Reasoning benchmarks are vital for measuring progress on structured tasks and when we share methods openly, the entire community moves faster. To put this into practice, we’re excited to announce the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge hosted by @NVIDIAAIDev and powered by @gcloudpartners

Participants will start with a Nemotron-3 Nano baseline and a novel reasoning benchmark from NVIDIA Research. The goal is to develop techniques that push the boundaries of reasoning accuracy using open models. 💰 $106,388 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: June 8, 2026

All challenge compute runs on Google Cloud G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs. This provides the memory and speed needed for LoRA fine-tuning and scaling inference. The G4 VMs are available to help you iterate quickly on your reasoning models.