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A guaranteed milestone award then buys GPU at spot rates. 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The distinction that matters here is that the entry cost is zero and the tool is a browser notebook, so the downside is time only. Two framings were tested: an AI-lab marketing exercise with no realistic solo winner, and a funded research budget with a handful of large awards. The milestone structure supports the second for a solo entrant: two guaranteed rounds of USD 75,000 across three places each, decided on a leaderboard rather than on a grant application. The page states the grand prize as a forward-looking offer ('the first eligible agent'), not as a fact about past results, and this record adds no claim about whether it has been won.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"prize","free_tier_kind":"prize","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}