Google Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition on Kaggle

About this hackathon

A Kaggle competition hosted by Google DeepMind: post-train Gemma 4 (31B, 12B, E4B or E2B QAT variants, optionally with LoRA adapters) into an offline autonomous coding agent defined in Google ADK Agent Config, which navigates real repositories and submits patches scored SWE-bench style on pass/fail validation tests within a 12-hour budget. Teams of up to 5; accept the rules by Nov 25, final submissions Dec 2 (23:59 UTC). $65,000 in leaderboard prizes, plus a separate optional paper track worth $35,000 (papers due Nov 12).

Status
Deadline: 2026-11-26
Starts: 2026-09-23
Who: Open to all (Accept this competition's Kaggle rules by Nov 25, 23:59 UTC; final submission Dec 2, 23:59 UTC. Eligibility is governed by its specific rules.)
Level: Advanced
Prize: $65k · $65,000 main cash pool: $37,000, $18,000 and $10,000. A separate paper track is not included in the main pool.
Size: —
Format: Online · International
Location: London (online; placed at organizer’s city)