Impressive Submissions at the MariaDB AI RAG Hackathon

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MariaDB AI-RAG Hackathon

This is part of a blog series on the Helsinki Python meetup AI RAG Hackathon announced in March 2025. The winners were announced in May 2025: The Integration track winner was MCP, the Innovation track winner was YouTube Semantic Search, and runner-up Wikipedia Enhancer. We collected conclusions for future hackathons.

On Monday we had our final submission day for the MariaDB AI RAG Hackathon. We got several high quality replies in both tracks: integration and innovation.

The quality was so high that we are keen to replicate this hackathon in other locations and are currently looking for cooperation partners. We are truly grateful to the Helsinki Python meetup group without which this would not have been possible. They have a great community, organise excellent events, and played a key role in making the hackathon happen.

We are now reviewing the submissions together with the Helsinki Python meetup group. Stay tuned for the meetup on May 27th, when the winners will be announced!