ARC Prize 2026

Real intelligence isn’t about memorizing answers - it’s knowing what to do when the problem changes. Today’s AI systems excel at what they were trained to do, but often fall short when faced with something unfamiliar. Most benchmarks reward pattern recognition, not genuine problem-solving.

ARC Prize 2026, in partnership with ARC Prize Foundation, challenges you to build adaptive AI through three connected competitions in the ARC environment. Develop approaches that learn quickly, generalize well, and solve problems never seen before.

ARC-AGI-2: Predict outputs for novel reasoning tasks your system has never encountered.

ARC-AGI-3: Tackle a harder interactive benchmark requiring exploration and multi-step reasoning, with H100 GPUs and milestone checkpoints in June and September.

Paper Track: Contribute qualitative insights and novel approaches that advance our understanding of generalization.

Total Prizes:
$2,000,000

Entry Deadline:
October 26, 2026

Compete in one or all three ARC Prize 2026 competitions to help move AI closer to systems that learn like people do: flexible, efficient, and ready for new challenges.