The winner of the first Microsoft AI Chat App Hack takes the AI exploration to the next level

The project won a cash price of $500.

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Published onFebruary 28, 2024

published onFebruary 28, 2024

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Microsoft just announced the winner of its firstAI Chat App Hack, a virtual event that challenged developers everywhere to build applications using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation); the event took place between January 29th and February 12th, but the winner and the runner-ups were announced on February 27th.

The winner of this first edition of theAI Chat App Hack, which takes home $500, is theDocAssistant.Swaggy projectthat, according to Microsoft, takes AI exploration to the next level. You can find all the details about the project onits dedicated GitHub page.

This app took RAG to another level! First, you upload OpenAPI schemas for APIs to the Azure AI Search index. Once the schemas are ingested, you can ask questions that are answerable by an API, like “what were the top movies for 2023?”. The app searches to find possible API endpoints to answer the question, then uses an LLM to suggest the API URL, fetches the URL to get the API response, and calls the LLM again to turn the response into a user-friendly answer. :collision: Judges loved how the app added additional steps into the typical RAG flow to provide a complete end-to-end experience for easy API exploration.

The project aims to provide an AI helper designed to redirect human queries to the appropriate API. However, it’s important to note that the success of the results is highly dependent on the functionality of the web API on the server.

In other words, the project is capable of linking different APIs using multiple ways of interaction, such as text or voice commands, and it will be able to come off with friendly responses to users.

There were other winners, as well, and Microsoft mentioned them all in different categories:

Microsoft has been at the forefront of AI ever since the concept gained popularity, and the Redmond-based tech giant has developed multiple Copilots that were ultimately integrated into their services, withCopilot for Windowsbeing one of them.

Should we expect these projects to make it into their products, as well? Who knows, but at least the company is nurturing AI talent.

You can read the full blog posthere.

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