ARC Prize Foundation YC Application
ARC Prize Foundation went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2026
- Industry
- Industrials
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Greg KamradtFounder/President
What ARC Prize Foundation does
ARC Prize builds AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence. Our benchmark, ARC-AGI, has been used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. Founded by Mike Knoop and Francois Chollet, we inspire open source artificial general intelligence (AGI) research through benchmarks (the ARC-AGI series), global competitions, research grants, community, and content, we exist to guide researchers, industry, and regulators on the path to AGI. We believe that AGI requires more than just scaling up existing AI models. It demands a fundamental shift towards systems capable of genuine fluid intelligence, the ability to adapt to novel challenges and solve problems efficiently, much like humans do.
ARC Prize Foundation's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
ARC Prize Foundation, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
ARC Prize Foundation
AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence
We build ARC-AGI, a benchmark that tests AI systems on general intelligence. It challenges AI to solve novel, fluid problems, not just pattern-match from training data. The benchmark guides researchers and companies as they develop AI closer to human-like reasoning.
We live in San Francisco and are remote. The company is based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is where the AI research community, investors, and collaborators are concentrated, which helps us stay connected to key users like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real ARC Prize Foundation YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from ARC Prize Foundation's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like ARC Prize Foundation would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was ARC Prize Foundation in?
ARC Prize Foundation was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch.
Who founded ARC Prize Foundation?
ARC Prize Foundation was founded by Greg Kamradt.
What does ARC Prize Foundation do?
AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideas
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of ARC Prize Foundation's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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