The AI Agents Global Challenge
Thanks to all who applied to the AI Agents Global Challenge, the deadline for submissions was 15th Nov 2024.
We are assessing the applications and will announce Top 25 finalists on 15th Dec 2024.
Challenge
- Cyber-Security
- Real Estate
- Sales & Marketing
- Fintech (Finance, insurance, legal & compliance)
- Creative media, gaming, video & films, audio & music
- Developer Productivity & Tools
How to Apply
Remember, the deadline to apply is 15 November, 2024.
Simply, submit the following:
- A brief summary describing:
- The problem your AI Agent is solving.
- Your agent’s features and functionality.
- List of tools you used to build your agent.
- A brief demo video of your agent running tasks.
- A URL/ link to your demo app.
Please note: You can submit one application per participant only.
Click Below to Submit Your Application.
Prizes
The total prize pool of $1,000,000 will be distributed across 4 winners, each winner will get:
- $150K in uncapped SAFE investment.
- $100K in GPU compute or AI Model APIs credits.
- Opportunity to engage with an AI startups incubator / accelerator.
- Opportunity to access further funding from Agentplex Ventures.
The prize pool is funded by Agentplex.
Click here to learn more about what is a SAFE investment and its benefits.
Click here to learn about the Challenge & How to Apply.
Click here to read the FAQs.
Timeline
01 Jul, 2024
New Competiton update announcement
16th Oct 2024
Top 50 Finalists Announcement
18th Nov - 15th Dec 2024
Second Round Applications Review
2nd Sep - 15th Oct 2024
Applications Review
17th Oct - 17th Nov 2024
Refinement Phase
16th Dec 2024
Top 20 Winners Announcement and Award Ceremony
01 Jul, 2024
New Update Announcement
15 Dec, 2024
Top 25 Finalists Announced
15 Nov, 2024
Submissions Deadline
31 Jan, 2025
Winners Announced
15 Nov, 2024
Submissions Deadline
15 Dec, 2024
Top 25 Finalists Announced
31 Jan, 2025
Winners Announced
15 Dec, 2024
Top 25 Finalists Announced
15 Nov, 2024
Submissions Deadline
31 Jan, 2025
Winners Announced
EVALUATION
- Business: How well your agent fits in the 5 areas above
- Automation: The ability of your agent to automate tasks
- Innovation: How innovative is your agent as compared to others
- Creativity: How creative is your agent showing agentic behaviours
- Efficiency: How fast, compute efficient is your agent
- Human-Agent collaboration: The ability of your agent to collaborate with humans
- Business: How well your agent fits in the 5 areas above
- Productivity: How productive is the agent in completing tasks
- Autonomy: The ability of your agent to perform tasks autonomously
- Automation: The ability of your agent to automate tasks
- Innovation: How innovative is your agent as compared to others
- Creativity: How creative is your agent showing agentic behaviours
- Efficiency: How fast, compute efficient is your agent
- Human-Agent collaboration: The ability of your agent to collaborate with humans.
Click here to learn about the Challenge & How to Apply.
Click here to read the FAQs.
JUDGES
Viktor Prokopenya
Founder/CEO of Capital.com
Viktor Prokopenya is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in technology beginning his career in 2001. Victor is currently the founder/CEO of Capital.com, a global online investment platform with offices in 15 countries which is the third biggest retail trading broker in Europe with 7 million accounts. He is also a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK.
Kristo Käärmann
Co-Founder/CEO of Wise
Kristo Käärmann is the Co-founder and CEO of Wise, a FTSE-listed global tech company building the best way to move money around the world. Prior to starting Wise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Kristo was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2015.
Lake Dai
Adjunct Professor Carnegie Mellon University & Founder Sancus Ventures
Lake Dai is an AI educator, investor, and builder. She is an Adjunct Professor of an Applied AI class at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sancus Ventures, a venture firm focused on pre-seed to seed stage companies, investing in the next generation of software infrastructure.
Travis Oliphant
Founder/CEO of Quantsight Initiate and OpenTeams
Travis Oliphant is a leading computer scientist and industry veteran. He has worked extensively with Python for numerical and scientific programming since 1997, and was the primary developer of the NumPy, SciPy, Numba as well as an organizing influence in the creation of Conda, Dask, JupyterLab, and Nebari. He is the founder/CEO of Quantsight Initiate and OpenTeams.
Jeremiah Owyang
Venture Capital Investor at Blitzscaling Ventures
Jeremiah Owyang is a General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures where he invests in early-stage AI startups. He hosts a popular event series in SF and Silicon Valley called "Llama Lounge" for AI founders -- his Feb 2024 event was focused on AI Agents. Jeremiah is one of the first users of TwitterX @jowyang where he talks about AI trends.
Akin Babayigit
VC Investor and Founder/CEO at Tripledot Studios
Akin Babayigit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor. He is currently the founder & President of Tripledot studios, one of the fastest growing mobile gaming companies in the world, which was recently valued at over $1.4 Bn. He was previously the co-founder of Luna Labs, a B2B SaaS solution acquired by IronSource in 2021 and held prior roles at Activision Blizzard King, Facebook, Skype, Peak Games and McKinsey.
