ARC Prize Foundation

ARC Prize Foundation is a Y Combinator-backed company that aI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideas. The company participated in the Winter 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

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.

ARC Prize Foundation was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 4 employees, and is actively operating.