François Chollet

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Many of you will ask, "if it saturates ARC 3, is it AGI?"

We're not making this claim. All we know about the system so far are its benchmark scores.

When we launched ARC 3, and in every presentation we made about it, we were very insistent on one thing: solving it is not proof of AGI. It's not intended as a finish line.

ARC 3 is testing the right qualitative properties you'd expect of an AGI system -- exploration under uncertainty, adaptation without instructions, causal world modeling from limited data, etc. -- but in small quantities. ARC 3 games are orders of magnitude shorter timescales than real world tasks, and represent orders of magnitude less data, less modeling complexity, less on-the-fly learning.

(Slide below is from a March 2026 presentation)

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Many of you will ask, "if it saturates ARC 3, is it AGI?"

We're not making this claim. All we know about the system so far are its benchmark scores.

When we launched ARC 3, and in every presentation we made about it, we were very insistent on one thing: solving it is not proof of AGI. It's not intended as a finish line.

ARC 3 is testing the right qualitative properties you'd expect of an AGI system -- exploration under uncertainty, adaptation without instructions, causal world modeling from limited data, etc. -- but in small quantities. ARC 3 games are orders of magnitude shorter timescales than real world tasks, and represent orders of magnitude less data, less modeling complexity, less on-the-fly learning.

(Slide below is from a March 2026 presentation)

Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRUQjZNbAAAzocI.jpg?name=orig

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Archived 2026-09-29 via fxtwitter (unofficial).