Over the last month, BespokeLabs, Hugging Face, and Together AI set out to discover the most innovative reasoning datasets and the response blew us away.

• 150+ builders from every corner of the globe
• 70 original datasets 
• covering 25 diverse domain

Countless creative pipelines and data-generation tricks we can all learn from. Check out all submission here

After a spirited review and some very tough judging calls, we’re thrilled to announce the winners

1st Prize - Personal Finance by Akhil Theerthala🥇

🎁 Award: $1500 Giftcard + $1500 Together AI credits + HuggingFace PRO

This dataset offers a specialized benchmark for evaluating LLM reasoning in delivering personalized financial advice

• Multi-stage pipeline: psychological-intent extraction → RAG context retrieval → LLM-jury filtering, yielding empathic, context-rich advice 🧠 
• Domain: Reddit r/personalfinance Q-A pairs with full chain-of-thought across 8 topics (budgeting, debt, taxes, investing, retirement, insurance, income, estate) 💸 ‍
• Evaluations: GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek-v3 & Gemini-Flash run 5-shot cross-model votes to select the highest-quality response for each query ✅ 
• Check it out here

2nd Prize - WildSci by JustinTx 🥈

🎁 Award: $500 Giftcard + HuggingFace PRO

Advancing Scientific Reasoning from In-the-Wild Literature

• Multiple-choice Q-A pairs with full, step-by-step rationales for every problem 🧠
• 9 scientific disciplines, 26 sub-domains mined from peer-reviewed Nature Communications articles 🌍 
• 10 options per question + gold answer and majority-vote labels to stress-test model judgment ✔️
• Check it out here

3rd Prize- MedReason by UCSC-VLAA 🥉

🎁 Award: $500 Giftcard + HuggingFace PRO

This dataset is designed to enable faithful and explainable medical problem-solving in large language models (LLMs)

• Clinical QA pairs drawn from 7 public medical datasets, spanning diagnosis, treatment, biochem & more 🏥 
• Utilize a structured medical knowledge graph (KG) to convert clinical QA pairs into logical chains of reasoning, or “thinking paths”, and auto-verifies each chain-of-thought for factual consistency 🧠  
• Clinician-vetted CoT data
• Check it out here

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Wait there are more prizes...

Spotlight on the best use-cases of Bespoke Curator

🎁 Award: $250 Amazon giftcard each

To showcase how builders are already putting Bespoke Curator to work, here are four standout use‑cases.

Check out these datasets here

• marcodsn/academic-chains
• rekrek/reasoning-engaging-story
• ZennyKenny/synthetic_vc_financial_decisions_reasoning_dataset
• patrickfleith/instruction-freak-reasoning

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Some more Honourable Mentions

🎁 Award: HuggingFace Pro Annual Subscription

A special shout‑out to these creative participants who impressed the judges. We loved their submissions and want to extend our support in scaling the work

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Gratitude Where It’s Due ❤️

A massive thank you to our partners @huggingface, @togethercompute and to our amazing judges. Your feedback raised the bar for transparency, creativity, and reproducibility.

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What’s Next?

• 🏅 Winners: We’ll reach out in the week of 21st May to arrange prizes.
• 📂 Browse all submissions here
• 💬 Join the conversation: Ask anything in our Discord community

Whether you’re building the next benchmark or just curious about how LLM reasoning can evolve, we’d love to have you along for the ride.

See you in the next challenge!

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