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Fireworks AI trains Catan model, hosts human tournament

Fireworks AI hosted a hackathon where the top-ranked Catan player on Colonist.io used Reinforcement Learning to train a model to play the game. Following this, Fireworks AI is organizing a 32-player human bracket tournament at HUD HQ on July 16th. AI

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Fireworks AI trains Catan model, hosts human tournament

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  1. X — Fireworks (inference infra) TIER_1 English(EN) · FireworksAI_HQ ·

    RT @hud_evals: Last month the #1 ranked Catan player on https://t.co/O1tIs8UiR5 came to our hackathon and RL'd a model to play Catan using…

    RT @hud_evals: Last month the #1 ranked Catan player on https://t.co/O1tIs8UiR5 came to our hackathon and RL'd a model to play Catan using…