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It’s On: The 2026 ARC-AGI Prize Is Part Of Vanguard AI Research

The 2026 ARC-AGI Prize, now part of Vanguard AI Research, will award $1 million to the first team that achieves an 85% accuracy score on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, a test designed to measure fluid intelligence and novel reasoning rather than accumulated knowledge. The prize, announced by ARC Prize Foundation, aims to spur progress toward artificial general intelligence by challenging AI systems to solve unseen visual reasoning tasks.

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It’s On: The 2026 ARC-AGI Prize Is Part Of Vanguard AI Research
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By John Werner, ContributorSource:

Forbes InnovationARC- AGItests fluid intelligence using human cognitive foundations, emphasizing novelreasoningover accumulated knowledge and culture.Get AI news in your inbox

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