ARC Prize 2026
Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.
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.
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