Physical-Engineering's Last Exam launches on Kaggle with $400K in prizes
MeganRisdal · x · 2026-11-10
The Physical-Engineering's Last Exam (PLE) competition is now live on Kaggle with a $400,000 prize pool: $250K / $100K / $50K for the top three. While LLMs have conquered coding benchmarks, the best agents today complete under 50% of real physical-engineering tasks — the headroom is massive. The challenge: build an agent that can actually engineer the physical world.
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