diff --git a/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vsd25-hack-winners.md b/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vsd25-hack-winners.md index 8f0acb891..95579ab80 100644 --- a/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vsd25-hack-winners.md +++ b/qdrant-landing/content/blog/vsd25-hack-winners.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - blog --- -![/blog/vector-space-hack-2025/hackathon-hero.jpg][hero-image] +![Hackathon Hero](/blog/vector-space-hack-2025/hackathon-hero.jpg) # *Thinking Outside the Bot* with 2025 Hackathon Winners @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Winners were announced live in Berlin on Friday, September 26, 2025 at [Vector S With numerous submissions from around the world, hackathon judges used criteria of Creativity, Technical Depth, and Qdrant Usage to evaluate each submission and determine the top projects. There was $10,000 in prizes from Qdrant as well as many additional bonus prizes for using partner tech: -![/blog/vector-space-hack-2025/VSD-Prizes.png][vsd-prizes] +![Hackathon Prizes](/blog/vector-space-hack-2025/VSD-Prizes.png) Let’s dive into the top projects and what we liked about each of them. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Let’s dive into the top projects and what we liked about each of them. **Total Prize: $5000 USD \+ $1000 Neo4j Credits** ```html - + ``` **What it is:** A 3D product exploration experience that turns e-commerce discovery into an explorable world. Categories become mountains; subcategories become hills; terrain height reflects result counts; and an LLM “guide” (Q-Bert) leads a curated tour. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Repo: [Vector Vintage](https://github.com/kanungle/vector-vintage-public) **Total Prize: $3000 USD** ```html - + ``` **What it is:** An AI trajectory memory and reflex suggestion system for robots. It “banks” short sensor-action sequences as vectors, labels them by safety, and retrieves the safest neighbor to suggest the next move. Demoed in a 2D simulator, designed for real robotics. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Repo: [Vector Vintage](https://github.com/kanungle/vector-vintage-public) **Total Prize: $2000 USD** ```html - + ``` **What it is:** Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) that *remember* places, events, and interactions using spatio-temporal memory, so behavior evolves naturally instead of being scripted. @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Repo: [Vector Vintage](https://github.com/kanungle/vector-vintage-public) **Total Prize: 1 Year of CrewAI Enterprise** ```html - + ``` A **route-aware event discovery** platform. Enter a route \+ time window, and ReMap finds relevant events using **hybrid semantic search** plus **geospatial/temporal filters**, visualized on OpenStreetMap. Synthetic data today, real ingestion planned. @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ A **route-aware event discovery** platform. Enter a route \+ time window, and Re **Total Prize: $3000 of Mistral AI Credits** ```html - + ``` A playful **personality-driven social platform**: take a quiz, get matched to a “home planet,” and find **cosmic twinmates** via vector similarity. Built with Qdrant \+ Mistral AI \+ React Three Fiber, with global and per-planet chat. @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ A playful **personality-driven social platform**: take a quiz, get matched to a **Total Prize: $1000 USD** ```html - + ``` (Note: Music is removed from above video due to copyright reasons — use your imagination a bit\!) @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ An **AI choreographer** that generates personalized Bachata sequences by matchin **Total Prize: $1000 in TwelveLabs Credits** ```html - + ``` A **multi-modal classroom assistant** that captures **speech, video, slides, images, and documents** together into a searchable knowledge memory. Uses TwelveLabs embeddings \+ Qdrant retrieval for linked, contextual recall. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ A **multi-modal classroom assistant** that captures **speech, video, slides, ima ## 🙌 Honorable Mentions ```html - + ``` * **Quant Memory Palace** (*The Mondays*)