domain | scrollprize.org |
summary | The document details the prizes and awards of a competition, with total prize money reaching up to $2 million in various categories such as Read an entire scroll ($200k), First Title Prize (60k x7 =420k) etc., Open-ended prizes ranging from 1-20k are also offered for unique solutions. The winners include incredible teams working on projects like automated segmentation, ink detection and others using cutting-edge technology to decipher ancient texts that have not been read in two millennia.
The competition was created by Nat Friedman (450K), Daniel Gross (225K) among other notable figures such as Dr Brent Seales who is the principal investigator. The initiative also received backing from prominent sponsors like Caesars, Musk Foundation and others contributing a total of $2.084M towards this project. There are multiple teams involved in different aspects including machine learning research, platform engineering etc.
The document encourages potential partners to get started with them by providing details on how they can contribute or participate more actively within the community which is managed through Discord where ongoing discussions and collaborations happen among scholars from various backgrounds like classics students of University of Naples Federico II. |
title | Vesuvius Challenge |
description | A $1,000,000+ machine learning and computer vision competition |
keywords | scrolls, more, prizes, annotation, university, challenge, first, vesuvius, open, scroll, specialist, professor, read, team, research, prize, winners |
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nslookup | A 104.26.2.58, A 172.67.73.161, A 104.26.3.58 |
created | 2024-02-13 |
updated | 2025-06-17 |
summarized | 2025-06-17 |
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