Two weeks into the Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities hackathon, the benchmarks being built by the Kaggle community are already incredible. The Kaggle team Nick Kango and authors of the paper the hackathon is based on Dr Ryan Burnell, Oran Kelly are going LIVE to talk with you.

Real intelligence isn't about memorizing answers - it's knowing what to do when the problem changes. Most benchmarks reward pattern recognition, not genuine problem-solving. ARC Prize 2026, in partnership with Arc Prize, challenges you to build adaptive AI through three connected competitions.

We’re opening up the Kaggle toolbox to everyone. 🛠️ Today, we’re launching Community Hackathons - a free, self-serve way for you to host your own AI challenges. Whether you're an educator, a meetup lead, or just have a big idea, you can now build, judge and award prizes (up to $10k!).

Reasoning benchmarks are vital for measuring progress on structured tasks and when we share methods openly, the entire community moves faster. To put this into practice, we’re excited to announce the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge hosted by NVIDIA and powered by Google Cloud Partners.

Earlier today, Google DeepMind released a new paper proposing a scientific framework for measuring the cognitive abilities of AI systems on the path to AGI. To better measure these capabilities, we’re partnering with them to launch a hackathon - Measuring Progress Toward AGI: Cognitive Abilities.

📢 Exciting News! You can now receive notifications for Benchmarks on Kaggle! 🔔 You can now follow a benchmark to stay updated with alerts for new benchmark versions, new models added on leaderboards, and notifications for benchmark owners when new models are available to run.

📣 Competition Launch Alert! BirdCLEF+ 2026 hosted by @cornellbirds.bsky.social 🎯 Identify species from real-world audio 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: May 27, 2026 🙏 TU Chemnitz & Google DeepMind Learn more at www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Our 12th annual March ML Mania competition is here! 🎯 Forecast the outcomes of the 2026 NCAA basketball tournaments by predicting the probabilities of every possible matchup 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Final Submission: March 19th, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Four-in-a-Row is a “solved” game. Frontier LLMs still can’t play it reliably. 📢 We just launched a new Game Arena leaderboard to test how models reason step-by-step, maintain a mental board and plan moves - no minimax, no game-tree shortcuts.

📢 Exciting News! We are transitioning the Kaggle CLI and the `kagglehub` Python library out of “beta” and into a stable, production-ready state. As part of this release, we’re introducing several new features like support for multiple API tokens and more!

The Game Arena event has concluded but the analysis is just beginning. 🤖 We're looking for the best community-created benchmarks that propose new games or dynamic tests for LLMs to feature for this week’s #TaskTuesday!

🎉 The first Kaggle Game Arena event of 2026 has officially concluded. We watched AI models navigate strategic reasoning, social deduction, and risk management through three different games. 🏆The Champions: 🃏Poker: GPT 5.2 🐺 Werewolf: Gemini 3 Pro Preview ♟️Chess: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

What a show! 🏆 A huge thank you to everyone who tuned in and to our amazing partners @gmhikaru.bsky.social Nick Schulman, Liv Boeree, @dougpolkvids for the fantastic commentary and analysis across all three games, Poker, Chess and Werewolf.

The pressure is on across Poker, Werewolf and Chess as we head into the final hour of the Game Arena. Who will emerge as the ultimate champion? Join @gmhikaru.bsky.social and Nick Schulman now! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzMj...

⏳ 30 minutes until @gmhikaru.bsky.social and Nick Schulman are live for the championship rounds. 🏆 Who takes the title in Poker, Chess and Werewolf? Grab your seat for the ultimate AI showdown: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzMj...

📢The Grand Finale is here! 🏆 What happens when a chess Grandmaster and a Poker legend analyze AI? ♟️🃏

That’s a wrap on the semi-finals of the Game Arena! We have our Poker and Chess finalists locked in, and in Werewolf, the detective levels are off the charts.

⏰ Going live in 30 minutes! Join @gmhikaru.bsky.social and Nick Schulman as they break down every bluff, blunder and brilliant move from our final four models. You don’t want to miss this co-hosted deep dive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJw...

It's the semi-finals today! Four models remain, and the stakes are doubling. 🃏♟️We’re live for the Poker Semi-Finals, Chess deep dives, and the penultimate Werewolf rounds!

Day 1 of Game Arena is officially in the books! Congratulations to our AI poker showdown semi-finalists o3, Gemini 3 Flash, GPT 5.2, and Opus 4.5!

🎬 We’re live! Watch GMHikaru and Nick Schulman break down the first round of the poker bracket and chess newcomer matches.

Game Arena kicks off today! 📣 Top AI models compete in Poker, Werewolf, and Chess, testing reasoning, social strategy, and risk management. 🎙️ Co-hosted by GM Hikaru & Poker Hall-of-Famer Nick Schulman: www.youtube.com/GMHikaru 🗓️ Feb 2–4 | 9:30–11:30 AM PT More info 👇

📌 Mark Your Calendar: Live Game Arena Event This Monday! We are releasing two new games, Poker and Werewolf, along with an updated Chess leaderboard next Monday, February 2, running daily from 9:30 AM PT to 11:30 AM PT through February 4

In case you missed it👇 We just launched Community Benchmarks! Build, run and share AI benchmarks on top models - fully transparent and reproducible. Learn more 👇 blog.google/innovation-a...

🙌 Build, run, and share custom AI benchmarks on @kaggle.com that are evaluated on the leading AI models with reproducible results! www.kaggle.com/discussions/...

🚀 Introducing Community Benchmarks on Kaggle! As AI evolves at an unprecedented pace, measuring intelligence requires more than a few AI research labs alone – it requires the imagination and collective expertise of the global community. That’s why we’re launching Community Benchmarks.

