Announcing the ARC Prize 2025 Top Score & Paper Award winners The...
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Announcing the ARC Prize 2025 Top Score & Paper Award winners
The Grand Prize remains unclaimed
Our analysis on AGI progress marking 2025 the year of the refinement loop
The Grand Prize remains unclaimed
Our analysis on AGI progress marking 2025 the year of the refinement loop
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ARC Prize 2025 Paper Award Winners
1st / "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks" (TRM) / A. Jolicoeur-Martineau / $50k
2nd / "Self-Improving Language Models for Evolutionary Program Synthesis: A Case Study on ARC-AGI" (SOAR) / J. Pourcel et al. / $20k
3rd / "ARC-AGI Without Pretraining" / I. Liao et al. / $5k
1st / "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks" (TRM) / A. Jolicoeur-Martineau / $50k
2nd / "Self-Improving Language Models for Evolutionary Program Synthesis: A Case Study on ARC-AGI" (SOAR) / J. Pourcel et al. / $20k
3rd / "ARC-AGI Without Pretraining" / I. Liao et al. / $5k
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ARC Prize 2025 Top Score Winners
1st / NVARC / 25.03% / $25k
2nd / the ARChitects / 16.53% / $10k
3rd / MindsAI @ Tufa Labs / 12.64% / $5k
4th / Lonnie / 6.67% / $5k
5th / Guillermo Barbadillo @ Veridas / 6.53% / $5k
1st / NVARC / 25.03% / $25k
2nd / the ARChitects / 16.53% / $10k
3rd / MindsAI @ Tufa Labs / 12.64% / $5k
4th / Lonnie / 6.67% / $5k
5th / Guillermo Barbadillo @ Veridas / 6.53% / $5k
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In 2024, the ARC-AGI benchmark pinpointed the arrival of "AI reasoning systems" and drove early explanatory analysis
In 2025, ARC-AGI is being used to demonstrate "refinement loops"
While we still need new ideas to achieve AGI, ARC has catalyzed several now open-source refinement approaches that will play a role in further developing AI reasoning in 2026
Dive in: arcprize.org/blog/arc-prize…
In 2025, ARC-AGI is being used to demonstrate "refinement loops"
While we still need new ideas to achieve AGI, ARC has catalyzed several now open-source refinement approaches that will play a role in further developing AI reasoning in 2026
Dive in: arcprize.org/blog/arc-prize…
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@jm_alexia ARC Prize 2025 / Paper Award Winner
Second Place / SOAR
@PourcelJulien, @cedcolas, @pyoudeyer
Interview: youtu.be/9lIuoslCHWI
Second Place / SOAR
@PourcelJulien, @cedcolas, @pyoudeyer
Interview: youtu.be/9lIuoslCHWI
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer ARC Prize 2025 / Paper Award Winner
Third Place / ARC w/out Pretraining
@LiaoIsaac91893
Interview: youtu.be/N9GvFj0cE9s
Third Place / ARC w/out Pretraining
@LiaoIsaac91893
Interview: youtu.be/N9GvFj0cE9s
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner
First Place / NVARC
@JFPuget, Ivan Sorokin
Interview: youtu.be/t-mIRJJCbKg
First Place / NVARC
@JFPuget, Ivan Sorokin
Interview: youtu.be/t-mIRJJCbKg
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 @JFPuget ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner
Second Place / the ARChitects
@dvhrtm, @JDisselh, Daniel Franzen
Interview: youtu.be/CcoGi47qD-w
Second Place / the ARChitects
@dvhrtm, @JDisselh, Daniel Franzen
Interview: youtu.be/CcoGi47qD-w
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 @JFPuget @dvhrtm @JDisselh ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner
Third Place / MindsAI @ Tufa Labs
@MindsAI_Jack, @DriesSmit1, @MohamedOsmanML, @bayesilicon
Interview: youtu.be/3lXXfNsWIgo
Third Place / MindsAI @ Tufa Labs
@MindsAI_Jack, @DriesSmit1, @MohamedOsmanML, @bayesilicon
Interview: youtu.be/3lXXfNsWIgo
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 @JFPuget @dvhrtm @JDisselh @MindsAI_Jack @DriesSmit1 @MohamedOsmanML @bayesilicon ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner
Fourth Place / Lonnie
Fourth Place / Lonnie
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@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 @JFPuget @dvhrtm @JDisselh @MindsAI_Jack @DriesSmit1 @MohamedOsmanML @bayesilicon ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner
Fifth Place / Guillermo Barbadillo @ Veridas
@guille_bar
Fifth Place / Guillermo Barbadillo @ Veridas
@guille_bar
