Teams from Ho Chi Minh City National University won high prizes at AI Challenge 2025

On the morning of November 27, at the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Creative Entrepreneurship, the closing ceremony and award ceremony of the "Ho Chi Minh City Artificial Intelligence Challenge (AI Challenge) 2025" competition took place, within the framework of the Ho Chi Minh City Week of Innovation, Science, Technology and Creative Entrepreneurship (WISE HCMC+ 2025).

Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City Lam Dinh Thang (6th from right) presents logos and certificates of merit to the winning teams. Photo: QUANG HUY

The contest was hosted by the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City, in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City National University, the Department of Education and Training, the City Youth Union, the Ho Chi Minh City Information Technology Association and the Center for Science and Technology Development for Young People. The event attracted the participation of more than 200 students and representatives of departments, branches, schools and science and technology units.

Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training Nguyen Bao Quoc (6th from right) presented logos and certificates of merit to the winning teams. Photo: QUANG HUY

With the theme “Virtual assistant supporting information retrieval from large multimedia data warehouses”, this year’s contest attracted nearly 4,000 contestants from 797 teams from 194 units across the country. After the selection rounds, 80 excellent teams entered the final round. The Organizing Committee awarded prizes to 41 outstanding teams in both Group A (students) and Group B (high school students).

In group A , team OpenCubee-1 (University of Information Technology - VNU-HCM) won first prize; team OpenCubee-2 (joint team of University of Information Technology, University of Natural Sciences and University of Technology - VNU-HCM) won second prize; team LunchRetrieval (University of Information Technology) won third prize.

In group B , team WuDButterflies (Ngo Quyen High School) won first prize; team LoveLAND2 (Gifted High School - VNU-HCM) won second prize and team Non-chalant (Gia Dinh High School) won third prize.

Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City Vo Minh Thanh spoke at the award ceremony. Photo: QUANG HUY

Speaking at the award ceremony, Mr. Vo Minh Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City, Head of the Organizing Committee of the contest, highly appreciated this year's teams for their good application of core technologies such as platform language models, multi-modal search, inference and intelligent interaction. The products demonstrate the solid technical level, creativity and the desire for international integration of the young generation.

He said that the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City will continue to promote the connection between schools - businesses - scientific organizations, bring AI products into practical applications, and expand the scale of the competition in the coming years.

Teams participating in the competition. Photo: QUANG HUY

Teams focus their minds and strength at the competition. Photo: QUANG HUY

Teams from universities. Photo: QUANG HUY

High school competition team. Photo: QUANG HUY

The AI ​​Challenge, held since 2020, is an initiative to promote research and application of AI to solve practical problems, serving the construction of smart cities. From 2023, the contest will expand its audience to high school students and increasingly affirm itself as a prestigious academic playground in the field of artificial intelligence in Vietnam.

QUANG HUY

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/cac-doi-thi-thuoc-dai-hoc-quoc-gia-tphcm-doat-giai-cao-tai-ai-challenge-2025-post825742.html