Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- Researchers, Developers, University students
- Team size
- Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes.
- Location
- Online on Kaggle
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- Up to US$700,000: US$275,000 progress prizes, US$275,000 innovation prize, and a conditional US$150,000 bonus unlocked at at least 85% accuracy.
All deadlines
Original date: Entry deadline | October 26, 2026 - Entry Deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
Original date: Team join / merger deadline | October 26, 2026 - Team Merger Deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
Original date: Final submission deadline | November 2, 2026 - Final Submission Deadline. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC
Original date: Innovation prize artifacts | All artifacts should be open sourced and attached to an official competition Solution Writeup within seven days of the competition's submission deadline to be considered eligible. | Retained as the official relative interval; no standalone timestamp added.
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About this opportunity
Develop AI systems that infer new rules and predict exact output grids for ARC tasks. Each test output allows two attempts, submitted through a Notebook, with awards for leaderboard performance, solution innovation and an 85%-accuracy bonus. Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes. Rules explicitly require no purchase to enter or win; participants' own equipment and compute costs are separate.
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
- Individuals or teams of up to 5 may participate. Requires a Kaggle account and the older of 18 or the local age of majority, unless the sponsor agrees with appropriate guardian consent. Residents of Crimea, the so-called DNR or LNR, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, and persons or entity representatives under U.S. export controls or sanctions, cannot enter. Local laws also apply. Competition-entity personnel may participate subject to internal policy but cannot win prizes.
- One submission per day, up to two final submissions, and no more than five team members.
- Notebook runtime is at most 12 hours, with internet disabled; freely and publicly available external data and pretrained models are allowed.
- Evaluation requires exact output-grid matches; each test output must contain attempt_1 and attempt_2.
- Winners must release solutions under the specified CC BY 4.0 terms; the innovation prize also requires public solution artifacts.
- Worldwide, subject to official eligibility, residency, sanctions and local-law restrictions
What to prepare
- A Kaggle Notebook producing submission.json, covering every task ID and preserving the order of multiple test outputs.
- For the innovation prize, attach open artifacts to an official Solution Writeup within seven days after the submission deadline.
Sources
- Source platform
- Kaggle
- Source domain
- www.kaggle.com
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