{"id":"VC0142","type":"news","title":"Meet some of the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge competitors","authors_or_org":"Arc Institute","date":"2026-10-15","year":"2026","venue":"Arc news","url":"https://arcinstitute.org/news/vcc-competitor-showcase-2026","doi":"","pmid":"","brain_tumor_focus":"no","tags":["challenge","Arc","community","AI-agents","NVIDIA","10x-Genomics","Ultima-Genomics"],"tag_slugs":["challenge","arc"],"tag_labels":["Challenge","Arc Institute"],"tag_labels_zh":["挑战赛","Arc 研究所"],"unmapped_tags":["community","AI-agents","NVIDIA","10x-Genomics","Ultima-Genomics"],"one_line_summary_en":"Community news item, not evidence of model performance: Arc's showcase of competitor survey interviews for the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge (>5,000 registrants; 1,500 teams on the leaderboard; sponsors NVIDIA, 10x Genomics, Ultima Genomics; winners to be announced Thursday 2026-11-19). Several competitors describe AI-agent harnesses; no methods or scores are reported.","one_line_summary_zh":"社区新闻条目，并非模型性能的证据：Arc 发布的 2026 虚拟细胞挑战赛参赛者问卷访谈专题（注册者逾 5,000 人；排行榜上 1,500 支队伍；赞助方为 NVIDIA、10x Genomics、Ultima Genomics；获胜者将于 2026-11-19 星期四公布）。多位参赛者提到使用 AI 智能体框架；页面未报告任何方法或得分。","verified":"yes","verification_source":"Arc Institute news page (publisher; fetched 2026-10-15: title, date, registrant/team counts, sponsors, winners-announcement date, survey-interview content)","page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0142/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0142.json","sameAs":["https://arcinstitute.org/news/vcc-competitor-showcase-2026"],"is_preprint":false,"facets":{"type":"https://gliostate.com/library/type/news/","year":"https://gliostate.com/library/year/2026/","tags":["https://gliostate.com/library/tag/challenge/","https://gliostate.com/library/tag/arc/"]},"cited_by":[{"id":"model-virtual-cell","type":"model","title_en":"AI virtual cell models","title_zh":"AI 虚拟细胞模型","url":"https://gliostate.com/models/virtual-cell/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/topics/model-virtual-cell.json"}],"related":[{"id":"VC0002","title":"Virtual Cell Challenge: Toward a Turing test for the virtual cell.","shared_tags":["challenge","arc"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0002/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0002.json"},{"id":"VC0019","title":"Predicting cellular responses to perturbation across diverse contexts with State.","shared_tags":["arc"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0019/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0019.json"},{"id":"VC0058","title":"Virtual Cell Challenge 2026: Benchmarking zero-shot generalization across cellular contexts.","shared_tags":["challenge"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0058/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0058.json"},{"id":"VC0107","title":"Virtual Cell Challenge 2026 (zero-shot, 6 unseen cell lines)","shared_tags":["challenge"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0107/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0107.json"},{"id":"VC0106","title":"NeurIPS 2025: Altos Labs wins Generalist Prize at Arc's Virtual Cell Challenge","shared_tags":["challenge"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0106/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0106.json"},{"id":"VC0105","title":"Virtual Cell Challenge 2025 Wrap-Up: Winners and Reflections","shared_tags":["challenge"],"page_url":"https://gliostate.com/library/VC0105/","api_url":"https://gliostate.com/api/items/VC0105.json"}]}