# Russian Researchers Convene an Open Effort to Beat NetHack With Planning Agents

The group is organized by Vladislav Kurenkov, who leads the adaptive-agents research team at the AIRI institute in Moscow.

- Published: 2026-09-25T13:31:21.671Z
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Researchers at AIRI, the Moscow-based artificial intelligence institute, have called for an open community effort around a single unsolved target: getting an agent to win NetHack. The invitation, posted on the Russian-language channel AI ML…

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