What it does
Kaggle is a web platform where people compete, benchmark and share work on AI and machine learning. Its home page highlights crowdsourced competitions, hackathons and benchmarks run by labs, researchers and companies, including prize-backed challenges and leaderboards that compare many models side by side. Beyond contests, the site offers a catalogue of models you can explore and compare, more than 100,000 datasets to pull from or upload to, a library of community-built evaluation tasks, and notebooks with compute environments for running experiments and sharing reproducible code. Teams can also turn their own evaluation criteria into custom benchmarks with private test sets and reproducible leaderboards, and the site mentions building evals locally with Kaggle Benchmarks. Kaggle presents itself as a place for independent, crowdsourced evaluation of AI.
Capabilities
- Competitions, hackathons and public benchmarks with leaderboards
- Browse models and compare their results on community benchmarks
- 100k+ datasets to use or upload
- Library of community-built evaluation tasks
- Notebooks with compute environments, described as no-cost
- Custom benchmarks with private test sets
When to use it
- Comparing how different models perform on public benchmarks
- Taking part in an AI competition or hackathon
- Finding datasets and reproducible notebooks for a data science project
- Building a custom benchmark or private leaderboard for your own evaluation criteria