Peter Frazier
Professor at Cornell University
Peter Frazier, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University, and a Senior Staff Applied Scientist at Uber, is a top researcher in AI-driven data gathering, specializing in Bayesian optimization and AI for scientific discovery.
Founding Partner
Agentplex is an Artificial Intelligence platform that embodies a belief in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence to drive human progress and prosperity.
Through initiatives like the AI Agents Global Challenge, Agentplex aspires to cultivate a milieu of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. This challenge specifically targets the burgeoning field of AI Agents, encouraging the creation of sophisticated, adaptable, and ethical AI solutions capable of tackling real-world problems.
Organizing and sponsoring this challenge underscores Agentplex’s commitment to long-term investment in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Agentplex envisions a future where AI is not only ubiquitous and powerful but also responsible and beneficial for all of humanity. Through its initiatives, partnerships, and research, Agentplex is steering towards this future with unwavering dedication and an innovative spirit.
Learn more about Agentplex.
Frequently Asked Questions
Build an AI Agent and demonstrate that the agent can execute productive tasks in any of the 6 areas below:
- Cyber-security
- Real estate
- Sales & marketing
- Fintech (Finance, insurance, legal & compliance)
- Creative media, gaming, video & films, audio & music
- Developer Productivity & Tools
We welcome anyone from anywhere in the world to participate in the AAGC. Whether you are a startup or and individual, it doesn’t matter; if you are interested in the AAGC you can participate. We are open to receive innovative applications from anyone.
- A brief summary describing:
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- The problem your AI Agent is solving
- Your agent’s features and functionality.
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- List of tools you used to build your agent
- A brief demo video of your agent running tasks
- A URL/ link to your demo app
- If you are selected as a finalist, a one-on-one discussion with our team on the technical details of your agent.
The deadline for submitting an application is November 15, 2024.
You can submit a draft application, refine and review it as many times as you want until the final deadline. Rember: only one application per participant.
The judging panel will evaluate and score your application according to the following 10 key criteria:
- Business: How well your agent fits in the 6 areas above
- Productivity: How productive is the agent in completing tasks
- Autonomy: The ability of your agent to perform tasks autonomously
- Automation: The ability of your agent to automate tasks
- Innovation: How innovative is your agent as compared to others
- Creativity: How creative is your agent showing agentic behaviours
- Efficiency: How fast, compute efficient is your agent
- Human-Agent collaboration: The ability of your agent to collaborate with humans.
Open vs. close agent: Whether your agent uses closed or open foundation, base or pre-trained models
There will be 4 winners, each prize comes with:
- $150K in an uncapped SAFE investment.
- $100K in GPU compute or AI Model APIs credits
It is a prize structured as an investment. If you win the challenge, you’ll be offered an uncapped SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) investment. You don’t have an obligation to accept the investment offer. Click here to learn more about what is a SAFE investment and its benefits.
You don’t need a startup to participate in this challenge. You can participate as an individual. If you win a prize as an individual, we’ll help you incorporate a startup and then allocate the prize as a SAFE investment
Your IP is yours. If you win, you’ll still own your IP.
The AAGC $1Million prize pool is funded by Agentplex, a company investing in startups developing pioneering Intelligent Agents (or AI Agents) and agentic applications. Click here to learn more about Agentplex.
No, there are no tech requirements. You can build your AI Agent with whatever tool/tech stack you want. You can use any public or private, foundation or pretrained models like GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama-3, Mistral…use any framework like CrewAI, Autogen, LlamaIndex, DSPy…or build your own custom coded agent in any language/stack you like.
- Cyber-security
- Threat detection and analysis
- Phishing detection and prevention
- Malware and ransomware protection
- Network traffic analysis
- Fraud detection
- Security automation
- Identity and access management
- Insider threat detection.
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- Real estate
- Instant property search & recommendations
- Fraud detection & security
- Accurate property valuations
- Construction project planning
- Predictive analytics for property investment & market analysis
- Virtual property tours
- Intelligent property management
- Finance, insurance, legal & compliance
- Personalized customer experience
- Personalized insurance policy pricing
- Automated policy claims
- Custom product recommendations
- Risk Management
- Claims, loans, cards and mortgage fraud detection and prevention
- Algorithmic trading
- Robo-advisors
- Portfolio Management
- Anti-money Laundering (AML)
- Know Your Customer (KYC)
- Document information extraction & summarisation
- Sales & Marketing
- Prospect & market research
- Prospect qualification
- Lead generation
- Sales and marketing campaigns
- Proposal writing
- Collateral writing
- Sales & Marketing analytics
- Creative media, gaming, video & films, audio & music
- Music, photo, video and film generation
- Storyboarding for games, comics, novels
- Editing and producing multi-media
- Interactive, immersive, metaverse experiences
- Developer Productivity & Tools
Any questions, doubts? AMA (ask me anything)