Participate in the Challenge:
Next Frontier AI

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Important: All information must be provided in English.

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What made you decide to actually apply to this Challenge?

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YOUR SOLUTION

Project Title

0/50

Short Description

0/500

FRONTIER DIMENSION

Which “new frontier” does your idea target? E.g. model architecture (Mixture-of-Experts, State-Space-Models), data/training paradigm (RL-Verifiable-Reward, LoRA adapters), multi-agent orchestration, safety/alignment, or domain-specific AI application.

0/500

CORE IDEA & ARCHITECTURE

Briefly describe the end-to-end system: main components, data flow, and how they interact.

0/3000

TECHNICAL NOVELTY

Which cutting-edge techniques (cite the most recent papers or pre-prints) are you combining, and why do they give a measurable advantage over the current state-of-the-art? Which capability gap in current AI systems, unlikely to be addressed through the continued development of existing systems, does this submission address?

0/2000

TECHNICAL NOVELTY CITATION

0/1000

CAPABILITY GAP ADDRESSED

Explain how the solution creates new functionality (efficiency, reasoning, controllability, new use-cases) rather than just copying existing transformer models.

0/1000

EXISTING ARTIFACTS

What prototypes, code bases, data pipelines, or models are already working? Attach links or short demos if possible.

0/2000

TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) ASSESSMENT

Rate the maturity of your overall system and each major sub-component.

0/1000

OPEN RESEARCH RISKS

Identify the parts that are still research-grade.

0/1000

COMPUTE REQUIREMENTS

List compute required for Stage 1, include total hours needed, GPU type, source and justification.

0/1000

KPIS, BENCHMARKS AND POTENTIAL IMPACT

Which KPIs or benchmarks (if existing) would you use to track your progress? In what existing or future industry do you expect the highest impact? How would you assess it?

0/1000

WORK PLAN

The plan should:
• Cover milestones for the entire duration of the three stages, with specific information on what will be achieved after Stage 1.
• Indicate where collaboration and subcontracting work packages will be required.
• Contain cost information, including contributions by the team or the team's institution (e.g. personnel, licenses, infrastructure) for three stages of the Challenge.

0/4000

FINANCIAL COST ESTIMATE FOR STAGE 1

Max 3,000,000 EUR, in EUR.

0/100

TEAM

Address:
• Why is your team best suited to achieve the goal of the challenge?
• What relevant field-specific expertise and experience do you already have, and with whom?
• What expertise is the team missing, and how will you address it?
• Attach the CVs of the key people in the Attachments section.

0/2000

TEAM MEMBER 1

Name, role on the project and percent FTE committed

0/250

TEAM MEMBER 1

Links to demonstrate track record (Industry, Entrepreneurship, Google-Scholar, GitHub-Project)

0/250

TEAM MEMBER 2

Name, role on the project and percent FTE committed

0/250

TEAM MEMBER 2

Links to demonstrate track record (Industry, Entrepreneurship, Google-Scholar, GitHub-Project)

0/250

TEAM MEMBER 3

Name, role on the project and percent FTE committed

0/250

TEAM MEMBER 3

Links to demonstrate track record (Industry, Entrepreneurship, Google-Scholar, GitHub-Project)

0/250

ATTACHMENTS

ATTACHMENTS

Mandatory uploads:
• CVs of key personnel
• Detailed cost overview (PDF)
• Declaration on RUS Sanctions form (obligatory) – available in German and English on the SPRIND site

File format: .PDF

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Reasons for Exclusion

I/we have not been sentenced to a custodial sentence of more than three months or a monetary penalty of more than 90 daily rates or a fine of at least €2,500 due to an infringement of regulations that has led to an existing entry in the Central Trade Register that is not ready for redemption (e.g. infringement pursuant to § 21 Minimum Wage Act or § 21 Employee Posting Act).
I/we agree to require the above declaration also from subcontractors and to submit it to SPRIND upon request.
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If No: proof of self-cleaning according to § 125 GWB must be enclosed with the offer.

Declaration on Reasons for Exclusion

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Declaration of Infringements

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