Vals AI hackathon adds PokerBench track with $7,500 first-place prize
rhythmrg · x · 2026-11-11
Vals AI announced a third hackathon track sponsored by Applied Compute: post-train a model on PokerBench, a 10-player no-limit Texas Hold'em table, for a $7,500 first-place cash prize. Teams start from an identical reference setup and are scored in the exact harness their bots compete in, with live rankings and overnight tournament checkpoints. Applied Compute notes poker is a hard post-training problem — many players, hidden information, rewards only visible at the end — made harder by a 24-hour clock, using their AC2 platform.
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