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.
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.

