MONEY · Won
SPED (Training-Free Interactive World Models) won $50,000
$50,000 grand prize, Inference-Time Compute Hackathon 2026
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Bryan Dong, Ray Kasichainula, Subha Vadlamannati and Gino ChiaranaipanichSPED (Training-Free Interactive World Models)
SPED makes autoregressive video diffusion interactive, letting a user retarget a generating video mid-stream at real-time speed.
- Time
- 24 hours
- Team
- 4 people
- Tools
- Gemini · FlashAttention 3
$50k Grand Prize Winner @ Inference Time Compute Hackathon by Etched x Mercor x Cognition x Anthropic
How solid is this number?
The $50k figure is stated by the winning team on their own public repo, and the event's Devpost page lists the same $50,000 top prize.