Hosts: HCLTech and MIT MediaLab
Battle of AI Agents in Networked Decentralized Arena — is an arena-style competition where AI agents are battle-tested across five arenas. Instead of building another chatbot or an agent, you prove that your agents actually work under pressure.
Solve Core AI Agent Infrastructure Problems. Build a system, tool, or layer that fixes a real bottleneck in how AI agents are deployed, coordinated, or scaled.
A competition to build the missing infrastructure layer for AI agents.
Timeline
Apr 10 | Announcement
Apr 1 0– May 7 | Phase 1
May 7 - June 13 | Phase 2
June 13, 2026 | Hackathon and Awards at MIT Media Lab