INCENTIVIZING INNOVATIVE AI
APPROACHES & COLLABORATION
The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million competition, challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. The prize aims to accelerate adoption of AI technologies and spark creative, innovative, and audacious demonstrations of the technology that are truly scalable and solve societal grand challenges. To encourage innovation in any form, the competition is an open challenge in AI. Rather than set a single, universal goal for all teams, this competition will invite teams to each create their own goal and solution to a grand challenge. The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a four-year competition with annual milestone competitions in 2017 and 2018. The top three finalists will compete for the Grand Prize at TED 2020.
Read about the competitionRegistered Teams Announced
Meet the officially registered teams competing for the $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. Stay tuned for team updates, learn who they are and about their mission to use AI to solve humanities grand challenges.
- 90% of the data in the world has been created in the last two years alone.
- 2.5 quintillion bytes (quintillion = one billion billion) of data is produced every day, from sensors, mobile devices, online transactions, and social networks.
- What if humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to gather, analyze and tackle the world’s Grand Challenges?
PRIZE PROGRESS
Media Mentions
A new, multiyear competition to build the world's coolest artificial intelligence could win you $5 million. The prize for the challenge comes from IBM, TED and the XPRIZE Foundation, who want to stimulate research on AI "to tackle some of the world's grand challenges."
On Wednesday morning at TED2016, The XPRIZE Foundation founder Peter Diamandis and IBM Watson general manager David Kenny jointly announced the launch of a new XPRIZE competition focused on artificial intelligence.