MiniMax 2025 AI Hackathon in Hong Kong

About the challenge

MiniMax 2025 AI Hackathon is the first open-to-all AI hackathon in Hong Kong, welcoming anyone with an interest or passion for the AI industry. Powered by MiniMax's leading-edge AI tools of text, image, video, audio, and even music, we believe everyone can push the boundaries of AI by unleashing their creativity.

Thanks to the great help of Hong Kong's political and business communities, we are very much looking forward to seeing projects that not only solve real-life problems, but also carry broad social and commercial value.

It's a free-to-enter event open to everyone. In addition to cash prizes and MiniMax credit, outstanding participants will have the chance to present their ideas directly to top investors, and potentially receive funding to start their own business.

Event Structure

1. Competition Tracks

In this hackathon, we set the Developer Track and the Creator Track for participants with or without programming experience.

Wonder which track you are suitable for?

If you are a programmer or just have basic coding knowledge, and want to build something with helpful AI tools to solve real-world challenges or contribute to society. Then the developer track is definitely your track!

If coding is not your thing, but you often find brilliant ideas popping in your head - and you want to express them through film or music with the help of AI. Then you are all set for the creator track.

2. Theme

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  Developer Track: "Build the Future AI Agent"

  
  


• Creator Track: "The Symphony of Sentience"

4. Categories

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  Developer Track
  
  
  
  
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    First Place/Runner Up/Third Place: Awarded to the top 3 projects overall based on all judging criteria—technical strength, creativity, real-world value, and pitching.
    
  
  
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    Best Social Contribution: Honors the project that best serves a societal or community need
    
  
  
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    Best Practical Utility: Awarded to the project that is most useful and immediately applicable.
    
  
  
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    Best Commercial Potential: Goes to the project with the most promising business value.
    
  
  
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    Most Innovative Use of AI: For the team that pushed boundaries and applied AI in a surprising, novel, or technically inventive way, or have a more efficient code innovation based on existing tools
    
  
  
  
  


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  Creator Track
  
  
  
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    (Film) Best Narrative: Awarded to the work with the most compelling story or structure.
    
  
  
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    (Film) Best Visual Effect: Honors the piece with the most visually stunning and technically impressive visuals.
    
  
  
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    (Film) Best Experimental Work: Goes to bold and unconventional projects. Whether it’s abstract, surreal, or totally unexpected
    
  
  
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    (Film) Best Technical Innovation: Awarded to the creator who shows deep mastery or novel use of AI tools, workflows, or technology in the creative process.
    
  
  
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    (Film) Best Advertisement (tbd): For the best AI-generated or enhanced commercial, promo video, or branded concept.
    
  
  
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    (Film) Best Dubbing: Recognizes outstanding voice performance and dubbing work, including character voiceovers, lip sync, or multilingual delivery
    
  
  
  
  

Aug. 28, 2025 - Sept. 12, 2025

MiniMax

Hong Kong

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