Sketch & Search: Google Deepmind x Qdrant x Freepik Hackathon Winners

Builders from around the world participated in the global "Sketch & Search" hackathon, organized by Google DeepMind, Freepik, and Qdrant, to explore AI-driven creative pipelines, focusing on combining generative models, visual creation, and vector search. The event, which began in San Francisco and included a two-week virtual build phase, culminated in a live demo day where winners were announced. Projects were evaluated on creativity, search effectiveness, UX, guardrails, and real-world applicability, with over $25,000 in prizes awarded. The top projects, Prometheus, Roast My Snack, and AutoScape, each demonstrated innovative applications of AI, from transforming molecular data into cinematic content to creating engaging dental education comics and AI-powered landscape designs. These projects excelled by integrating retrieval as a core engineering component, allowing for more consistent, reusable, and adaptable outputs. The hackathon highlighted the power of the Qdrant community to tackle new challenges creatively, with plans for further exploration and community engagement in the future.