Open Challenges for
Frontier AI Research

Advancing AI through open challenges, benchmarks, and community-driven research.

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Rising Star Award

Recognizes an early-career researcher with strong research achievements and a clear future vision for spatial intelligence — spanning 3D perception, generation, world models, embodied AI, and XR. Open to current PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

Award Up to $30,000
Deadline May 22, 2026
11:59 PM PST
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Futuristic Glowing Humanoid Silhouette
Spatial Intelligence Embodied AI
World Models PhD / Postdoc

DataMFM Challenge

Two-track challenge on multimodal document understanding: Document Parsing (text, tables, formulas, layout) and Chart Understanding (chart-to-CSV + chart-to-summary). Based on OmniDocBench and ChartNet datasets. Open to all researchers worldwide.

Award Up to $1,000 / task
Deadline May 29, 2026
11:59 PM PST
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Key dates

DataMFM Challenge
APR 27
Dataset Release
MAY 11
Accepting submissions
MAY 29
Submission Deadline 11:59 PM PST
Rising Star Award
APR 27
Accepting submissions
MAY 22
Submission Deadline 11:59 PM PST
MAY 31
Results Announced 11:59 PM PST
JUN 3
Final Endpoint
E2E3D + DataMFM Workshop CVPR 2026 · Denver, CO

What you gain

Academic visibility

Connect your work with CVPR 2026 workshop activity and a 2077AI open research ecosystem.

Benchmark proof

Use open datasets and structured evaluation to show concrete progress in multimodal understanding.

Clear participation path

Each track leads directly to the official page with rules, datasets, submission details, and updates.

Before you join

Who can participate?
Rising Star is open to current PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. DataMFM is open to researchers worldwide.
What are the rewards?
Rising Star offers up to $30,000 with 1 awardee and 4 finalists. DataMFM offers up to $1,000 per task.
Where do I submit?
Use the official portals: Rising Star Award and DataMFM Challenge
What happens on Jun 3?
Both challenge tracks connect to the CVPR 2026 workshops in Denver, CO.

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