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This article covers a simulated or staged fight between Unitree's G1 humanoid robot and EngineAI's PM01 robot.

Google is pursuing omnibus licensing agreements with major private equity firms like Blackstone and KKR to distribute Gemini models, contrasting with OpenAI and Anthropic's strategies of building embedded engineering consulting joint ventures.

Beijing E-Town is hosting a humanoid robot half-marathon event with over 70 teams and 300 robots competing, with live streaming available across multiple time zones.

OpenAI co-organizes the MineRL 2020 Competition to advance sample-efficient reinforcement learning algorithms that leverage human demonstrations. Participants compete to obtain a diamond in Minecraft using only 8 million simulator samples and 4 days of single-GPU training, with access to a 60+ million frame human demonstration dataset.

OpenAI launched the Retro Contest, a transfer learning competition that evaluates RL algorithms on unseen video game levels from classic SEGA Genesis games, running from April to June 2018. The contest uses Gym Retro platform and includes baseline implementations and a technical benchmark paper demonstrating that current RL algorithms significantly underperform humans on generalization tasks.

The Zo Computer Challenge invites developers to submit creative and unconventional website ideas with a prize pool exceeding $10K, with submissions due by April 22nd.