Noetic · 2026 · Co-founder

The Nebius day

A one-day build where students and engineers worked with a frontier company's newest tools, with that company's engineers in the room. Tracks were split by experience, so a first-timer was never scored against someone who had already shipped. Judging rewarded whether a team could explain why it chose a model, ahead of how finished the result looked.

103 applicants, 63 selected, and 63 came. Those are attendance numbers. They say nothing about whether anyone learned something that lasted past the evening.

This case study is still being written. The short version above is the whole of what is claimed so far.