Hack on ARC Prize: Strong Compute + GPUs included
Join an interview-to-attend a hackathon with other serious AI researchers, engineers, and developers to work on the ARC Prize.
The ARC Prize a $1,000,000+ public competition to beat and open source a solution to the ARC-AGI benchmark.
Strong Compute is offering our cluster management systems and ~$10k-$100k of Platform and GPU per team under the terms of our research grants, for those who show a strong approach to the ARC Prize through the event. All teams will be allocated $1k-3k of credit for the event.
The process starts with a weekend with us at our hacker house. We’ll provide food, drinks, and desks to get you going. Just bring your laptop, skills and ideas.
Key Details:
Dates: Friday 27 6pm - Saturday 28 Sept 11pm
Location: West Portal SF - address will be shared with accepted participants
Who Should Attend: AI Researchers, Engineers, Devs
What’s Provided: Cluster Management, GPUs, workspace, food, drinks, desks (BYO laptop)
Goal: Work on the ARC Prize Challenge or AI research themes for future funding opportunities.
🗓️ Event Schedule:
This event will run alongside our AI chess comp, which is a great way to learn our systems for instant access to GPU clusters, and zero code cluster management.
Friday:
6:00 pm: Drinks, snacks + networking
6:30 pm: Set-up, cluster onboarding, test cluster training runs + inference
7:30 pm: Hack begins
8:30 pm: Dinner
Late: hacking
Saturday:
9:00 am: Day two start, breakfast
1:00 pm: Lunch
7:30 pm: Dinner
8:30 pm: ARC Prize - Presentations
9:00pm Watch the Chess AI Bot Competition
10:30 pm: 🏆Chess Winners announced & ARC Prize research grants awarded.
Limited spots. Applications are open now. Hear back within 2 business days.