AT&T and Tech Mahindra are sponsoring an open source competition that seeks innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. The contest encourages participation from students, developers, and data scientists. The sponsors will work with the Linux Foundation to host the Acumos AI Challenge. The Linux Foundation already hosts the Acumos AI open source project that aims to build, share, and use AI applications. The Linux Foundation hosts Acumos AI under its LF Deep Learning Foundation.

"This challenge will pose a representative question to be answered by respondents using a completely automated system to sift through text reports and generate a finished intelligence product," the release stated on Tuesday. The purse consists of a top prize of $100,000 and multiple prizes of $30,000 for submissions from teams of high school students, the release explained. Entrants with the highest ranked submissions will be required to submit their source codes, the release noted.