Anthropic and OpenAI back first math hackathon with 40 hours and $2M compute
_sathvikr · x · 2026-09-05
- Organizers announced a partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI to host the world's first math hackathon: 40 hours to solve, understand, and present an open problem, backed by $2M in compute credits.
- 100 top teams are being recruited globally — the pool includes 10 IMO/IOI medals, 15+ Annals papers, 5 textbook authors, and mathematicians who've solved famous open problems.
- Each team gets $1M of Fable API credits and $1M of Astra API credits to advance a problem of their choice; applications are open.
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