comma.ai/tinycorp NeurIPS event

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Autonomy
comma.ai
blog.comma.ai
Product
comma.ai
github.com/commaai
Operations
comma.ai
comma.ai
tinycorp
tinygrad.org
github.com/tinygrad

Abstract

comma.ai and the tinycorp are hosting a NeurIPS event on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 at their headquarters in San Diego, CA. The event will start at 6:00 PM and will feature fun challenges involving the latest comma.ai and tiny hardware and software such as the comma four, the comma body v2, tinybox, and much more.

This event is strictly invite only. More information about how to attend will be described in this paper.

Food and drinks will be provided.

1 How to get invited

This event is strictly invite only. To get invited, start by going to this link.

Please follow common CTF etiquette: Do not share flags publicly or with other participants. Do not share submission form links. Do not send more than 3 submissions, etc.

Submission deadline is Sunday, November 30th, 2025 at 11:59 PM AoE.

2 CTF Prizes: ALL CLAIMED 🏆

UPDATE: November 18th, 2025: all prizes have been claimed and winners have been notified.

In addition to getting invited to the event, there are prizes for the top 3 participants who submit all the flags first:
- 1st: comma four + comma body v2 + merch (or $750)
- 2nd: comma four + merch (or $500)
- 3rd: $250 + merch

3 Developing and researching at the event

In addition to fun games, discussions, and talks, access to state-of-the-art comma.ai/tiny hardware will be provided at the event. Participants who wish to develop or research during the event will be given access to hardware such as the comma four, the comma body v2, tinyboxes, etc. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, and develop simple applications or run experiments using the provided hardware and software.

Participants are, for example, encouraged to use the comma body v2 for indoor navigation tasks or sensor data exploration, solve tinygrad bounties, or openpilot bounties, or participate in the research rump talks.

Example figure
Figure 1: a comma body v2 used in the indoor navigation challenge.

4 Schedule

The event schedule is described in Table 1. Please note that it is subject to change.

Table 1: Event Schedule (All times Pacific)

6:00 PM Doors open
7:00 PM Opening remarks
7:30 PM Development setup for participants
9:00 PM comma.ai/tiny rump talks
11:00 PM Final remarks
12:00 AM Event ends

5 Research rump talks

There will be several short research rump talks from comma.ai engineers throughout the evening. Topics will include:
- Learning to Drive from a World Model [1]
See Figure 4 for examples of World Model simulated videos.
- comma body v2 overview [2]
See Figure 1 for the comma body v2.
- comma four as a robotics platform [3]
See Figure 2 for the comma four.
- tinygrad: the fastest growing neural network framework [4].

Example figure
Figure 2: comma four exploded view.
Example figure
Figure 3: stack plot of tinygrad lines of code over the years.
Figure 4: Examples of simulation rollouts using the driving World Model. Captioned by comma.ai engineers.

References

  1. "Learning to Drive from a World Model", Autonomy team, comma.ai, 2025. https://blog.comma.ai/mlsim.
  2. comma body v2 https://blog.comma.ai/commabody/.
  3. Building the comma four Robbe Derks - From Concept to Shelves (creating the comma 4) @ comma_con 2025.
  4. tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.