Deep Tide TechFlow News, on December 25, Devansh Mehta, a member of the Ethereum Foundation, announced on platform X that a competition for predicting donation amounts for AI-based projects has officially started. Participants need to predict the relative funding ratios among 1023 groups of projects based on the provided 2387 training comparison data. This competition serves as a warm-up for the official contest at the end of January, which will involve 4303 Ethereum repositories and their dependent projects.

Devansh Mehta stated that Vitalik will fund this event with $20,000, and the contributions of the participants may influence future funding methods for open-source projects, gaining recognition from the community and Ethereum developers.