ARCathon 2023
Global AI Competition
World Record Attempt
ARCathon is a worldwide AI competition hosted in Davos, Switzerland. The challenge invites individual participants and representatives from companies and institutions to solve ARC, a task deemed impossible for state-of-the-art AI models. The intelligence test for algorithms was created by François Chollet, a Google Senior Staff Engineer and Co-Host of ARCathon.
ARC consists of 1,000 tasks, including 100 secret ones that make up the private test set. The competition aims to develop AI capable of solving these private tasks without prior knowledge, requiring advanced abstraction abilities. While humans typically solve 80% of ARC tasks, current algorithms only reach 30.5% - a world record achieved by aggregating existing algorithms designed to solve ARC. Learn more about ARC on our ARC Page and Chollet's 2019 paper On the Measure of Intelligence.
Running Prize Money
CHF 69’000
Win CHF 1’000 for every percentage point above
Win CHF 1’000 for every percentage point above the current ARC world record:
the current ARC world record:
= 31%
Go down in History ...
Join the ARCathon 2023 and push the limits of AI! Every percentage point over 31% (Milestone-32) achieved wins CHF 1,000. When a new world record is set, the benchmark is updated. In addition, he first team to reach 42% (Milestone-42) will be honored at the Swiss AI Award and the first three teams reaching Milestone-42 can have their names engraved in a stone in the Swiss Alps.
Participate individually or with a team of 2-5 people and win up to CHF 69,000. Both Swiss and international participants are welcome, as well as teams representing different organizations. Need help forming a team or looking to join one? Contact us here.
... and collaborate
You are invited to discuss and share best practices with all other participants on our Discord server (coming soon!). All information about ARC dates and the submission process is available in the ARCathon Guide. In addition, Lab42 provides permanent team support from our experts, including answering technical or administrative questions via the ARCathon email address.
Join the Lab42 Community
The Lab42 Discord server is a place for all AI enthusiasts, challenge participants and experts from different fields around the globe. Collaborate, discuss and exchange insights across disciplines!
Meet the Jury
Meet the Jury
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe
Professor at Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH and ETH
Evaluation Process
The judging process is superintended by a distinguished jury made up of members from the Swiss AI Award Committee, ETH Zurich, and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Submissions is open now. Please read the Submission Rules in the ARCathon Guide to ensure your code can be reviewed by the jury.
Teams can submit three algorithms per calendar week in a Docker container, with a deadline of 23:59 CET on December 1, 2023. Scores will be posted on the leaderboard within max. 72 hours of submission.
A Word from our Host
François Chollet, AI Pioneer and Creator of the ARC Dataset
Essential Documents
Images automatically generated by the AI program MidJourney
Team Resources
Submission License & Data Use
Open Source Code under Apache 2.0 license.
Any purpose, licensed under Apache 2.0.
Submission License & Data Use
Your Contact
Oliver Schmid
For Humankind
Villa Fontana Obere Strasse 22B 7270 Davos, Switzerland
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