Zalo AI Challenge attracts 740 registered teams after just one week

“Artificial Intelligence” is a keyword of great interest in Vietnam. In terms of national development strategy, the AI field is being heavily invested in. By the end of 2025, the Law on Artificial Intelligence is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly , making Vietnam one of the few countries with a comprehensive legal framework on AI.

Looking at the aspect of life, AI is also creeping into the lives of Vietnamese people, becoming a powerful assistant in daily work. Many universities across the country are also investing in promoting training in the field of artificial intelligence, preparing high-quality technology human resources for Vietnam in the coming years.

The contest attracted many young people and IT engineers.

To balance the specialized knowledge trained in universities, students need many opportunities to experience reality, approach AI intuitively, and see the applications of AI in life. Therefore, competitions like Zalo AI Challenge open up opportunities to learn and apply knowledge into practice for technology students in Vietnam.

Zalo AI Challenge chose the Kaggle format and kept it the same throughout the 7 times it was held. During the competition, the competing teams will continuously update the model results on the Leaderboard so that the competing teams can directly monitor each other's training process in real-time.

The competition's appeal has been proven by the number of registrants. After just 7 days, Zalo AI Challenge 2025 has recorded 740 registered teams, with the majority of contestants being university students across the country.

Winning teams will be awarded at Zalo AI Summit.

With a topical, professional and practical theme, Zalo AI Challenge 2025 is considered more challenging than previous years. This year's contestants can choose one of two exam topics: AeroEyes - Finding and Rescuing with AI-Powered Drones and RoadBuddy - Understanding the Road through Dashcam AI.

The contest “AeroEyes - Finding and Rescuing with AI-Powered Drones” has great social value when applying autonomous drone technology in emergency situations and disaster response, helping to search for missing people or important objects in harsh environments such as flooded areas, dense forests, and storm-damaged areas.

Teams will build algorithms to control drones to perform a specific task in a real-world environment from images captured by the drone, simulating a real- world search and rescue mission.

In addition to search and rescue, traffic is also a difficult problem that needs to be solved. The challenge “RoadBuddy - Understanding the Road through Dashcam AI” aims to build a driving assistant that can understand video content from dashcams to quickly answer questions related to traffic signs, signals and driving instructions.

Dr. Chau Thanh Duc, Deputy Organizing Committee, Director of Research & Development at Zalo AI, shared: “Zalo AI Challenge is organized to introduce to the Vietnamese AI community the latest trends in the world through highly applicable and practical problems. The competition is not only a playground for young people to challenge themselves, but also a place to connect AI enthusiasts, together promoting cooperation and developing the Vietnamese AI community.”

Dr. Chau Thanh Duc also emphasized that in the world, artificial intelligence is developing at an extraordinary speed and increasingly has a profound impact on work and life. Vietnam has great potential to develop in this field, thanks to its talented young team in STEM industries.

In addition to senior staff at Zalo AI, contestants also received advice from leading AI experts, including: Dr. Chau Thanh Duc - Director of Research & Development, Zalo AI; Dr. Nguyen Truong Son - Director of Science, Zalo AI; Professor Nguyen Le Minh - Head of the Machine Learning and Natural Language Understanding Laboratory, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST); Professor Tran Thanh Long - Deputy Dean, Director of Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK; Dr. Tran Minh Quan - Senior Technology Development Expert, NVIDIA; Dr. Luong Viet Quoc - CEO of Realtime Robotics.

Zalo AI Challenge opens up opportunities to learn and apply knowledge into practice for technology students in Vietnam.

The contest will be open for registration until November 20. Students and young technology engineers in Vietnam who want to try their hand in the field of artificial intelligence development can learn more about the contest and register to participate at the website zalo.challenge.ai.

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