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Sign up for the hackathon
Three challenge tracks to compete in
$2,250 prize pool plus API credits from AWS, Baseten, and Twelve Labs
Hackathon starts Saturday, March 28rd (9am)
Nvidia backed Twelve Labs, $100M raised, opens first LA hackathon to builders
On March 28th-29th, TwelveLabs and Emerging LA are hosting a two-day hackathon at WeWork Playa Vista.
Participants will build on a stack that includes TwelveLabs Marengo and Pegasus via AWS Bedrock.
TwelveLabs is building the video intelligence infrastructure that fixes this. Backed by NVIDIA, Databricks, and Snowflake, and with $107 million raised to date, the company enables machines to search, segment, and analyze video at the semantic level.
What to Expect
Three challenge tracks.
Archive Intelligence — Make decades of footage searchable and licensable at scale
Intelligent Segmentation — Automate the editorial and ad placement decisions studios still do by hand
Compliance Guardian — Build content review infrastructure that doesn't cost $200 an hour
$2,250 in prizes. API credits from AWS, Baseten, and TwelveLabs. Two days to build.
Why This Hackathon Matters
The National Association of Broadcasters convenes in Las Vegas four weeks later.
The conversations that happen at NAB will be shaped by what gets built here. This is where that building starts.
Apply here now.
For more on TwelveLabs — who they are, what they're building, and why NVIDIA backed them — read our previous founder chat with the team here.
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