Prime Intellect

Well-funded open-source frontier lab (the INTELLECT distributed-training runs, PRIME-RL, and the verifiers library). Its bounties paid for correct, reproducible environments rather than hours, and the program has closed, so it is no longer a way to earn from environment work.

Yes. Well-funded open-source frontier lab (the INTELLECT distributed-training runs, PRIME-RL, and the verifiers library). Its bounties paid for correct, reproducible environments rather than hours, and the program has closed, so it is no longer a way to earn from environment work. Payouts: No payout is open to new contributors: bounties were cash paid per accepted (and, for benchmark tasks, reproduced) environment, and the program now takes no new claims (its bounty sheet, read 4 Nov 2026).

Bounty program closed; no paid contributor work open. Prime Intellect paid outside builders only through the bounties of its Environments Program, set out in its post of 27 Oct 2025 (primeintellect.ai/blog/scaling-environments-program): Open Access bounties of $100 to $500 that anyone could claim, and Application-Only bounties of $1,000 to $5,000+ for builders it approved, each paid once the environment was accepted (a benchmark reimplementation had to reproduce known scores first). The bounty sheet that post links to (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13UDfRDjgIZXsMI2s9-Lmn8KSMMsgk2_zsfju6cx_pNU) now opens with 'This bounty program is closed and is not accepting new applications or bounty claims' and marks Open Access, Application-Only and its call for partners each closed (read 4 Nov 2026; it said so already on 22 Oct 2026, and it gives no closing date). Its home page names no other paid program for outside contributors, and its Ashby board lists 40 full-time staff roles in San Francisco and New York and no contract work (both read 4 Nov 2026), so no paid environment work is open there today.

Prime Intellect pays Bounty program closed; no paid contributor work open (platform-stated). It rewards credentialed experts who clear its assessment far more than open generalist work. Worker sentiment: No consolidated worker score; active open-source contributor community (2,500+ community environments on the Hub).

No payout is open to new contributors: bounties were cash paid per accepted (and, for benchmark tasks, reproduced) environment, and the program now takes no new claims (its bounty sheet, read 4 Nov 2026).

Publishing environments to the Hub is open worldwide; the bounty program, which once let anyone claim its Open Access tier, takes no new claims or applications (its bounty sheet, read 4 Nov 2026).