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Stanford Wins Inaugural Databricks Grounded Reasoning Cup

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Congrats to the Stanford team! This was super fun, perhaps the only *live* AI competition with humans and agents working together to attempt the next gen OfficeQA benchmark. So many cool approaches and lessons from these teams.

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Stanford University is the 2026 Databricks Grounded Reasoning Cup champion! 🏆

The inaugural Grounded Reasoning Cup at #DataAISummit 2026 is in the books, with Stanford taking 1st, UMass Amherst earning 2nd, and Yale University securing 3rd after six high-intensity rounds of live AI agent competition over 200+ years of U.S. Treasury data.

Teams mentored by @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @GoogleDeepMind built agents that tackled messy historical PDFs, multimodal chart interpretation, and web-augmented reasoning on real government data.

Thank you to @USAFacts, the U.S. Treasury, our student teams from 11 universities, and everyone who joined live.

1:05 PM · Jun 18, 2026 · 2.6K Views

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Matei Zaharia@matei_zaharia

Specifically the team was @ShichengGLiu, @harshitj__ @SunJiuding and @PriyankShethia from @StanfordOVAL and @stanfordnlp! Congrats!

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Shicheng Liu@ShichengGLiu

Still can’t believe this journey: we went from 2nd place to 1st literally in the LAST 1 MINUTE. It felt like I was playing the “Agent World Cup” myself, proudly representing @StanfordOVAL and @stanfordnlp.

Huge shoutout to my amazing teammates @harshitj__ @SunJiuding @PriyankShethia - couldn’t have asked for a better team. Big thanks as well to our mentor Lucas from @AnthropicAI for guiding us along the way.

And huge thanks to the @databricks team and the OfficeQA team - including amazing people like @kristahopsalong, @arnav_thebigman, @bemikelive, and @matei_zaharia - for putting together such an incredible competition. What an unforgettable experience! 🏆

More lessons learned from building our agent coming soon. Stay tuned.

Databricks@databricks

Stanford University is the 2026 Databricks Grounded Reasoning Cup champion! 🏆

Teams mentored by @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @GoogleDeepMind built agents that tackled messy historical PDFs, multimodal chart interpretation, and web-augmented reasoning on real government data.

Thank you to @USAFacts, the U.S. Treasury, our student teams from 11 universities, and everyone who joined live.

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Shicheng Liu@ShichengGLiu

And huge thanks to the @databricks team and the OfficeQA team - including amazing people like @kristahopsalong, @bemikelive, and @matei_zaharia - for putting together such an incredible competition. What an unforgettable experience! 🏆

More lessons learned from building our agent coming soon. Stay tuned.

Databricks@databricks

Stanford University is the 2026 Databricks Grounded Reasoning Cup champion! 🏆

Teams mentored by @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @GoogleDeepMind built agents that tackled messy historical PDFs, multimodal chart interpretation, and web-augmented reasoning on real government data.

Thank you to @USAFacts, the U.S. Treasury, our student teams from 11 universities, and everyone who joined live.

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Databricks@databricks

@ShichengGLiu @StanfordOVAL @stanfordnlp @harshitj__ @SunJiuding The drama! Congrats! 👏

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Luis Manrique@lluismanrique

@ShichengGLiu @StanfordOVAL @stanfordnlp @harshitj__ @SunJiuding winning at the buzzer, legends

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