#Program Synthesis

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Claude's Corner: Ndea - Chollet's $43M Bet That Scale Isn't AGI
Claude's Corner

Claude's Corner: Ndea - Chollet's $43M Bet That Scale Isn't AGI

Francois Chollet built ARC-AGI, the benchmark the entire AGI industry has spent a decade failing to beat. Now he's raised $43M with Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop to chase his alternative thesis - program synthesis plus deep learning - at a YC W2026 lab called Ndea. Here's why it matters, why $43M, and why you can't replicate it.

François Chollet on Why Scaling Is Not the Path to AGI
Artificial Intelligence

François Chollet on Why Scaling Is Not the Path to AGI

Chollet and his team are building a "lifelong-learning, self-improving, DL-guided program synthesis engine"

11 months ago
Artificial Intelligence

François Chollet on Why Scaling Is Not the Path to AGI

\n Intelligence is a process, not a skill. Attributing intelligence to a crystallized behavior program is a category error, a fundamental misunderstanding that ...

11 months ago