📣 Hackathon Launch Alert! MedGemma Impact Challenge hosted by Google Research 🎯Build human-centered AI applications by using MedGemma and other open models 💰 $100,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Final Submission: Feb 24, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📣 Competition Launch Alert - Stanford RNA 3D Folding Part 2 is now live! 🎯 To predict the 3D structure of RNA molecules using their sequences 💰 $75,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: March 18, 2026 kaggle.com/competitions/stanford-rna-3d-folding-2

🏆 Announcing the winners of the Agents Intensive Capstone Project! 🎉 We're excited to announce the top 12 teams who showcased exceptional creativity & technical skill using AI agents! Check out their innovative projects & learn more about their submissions here: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

We’ve pushed out the Pareto frontier of efficiency vs. intelligence again. With Gemini 3 Flash ⚡️, we are seeing reasoning capabilities previously reserved for our largest models. This opens up entirely new categories of near real-time applications that require complex thought. More in thread ⬇️

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Deep Past Challenge: Translate Akkadian to English hosted by Deep Past AI 🎯 Build an AI model that translates 4,000-year-old Old Assyrian business records into English 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: March 23, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

🚀 New on Kaggle Benchmarks: DeepSearchQA developed by Google DeepMind! This benchmark focuses on complex web research tasks and tests agent comprehensiveness. Check the leaderboard: www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/g...

📢 The FACTS Benchmark Suite is now live on Kaggle! Developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research, this suite measures LLM factuality across four dimensions: Parametric knowledge, Search, Multimodal understanding & Grounding. Explore the leaderboard: www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/g...

🚀 Benchmark your AI across India’s languages with IndicGenBench! Developed by Google DeepMind, this benchmark spans 29 Indic languages, including first-ever evaluation data for 18 Indic languages. It supports language tasks like summarization, translation and question answering.

Hackathon Launch Alert! Vibe Code with Gemini 3 Pro in AI Studio hosted by Google Deepmind 🎯Build real-world AI apps using Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio 💰 Prize Pool: $500,000 in Credits ⏰ Hackathon Timeline: Dec 5 - 12, 2025 (now extended!) www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📢 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google is now available as a self-paced Learn Guide! Access whitepapers, podcasts, codelabs & recorded livestreams 👇 www.kaggle.com/learn-guide/...

Did you check out the Gemini 3 Pro API on Kaggle yet? This model is accessible within the Kaggle environment for research, experimentation and competition use cases. More in 🧵…

🚀 Feature Update on Kaggle Benchmark You can now download Kaggle Benchmark leaderboard results! Compare your favorite models with a simple CURL command or download the full CSV directly for deeper analysis. Get started: www.kaggle.com/benchmarks

📌 Mark your calendars: December 5–7, 2025! Google DeepMind’s Build the Future with Gemini 3 Pro hackathon is going live for two days! 🚀 We’re celebrating the launch of Gemini 3 Pro - Gemini’s most intelligent, capable and versatile model yet.

📢 We’re excited to partner with IBM Research to launch a new benchmark suite called Enterprise Operations (EntOps). This suite contains two benchmarks: ITBench and AssetOpsBench. Check out EntOps here: ​​ www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/i...

Competition Launch Alert! AI Mathematical Olympiad hosted by AIMO Prize. 🎯 Create open-source algorithms and models that can solve olympiad-level math problems written in LaTeX format 💰 $2M+ Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: April 8, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

🤖 Welcome Gemini 3 Pro Preview to Kaggle Benchmarks! Google's new state-of-the-art LLM topped 14 of the 16 leaderboards we analyzed, showing significant improvements in factuality. More details in the thread 🧵

It’s that time of year again! 🎄 The Santa 2025 - Christmas Tree Packing Challenge is now live! Santa’s got a packing problem - his Christmas trees won’t fit in the boxes! Help him find the smallest square box to fit 1 - 200 trees. 🧑‍🎄 Learn more 👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Vesuvius Challenge - Surface Detection hosted by Scroll Prize 🎯 Build a model to segment the surfaces of scrolls from CT scans 💰 Prize Pool: $100,000 ⏰ Entry Deadline: February 6, 2026 kaggle.com/competitions/vesuvius-challenge-surface-detection

📣 Hackathon Launch Alert! Google Tunix Hack - Train a Model to Show Its Work hosted by Google Cloud 🎯 Train Gemma models to show reasoning using Tunix 💰 $100,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Final Submission: Jan 12, 2026 kaggle.com/competitions/google-tunix-hackathon

📢 Join 1M+ learners worldwide in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive with Google! Learn from Google experts through theory sessions, hands-on labs, a capstone project, and connect with a vibrant community - all at no-cost! ⏳ Don’t miss out: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/googl...

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Image2Biomass Prediction hosted by CSIRO 🎯 To build a model that estimates pasture biomass 💰 $75,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: January 21, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Recod.ai/LUC - Scientific Image Forgery Detection hosted by Recod.ai & Loyola Chicago 🎯 To build models to detect and segment forgeries 💰 $55,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: January 8, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

♟️ Expanding Game Arena: Introducing Chess Openings A new benchmark that tests reasoning beyond memorization. Each game starts from one of 20 popular openings, pushing models to adapt and think strategically rather than rely on learned patterns.

📣 Competition Launch Alert! PhysioNet - Digitization of ECG Images competition hosted by @physionetchallenge.bsky.social 🎯 To build models that convert ECG images into digital time-series data 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: January 15, 2026 🙏 @emoryuniversity.bsky.social, Georgia Tech