RAGHack: Let's build RAG applications together

🛠️ Build, innovate, and #Hacktogether! 🛠️ It's time to start building AI applications using the power of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). 🤖 + 📚 = 🔥

Large language models are powerful language generators, but they don't know everything about the world. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) combines the power of large language models with the knowledge of a search engine. This allows you to ask questions of your own data, and get answers that are relevant to the context of your question.

RAGHack is your opportunity to get deep into RAG and start building RAG yourself. Across 25+ live streams, we'll show you how to build RAG apps on top of Azure AI in multiple languages (Python, Java, JS, C#) with multiple retrievers (AI Search, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB), with your own data sources! You'll learn about the most popular frameworks, like LangChain and Semantic Kernel, plus the latest technology, like agents and vision models. The possibilities are endless for what you can create... plus you can submit your hack for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🥳

The streams start September 3rd and end September 13th. Hack submissions are due September 16th, 11:59 PM PST. Join us!

Register

Register for the hackathon using any of the sessions linked on the Reactor series home page. This will register you for both the selected session and the hackathon.

Introduce yourself and look for teammates here GitHub Discussions!

Official Rules

Read the official rules 📃

Stream Schedule

English

Week 1: September 3rd-6th

Week 2: September 9th-13th

Spanish

Portuguese

Chinese

Office Hours

For additional help with your hacks, you can drop by Office Hours in our AI Discord channel. Here are the Office Hours scheduled so far:

RAG Code Samples

To find more samples, check out the following resources:

• Azure AI samples (Python)
• Azure AI samples (JavaScript)
• Azure AI samples (Java)
• Azure AI samples (C#)
• Azure AI samples (Go)
• Azure AI Studio Samples
• Cosmos DB AI Samples
• Azure SQL DB AI Samples

Recommended Learning Materials 📚

• AI learning and community hub
• Cloud skills challenge: Using Azure OpenAI Service
• Generative AI for Beginners
• Fundamentals of Generative AI
• Retrieval Augmented Generation in Azure AI Search
• Workshop - Create your own ChatGPT with Retrieval-Augmented-Generation
• OpenAI documentation
• Azure AI Search
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Comparing Azure OpenAI and OpenAI
• Azure Communication Services Chat SDK
• AI-in-a-Box
• Join the Azure AI Discord!

Project Submission

Hack submissions are due September 16th, 11:59 PM PST.

Submit your project here when it's ready: 🚀 Project Submission

Check out this video for step by step project submission guidance: Project Submission Video

Prizes and Categories 🏅

Projects will be evaluated by a panel of judges, including Microsoft engineers, product managers, and developer advocates. Judging criteria will include innovation, impact, technical usability, and alignment with corresponding hackathon category.

Each winning team in the categories below will receive a cash prize of $500. 💸

• Best Overall
• Best in PostgreSQL
• Best in Azure SQL
• Best in Cosmos DB
• Best in Azure AI Search
• Best in Python
• Best in .NET
• Best in Java
• Best in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Best in Azure AI Studio

All hackathon participants who submit a project will receive a digital badge.

Judges

Thank you to our judges for all their help with evaluating the projects and selecting the top entries:

Matt Gotteiner, Farzad Sunavala, Davide Mauri, Muazma Zahid, Jay Gordon, James Codella, Khelan Modi, Joshua Johnson, Renee Noble, Sarah Kaiser, Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Rory Preddy, Cole Johnson, Julien Dubois, Glaucia Lemos, Yohan Lasorsa, Milan Kaur, Luis Quintanilla, Bruno Capuano, Josh Oh, Pamela Fox, Daisy Chaussee