#Program Synthesis
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Claude's Corner: Confluence Labs, The Startup That Cracked ARC-AGI-2
Confluence Labs scored 97.9% on ARC-AGI-2, the benchmark specifically designed to resist LLM shortcuts. Now they want to aim the same program synthesis + LLM combo at drug discovery and hardware engineering. Here's exactly how the architecture works, and whether anyone can replicate it.
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
Chollet and his team are building a "lifelong-learning, self-improving, DL-guided program synthesis engine"
François Chollet on Why Scaling Is Not the Path to AGI
Intelligence is a process, not a skill. Attributing intelligence to a crystallized behavior program is a category error, a fundamental misunderstanding that...