Category 6: Bonus
This final category, with its own USD$1,000,000 profit-share pool, is about the "how."
This is the soul of the challenge. It’s our way of ensuring that the spirit of our movement—collaboration, innovation, and our humane mission—is rewarded just as highly as the technical product. These five distinct USD$200,000 prizes are open to every team in every category, and they are the ultimate expression of our core values.
We are offering a prize for the Best Broadcast Human Story, rewarding the team that captures the "reality TV" drama of this journey so compellingly that the world can’t look away. We are also offering a prize for Best Cross-Team Integration as our anti-silo weapon—this is the reward for teams who reject a "zero-sum" mindset and form strategic alliances, proving that the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
This is not just about the launch; it's about the future. The prize for Best Open-Source Movement will go to the team that doesn't just deliver code, but delivers a robust plan for fostering a vibrant, long-term community around their solution. And the prize for Best Innovation & Creativity is for the brilliant rebels—the team that finds a more groundbreaking, efficient, or creative way to solve the problem, redefining the very challenge we set them.
Finally, and most importantly, we have a prize for the Most Diverse Team. This is our unbreakable commitment. Our entire mission is to fight AI's flattening monoculture and preserve human diversity. This prize proves that we believe building a technology for all of humanity is only possible with a team that reflects all of humanity—a team with a true diversity of skills, cultural backgrounds, and personal identities.
Judging Criteria
Best Broadcast Human Story
Awarded to the team that delivers the most compelling, watched, and inspiring human (reality TV) story or series of stories of the team’s journey during the challenge lifecycle.
USD$200,000
Best Cross-Team Integration
Awarded to the team whose submission best demonstrates how strategic cross-category team partnerships created a positive “non zero-sum-game” solution.
USD$200,000
Best Open-Source Movement
Awarded to the team with the most robust plan for fostering a long-term, vibrant open-source community around their solution.
USD$200,000
Best Innovation & Creativity
Awarded to the team whose solution demonstrates the most groundbreaking, efficient, or creative approach to their category's challenge.
USD$200,000
Most Diverse Team
Awarded to the team that best represents a diversity of skills, cultural backgrounds, and personal identities.
