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Active AI & ML Competitions

Test your algorithmic models against real-world benchmarks. Aggregated active challenges, prize pools, and community leaderboards across Kaggle, HackerRank, DrivenData, Hugging Face, and Zindi.

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KKaggle
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Kaggle Grandmaster Tabular Series: High-Dimensional Continuous Yield

Host:Kaggle Community

A pure algorithmic showdown on massive synthetic continuous numerical data featuring complex non-linear feature interactions.

Objective:Engineered for rapid iteration: test stacking, blending, CatBoost tuning, and neural tabular architectures on 1M+ rows.
Prize Pool
Kaggle Tier Points & Medals
Time Remaining
12 days
Registered Teams
3,890
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
TabularCatBoostXGBoostFeature Engineering+1
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🤗Hugging Face
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Hugging Face: Sub-4B Parameter Edge Reasoning Benchmark

Host:Hugging Face Community

Fine-tune open-weights models strictly under 4 Billion parameters to achieve maximum reasoning accuracy on GSM8K and HumanEval.

Objective:Quantize and distill reasoning capabilities into compact architectures runnable on consumer edge hardware with <8GB VRAM.
Prize Pool
$25,000 + 10k H100 Credits
Time Remaining
16 days
Registered Teams
970
Track Tracked
NLP & LLMs
QuantizationHugging FacePEFTLoRA+1
Enter on Hugging Face
HHackerRank
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Global AI & Competitive Algorithms Sprint 2026

Host:HackerRank Community

Compete against engineers worldwide in timed competitive programming challenges focused on dynamic graph optimization, heuristic search, and mini-LLM pipelines.

Objective:Solve 6 algorithmic and machine learning optimization problems within a 48-hour window under tight CPU time and memory consumption limits.
Prize Pool
$15,000 USD
Time Remaining
18 days
Registered Teams
3,850
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
Competitive ProgrammingAlgorithmsGraph TheoryPython+1
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ZZindi
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Zindi: Swahili & African Dialect Audio Sentiment Classification

Host:African NLP Network

Fine-tune self-supervised speech foundation models to classify tone, sentiment, and intent in conversational Swahili voice notes.

Objective:Handle low-resource linguistic nuances, background ambient market noise, and code-switching between Swahili and English.
Prize Pool
$10,000
Time Remaining
20 days
Registered Teams
390
Track Tracked
Audio & Speech
Wav2Vec2WhisperAudio MLSpeech Processing+1
Enter on Zindi
KKaggle
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ROGII: Automated Wellbore Trajectory & Geological Stratigraphy

Host:ROGII & Geosteering Labs

Forecast subsurface stratigraphic formations and geological boundaries in real time using telemetry measurements from active drilling sensors.

Objective:Predict geological layer transitions and adjust drill-bit inclination using gamma-ray logs, rate of penetration (ROP), and torque sensor streams.
Prize Pool
$25,000 USD
Time Remaining
21 days
Registered Teams
520
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
GeosciencesTime SeriesSensor TelemetryEnergy+1
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HHackerRank
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HackerRank AI Championship: Autonomous Heuristics & Search Algorithms

Host:HackerRank & Enterprise Partners

Design deep reinforcement learning agents and neural A* heuristic functions to solve dynamic multi-agent grid exploration problems.

Objective:Control multi-robot fleets navigating adversarial maze environments with partial observability and dynamic latency constraints.
Prize Pool
$35,000 + Tech Interviews
Time Remaining
22 days
Registered Teams
3,120
Track Tracked
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement LearningGraph Neural NetworksA* SearchPPO+1
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ZZindi
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Bias Bounty: Algorithmic Fairness in African Geographic Mapping

Host:Responsible AI Africa & Zindi

Detect and mitigate spatial demographic biases and under-representation in machine learning models trained on satellite remote sensing data.

Objective:Demonstrate disparities in settlement classification and develop re-weighting or adversarial de-biasing techniques that equalize precision across disparate socioeconomic zones.
Prize Pool
$10,000 USD
Time Remaining
25 days
Registered Teams
315
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
Fairness in AISatellite ImageryBias AuditingGeospatial+1
Enter on Zindi
DDrivenData
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Lost in Transcription: Paleographic Handwritten Text Recognition

Host:Historical Archives Foundation & DrivenData

Preserve historical heritage by transcribing centuries of handwritten cursive manuscripts, parchment ledgers, and damaged clerical records into clean digital text.

