ARC Prize Foundation (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
January 22, 2026
Vertical
Industrials
Company Info
Founding Year
2026
Market
Industrials
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

ARC Prize builds AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence. Our benchmark, ARC-AGI, has been used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. Founded by Mike Knoop and Francois Chollet, we inspire open source artificial general intelligence (AGI) research through benchmarks (the ARC-AGI series), global competitions, research grants, community, and content, we exist to guide researchers, industry, and regulators on the path to AGI. We believe that AGI requires more than just scaling up existing AI models. It demands a fundamental shift towards systems capable of genuine fluid intelligence, the ability to adapt to novel challenges and solve problems efficiently, much like humans do.

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