“Yandex” has increased the prize fund of the Yandex Cup 2024 international programming championship to 16 million rubles

“Yandex” has increased the prize fund of the Yandex Cup 2024 international programming championship to 16 million rubles

“Yandex” increased the prize fund of the Yandex Cup 2024 international programming championship from 12.5 million rubles to 16 million rubles. The company explained that in the field of machine learning, the winners will receive an additional 3.5 million rubles. Also, the number of finalists in this direction has been increased from 6 to 22 people. The investment is aimed at additional support for ML specialists. The deadline for applications for participation in the Yandex Cup 2024 in machine learning has been extended until November 4.

Yandex explained that the increase in awards in the field of machine learning is part of the company’s support for the development of ML technologies and the strengthening of specialists in this field. For example, from November 1, Yandex will increase the term of the Yandex Cloud Boost AI program from 6 months to 1 year. This will allow longer to help startups in the field of machine learning with the help of Yandex technologies – program participants can get access to the YandexGPT family of neural networks, and from November 1 to the YandexART visual neural network for business projects.

Earlier, “Yandex” opened the acceptance of applications for participation in the Yandex Cup 2024 international programming championship for Russian and foreign developers. The final and the awarding ceremony of participants from different countries will be held in December at the Yandex office in Tashkent.

Participants in Yandex Cup 2024 will compete in six areas: front-end and back-end development, mobile development, machine learning, analytics and sports programming in the Algorithm section. The last two are available for juniors from Russia, and Algorithm is available for programmers from all over the world.

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