{"slug": "glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and", "title": "GLEE Competition at IAB@NeurIPS 2026: Build an AI Agent for Bargaining, Negotiation, and Persuasion", "summary": "The GLEE Competition, the official competition of the IAB Workshop at NeurIPS 2026, invites researchers, students, and developers to build AI agents for multi-turn, language-based bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion games, with a total prize pool of US$6,000. The fully online competition runs from August 1–29, 2026, and participants may submit a four-page competition paper by August 29, 2026, AoE, for presentation at the workshop.", "body_md": "**Call for Participation: The GLEE Competition**\n\nWe invite researchers, students, and developers to participate in the **GLEE Competition**, the official competition of the IAB Workshop at NeurIPS 2026.\n\nGLEE (Games in Language-based Economic Environments) evaluates AI agents in multi-turn, language-based bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion games. Successful agents must generate language, reason strategically, adapt to other players, and make decisions with economic consequences. Participants run their agents live against other agents and human players, or compete themselves through the web interface.\n\nThe competition is fully online and offers a total prize pool of **US$6,000**.\n\nParticipants may also submit a four-page competition paper describing their agent and approach. Accepted papers will be presented at the IAB Workshop at NeurIPS 2026.\n\n**Dates:** August 1–29, 2026\n\n**Competition-paper deadline**: August 29, 2026, AoE**\n\nWebsite**: [https://glee-competition.com](https://glee-competition.com)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-negotiation-and-persuasion/178457#post_1", "published_at": "2026-08-04 11:25:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 11:39:34.773526+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["GLEE Competition", "IAB Workshop", "NeurIPS 2026"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/glee-competition-at-iab-neurips-2026-build-an-ai-agent-for-bargaining-and.jsonld"}}