AI hackathon puts open math problems before independent academic judges, with tracks from Cognition, Cloudflare and more
_sathvikr · x · 2026-09-05
A large-scale problem-solving event for AI companies and researchers is taking submissions. The main track — solving and explaining an open mathematics problem — is judged by a panel of independent academics with no sponsor involvement.
Sponsors run their own tracks with pre-written problems ranging from number-field-sieve-style algorithm improvements to superalignment. Companies with tracks include Cognition, Cloudflare, dmodelai, and hudevals; the post tags OpenAI, Anthropic, DARPA, a16z, Y Combinator and many more, signaling broad industry pull.
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