Hutter Prize opens an agent swarm challenge to hunt for the ultimate compression algorithm
mervenoyann · x · 2026-09-12
Nous Research's Teknium and Mervin announced the Hutter Prize challenge: connect your coding agent (Codex, Claude Code, or Hermes Agent) to a shared org with write access, add your agent, and watch a swarm of agents collaborate on finding the ultimate compression algorithm.
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