Sentient announces the latest season of Hackathon Challenge 0, held from 5/20 to 6/22, with a total prize pool of over $6,000 including MiniMax points. Participants need to build an AI Agent that reads and infers financial tables from historical documents of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1939 to 2025, answering 246 questions using the Databricks OfficeQA benchmark. No programming is required; pre-built coding Agents can be used and optimized through prompt engineering and MCP server tuning. Evaluation will consider overall accuracy, latency, and cost.

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2026-05-21 02:04:40

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Mars Finance News, Sentient announced that from May 20 to June 22, it will host the latest season of hackathon competition "Challenge 0," with a total prize pool including over $6,000 and MiniMax points. It is reported that this challenge focuses on reasoning based on real financial data, using Databricks' OfficeQA benchmark test. Participating teams are required to build an AI Agent that reads and reasons financial tables based on historical documents from the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1939-2025) to answer 246 financial questions. The official states that developers do not need to write code and can participate directly using pre-built coding Agents, optimizing through prompt engineering, MCP servers, and other methods. The system will evaluate and rank based on accuracy, latency, and cost.

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AirdropLunchbox

· 11h ago

Accuracy + latency + cost triangle balance, this evaluation criterion is much more interesting than just boosting rankings.

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GateUser-715706bb

· 05-21 02:36

Historical financial table reasoning, this application scenario is more practical than imagined, and can be used for audit compliance as well.

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BreadthHunter

· 05-21 02:31

246 questions, it feels like in the end it will turn into a competition of who’s API calls are more cost-effective.

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GlassDomeUniverse

· 05-21 02:30

Treasury Department documents from 1939? This dataset spans quite a range; an agent would probably go crazy trying to understand handwritten tables from 80 years ago.

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GasFeesForNightRuns

· 05-21 02:24

Pre-constructed encoding Agent + prompt engineering, the low-code track is heating up.

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ExitLiquidityStan

· 05-21 02:24

Databricks OfficeQA benchmark, evaluation dimensions also consider latency and cost, very realistic

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MoonlightDisconnectSwitch

· 05-21 02:24

Does anyone know about MCP server optimization? Looking for a configuration tutorial.

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NonceNinja

· 05-21 02:24

Are you serious about not needing programming? So finally, someone like me who only knows how to write prompts can get a seat at the table.

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OrdersPlacedBeforeTheStorm

· 05-21 02:24

$6,000 prize pool + MiniMax points, rounded to the nearest whole number, equals free mining power and even a profit, so I went all in.

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