- Free allowance
- USD 10,000,000 fund, quoted: 'XTX Markets has launched a new $10mn challenge fund'; grand prize, quoted: 'The grand prize of $5mn will be awarded to the first publicly-shared AI model to enter an AIMO approved competition and perform at a standard equivalent to a gold medal in the IMO', plus 'a...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda Kaggle account and a successful subclass submission are the entry fee, and the compute pool is contest-scoped: H100 sessions exist only for notebooks attached to this competition, run with internet disabled, under a 5 hour GPU...
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | USD 10,000,000 fund, quoted: 'XTX Markets has launched a new $10mn challenge fund'; grand prize, quoted: 'The grand prize of $5mn will be awarded to the first publicly-shared AI model to enter an AIMO approved competition and perform at a standard equivalent to a gold medal in the IMO', plus 'a series of progress prizes ... totalling up to $5mn'. AIMO3 pot, quoted: 'Third $2.2 million AIMO progress prize'. Compute supplied, quoted: 'Contestants will have access to H100 GPUs to run their models, offering roughly double the compute power of AIMO2'; and for a subset, quoted: 'Up to 128 H100 GPUs are available to fine-tune models before submission through our partnership with the Fields Model Initiative ... For select participants (see Kaggle for criteria)'. Tinker credits are also offered, quoted: 'Tinker credits are available via our partnership with Thinking Machines'. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; prize |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) a Kaggle account and a successful subclass submission are the entry fee, and the compute pool is contest-scoped: H100 sessions exist only for notebooks attached to this competition, run with internet disabled, under a 5 hour GPU notebook limit, so the grant cannot be redirected to another workload. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not published: the page read states no egress allowance and no overage price; https://www.aimoprize.com/updates/2025-11-19-third-progress-prize-launched read 2026-11-03 |
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| Interface | unknown unverified: the announcement documents no REST API, CLI or SSH access; the compute is reached through Kaggle notebooks attached to the competition |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The only programme that hands a solo entrant a datacentre: a Kaggler who wins an extra prize received three nodes of eight H200s for a month, which is 24 H200s for roughly 730 hours, or about 17,520 H200-hours per team, over 168 H200s across seven teams. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | AIMO3 itself closed (winners announced 2026-06-24), so the H100 pool is not claimable today; the reason the record stays is the structure, which recurs, and the Proof Pilot, which is the largest compute award to individuals found anywhere. The gate worth naming is that the 168 H200s went to seven people selected by an organiser, four of them by an Extra Prize and one by a notebook vote, so the route in is visible contribution rather than an application. Two explanations for why a national institute supplies the hardware were considered: research collaboration (NII's LLMC group), and the fields-model agenda of fully open checkpoints. Both pages support the first and the second is stated as the pilot's design. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- write-gated 5 hour
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