Dubai: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), will serve as the patron of the Global Prompt Engineering Championship, the largest AI prompt challenge in the world, which will take place from May 20–21 at Emirates Towers and the Museum of the Future.
The DFF-managed Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence said that 30 competitors from three primary categories—art, literature, and coding—will compete in the championship’s final round. These competitors will fight for a total prize fund of AED 1 million ($270,000) after being chosen from thousands of entries from about 100 different nations.
Additionally, the Global Prompt Engineering Championship judges were revealed. They will include Mazen Abu Najm from Microsoft, Saeed Kharbash from Dubai Culture, and Benedetta Ghione from Art Dubai in the art category.
Ahlam Al Bolooki from the Emirates Literature Foundation, Ramesh Chander from Google, and Mustafa Al Rawi from International Media Investments (IMI) are the judges for the literature category.
Ashraf Khan from IBM, Ahmed El Sayed from Google, and Abdul Rahman Al-Mahmoud from the UAE Artificial Intelligence Office are the judges for the coding category.
“The Global Prompt Engineering Championship has attracted significant global interest, with thousands of entries from around 100 countries, illustrating the widespread impact of AI across sectors, from manufacturing and science to art and culture,” Al Falasi added.
Participants in each category will compete over four rounds on the first day of the championship. The evaluation criteria shall encompass timeliness, excellence, inventiveness, originality, and content correctness. The top three competitors from each category advance to the second day’s final round, where they will square off for a $1 million total prize pool.