11 February 2025, virtual and in-person

Welcome to the homepage for the Frugal AI Challenge, co-located with the 2025 AI Action Summit, taking place on February 10-11 in Paris, France.

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Event timeline

January 6 2025
Applications open for participants
Registration opens in January
January 31 2025
Applications close
11 February 2025
Hackathon date

The goal of the Frugal AI Challenge is to encourage both academic and industry actors to keep efficiency in mind when deploying AI models.

By tracking both energy consumption and performance for different AI for climate tasks, we can incentivize frugality in AI deployment while also addressing real-world challenges.

We have chosen three tasks across three modalities, all of which are useful in the global fight against the climate crisis: detecting climate disinformation, classifying regions at risk of wildfires, and detecting illegal deforestation. We will evaluate both performance and efficiency on each of the datasets, based on the real-world constraints of each task and the energy used.

We will announce more details about the tasks and release the datasets soon!