Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning, geometry and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Joined February 2023
- This month we awarded $33,500 in progress prizes to 13 different winners! The top submission got $20,000, and we will keep awarding $20,000 to the best contribution of the month till June 2027! Join us, help us read the scrolls, write history and win prizes!
- I still can’t believe we’re reading Greek text from this piece of coal! Every month, we’ll award $20,000 to contributors who help us recover more text from other pieces of coal like this one. Join our Discord: discord.gg/V4fJhvtaQn
- A new phase BEGINS! 🚀 🏆 $1M Grand Prize 💰 $2M+ in open prizes 👑 $20K awarded every month to the best submission scrollprize.org Will you read the next scroll? 👀 Spread the word and repost! 🔁
- @huggingface we use AI to read ancient scrolls📜 We’re launching a $1M 2027 Grand Prize and need reliable, open storage so contestants can train on ML datasets without rate limits 🌋 Can you help? 🙏
