Treat a contest prize as a reward for winners, not a price for building
Google DeepMind and Kaggle paid $10,000 to each of the top two evaluations in each of five tracks and $25,000 to each of the four best overall, out of a $200,000 pool, and the OpenEnv Challenge for real-world RL environments (sponsored by the PyTorch team at Meta, with Hugging Face and Unsloth) offered a $10,000 prize pool in Hugging Face credits. Entries that do not win are not paid, and the second is credits, not cash.
Dated 17 Mar 2026Source checked 30 Oct 2026Basis: indicative
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“We are offering a total prize pool of $200,000: $10,000 awards for the top two submissions in each of the five tracks, and $25,000 grand prizes for the four absolute best overall submissions.”
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- Google DeepMind and Kaggle ran a hackathon from 17 March to 16 April 2026 asking the community to design evaluations for five cognitive abilities on Kaggle's Community Benchmarks platform, with a $200,000 prize pool.
- The OpenEnv Challenge, sponsored by the PyTorch team at Meta with Hugging Face and Unsloth, asked entrants to build real-world RL environments (submission deadline 30 March 2026) for a $10,000 prize pool paid in Hugging Face credits, not cash.
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