AI Journey Contest 2026: Five Challenges and a Prize Pool Exceeding...

AI Journey Contest 2026: Five Challenges and a Prize Pool Exceeding 10 Million Rubles

Sber has opened registration for the international online AI competition AI Journey Contest 2026, featuring a prize pool of over 10 million rubles and a submission deadline of October 20, 2026.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-09-25Updated 2026-09-25

2026-09-25 Research

🤖 AI Journey Contest 2026: Five Challenges and a Prize Pool Exceeding 10 Million Rubles

Sber has opened registration for the international online AI competition. GitVerse AI Cup features five challenges from Sber AI and Cloud.ru: detecting hallucinations in LLM responses, robot control, accelerating Kandinsky 3D, data for SmolVLA, and an arbitrator model for multi-agent swarms. The deadline is October 20, 2026.

🌍 The contest sets an open benchmark for the industry in agentic and robotic systems: public datasets and leaderboards allow models to be compared on equal terms.

👤 Participation is free: solo or in a team of 2–4 people, 18+. The five challenges are ready-made pet projects for your portfolio, and the awards ceremony will take place at the AI Journey conference in Moscow. Please check the rules on dsworks.ru for the terms regarding the rights to the solutions.

Source 1: https://dsworks.ru/group/aij2026

Source 2: https://riamo.ru/news/obschestvo/ai-journey-contest-2026-otkryl-registratsiju-prizovoj-fond-svyshe-10-mln-rub/

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