HI-5 Grand Challenge:
5 categories, US$6,000,000 profit share prizes, a future worth building.
This is the invitation to students, indie teams, and creative rebels to build the world’s first Humane Intelligence™.
Create. Code. Own the future.
AI is at a crossroads.
One path leads to centralized control — trillion-dollar black boxes built on stolen data.
The other leads here.here.
To mypaloma™, a Humane Intelligence™ designed by the people, for the people.
But a revolution this big can’t come from a single company.
It must be built from the ground up, by you.
How it works
Your Path to earning US$1,000,000. And more.
Choose your category
Choose one or more challenge categories (yes, you can participate in multiple categories!), where you want to make your mark:
Story & Broadcast, Simulation Web App, P2P Protocol, Mobile App or Desktop App.
Register and join the HI-5 challenge
Sign up on Discord in the official HI-5 Challenge Hub.
You can enter as an individual to find a team, or register your own team of 3-10 people.
Participation is open to students, independent developers, and small, independent businesses.
Sign up on Discourse →
Build, submit, and earn your stake
Film, design or develop your solution for the category you’ve chosen. When it’s ready, you submit it for judging.
If your team wins a category, you secure a US$1,000,000 profit-sharing agreement with mypaloma™ — while keeping 100% ownership of your intellectual property.
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Six categories. Six pillars of the new ecosystem.
Six categories. Six pillars of the new ecosystem.
Each one rewards purpose, imagination, and engineering excellence with US$1 million profit-share prize.
1. Story & Broadcast
Capture the human drama by embedding in dev teams. Show the world how the future is built.
4. Mobile App
Create a user-first accessible mobile gateway to Humane Intelligence™
2. Simulation Web App
Visualize the swarm: a living network of decentralized intelligence.
5. Desktop App
Design a powerful, multi-modal interface for the ‘beefier’ AI tasks.
3. P2P Protocol
Build the secure, high-performance nervous system of mypaloma.
6. Bonus Category
For game-changers: US$200,000 awards for demonstrated excellence in collaboration and innovation
If you’ve ever wanted to prove that small teams can out-think empires: The stage is YOURS.
The Drumbeat: How the Movement Unfolds
Registration opens, global teams unite
The race to builds go live begins, prototypes emerge
The Merger Twist, friends or foes form.
The Global Showcase, live judging, spotlight
The Launch, mypaloma goes public
Each phase amplifies the next, a movement growing in real time.
Duration: An 11-month global initiative (October 2025 – September 2026).
After the Challenge Everyone Wins
When the lights go down, nobody walks away empty-handed.
The HI-5 Grand Challenge is built on an open-source foundation, a system where transparency,
collaboration, and trust are part of the architecture.
Every team leaves with 100% ownership of their IP and the chance to shape the foundation of
Humane Intelligence™ through open source.
Your code stays yours — your impact becomes part of something bigger.
Every line of code. Every story you tell, moves the movement forward.
Sponsors & Contributors: join the movement, fund the future
The HI-5 Grand Challenge isn’t powered by venture capital - it's powered by conviction.
We’re inviting mission-aligned individuals, organisaions and brands to stand with us and back an intelligence that respects people, culture, and our planet.
If your brand believes technology should enhance people humanity, this is your invitation.
Let’s rewrite what corporate responsibility looks like.
Frequently Asked Questions
The only thing scarier than AI, is AI without you.
Join the Challenge. Shape the Future.
The countdown has started and the teams are already forming.
Registration is free but the impact is priceless.



