But whatever became of David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (a bracing ice-bath of a movie) or Leos Carax's Holy Motors, far and away the most inventive and audacious film in competition?
When Mr. Bloomberg proposed the competition late last year, it was an audacious idea: to lure a prestigious university to build from scratch a top-flight school of applied sciences that would, in turn, seed businesses that would turn New York into the world's next great high-tech hub.
Within 20 years, he has an even more audacious goal: He wants the FIRST robotics competition to be the dominant sport of the 21st century.
Nevertheless, the audacious teen may have a bit of competition from a girl who's gotten off to a strong start in the star-studded game.
Google teamed up with Xprize to sponsor an audacious literal race to the Moon, but sadly the competition will end with no one taking home the grand prize of $30 million.
If every XPRIZE competition we launch has a winner, we are not being audacious enough, and we will continue to launch competitions that are literal or figurative moonshots, pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
By setting an audacious but achievable target and vetting that target through experts, incentive competitions offer credibility and "air cover" for entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors who want to pursue a path that would otherwise be considered too risky, Diamandis adds.
The day's competition is as much about getting into character and pulling off some audacious smackdowns as it is about winning.
Or two, get even more aggressive, making big, audacious bets that, if wrong, could hurt but also raise the bar on the competition.
The competition will bring the AI community together and accelerate the development of scalable, hybrid solutions and audacious breakthroughs to address humanity's grandest challenges.
