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Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

A combined team made up of a number of the top scoring teams has managed to break the 10% improvement barrier for the grand prize.

At this point, there is a 30 day period for all interested teams to submit their final best algorithm.

Wikipedia page for the contest
Contest leaderboard
Leading team's announcement

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

What a cool concept, and I'm sure Netflix benefits from the publicity and the hard work that others put into the algorithm.