Compute over Data Showcased at Paris Hackathons with Bacalhau
The recent Augment and ETH Global Paris hackathons held in Paris in June provided an exciting showcase of new decentralized applications and AI projects built using Bacalhau. Bacalhau enabled hackers to develop innovative projects across diverse domains including AI, privacy, finance, supply chain management, and more.
The winning projects at both events effectively leveraged the power of decentralization to build socially beneficial applications that solve real-world problems. Their creative use cases highlight the expanding capabilities of the Bacalhau ecosystem and decentralized technologies as a whole.
Augment Hackathon Winners
At the Augment Hackathon, CarpAI implemented an AI module for conversational chatbots on Bacalhau. Their project allows creating decentralized jobs to run AI inferencing on the Bacalhau network. Users can upload a JSON template prompt to IPFS, then call a dockerized python script through Bacalhau and Lilypad to run on a remote node. The results are uploaded to IPFS, closing the loop for a conversational agent. CarpAI’s work expanded access to decentralized AI through Bacalhau and Lilypad.
Brian provides a transaction builder that allows users to perform transactions via natural language prompts. Brian leverages AI to understand commands and generate the required contract calls. At the Augment Hackathon, the Brian team worked to replace their original closed-source AI model with an open source alternative based on HuggingFace. They used Bacalhau's decentralized compute for efficient training. Brian demonstrates how Bacalhau expands access to decentralized finance by simplifying complex processes through AI.
Avasoul.ai built an innovative platform for generating private AI models. They created an educational Shakespeare model and used Bacalhau to generate engaging video lessons. Their project allows users to create, customize, monetize, and trade specialized private models. Their educational use case provides a glimpse into Bacalhau's potential for decentralized knowledge sharing.
EasyCraft.ai developed an supply chain management system. They outlined a thoughtful whitepaper on the future of human-AI collaboration in manufacturing. It describes a transition from humans operating robots to more symbiotic relationships as AI capabilities advance. EasyCraft.ai envisions a global human-AI manufacturing network interlinked by smart contracts and marketplaces. While recognizing potential risks, they propose mitigation strategies involving monitoring, governance, and proof of humanity. Their innovative application demonstrates Bacalhau's utility in transforming supply chain transparency and efficiency.
ETH Global Paris Winners
At ETH Global Paris, GadusCLI created a convenient CLI tool for 3D surface reconstruction powered by Bacalhau. Their package makes decentralized compute easily accessible for processing geospatial data. It includes an integrated pipeline from raw lidar data to processed 3D visualizations. GadusCLI is working to build open 3D maps as a public good, avoiding centralized control. Their project highlights Bacalhau's scalability for data-intensive geospatial applications.
Deehr Market built an electronic health records management protocol giving patients ownership of their records while enabling secure data sharing for research. It uses Bacalhau for machine learning, allowing researchers to train models without accessing raw data. By compensating patients for data use, Deehr Market facilitates medical advances while preserving privacy. Their novel application demonstrates Bacalhau's utility for privacy-preserving data analysis.
The diverse projects from both Paris hackathons highlight Bacalhau's expanding utility across many domains. From AI assistants to supply chain tracking, medical research to credit scoring, Bacalhau provided the decentralized compute power to make these innovations possible. The hackathon creators showed remarkable creativity in building socially beneficial applications that solve real-world problems. Their pioneering work pushes the boundaries of what is possible with decentralization. Bacalhau is proud to support this new generation of builders. As the ecosystem continues maturing, we look forward to many more groundbreaking applications of decentralized technologies. The future looks bright as more purpose-driven projects leverage Bacalhau to achieve positive global impact.