100 Days AI Awakening Plan: Build Future AI Hardware
Culture & Intelligence Manufacturing | AI Cultural New Species Awakening Plan
100 Days to Build Future AI Hardware
For AI, For Innovation, For the Future
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1. Event Overview
About Tuya Developer Platform (https://tuyaopen.ai/zh)
TuyaOpen is an open-source, open development framework designed for the AIoT industry, built on TuyaOS, a mature commercial-grade IoT system. It inherits core features such as cross-platform compatibility, cross-system support, modularity, and robust security compliance, verified through the deployment of over 100 million devices and millions of users worldwide.
About the Contest
This contest is jointly initiated by Hangzhou Cultural Investment and Tuya Smart as the "AI Awakening Plan", aiming to tap into the innovative power of global developers, better layout the deep integration of culture and technology, and incubate the next generation of AI hardware and "AI new species" that integrate culture and technology. With the slogan "For AI, For Innovation, For the Future", through 100 days of deep co-creation, we aim to inspire developer potential, promote the development of new quality productivity, and showcase Hangzhou's innovative vitality and open ecosystem as a digital capital. We invite global developers who love technological innovation to join 141.7w Tuya global ecosystem developers for 100 days of passionate collaboration!
Through this "AI Awakening Plan", we aim to inspire the new generation of technological forces to bring AI new species based on the cross-border vision of culture + technology; secondly, to incubate intelligent hardware with AI technology as the core and industrial potential, precisely connecting innovation achievements with industrial needs, and working together to build a competitive AI hardware industry ecosystem.
Organizers: Hangzhou Cultural Investment Development Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Tuya Information Co., Ltd.; Organizer: Hangzhou Guansheng Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
2. Registration Period
- Registration Period: August 8, 2025 ~ September 10, 2025
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Preliminary Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
Upload works to: GitHub developer works repository & social media platforms like Xiaohongshu/Bilibili
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Online Review (Select 20 works) Online Roadshow:
Online roadshow, team introduction/design concept/technologies used/work highlights/work demonstration (10-15 minutes/work)
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Final Review: October 8-13, 2025
Winners Announcement: October 15 (tentative)
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Awards Ceremony: October 21, 2025 (tentative)
3. Event Content
Competition Tracks:
You can choose to develop creative products based on TuyaOpen native open-source package or TuyaOpen version open-source package
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AI Hardware Track: Can be AI toys | robots | AI smart home
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AI Industry Solutions Track: Applications in fields such as smart office, smart industry
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AI+IP Track: Cultural relics direction/pet direction/anime direction
Entry Level: AI Agent Track
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AI Cloud Track: AI applications built based on Tuya AI AGENT
Learning Resources:
| Learning Resources | Links |
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| GitHub Resource Site | https://github.com/tuya/TuyaOpen |
| Module Specification Documents | https://tuyaopen.ai/zh/blog |
| TuyaOpen & TuyaOS Documentation Collection | https://tuyaopen.ai/zh/blog |
| AI Agent Development | https://developer.tuya.com/cn/docs/iot/ai-agent-management?id=Kdxr4v7uv4fud |
- Video Resources: Developer Demo videos, follow "Tuya Developer" video channel
- Live Streaming: Live developer bootcamp sessions will be arranged during the event, follow the contest group for updates
Based on the provided learning materials, learn TuyaOpen based on Tuya T5 modules and DIY your own hardware
Technical Requirements:
🌟 AI hardware development must be based on Tuya development platform
- TuyaOpen: TuyaOpen is open-source based on the industry-leading TuyaOS architecture, verified by 1.417 million developers worldwide.
- TuyaOS: Tuya Wind IDE is a one-stop integrated development environment for developers using TuyaOS EasyGo
Contestants can choose the specific development platform according to their needs. If you have requirements for video AI capability integration or commercialization scenarios, TuyaOS is recommended; for other scenarios or needs, the more open ecosystem of TuyaOpen is recommended.
🌟 Hardware Requirements
- Development Board: T5 series development boards are recommended. For other ecosystems supported by the TuyaOpen platform, see https://tuyaopen.ai/zh/docs/about-tuyaopen
- DIY Development Board: Must use T5 modules.
Submission Requirements
🌟 Work Publishing Path
Upload works to OSChina open-source community in the best form. Submit source code to GitHub or Gitee, repository should include software and hardware related materials. Overall project presentation will also be scored.
🌟 Documentation Requirements
Submit project proposal https://drive.weixin.qq.com/s?k=AGQAugfWAAkCkERkpHAFUAoAamAEg or PPT (download template)
🌟 Video Submission Requirements
- Video Requirements: Video must be at least 1 minute, demonstrating complete product functionality and capabilities, along with introduction of work highlights and use cases
- Video Publishing: Publish videos on any social media platform like Xiaohongshu/Douyin/Video Channel/Bilibili, @Tuya Developer, with hashtags #TuyaOpen#TuyaAI#Challenge100DaysDevelopAIHardware, opportunity to get popularity bonus points
Send the above work published address links & documents via email to huate.lai@tuya.com, email naming format: "Team Name + Work Name + Track"
Requirements:
- Work content must comply with relevant national laws and regulations, content should be positive and healthy.
- Tuya senior IoT engineers will fairly and impartially review all works.
Contest Resource Access
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Purchase Development Board: Registered contestants can purchase T5AI development board kit at 50% discount after joining the group
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Free Development Board (Limited): T5 development boards will be provided to selected developers based on creativity, issued after review approval
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Access to Tuya Cloud Services, can freely use AI capabilities including speech synthesis, voice cloning, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.
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Join Group & Resource Application After Successful Registration
Resource Application Requirements:
- Have GitHub historical project links
- Have relevant hardware development background
4. Event Awards (Resource Pool Value 100,000+)
🎁 First Prize: 1 work, can receive
- Smart space automation suite worth 5999
- 4000 yuan shopping card
🎁 Second Prize: 3 works, each can receive
- Multi-functional AI control center worth 3999
- 2000 yuan shopping card
🎁 Third Prize: 5 works, each can receive
- Wi-Fi AI doll worth 299
- 1000 yuan shopping card
🎁 Best Communication Award: 10 works, each can receive
- Tuya merchandise & 200 yuan shopping card
Complete works according to requirements & highest popularity works shared on Xiaohongshu/Douyin and other platforms
🎁 Best Agent Creativity Award (AI Agent Track Special Award): 5 works, each can receive
- Custom Tuya development board kit with creative AI Agent firmware & 100 yuan shopping card
🎁 Winning Works Enjoy Ecosystem Resources
- One-on-one technical guidance from Tuya Smart technical team to advance commercialization path & venture capital resource referrals.
- Developer work promotion resource package, Tuya Smart helps you become a popular developer up! Tuya Smart full-platform work promotion, enjoy special traffic support plan for promotion exposure, collaborate with top KOLs to promote developer product power and IP.
- Become a core officially certified developer in the Tuya developer ecosystem, priority access to latest platform capabilities, co-create Demo development free access to modules and development boards and technical support
- Product overseas support & business cooperation recommendations, winning works will be exhibited at overseas exhibitions, Tuya Smart will fully support winning products going overseas, Amazon TikTok and other sales full-chain support.