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HackAI Morocco is a 4-day AI hackathon that brings together students from across Morocco for an unforgettable experience filled with innovation, challenges, and learning. This unique event combines technical excellence with creative problem-solving in the field of artificial intelligence.
- Date: May 22-25, 2025
- Location: Morocco
- Duration: 4 Days
- Format: In-person hackathon
- AI Conference with industry experts
- Hands-on hacking sessions
- Networking opportunities
- Mentorship from AI professionals
- Roadmap covering the most in-demand GenAI skills
- 🏆 1st Place: 20,000 MAD
- 🥈 2nd Place: 12,000 MAD
- 🥉 3rd Place: 8,000 MAD
The roadmap at the time of the hackathon looked like this, where each challenge corresponds to a notebook and granted the participants a number of points.
We're actively maintaining the notebooks in this repository for similar hackathons, feel free to open a PR to suggest modifications or suggest a new notebook!
| Category | Challenge | Description | Notebook |
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| 📊 Data Processing & Analysis | Data Cleaning | Clean and process Moroccan Arabic (Darija) datasets |  |
| Language Identification | Build systems for Arabic dialect identification | |
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| Web Scraping | Create efficient data collection pipelines using BeautifulSoup4 | |
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| Tokenizer | Build and train custom tokenizers | |
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| Synthetic Data Generation | Generate synthetic data for training | |
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| 🏋️♂️ LLM Training | LLM Pretraining | Pretrain your first LLM | |
| SFT LoRA | Fine-tune models using LoRA | |
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| Optimize Training | Optimize LLM training process | COMING SOON | |
| 🚀 Deployment | Optimize Inference | Optimize model inference | |
| Deployment Demo | Deploy models with API | |
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| Quantization | Quantize models for efficient deployment | |
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| 🤖 AI Agents & Prompt Engineering | MCP | Build an MCP server | |
| SmolAgents | Develop agents that can effectively use tools and APIs using smolagents like tools | |
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| Prompt Engineering | Create robust and efficient prompts for various AI applications | |
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| 🔄 Alignment | DPO Training | Implement Direct Preference Optimization for Arabic language models | |
| PPO Training | Develop models using Proximal Policy Optimization | |
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| 🧠 Reasoning | GRPO for Math | Fine-tune models for mathematical reasoning | |
| 🎤 Automatic Speech Recognition | ASR Usage | Implement automatic speech recognition | |
| ASR Finetuning | Finetune ASR models | |
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| Word Level Alignment | Implement word-level force alignment | |
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| 🗣️ Text-to-Speech | TTS Usage | Text-to-speech implementation | |
| TTS Finetune | Fine-tune TTS models | |
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| 📊 Embedding models | SBERT Embedding | Fine-tune SBERT model | |
| Pretrain MLM | Masked Language Modeling Training | |
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| RAG/Classification | Use embeddings for RAG and classification | COMING SOON | |
| 🎨 Image Generation | Stable Diffusion Usage | Use Stable Diffusion models | |
| Stable Diffusion Finetune | Fine-tune Stable Diffusion models | |
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| DDPM | Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models | |
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| 👁️ Vision Language Models | VLM Usage | Use Vision Language Models | |
| VLM Finetuning | Fine-tune Vision Language Models | |
- Achraf Mamdouh (Senior Software Engineer @ Google)
- Jawad Alaoui (Software Engineer and CEO @ Norma)
- Mehdi Bennani (Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind)
Our team of experienced mentors includes professionals from:
- Hugging Face
- Sigma Nova
- Impactera
- ToumAI Analytics
- DFKI
- MP DATA
- CRSA
- AI Exploration LAB
- ATLASIA
- Clear Global
- And more...
The event is organized by a dedicated team of students and professionals from 1337AI and friends
We would like to thank all the sponsors and partners who made this event possible, and the mentors who spent days iterating on the notebooks to make them fun and engaging for the participants:
- Abdelhakim Benechehab
- Abdeljalil Elmajjodi
- Abderrahmane Moujar
- Abir Harrasse
- Achraf Mamdouh
- Afaf El Wafi
- Ahmed Lekssays
- Ibrahim Esseddyq
- Imane Momayiz
- Ihssane Nedjaoui
- Jawaher Chennak
- Kawtar Zerhouni
- Khadija Bayoud
- Khalid Benlyazid
- Mohamed Aymane Farhi
- Mohamed Mekkouri
- Mounia El Koraichi
- Nouamane Tazi
- Nouhaila Chab
- Otmane El Bourki
- Yassine El Kheir
- Yassir Bendou
- The Designer: Noureddine Tahadout
- The Dev Team of HackAI: Issam Laafar, Hassan karrach, Imran Baali, and Mossaab Amimar
For any inquiries, please reach out to us through LinkedIn or email us at contact@1337ai.org
With ❤️ from 1337AI and friends