The Arc Prize Basis, a nonprofit co-founded by distinguished AI researcher François Chollet, introduced in a weblog put up on Monday that it has created a brand new, difficult check to measure the final intelligence of main AI fashions.
To date, the brand new check, known as ARC-AGI-2, has stumped most fashions.
“Reasoning” AI fashions like OpenAI’s o1-pro and DeepSeek’s R1 rating between 1% and 1.3% on ARC-AGI-2, in keeping with the Arc Prize leaderboard. Highly effective non-reasoning fashions together with GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Flash rating round 1%.
The ARC-AGI assessments include puzzle-like issues the place an AI has to establish visible patterns from a set of different-colored squares, and generate the proper “reply” grid. The issues have been designed to pressure an AI to adapt to new issues it hasn’t seen earlier than.
The Arc Prize Basis had over 400 individuals take ARC-AGI-2 to determine a human baseline. On common, “panels” of those individuals bought 60% of the check’s questions proper — significantly better than any of the fashions’ scores.
In a put up on X, Chollet claimed ARC-AGI-2 is a greater measure of an AI mannequin’s precise intelligence than the primary iteration of the check, ARC-AGI-1. The Arc Prize Basis’s assessments are geared toward evaluating whether or not an AI system can effectively purchase new expertise exterior the information it was skilled on.
Chollet mentioned that not like ARC-AGI-1, the brand new check prevents AI fashions from counting on “brute pressure” — intensive computing energy — to search out options. Chollet beforehand acknowledged this was a significant flaw of ARC-AGI-1.
To deal with the primary check’s flaws, ARC-AGI-2 introduces a brand new metric: effectivity. It additionally requires fashions to interpret patterns on the fly as a substitute of counting on memorization.
“Intelligence will not be solely outlined by the power to unravel issues or obtain excessive scores,” Arc Prize Basis co-founder Greg Kamradt wrote in a weblog put up. “The effectivity with which these capabilities are acquired and deployed is a vital, defining part. The core query being requested is not only, ‘Can AI purchase [the] ability to unravel a process?’ but additionally, ‘At what effectivity or price?’”
ARC-AGI-1 was unbeaten for roughly 5 years till December 2024, when OpenAI launched its superior reasoning mannequin, o3, which outperformed all different AI fashions and matched human efficiency on the analysis. Nonetheless, as we famous on the time, o3’s efficiency features on ARC-AGI-1 got here with a hefty price ticket.
The model of OpenAI’s o3 mannequin — o3 (low) — that was first to achieve new heights on ARC-AGI-1, scoring 75.7% on the check, bought a measly 4% on ARC-AGI-2 utilizing $200 price of computing energy per process.
The arrival of ARC-AGI-2 comes as many within the tech trade are calling for brand new, unsaturated benchmarks to measure AI progress. Hugging Face’s co-founder, Thomas Wolf, lately instructed TechCrunch that the AI trade lacks enough assessments to measure the important thing traits of so-called synthetic basic intelligence, together with creativity.
Alongside the brand new benchmark, the Arc Prize Basis introduced a brand new Arc Prize 2025 contest, difficult builders to achieve 85% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-2 check whereas solely spending $0.42 per process.
