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

🚀 Global MMLU Lite is now live on Kaggle Benchmarks! Developed by @cohereforai.bsky.social, it spans 16 languages with both Culturally Sensitive & Agnostic samples - helping researchers uncover cultural & linguistic biases in multilingual evaluation.

🎉 For the first time in history, automated methods achieved human-competitive performance in RNA 3D structure prediction - one of biology’s toughest challenges.

📣 Competition Launch Alert! CAFA 6: Protein Function Prediction hosted by @iastateresearch.bsky.social 🎯 Predict protein function from amino acid sequences 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: Jan 26, 2026

Ready to learn how to build and deploy your own AI agents? Join the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google, happening November 10-14 — a no-cost, hands-on deep dive designed by Google researchers and engineers. Learn more 👉 rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/googl...

🚀 New Model Launch: Granite 4.0 IBM's Granite 4.0 is the latest open-source SLM, built for fast inference, long-context understanding (tested on up to 128K tokens), and cost-efficient deployments. Multiple model sizes provide flexibility for different hardware and use cases.

And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

🏈 The 8th annual NFL Big Data Bowl is here! This year, we’re excited to launch two competitions in collaboration with NFL. Participants will use NFL player tracking (Next Gen Stats) to generate insights that enhance the game. Pro tip: you can compete in both 😎 More info 👇

The results are in: top codes in Stanford #RNA 3D Folding @kaggle.com competition are competitive with CASP16-leading humans Vfold, beat AlphaFold 3. Top team’s trick was template-based modeling, not #DeepLearning. Congrats: john, odat, Eigen, + all 1706 participants! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

I love when you use a @xkcd.com comic to help explain the hardest parts of science: #kaggle #ml #rna www.kaggle.com/competitions...

We're hosting the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive course with Google on November 10 - 14. We’d love for you to join! This no-cost course is designed to help you explore the foundations and practical applications of AI agents. More info and registration: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/googl...