François Chollet

Co-founder at NdeaCo-founder, Board Member at ARC Prize Foundation

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. In 2024 he co-founded Ndea, a lab pursuing AGI through program synthesis combined with deep learning.