Sentient has unveiled its latest hackathon, "Challenge 0," which will run from May 20 to June 22, offering a prize pool exceeding $6,000 in cash and MiniMax credits. The event challenges participants to develop AI agents capable of reasoning over financial tables from historical U.S. Treasury documents, spanning 1939 to 2025, to answer 246 financial questions. Utilizing Databricks’ OfficeQA benchmark, the hackathon emphasizes reasoning based on real financial data. Participants can engage without writing code by using pre-built coding agents and optimizing them through prompt engineering and MCP servers. Evaluations will focus on accuracy, latency, and cost.