Mike KnoopCo-founder and CEO · NdeaResearcher↗Both at Ndea
Researcher · Founder
François Chollet
NdeaCo-founder
ARC Prize FoundationCo-founder, Board Member
Chollet created Keras, one of the most widely used deep-learning libraries, while a software engineer at Google. He is known for arguing that today's models lack true generalization, and for the ARC-AGI benchmark and prize he designed to measure it.[1] In 2024 he co-founded Ndea, a lab pursuing AGI through program synthesis combined with deep learning.
Career & education
Current rolesNdea2024-presentCo-founderARC Prize Foundation2024-presentCo-founder, Board Member
Ndea2024-presentARC Prize Foundation2024-presentPreviously
Google2015-2024Software Engineer
Google2015-2024Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations79,196As of Nov 9, '26
References
- The history of ARC Prizearcprize.org
ARC Prize traces Chollet’s original benchmark and the competition he created with Mike Knoop to test how well AI adapts to unfamiliar tasks.
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