Vesuvius Challenge will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation with an equivalent number of ancient scroll passages

Vesuvius Challenge Newsletter!!! scrollprize.substack.com/p/many-open-so…

In an hour, we'll have released enough segments for 10 (double digits!) Grand Prize-sized passages. Only TWO WEEKS left for the $700,000 Grand Prize!!!!! 📜🌋🔥 Vesuvius Challenge Images courtesy of David Josey from our incredible segmentation team.

The deadline for Grand Prize submissions is 24.7 hours from now. Good luck to all contestants!

Exclusive: AI (and humans) have unlocked a treasure trove of ancient Roman scolls bloomberg.com/features/2024-… by me and Ellen Huet

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

We're announcing over $500,000 in new prizes for 2024! Join us as we read more of the Herculaneum scrolls! scrollprize.org/2024_prizes

First Automated Segmentation prize doubled to $100,000! Also: new wish list items; hiring a segmenter; first progress prize round closed! substack.com/home/post/p-14…

So many great contributions in March - check it out!! substack.com/home/post/p-14…

April grinds bring May finds?? Check out the recent advancements awarded in April, they may help you find some First Letters: scrollprize.substack.com/p/35000-in-apr…

Doing a little Q&A about the Vesuvius Challenge at 2:30pm PT today x.com/i/spaces/1ypJd…

We're hanging out for office hours to chat scrolls today! 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern / 6 pm CEST youtube.com/live/odXGROKDd…

The team shares some info on the current state of segmentation, autosegmentation, and rendering (some of the steps to digitally unroll an ancient scroll) - plus some new tutorials and resources! open.substack.com/pub/scrollpriz…

We're releasing more CT scans of ancient scrolls! open.substack.com/pub/scrollpriz…

Announcing the $30k First Title Prize for the first person or team to find the title of Scroll 1: scrollprize.substack.com/p/30k-first-ti…

The Vesuvius Challenge 2024 Grand Prize is doubling from $100,000 to $200,000 - read four ancient scrolls and claim your reward! More details published as well. scrollprize.substack.com/p/2024-grand-p…

Congratulations to the May Progress Prize winners for contributions towards reading the Herculaneum scrolls!! scrollprize.substack.com/p/may-progress…

More progress prizes awarded, plus we are doubling the First Letters prizes for the first person/team to find letters in Scrolls 2, 3, and 4! scrollprize.substack.com/p/june-progres…

It has never been easier to look inside ancient scrolls! Plus, we're giving out more prizes for awesome scroll tools: scrollprize.substack.com/p/it-has-never…

August was a huge month for community contributions with $41,000 in Progress Prizes! Check out the fantastic contributions and use them to read scrolls! Plus - please take our community survey so we can make Vesuvius Challenge as great as possible: scrollprize.substack.com/p/41000-in-pro…