Push to Talk · Mar 2026
Long-form interview with Greg Kamradt on why ARC-AGI-3 is interactive, hands-off, and designed to resist benchmark gaming.
AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideas
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
ARC Prize Foundation is a nonprofit advancing open-source AGI research through benchmarks and prizes, best known for the ARC-AGI benchmark and related prize competitions.
Primary product
ARC-AGI benchmark and prize competitions
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Nonprofit / AI benchmarks and prize competitions
Business model
nonprofit
prize-based research incentives
benchmark hosting
open-source research dissemination
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Seed Round · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$125K
Jan 2026
Y Combinator
Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
President
Co-Founder
Lauren Wagner
Head of Policy & Growth
Community Lead
Founders
Mike Knoop
Co-founder, Board Member
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize open scientific progress, open-source AGI research, benchmarks, prizes, and community participation. No public benefits/culture page was surfaced in the search results.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public compensation ranges or benefits signals were surfaced in the sources searched.
Product & market
Pricing
No public pricing model found; ARC-AGI benchmark participation appears to be freely accessible or prize-driven rather than subscription-based.
Differentiators
- —Open-source AGI benchmark focus
- —Prize/incentive-based evaluation model
- —Benchmarking designed to measure general intelligence rather than narrow task performance
- —Community-driven challenge releases and tooling
Customers
Researchers
AI labs
benchmark participants
open-source AI community
Competitors
MLCommons
XPRIZE-style benchmark and challenge programs
other AI evaluation benchmark providers
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Unknown / not publicly disclosed; nonprofit with no public annual revenue found
Estimated monthly visits
322.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
The Decoder · Mar 2026
Explains ARC-AGI-3’s interactive design, human-vs-model gap, and the benchmark’s efficiency-based scoring approach.
ARC Prize Blog · Mar 2026
Official launch of ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark of hundreds of environments and thousands of game-style levels, with ARC Prize 2026 offering over $2M in prizes.
Fast Company · Mar 2026
Coverage of ARC-AGI-3’s launch and why the benchmark may better measure on-the-fly reasoning than memorization.
ARC Prize Foundation · Jan 2026
The foundation announced a toolkit release enabling local interaction with ARC-AGI-3 environments at high speed and open-sourced parts of the environment engine.
Jobs and careers at ARC Prize Foundation
1 job at ARC Prize Foundation
Director of Communications and Marketing
Remote
Department of Communications & Marketing
Remote (Newton, Massachusetts, US)
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time