World's first math hackathon with Anthropic and OpenAI offers $2M compute over 40 hours
_sathvikr · x · 2026-09-05
- Organizers announced the "world's first math hackathon," run in partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Format: 40 hours, $2M in compute credits, and participants must solve, understand, and present an open math problem.
- Applications are now live; Devin AI jokingly replied it would be there "factoring numbers."
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