Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- Researchers, Developers, University students
- Team size
- Individuals or teams of up to 8 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$850,000: US$150,000 in progress prizes (US$75,000 final leaderboard and US$75,000 milestones), plus a US$700,000 bonus unlocked only at 100% accuracy.
All deadlines
Original date: Milestone 2 (optional) | September 30, 2026 (optional) - Deadline for Milestone 2. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC. | Time zone: UTC | Notebooks must be public under an open-source license by the milestone to qualify. Milestone 1 on June 30 is already past.
This deadline has passed and cannot be added.
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
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About this opportunity
Build AI agents that explore unfamiliar interactive environments and solve tasks through adaptation and multi-step reasoning. Kaggle Notebooks are scored on game performance, with leaderboard and milestone awards plus a conditional bonus. Individuals or teams of up to 8 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 8 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 eight team members.
- Submit through Kaggle Notebooks with CPU or GPU runtime at most nine hours and internet disabled; freely and publicly available external data and pretrained models are allowed.
- Prize eligibility requires public release; rules specify CC-BY 4.0 winner licensing and open-system, model and weight requirements.
- Worldwide, subject to official eligibility, residency, sanctions and local-law restrictions
What to prepare
- A Notebook agent that takes actions in the environment; the submission file is generated automatically.
- Winners supply reproducible training and inference code and environment documentation, with an interview and solution write-up as required.
Sources
- Source platform
- Kaggle
- Source domain
- www.kaggle.com
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.