HAC: The Hacker-Cup AI Competition

We are launching the first AI track for the popular Meta Hacker Cup programmingcompetition, designed to assess the capabilities of Generative AI in performingautonomous code generation tasks. We aim to test the limits of AI in complexcoding challenges and measure the performance gap between AI systems andhuman programmers. We will provide access to all Hacker Cup problems since 2011alongside their respective solutions in a multimodal (image and text) format, andutilize the existing Hacker Cup infrastructure for competitor evaluation. Featuringboth "open evaluation, open model" and "open evaluation, closed model" tracks,this competition invites diverse participation from research institutions of variedinterests and resource constraints, including academic labs, AI startups, largetechnology companies, and AI enthusiasts. Our goal is to develop and democratizemeaningful advancements in code automation with the very first open evaluationprocess for competitive AI programmers.