What the ARC Prize Foundation does

The ARC Prize Foundation is a nonprofit that develops AI benchmarks measuring general intelligence and runs prize competitions to inspire new research. Its flagship benchmark, ARC-AGI, is designed to reveal gaps between tasks that are easy for humans but difficult for AI, defining progress toward AGI as matching human learning efficiency.

Key capabilities

  • The ARC-AGI benchmark series, including ARC-AGI-3, described as measuring agentic intelligence
  • The ARC Prize competition, offering over $2 million across tracks in partnership with Kaggle
  • A focus on rewarding open-sourced, novel approaches rather than scaling alone
  • Benchmarks used as a reference point by leading AI labs and academic researchers

Who it's for

The foundation serves AI researchers, labs, and the broader community working toward AGI. By providing scientifically rigorous, unbeaten benchmarks, it aims to guide research and keep the path to AGI open and accessible, while highlighting where current systems fall short.