Cohere and Hugging Face Hackathon Highlights Eyas and Tiny Army

Cohere and Hugging Face co-sponsored the Build Small Hackathon to refocus developers on building "small and useful" products. Two projects utilizing Cohere models won awards, with the official account noting they struck a good balance between being practical, quirky, or simply cool. For Cohere, this event demonstrated the practical adoption of its models in lightweight, utility-focused application scenarios.

Key Details and Winning Projects

The explicitly revealed winning projects are Eyas and Tiny Army. Tiny Army is a game where users create and select heroes through text descriptions. Eyas is a security camera agent designed for family-owned convenience stores. Developed by the team of Hanhee Lee, Javier Huang, and Joe Lee, Eyas won the Best Agent award. Cohere Labs also congratulated the Hugging Face winners, specifically highlighting these two teams that used Cohere and Cohere Labs models. Cohere mentioned that these projects are available to try via provided links.

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