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Paradigm puts $100,000 behind stories about a world where AI plateaus today and only the hardware scales
GPU World is a $100,000 writing contest from Paradigm and Guardian Angel Intelligence judged by Neal Stephenson, Gwern Branwen and Matt Huang, with $40,000 for first, $20,000 second, $12,000 third and seven $4,000 finalist awards. The premise is a deliberate inversion of the usual forecast: assume AI capability plateaus in September 2026 with no superintelligence, but hardware keeps scaling until by 2040 every person on earth has a frontier LLM running 24/7/365, then describe what society does with it. Entries are 1,000-5,000 words, fiction or nonfiction, CC BY-NC or freer, LLM use allowed but discouraged and must be disclosed, deadline Oct 31, 2026.
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