- Co-founder and board member, ARC Prize Foundation1
Mike Knoop is a co-founder and board member of the ARC Prize Foundation, the non-profit that runs the ARC Prize competitions and the ARC-AGI benchmarks, alongside co-founder François Chollet. Knoop wrote the June 2024 post announcing ARC Prize and is a co-author of the ARC Prize 2024 technical report and the ARC-AGI-2 paper. Knoop's own site lists Knoop as a co-founder and board member of Zapier and as co-founder and CEO of Ndea, which it describes as an intelligence science lab; the site was last updated in February 2025.12345
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and board member
- Company
- ARC Prize Foundation
- Sector
- Nonprofit
- Fields
- Evaluation and benchmarks, Agents
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 7
- Profile reviewed
ARC Prize
Knoop wrote the June 11, 2024 announcement of ARC Prize, a public competition for progress on the ARC-AGI benchmark, which François Chollet introduced to measure a system's ability to acquire new skills efficiently. Knoop's site also lists Knoop's analyses of OpenAI o1 (2024) and DeepSeek R1-Zero and R1 (2025), posts that appear on the foundation's blog.256
Knoop is a co-author, with Chollet, Greg Kamradt and Bryan Landers, of the ARC Prize 2024 technical report, and with those authors and Henry Pinkard of the ARC-AGI-2 paper (2025). Knoop also wrote the foundation's December 2025 analysis of ARC Prize 2025 results. The foundation's about page lists Knoop as co-founder and board member.3471
Other roles
Knoop's site, last updated in February 2025, lists three roles: co-founder and CEO of Ndea, co-founder and board member of the ARC Prize Foundation, and co-founder and board member of the automation company Zapier.5
Work and contributions
ARC-AGI and ARC Prize Open data
Announced ARC Prize, a competition built on the ARC-AGI benchmark, in June 2024, and co-authored the ARC Prize 2024 technical report and the ARC-AGI-2 paper.234
Timeline
Where they work
- ARC Prize Foundation 3 people in the wiki
Related people
- Greg KamradtAlso at ARC Prize Foundation
- François CholletAlso at ARC Prize Foundation
- Andrew LaackAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Kilian LieretAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Shunyu YaoAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Joseph E. GonzalezAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Maarten SapAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Yoav ShohamAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Niko GrupenEvaluation and benchmarks · Agents
- Andy KonwinskiEvaluation and benchmarks · Agents
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7 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026