Vals AI hackathon kicks off: 3 tracks, $60K+ prizes, live leaderboards
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-15
Vals AI is running a two-day hackathon (Nov 14-15) in San Francisco with over $60K in prizes and live leaderboards across three tracks:
- Build Your Own Eval: create a benchmark on Valkyrie for tasks frontier models still get wrong, judged on demos by Claude;
- Post-Train with Tinker: post-train a small model to solve hard competitive programming problems in C++, with a live leaderboard;
- Post-Train Vals Poker Bot: post-train a no-limit Texas Hold'em bot on Applied Compute to battle other teams, also on a live leaderboard.
Hacking starts Saturday afternoon with dinner and guest speakers; submissions close Sunday at 2 PM followed by demos, judging, and winners announced at 3 PM.
Related event: Vals AI Hosts Benchmaxxing Hackathon With Over $60K in Prizes(2 posts)→
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