Applications are invited for the Rabbit Hole 2025- AI Hackathon at CRED, Bangalore. Apply by March 24!
About The Event
CRED, India’s most rewarding platform for the trustworthy, has launched CRED Rabbit Hole Challenge, an AI hackathon for extraordinary engineers across India. The three-day event, in partnership with AWS and YOTTA, will take place from April 04-06, 2025, in Bangalore. It will bring together India’s most talented engineers to build innovative solutions on world-class AI infrastructure that could transform financial services and beyond.
AI Innovation Partner, YOTTA will provide exceptional support to the shortlisted engineers. The company will grant access to more than 3,000 hours of NVIDIA H100 GPUs via its Shakti Cloud platform equipping participants with state-of-the-art technology to drive innovation. Furthermore, YOTTA will also offer a lucrative pool of Shakti Cloud credits to the top 3 engineers for their projects and make significant strides in areas of their expertise as part of their accelerator program.
Eligibility
- Participants must be at least 18 years of age as of April 04, 2025.
- Participants must have a minimum of 5 (five) years of professional experience in building software applications and platforms.
- Participants must be legal residents of India and must possesę valid government-issued identification.
- Employees, consultants, directors, and officers of CRED (including its affiliates), Yotta (including its affiliates), and AWS (including its affiliates) are not eligible to participate.
- Participants must have the necessary legal right and authority to create, modify, and license the submissions to the hackathon
Registration & Selection
- Registration for the hackathon is open from March 17, 2025, to March 24, 2025, at 11:59 PM IST.
- All applications must be submitted through the official website: cred.club/rabbit-hole
- By submitting an application through any means (including but not limited to clicking “Apply Now,”
- Logging into CRED, or any other application method), participants expressly acknowledge and agree to be bound by all hackathon terms and conditions in their entirety.
- Up to 50 participants will be selected based on their experience, skills, and the quality of their application at the sole discretion of CRED.
- Selected participants will be notified via email by March 26, 2025.
- If a selected participant fails to confirm attendance within 24 hours of notification, an alternate participant may be selected at the sole discretion of CRED.
Hackathon Format
- The hackathon will take place in Bangalore from April 04-06, 2025. CRED, along with its partner AWS and Yotta will, on a best effort basis, provide:
- Environments for deployment
- Code repositories
- LLM credits for Al development
- Security review support
- NVIDIA H100 GPUs
- Participants will be presented with problem statements and must choose one to address during the hackathon. participants will develop their solutions individually (no teams) over the two-day period. Mentors from CRED and industry experts may be available to guide participants. CRED shall provide the participants an active internet connection in the designated areas, the participants shall be solely responsible to bring their devices (laptops, mobile phones) and other software/hardware/peripherals required for their development work. participants may request CRED for any specific items, and upon receiving such request from the participant(s), CRED may, at its sole discretion, undertake to provide such items.
Intellectual Property
- Participants shall ensure that all the code, algorithms, and other materials developed during the hackathon (“submissions”) are their original work product and do not violate third party intellectual property rights, participant submissions may include open source software provided that it complies with the relevant open source licence.
- Participants shall own all rights in their respective submissions.
Judging & Evaluation
Submissions shall be evaluated based on:
- innovation and creativity
- technical implementation
- business impact and viability
- Al integration and effectiveness
The judging panel will consist of CRED executives, Yotta representatives, AWS representatives, and indust all decisions conveyed by the panel shall be final and binding.
Prizes
- The winner will receive a prize of Rs. 50 lakh (Indian Rupees Fifty Lakhs Only).
- Prize money will be subject to applicable taxes and withholdings as required by applicable law.
- The prize will be disbursed within 60 days of the announcement of winners.
- Winners may be required to execute additional documentation to receive their prizes or required to submit certain documents for taxation or other compliance purposes.
Code of Conduct
- Participants must conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner throughout the hackathon.
- Harassment, discrimination, or inappropriate behavior of any kind will not be tolerated.
- Participants must respect the hackathon venue’s rules and regulations.
- CRED reserves the right to disqualify any participant who violates these rules or whose conduct is deemed inappropriate at the sole discretion of CRED.
How to Apply
Interested candidates can apply through this link.
Location
Bangalore.
Deadline
March 24 2025.
