World's first AI math hackathon: 40 hours, $2M compute, OpenAI & Anthropic on board
_sathvikr · x · 2026-09-05
- Organizer sathvikr announces the world's first AI math hackathon, run with Anthropic and OpenAI: 40 hours, $2M in compute, to solve, understand, and present an open problem. Applications are live.
- Co-organizer Brianbfz frames the goal as promoting responsible AI use in math rather than advancing math itself: all chat histories will be open-sourced, understanding assessed via oral presentations, and the judging process designed with mathematicians including Elliot Glazer and Tony Yue YU. AI generates the proofs; humans verify and understand them.
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