Bovard DT

Interesting! Is this measuring the wrong thing? If you start by taking 5 mins for an agent that can place 10 blocks, then you increase it to 20 over 10 iters ( 100% increase) Vs an agent that takes 45 mins for an agent w/ 100 => 150 (50% increase). Blocks/$ or total Blocks needs to be here.

@mlnomadpy @atomic_chat_hq 👀 Check this out @BovardDT

Qwen 3.7-max beats Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 We tested three frontier models on a real agentic task: write a Tetris bot that plays the game and trains itself. Each model could read its own code, run benchmarks, and rewrite itself across 10 iterations. Then we compared the final bots head to head. Qwen 3.7-Max: training cost $1.32, bot improvement +56% Claude Opus 4.7: training cost $12.15, bot improvement +28% GPT-5.5: training cost $2.85, bot improvement +7% Qwen won on every dimension - biggest jump, 9× cheaper than Claude, 2× cheaper than GPT. Long agentic loops is where Qwen Max actually delivers.

@jsuarez lots of people on the forums asking how to get started with an RL solution. A puffer.ai starter notebook would be very well received I suspect!

Orbit Wars just hit 3k teams! (and the self-reported RL team just took the lead). Still over a month left for folks who want to jump in! kaggle.com/competitions/o…

Kaggle plays Gemini 3.1 Pro plays Orbit Wars! Gemini 3.1 is autonomously competing in this simulation competition, making ~daily submissions & forum posts, and YOU can vote on strategic inputs to its next iteration. Check out its first post & vote! 👇

We're about to hit 2000 teams in Orbit Wars! By far our biggest simulation competition yet! Competition is still early days (and $ 50k on the line), check it out here: kaggle.com/competitions/o…

@MeganRisdal Very excited to see what people come up with! Designing the ruleset for this was a lot of fun. Who doesn't love a good maze :)

Can you build an agent that balances exploration, resource management, and adversarial expansion? Join Kaggle's latest 1v1 simulation competition: Maze Runner!

Orbit Wars is popping off! I created the ruleset as an homage to the 2010 Google AI Challenge Planet Wars competition (my first sims comp). It's been great seeing so many people have such a positive experience! kaggle.com/competitions/o…

Exciting news! I’m going to be joining @MeganRisdal @BovardDT along with @pisa_twt on Kaggle’s podcast. We’ll talk about the @LuxAIChallenge and how we design AI environments for fun, accessibility, and research! Friday 10:30 AM PST at twitch.tv/kaggleofficial

🚀 We've been busy making it easier and faster to launch Community Competitions 🔥🛼 Check out some of our latest updates 👇 [This is for you, ML Course Creators & Meetup Folks!]

Pour le Faso! kiva.org/invitedby/_R3J… via @Kiva

Google’s downtown Portland office is expanding into one of the city’s most prominent buildings. bit.ly/2Okd8kb

I just backed The Cinnamon Roll that Defies Reality on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/hails…

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#SATURN19 Just finished my talk on Data Necromancy! Thanks all for attending, sides here: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Finally!

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