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Adaption AutoScientist Challenge- $50,000 prize pool

hackindiaHosted on HackIndia

Fetched about 1 hour ago

Monday, June 15, 2026

to Monday, August 3, 2026

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2 months long

Event Type

online

Adaption AutoScientist Challenge- $50,000 prize poolBring Frontier AI to the WorldPowered by Adaption · Run in partnership with HackIndia, India's largest hackathon seriesThe Problem Worth SolvingToday's AI is expensive, static, and built for the average use case.A handful of companies ship monolithic models that work well — until your domain, language, or problem doesn't fit the mold. When that happens, you're on your own.This challenge exists to change that.What Is This Hackathon?The AutoScientist Challenge × HackIndia is a global hackathon for builders, researchers, engineers, and domain experts ready to push AI beyond its current limits.Using AutoScientist by Adaption — the platform that automates the full AI model research and training loop — participants will train and openly release frontier AI models across 10 categories, with the goal of setting new state-of-the-art benchmarks and publishing model weights directly to Hugging Face and Kaggle.HackIndia brings this challenge to I

Judge Accessibility

Organizer email available25/25
Student-run event15/15
Actively looking for judges25/25
Small event (120 participants)10/10
No corporate sponsors10/10
New or emerging organizer10/10
Public registration available5/5
Online format (judge from anywhere)10/10

Top signals

Organizer email available
Student-run event
Actively looking for judges

Organizers

Alex Johnson

alex@example.org

Jamie Rivera

jamie@example.org

Sam Chen

sam@example.org

Estimated Audience

Mostly Students
ExperienceStudent
OccupationStudents
Beginner Friendly
Women in Tech

Technical Focus

AI95%
Web80%
Mobile25%

Industries

Healthcare
Education
Climate

Technologies

Python
React
OpenAI

Why this estimate

  • • Hosted by a university
  • • Open to students
  • • MLH member event

Estimate inferred from event metadata, not actual attendee data.

Quality Score

Quality Score

72/100
High confidence
Organiser16/20
Event Maturity14/20
Sponsors18/25
Participants12/20
Operations12/15

Why this score

Strong organiser track record
Returning event
Well-sponsored

Missing data

Prize details
Code of conduct