform boundaries, offering multilingual tourist guidance, virtual hosting, psychological counseling, and enhanced accessibility for visually impaired users.

Third Place ($3,000)

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Generative AI Winners with Radeon Pro W7900

1st Place

Infinite Sands

By: Timothy Lovett and Kerin Lovett
A sandbox can be an explorative playground. By molding sand into different shapes a person can explore their imagination and create amazing stories. Infinite Sands takes this a step further bringing these stories to life through the use of generative AI.

First Place ($10,000)

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3rd Place Award

Colorizing Sequential Content : ColorNet

By:  Shyam Venkatraman, Snehil Chatterjee and Akhil Prabananth
This project presents a Blender add-on that adds an interface for communicating with Llama 3 70b which can perform tasks in Blender 3D given English instructions.

Third Place ($3,000)

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Robotics AI Winners

1st Place

An autonomous shieldUAV to protect and save lives

By: Dobrea Dan Marius & Dobrea Matei-Ștefan
This project explores the impact of low-cost FPV (First Person View) drones and loitering munitions, particularly the Lancet drones, in the ongoing war in Ukraine. These affordable unmanned aerial vehicles have proven remarkably effective at neutralizing high-value targets such as multimillion-dollar combat vehicles, artillery pieces, tanks, and missile air defense systems, fundamentally altering the dynamics of modern warfare

First Place ($10,000)

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2nd Place Award

360° Object Detection Robot Car

By: misoji engineer
This project integrates advanced technologies like Object Detection, DPU, PYNQ, Vitis AI and ROS2.  A key feature is the incorporation of a 360° Camera.

Second Place ($5,000)

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2nd Place Award

Robot Chef

By: Dak_C and Dak Chun Cheng
This project aims to develop an automated food preparation machine, or "Robot Chef," designed to solve the time constraints that often prevent people from preparing healthy, home-cooked meals for work or school. 

Second Place ($5,000)

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3rd Place Award

Neuro Optix

By: Muhammad Awab, Maryam Riaz and Kinza Noreen
Neuro Optix is an innovative robotic surveillance and safety system that combines advanced automation and artificial intelligence. Constructed from durable 3D-printed parts and acrylic sheets, this robotic car features four large wheels driven by DC motors for easy navigation across various terrains. 

Third Place ($3,000)

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3rd Place Award

AgroWeed Seeker (AWS)

By: NotBlackMagic
An open-source wheeled robot, controlled by the KR260 SoC, designed for cost-effective multispectral plant monitoring in agriculture.

Third Place ($3,000)

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3rd Place Award

FOLLOWER

By: 平常心
This project aims to design a robotic vehicle, "FOLLOWER," that can follow its owner and carry their belongings, relieving them from the burden of heavy backpacks or shopping bags.

Third Place ($3,000)

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3rd Place Award

Robo-Guide for Your Room!

By: Zhan Assume, YuZhong-Chen, Chon Hang Lam
This research focuses on enabling robots to navigate to goals specified using natural language instructions, while simultaneously building maps and localizing themselves in unseen environments using real-time sensory data.

Third Place ($3,000)

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PC AI Winners

2nd Place Award

Stroke Care AI Assistant

By: Sergey Vlasov
AI assistant for people with brain damage and memory loss after stroke. It answers their questions based on data shared by caregivers.

Second Place ($5,000)

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3rd Place Award

AI Toy Story System

By: HonestQiao
This is an AI toy story system specially designed for children. It allows children to directly use the model of the story character and place it in the wireless identification area on the upper part of the AI ​​​​PC for the system to recognize.

Third Place ($3,000)

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AMD University Program Award

Women in Technology Award

1st Place

BisindoMate - Indonesian Sign Language Translator

By: Team Praktikum Reborn: Rifqi Abdillah and Lutfi Hidayati
BisindoMate is an innovative Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) translator using AMD Ryzen AI technology to convert hand gestures into text, enabling more effective communication for hearing-impaired individuals.

First Place ($2,500)

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