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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 3h

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.

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5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google

Join our 5-day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google, November 10–14, to learn how to build, evaluate, and deploy agents.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 6d

Learn more👇 www.kaggle.com/models/ibm-g...

IBM | Granite 4.0 | Kaggle

Enterprise-ready multimodal models deliver exceptional performance against safety benchmarks and across a wide range of enterprise tasks from cybersecurity to RAG.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 6d

🚀 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.

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 19d

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...

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/MABe-mouse-behavior-detection

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 13d

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Analytics

In this competition, you will analyze player movement while the ball is in the air & create metrics or visuals to help coaches & fans better understand the game.
💰 $50,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Final Submission: Dec 17, 2025
www.kaggle.com/competitions...

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Analytics

Understand player movement while the ball is in the air

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 13d

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Prediction

In this competition, you will build models to predict player movement after the ball is thrown, using pre-pass tracking data. Test your algorithms on live NFL games!
💰 $50,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Entry Deadline: Nov 26, 2025
www.kaggle.com/competitions...

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Prediction

Predict player movement while the ball is in the air

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 13d

🏈 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 👇

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Das Lab @rdaslab.bsky.social · 14d

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...

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 14d

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

Stanford RNA 3D Folding

Solve RNA structure prediction, one of biology's remaining grand challenges

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 15d

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...

5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google

Join our 5-day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google, November 10–14, to learn how to build, evaluate, and deploy agents.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 16d

📣 Competition Launch Alert! MABe Challenge - Social Action Recognition in Mice

🎯 Train a model to to identify and classify social behaviors in mice based on their movements
💰 $50,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Entry Deadline: December 8, 2025

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MABe Challenge - Social Action Recognition in Mice

Detect unique behaviors from pose estimates of mice.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 21d

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Hull Tactical Market Prediction hosted by Hull Tactical
🎯 Predict excess S&P 500 returns while managing volatility
💰 $100,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Entry Deadline: Dec 8, 2025

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Hull Tactical - Market Prediction

Can you predict market predictability?

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 27d

🔈 Wikimedia just published the English Wikipedia Biographies Dataset on Kaggle!

Explore structured data from 1.5M+ biographies including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards & more. We’re excited to see what you create! 👇

www.kaggle.com/datasets/wik...

English Wikipedia People Dataset

Biographical Data for People on English Wikipedia

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 28d

🚀 New Benchmark Launch: SimpleQA Verified!

We’ve partnered with Google DeepMind and Google Research to launch a curated 1,000-prompt benchmark designed to provide a more reliable and challenging evaluation of LLM short-form factuality.
Check out the leaderboard here: www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/d...

Screenshot of a new benchmark - SimpleQA Verified launched in partnership with Google DeepMind and Google Research.

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Gus @gusthema.bsky.social · Sep 4

We've just released an amazing Embedding model:

EmbeddingGemma, the new best-in-class open embedding model! 🚀

🏆 Top multilingual model on MTEB (<500M)
💾 Runs on <200MB RAM
⚙️ Customizable output for on-device use
🧩 Integrated with your favorite tools

developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...

Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings- Google Developers Blog

Discover EmbeddingGemma, Google's new on-device embedding model designed for efficient on-device AI, enabling features like RAG and semantic search.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Sep 2

More info about the course and curriculum will be shared in the coming weeks.

Kaggle @kaggle.com · Sep 2

📌Mark your calendars: Nov 10 - 14! The 5-Day AI Intensive Course with Google is back, and this time we're diving into AI Agents! A no-cost, hands-on course to explore, build, and deploy the next generation of AI agents.

Learn more 👇
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/googl...

5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google

Join our 5-day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google, November 10–14, to learn how to build, evaluate, and deploy agents.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 26

You are very welcome! We love welcoming learners, as well as hosting experts.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 22

This dataset was specifically created from building the Chess Text benchmark leaderboard: www.kaggle.com/datasets/kag...

Chess Text Gameplay

Gameplay logs from the Chess Text Benchmark Leaderboard

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 22

We also hosted a 3-day chess exhibition tournament featuring a few streamed matchups, but most games were run behind the scenes to build the final leaderboard. www.kaggle.com/blog/chess-t...

Revealing the first Game Arena Leaderboard: the Chess Text Leaderboard | Kaggle

Game Arena’s inaugural benchmark results

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 22

🏆 Results are in!

In the first #KaggleGameArena — Chess Text Input — AI models faced off using only text inputs (no tools, no move validation) in 40+ matches per pairing to build a robust Elo-like ranking ♟️

www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/k...

A screenshot of the chess text input benchmark leaderboard.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 12

📣 Competition Launch Alert! BigQuery AI hosted by Google Cloud
🎯 Solve real-world data problems
💰 $100,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Final Submission: September 22, 2025

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

BigQuery AI - Building the Future of Data

Build AI solutions with BigQuery

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 8

📣 Competition Launch Alert! NeurIPS 2025 hosted by Google Deepmind

🎯 To create Python programs that solve abstract reasoning tasks from the ARC-AGI benchmark
💰 $100,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Entry Deadline: October 23, 2025

kaggle.com/competitions/google-code-golf-2025

NeurIPS 2025 - Google Code Golf Championship

Implement a variety of programs using the fewest number of characters!

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 7

What a show! The Kaggle Game Arena AI Chess Tournament is complete — and O3 takes the win! 🏆

Big thanks to
@magnuscarlseny.bsky.social , @gmhikaru.bsky.social, @gothamchess.bsky.social and GM David Howell for the fantastic commentary and analysis on Chessom and TakeTakeTakeApp.

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · Aug 7

📺 Catch @gmhikaru.bsky.social's real-time commentary: www.youtube.com/live/LtG0ACI...

💻 Watch the games with the AI's "thoughts" on our Kaggle YouTube: youtube.com/@kaggle

📽️ Don't miss @gothamchess.bsky.social for his final recap! youtube.com/@gothamchess...

THE AI FINALS!! WILL WE SEE ANOTHER AR MEGA DON??

YouTube video by GMHikaru

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