World's first math hackathon backed by Anthropic and OpenAI offers $2M compute over 40 hours
ColesThermoAI · x · 2026-09-07
- A team partnering with Anthropic and OpenAI is running what they call the world's first math hackathon: 40 hours to solve, understand, and present an open problem, with $2M in compute available. Applications are now open.
- Separately, an event on hard open problems in AI hardware and thermodynamics returns to Pasadena on Oct 30, with the author's team sponsoring.
Related event: Caltech to Host World's First Research-Grade Math Hackathon(4 posts)→
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