Mike Knoop
Co-founder and board member of the ARC Prize Foundation; co-founder of Zapier and of the lab Ndea
- 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 2025.12457
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.273
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.4561
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.7
Work
ARC-AGI and ARC PrizeOpen 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.245
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