Build with Gemini XPRIZE is an online competition run by the XPRIZE Foundation, sponsored by Google Cloud and administered by Devpost. Over a fixed 90-day window, entrants must launch a working business that operates on AI — acquiring real customers and generating real revenue — rather than shipping a demo or a prototype.
Every project must fit one of five categories aimed at expanding human potential and economic access. It rewards founders who can turn Gemini and Google Cloud into a live, revenue-generating company in three months.
Benefits & funding
- Total prize pool: US$2,000,000.
- 1st place: US$500,000 (1 winner).
- 2nd place: US$200,000 (1 winner).
- 3rd–5th place: US$100,000 each (3 winners).
- Runner-up: US$50,000 each (15 winners).
- Category prizes: US$50,000 each across the five categories (5 winners).
- Each project can win at most one prize.
- No entry fee.
Eligibility
- Open to individuals who are at least the age of majority in their place of residence, teams of such individuals, and organizations with fewer than 25 employees.
- Open worldwide, except residents or organizations based in Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and other regions restricted by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
- Employees, contractors, and immediate family of the organizers, sponsors, and judges are excluded.
- The project must be newly created during the competition; a project must use at least one Google Cloud product, and any LLM functionality must make at least one call through the Gemini API.
- The five categories: Education & Human Potential; Entrepreneurship & Job Creation; Small Business Services; Money & Financial Access; Professional Services Access.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Register on the competition’s Devpost page.
- 2Build a business over the 90-day window using Gemini and Google Cloud, acquiring real users and revenue.
- 3Submit a functioning project with a category selection, a public or shared code repository, and a written description.
- 4Include a demonstration video under three minutes, revenue documentation (totals, monthly breakdown, expenses), evidence of real users, and proof of live production operation (logs, API records, dashboards).
- 5Submit before the deadline; judging follows, then winners are announced.
Program timeline
Submission period opens
May 19, 2026
Submission deadline (1:00 pm Pacific)
Aug 17, 2026
Judging period
Aug 18, 2026 to Sep 15, 2026
Winners announced (approx.)
Sep 25, 2026