AFC

AIxCC Final and Team Atlanta

Two years after its first announcement at DEF CON 31, our team stood on stage as the winners of the AIxCC Final—a moment we had been working toward since the competition began. Yet when we heard we placed 1st, relief overshadowed excitement. Why? While competing head-to-head with world-class teams like Theori was a privilege, the real-time, long-running nature of this competition demanded extreme engineering reliability alongside novel approaches to succeed.