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Nebius and Positronic launch Physical AI Competition with over $20K in credits

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Nebius and Positronic launched a Physical AI Competition with a prize pool of over $20K in GPU and evaluation credits, according to posts from the companies' accounts on X. The competition runs October to December 2026 and is based on the DROID: Everyday Tasks leaderboard at PhAIL.ai, where the best open models complete about 70% of tasks on average, per the report.

The top 10 teams advance to testing on a real Franka robot arm. The first 50 teams to submit in week one receive $100 in Nebius GPU credits.

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    Nebius and Positronic launch $20K+ physical AI robotics competition

    AINebius and Positronic launched a Physical AI Competition with over $20K in GPU and evaluation credits. The competition runs October to December 2026 and is based on the DROID: Everyday Tasks leaderboard at PhAIL.ai, where the best open models complete only about 70% of tasks on average. Top 10 teams advance from simulation to testing on a real Franka robot arm.

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