Caltech students host math hackathon: $1M+ in compute to attack open problems
_sathvikr · x · 2026-08-31
A few Caltech students, with frontier labs and startups, are hosting the first math hackathon: over $1M worth of compute/tokens for 100 teams to tackle the hardest open math problems. Competitors range from IMO gold medalists to frontier-lab researchers and math PhDs/professors. Cognition says it will support the event and send engineers.
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