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How do competitors with restricted compute find opportunities to win, build their careers, and earn medals?
Last year, Isaiah Pressman finished 2nd in a competition on his home PC, behind a team running 8 H100s. This year, he won on a cluster.
In the first episode of Beyond the Leaderboard, three Orbit Wars competitors weigh scale against clever engineering.
Here’s a sneak peek:
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As a test of our progress to advance the frontier of AI research, in June we entered the next generation of our autonomous AI research system, AIRA₃, in a live Kaggle competition run by NVIDIA to fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model. The challenge was to teach the model to reason better — all competitors had access to the same information and were graded externally on a private test set.
AIRA₃ placed 8th out of ~4,000 teams to win Gold, outperforming human competitors who had access to the same frontier tools.
We believe this is a reliable signal that AIRA₃ can improve a targeted capability of an AI model at a level similar to human experts.
Ryan Holbrook retweeted
We (@JamilCSemaan , @kagglingdieter, and me) published a blog on the @kaggle Nemotron Challenge top solutions! Lots of great work happened in this competition
developer.nvidia.com/blog/le…
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🏆 New @kaggle competition! 🏆 Autonomous Agent Prediction: submit an agent to autonomously solve multiple unseen ML tasks from a common distribution.
It's a test of where we're heading -- building & evaluating agents that continually learn, generalizing across novel but related tasks within token budget constraints.
kaggle.com/competitions/auto…
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Deep Past Challenge was my first kaggle competition without coding, and with @raja_biswas we came 3rd 🥉
It was fun to use agentic tools to learn about life and settling disputes 4000 years ago. Thanks @kaggle for hosting
👇10 minas of silver (~5 kg) — enough to buy a house.
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NVIDIA is hosting a Kaggle competition. How can you train a nemotron nano model to solve scientific questions?
I hope you'll enjoy it! For this competition @kaggle secured NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs from Google Cloud. These GPUs are much more powerful than the usual Kaggle GPUs. Come and try these beasts!
kaggle.com/competitions/nvid…
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1/ Today the biggest score jump in AIMO history happened: we sit at 38/50.
Usually score increases are on the order of few points, and it is unusual for the distance to the other competitors to be this big, especially as most of easy problems have now been solved.
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Shocking results: From 0/50 to 23/50 IMO-level problems in a day!
Taking into account that these are very hard problems and your model has on average just 6 minutes of H100-time per problem, this is quite an achievement.
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AIMO3 has launched! Check out our mini-benchmark of reference problems below & help us shrink the gap to commercial LLMs to zero!
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110 problems created by an international team
❌ Not scraped from the internet
❌ Not in any training dataset
❌ Not seen by any model before
This is how you test TRUE reasoning ability.
Can your model actually SOLVE problems?
Or just pattern spot?
AIMO3 will tell you 🔍
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Our OpenAI x AIMO that we made in March 2025 revealed on an unprecedented scale the difference between the math reasoning performance of open-source vs closed-source LLMs.
Join us for AIMO3 to shrink this gap to zero!
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📣 Competition Launch Alert: @arcprize 2025
🎯 Create an AI capable of novel reasoning
💰 $725,000
⏰ Entry Deadline: Oct 27, 2025
kaggle.com/competitions/arc-…
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I had the occasion to recreate @antgoldbloom's breakdown of what users do on Kaggle
3y+ later my perspective is now total awe at what Kaggle's comparatively small, but massively mighty Competitions community has accomplished in terms of AI/ML industry influence. Making progress on ...
- Vesuvius scroll decoding
- Kprize (contamination-free SWE bench)
- ARC Prize & AGI
- AI Mathematical Olympiad
- RNA folding
- FIDE efficient chess agents
- And so much more ...
Open, community collaboration for the win! Join us!
ALT Unique Kaggle users by activity type in millions of users - Most download datasets - Second most author notebooks - Third most complete a microcourse - Fourth most submit to a competition
Ryan Holbrook retweeted
My colleague Christof Henkel @kagglingdieter has been cited on CNN for his win int he American Sigh Language compeition on @kaggle last year.
“they have a thing called kaggle grandmasters at NVIDIA and a gentleman named Christof Henkel won this competition. He was able to teach an LLM American Sign Language and once he developed it, it open up a floodgate of opportunities. So this is a wonderful thing.”
Very proud to work with Christof.
Link below.
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Trying to persuade Australia to put tariffs on all imports whose price appears as a subsequence of the first 20 digits of Chaitin’s constant (for a certain definition of a Turing machine), with the percentage determined by the matching digits 20 places further along.
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i am about to teach a new applied linear algebra course at @PennEngineers, meant for datasci/ML/AI.
to support the class, i've written a book...
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