HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, DFF
The Championship
Organised by the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence and overseen by the Dubai Future Foundation, the Global Prompt Engineering Championship brings the world’s most capable prompt engineers to Dubai to compete live, under time pressure, in front of a panel of expert judges. Each edition carries a prize pool of AED 1 million.
The championship has run annually since May 2024. From its third edition it competes under a new name : the Dubai AI Grandmaster and runs inside Dubai Future Week, the city’s annual gathering of government, industry and academia about : The life you'll live. The work you'll do. The people you'll love. The choices you'll make. The world your children will inherit.
THE BENEFITS
AED 1,000,000 PRIZE POOL
The largest prize pool in prompt engineering, awarded live at the close of each edition’s final rounds.
Judged by the field
Twelve expert judges scored the 2025 final, drawn from the organisations building and deploying AI in Dubai and globally.
A global stage
The championship runs inside Dubai AI Week, which drew over 6,000 participants from more than 125 countries in its inaugural edition.
Dubai AI Grandmaster
Third edition, 20 contestants competing live for the Dubai AI Grandmaster title and 1 million dirhams prize. Part of the Dubai Future Week Challenge concept. from 18 to 21 November 2026