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François Chollet

François Chollet

Researcher

Created Keras and the ARC benchmark, and defines intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency rather than skill. Co-founded Ndea in 2025 to pursue program synthesis guided by deep learning.

Known for Keras; ARC-AGI; On the Measure of Intelligence (2019)

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Argues for

Other substrates Intelligence is skill-acquisition efficiency, so it must be measured on novel tasks; program search on top of learned priors, not larger models.

Sources On the Measure of Intelligence arXiv 2019-11-05

Works in

  1. Jan 2025 – now
    Ndea, Co-founder
    Other substrates
    Sources AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI TechCrunch 2025-01-15
  2. Jun 2024 – now
    ARC Prize Foundation, Co-founder, ARC Prize Foundation
    Other substrates
    Sources ARC Prize 2025 results and analysis 2025-12-05