Eligibility and key facts
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- Who may be interested
- AI researchers, ML engineers, Open-source community
- Team size
- Teams; open source required for prizes
- Location
- Online (global)
- Eligible regions
- To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
- Entry fee
- Free
- Prizes and support
- $2M total across ARC-AGI-3 / ARC-AGI-2 / Paper Prize tracks
All deadlines
Original date: March 25, 2026 - Competition starts
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Original date: September 30, 2026 - ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #2
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Original date: November 2, 2026 - Submissions due
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Original date: November 8, 2026 - Papers due
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Original date: December 4, 2026 - Results announced
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About this opportunity
ARC Prize 2026, hosted by ARC Prize Inc., is an open reasoning-benchmark competition toward AGI. Launched March 25, 2026 with $2M in prizes across three tracks: ARC-AGI-3, ARC-AGI-2 and the Paper Prize. Entries are submitted via Kaggle; all leading participants are expected to open source their solutions to be eligible for a prize. Key dates: ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #2 on September 30, 2026; submissions due November 2; papers due November 8; results announced December 4. Free to enter and open to AI researchers and engineers worldwide.
Rules and deliverables
Participation rules
What to prepare
Sources
- Source platform
- arcprize.org (submissions via Kaggle)
- Source domain
- arcprize.org
The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.