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ARC Prize Inc.

ARC Prize 2026

Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.

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ARC Prize 2026 is ARC Prize Inc.'s $2M competition for AI researchers and teams who push state-of-the-art performance on the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmarks, across an interactive ARC-AGI-3 track, a static ARC-AGI-2 track, and a Paper Prize for research advancing understanding of ARC-AGI performance, aimed at contributors to open, reproducible progress toward artificial general intelligence rather th

ARC Prize 2026 rewards AI researchers and teams who push state-of-the-art performance on the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmarks, across an interactive ARC-AGI-3 track, a static ARC-AGI-2 track, and a Paper Prize for research advancing understanding of ARC-AGI performance. It targets contributors to open, reproducible progress toward artificial general intelligence rather than applied products in a single industry.

CycleiHow often this grant runs - e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.No fixed schedule
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.2 Nov 2026
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.-
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.-
Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Prize
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.$2M

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