Zapier's cofounder recruited me to run a $1M AI competition


Joining ARC Prize

How the cofounder of Zapier recruited me to run a $1M AI competition

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"We gotta blow this up."

That's what Mike Knoop (co-founder of Zapier) says to me in early 2024.

"ARC-AGI, we gotta make it huge. It's too important."

"Wait, ARC? What are you talking about?" I quickly reply.

"It's the most important benchmark and unsolved problem in AI, its solution will change the world."

Before I knew it, I was on a squad of 4 people traveling to the top AI programs in the world, running a $1M competition, and finding out why current benchmarks are inadequate to lead us towards AGI.

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