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$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals for the Situation Room

ChinaTalk Jordan Schneider 10 August 2026, 08:57 ● Covered by 3 sources

ChinaTalk launched a rolling evals-and-essay project contest focused on testing AI models for policy and national-security decision support. The contest offers $75k in total prize money. This will fund and organize new benchmarking work, with submissions that examine how models handle strategic and high-stakes questions beyond coding tasks.

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