Objective:Extract structured multilingual text and tabular records from degraded high-resolution parchment images suffering from ink bleed-through and fading.
Prize Pool
$20,000 USD
Time Remaining
28 days
Registered Teams
390
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
OCRPaleographyHandwriting RecognitionVision Transformers+1
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🤗Hugging Face
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Hugging Face: Multimodal Clinical Visual Question Answering

Host:Biomedical AI Research Collective

Train open vision-language models (VLMs) capable of answering diagnostic pathology and radiology queries with verified attribution.

Objective:Generate clinically factual answers to complex visual queries while minimizing hallucinations and generating citation bounding boxes.
Prize Pool
$22,000
Time Remaining
29 days
Registered Teams
680
Track Tracked
Multimodal
VLMVision-LanguageMedical AILlava+1
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DDrivenData
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NASA Deep Space: BioSentinel Biological Radiation Anomaly Detection

Host:NASA Ames Research Center

Predict cellular damage and radiation flux incidents using real deep-space telemetry from NASA’s BioSentinel lunar mission.

Objective:Detect stochastic particle collision events from streaming multichannel optical density sensor logs under solar storm conditions.
Prize Pool
$55,000
Time Remaining
32 days
Registered Teams
840
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
NASATime SeriesXGBoostLightGBM+1
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KKaggle
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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub: 3D Single-Cell Tracking Challenge

Host:Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network

Track thousands of densely packed living cells across high-resolution 3D volumetric fluorescence microscopy time-series.

Objective:Segment cell boundaries and link individual cell lineages through multiple cell division cycles over hundreds of consecutive 3D volume timesteps.
Prize Pool
$55,000 USD
Time Remaining
33 days
Registered Teams
612
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
Biomedical Imaging3D Computer VisionCell TrackingSegmentation+1
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ZZindi
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Zindi: Sub-Saharan Crop Disease Detection via Multispectral Drone Imagery

Host:CGIAR & African AgTech Alliance

Diagnose bacterial blight and fungal crop infections across smallholder agricultural fields using ultra-high-resolution drone imagery.

Objective:Perform multi-class semantic segmentation under varying sunlight, shadow artifacts, and seasonal canopy changes.
Prize Pool
$15,000
Time Remaining
34 days
Registered Teams
520
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
YOLOv10Drone VisionAgriculture AIComputer Vision+1
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DDrivenData
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SNOMED CT: Clinical Concept Extraction & Entity Linking

Host:SNOMED International & DrivenData

Map unstructured doctor discharge summaries and clinical consultation notes to standardized SNOMED CT medical taxonomy concept identifiers.

Objective:Detect medical condition spans, symptoms, and pharmacotherapy mentions and disambiguate them to exact SNOMED CT concept identifiers across 350,000+ medical terms.
Prize Pool
$15,000 USD
Time Remaining
35 days
Registered Teams
650
Track Tracked
NLP & LLMs
Clinical NLPSNOMED CTEntity DisambiguationHealthcare AI+1
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KKaggle
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PTCG Pocket: Reinforcement Learning Battle Policy Engine

Host:Game AI Research & Kaggle

Develop an autonomous agent that learns competitive deck management, energy allocation, and turn-by-turn counterplay in imperfect-information matches.

Objective:Train a model using reinforcement learning or Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to navigate hidden deck states and outmaneuver opponent strategies in simulation.
Prize Pool
$35,000 USD
Time Remaining
39 days
Registered Teams
1,190
Track Tracked
Reinforcement Learning
Game AIReinforcement LearningMCTSSimulation+1
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KKaggle
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RSNA: 3D Volumetric Brain Microhemorrhage Segmentation

Host:Radiological Society of North America

Develop production-ready 3D Vision architectures to segment subtle intracranial bleeding across diverse clinical CT modalities.

Objective:Accurately contour millimeter-scale hematomas across non-contrast cranial CT volumes with severe class imbalance.
Prize Pool
$80,000
Time Remaining
39 days
Registered Teams
1,650
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
Computer Vision3D U-NetPyTorchMedical AI+1
Enter on Kaggle
🤗Hugging Face
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Gradio Agents & Model Context Protocol (MCP) Hackathon

Host:Hugging Face & Anthropic

Build interactive agentic applications powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), open weights LLMs, and Gradio 5 user interfaces.

Objective:Design production-ready MCP tool servers and intuitive interactive UI spaces where multi-agent teams solve developer workflows, database queries, and research synthesis.
Prize Pool
$30,000 USD
Time Remaining
42 days
Registered Teams
920
Track Tracked
NLP & LLMs
GradioMCPAI AgentsOpen Source LLMs+1
Enter on Hugging Face
HHackerRank
Active

Global Fintech Challenge: Fraud Ring Detection with Graph Neural Networks

Host:Fintech Open Consortium

Detect coordinated money laundering circles and fraudulent borrower syndicates across large-scale financial transaction graphs.

