ARC Prize

also referred to as: arcprize

4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2026 by François Chollet · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Mar 27, 2026
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Chollet: ARC Prize Built a Video Game Studio Generating 250+ Games
“We set up an entire video game studio, right, to create them. So we got over 250 games.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 29:39 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Chaubard: HRM scored 70% on ARC Prize 1 without pre-training
“There is no pre-training at all. This starts from, like, literally Tagula-Rasa weights, and it can outperform at that time, if we go back, you know, we had O-three, if you remember back, way back when. And it, O-three gets zero. Literally zero, and this got, l…”
Francois Chaubard May 1, 2026 ▶ 10:09 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
May 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gupta: Current TRMs and HRMs are task-specific, not general-purpose
“One of the things that's really interesting about these TRMs and HRMs is they're not general purpose models, right? These were Task specific models, right? The model trained to do Sudoku cannot do ArcPrize inherently. It has to be trained on the ArcPrize set t…”
Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 36:19 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Chaubard: 7M parameter TRM scored 87% on ARC Prize 1
“And so it's a twenty-eight million parameter model for HRM. Now she brings it down to a seven million parameter model. It actually gets from 70% to 87% on on ArcPrize one. And does actually quite well on ArcPrize two as well.”
Francois Chaubard May 1, 2026 ▶ 33:25 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
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