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Impact</p></figcaption> </div> <div class="category-card__detail-badge-div"> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-pink"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Prize Purse:</span> $5 MILLION</span> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-black"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Phase:</span> Registration</span> </div> <div class="category-card__arrow-div"> <svg class="icon--arrow-down category-card__arrow-svg" title="More information"> <use xlink:href="/svg/icons.svg#icon--arrow-right"> </svg> </div> </div> <div class="category-card__description"><p>XPRIZE Quantum Applications is a 3-year, $5M global competition designed to generate quantum computing (QC) algorithms that can be put into practice to help solve real-world challenges.</p></div> </a> </figure> <figure class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 category-card__wrapper"> <a href="/prizes/water" class="category-card__link" title="XPRIZE Water Scarcity"> <div 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class="category-card__title"> <figcaption class="category-card__title-text"><p>END DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES</p></figcaption> </div> <div class="category-card__detail-badge-div"> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-pink"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Prize Purse:</span> $11 MILLION</span> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-black"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Phase:</span> Active</span> </div> <div class="category-card__arrow-div"> <svg class="icon--arrow-down category-card__arrow-svg" title="More information"> <use xlink:href="/svg/icons.svg#icon--arrow-right"> </svg> </div> </div> <div class="category-card__description"><p>XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires so that humanity and beneficial wildfire can safely co-exist. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize, and respond to wildfires before they become destructive. </p></div> </a> </figure> <figure class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 category-card__wrapper"> <a href="/prizes/carbonremoval" class="category-card__link" title="XPRIZE Carbon Removal"> <div class="category-card__logo-div"> <img class="category-card__logo" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/4f866ca5-140d-49f1-90b0-fc4fc3b6138d/XPCR_Musk-Foundation_White.png?fm=png&auto=format" alt="XPRIZE Carbon Removal - Musk Foundation)" /> </div> <div class="category-card__container"> <div class="category-card__bkg-img" style="background-image:url('https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/611d586c-6dc6-4131-b7c4-27d4ee067540/xpcr-card-dark-globe.jpg?fm=jpg&auto=format')"></div> <div class="category-card__filter"></div> <div class="category-card__title"> <figcaption class="category-card__title-text"><p>Tackling Humanity's Greatest Threat</p></figcaption> </div> <div class="category-card__detail-badge-div"> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-pink"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Prize Purse:</span> $100 MILLION</span> <span class="category-card__detail-badge category-card__detail-badge-black"><span class="category-card__detail-badge-title">Phase:</span> Active</span> </div> <div class="category-card__arrow-div"> <svg class="icon--arrow-down category-card__arrow-svg" title="More information"> <use xlink:href="/svg/icons.svg#icon--arrow-right"> </svg> </div> </div> <div class="category-card__description"><p>XPRIZE Carbon Removal is aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity - fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history, an extraordinary milestone.</p></div> </a> </figure> <figure class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 category-card__wrapper"> <a href="/prizes/rainforest" class="category-card__link" title="XPRIZE Rainforest"> <div class="category-card__logo-div"> <img class="category-card__logo" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/de133744-8b13-4955-8cdb-851c57148d4b/RFXP-Logo-Inline-White-cropped.png?fm=png&auto=format" alt=")" /> </div> <div class="category-card__container"> <div class="category-card__bkg-img" style="background-image:url('https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/abe2be9c-6206-44f9-ace7-81b01b4c51fc/RainForestCard.jpg?fm=jpg&auto=format')"></div> <div class="category-card__filter"></div> <div class="category-card__title"> <figcaption class="category-card__title-text"><p>Discover. Understand. 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