Objective:Construct dynamic heterogeneous graph embeddings to identify collusive node clusters in near real-time streaming data.
Prize Pool
$30,000 + Job Fast-Track
Time Remaining
45 days
Registered Teams
1,450
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
Graph MLPyTorch GeometricFraud DetectionNetworkX+1
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ZZindi
Active

R.O.A.D. Barbados: Historic Land Registry Handwriting Recognition

Host:Barbados National Archives & Zindi

Digitize historical Caribbean land deed registers and property boundary maps spanning the 18th to 20th centuries to ensure transparent property rights.

Objective:Train handwriting recognition models capable of reading ornate historical cursive, identifying legal boundary bearings, and outputting structured GeoJSON/tabular metadata.
Prize Pool
$25,000 USD
Time Remaining
46 days
Registered Teams
410
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
African & Caribbean AIHistorical OCRComputer VisionLand Records
Enter on Zindi
KKaggle
Active

Google & Kaggle: Complex Reasoning & Multimodal Prompt Recovery

Host:Google DeepMind & Kaggle

Reverse-engineer generative prompts and train compact distilled models capable of high-fidelity multimodal reasoning on edge compute.

Objective:Given transformed target outputs and reference images, predict the original latent prompting structure and system instructions.
Prize Pool
$110,000
Time Remaining
50 days
Registered Teams
2,340
Track Tracked
NLP & LLMs
LLMsPrompt EngineeringPyTorchDistillation+1
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KKaggle
Active

Enveda & CASMI 2026: Small Molecule Mass-Spectrometry Identification

Host:Enveda Biosciences

Accelerate drug discovery from natural products by identifying unknown small-molecule chemical structures directly from tandem MS/MS spectra.

Objective:Predict SMILES strings and IUPAC chemical structures from noisy mass spectra fragmentation patterns and collision-induced dissociation signatures.
Prize Pool
$50,000 USD
Time Remaining
54 days
Registered Teams
430
Track Tracked
Multimodal
CheminformaticsDrug DiscoveryMass SpectrometryGNNs+1
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DDrivenData
Active

Climate Trace: Super-Emitter Methane Plume Spatial Localization

Host:Rocky Mountain Institute & Climate TRACE

Pinpoint pinpoint industrial methane leaks and pipeline emissions from European Space Agency Sentinel-5P hyperspectral observations.

Objective:Distinguish true atmospheric gas column density anomalies from surface albedo noise and cloud interference.
Prize Pool
$60,000
Time Remaining
55 days
Registered Teams
710
Track Tracked
Computer Vision
Climate AIGeospatialSatellite ImagingConvolutional Nets+1
Enter on DrivenData
🤗Hugging Face
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Fast Gemma 4 Challenge: Sub-10ms Speculative Decoding & Edge Inference

Host:Hugging Face & Google DeepMind

Optimize Gemma models for high-throughput edge deployment using custom kernel fusion, 4-bit AWQ quantization, and speculative decoding techniques.

Objective:Achieve the highest tokens-per-second generation speed with under 10ms time-to-first-token on standard consumer hardware without degrading MMLU accuracy by >1%.
Prize Pool
$40,000 USD
Time Remaining
62 days
Registered Teams
750
Track Tracked
NLP & LLMs
Model OptimizationGemmaSpeculative DecodingQuantization+1
Enter on Hugging Face
AAIcrowd
Active

AIcrowd: Neural MMO Ecosystem Multi-Agent Survival Challenge

Host:MIT & Neural MMO Project

Train diverse populations of reinforcement learning agents in a persistent massively multiplayer virtual ecosystem.

Objective:Optimize long-horizon survival strategies, cooperative trading behavior, and tactical resource combat against competing algorithms.
Prize Pool
$20,000 + Compute Grants
Time Remaining
63 days
Registered Teams
430
Track Tracked
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement LearningMulti-AgentRay / RLlibPyTorch+1
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DDrivenData
Active

GEMS: Predicting Subsurface Fracture Permeability for Geothermal Energy

Host:U.S. Department of Energy & DrivenData

Unlock clean geothermal energy by building machine learning models that estimate fluid flow and fracture network permeability inside deep crystalline rock formations.

Objective:Model hydraulic conductivity across complex fracture fault lines using seismic soundings, core sample petrophysics, and injection well pressure curves.
Prize Pool
$300,000 USD
Time Remaining
72 days
Registered Teams
780
Track Tracked
Tabular & Predictive
Clean EnergyGeothermalPhysics-Informed MLSubsurface Modeling
Enter on DrivenData
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