François CholletResearcher
Ndea
Co-founder
via Ndea
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Mike Knoop
MK
Co-founder and CEO at Ndea
Co-founder and Board Member at ARC Prize Foundation
Knoop co-founded the automation company Zapier, then turned to AI: with François Chollet he created the ARC Prize, the benchmark and competition measuring progress toward general intelligence, and co-founded the AGI lab Ndea, which bets on fusing deep learning with program synthesis rather than ever-larger transformers.
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Background
Current roles
Co-founder and CEONdea
NdeaCo-founder and Board MemberARC Prize Foundation
ARC Prize FoundationPreviously
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Last editorial review: August 11, 2026