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How Intelligent Is AI, Really?

ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale. During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC's Diana Hu sat down with ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt to find out why most AI benchmarks fail, how ARC-AGI reveals the limits of today’s models, and why measuring intelligence may be harder than building it.

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  The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide

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  From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn

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  The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now

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  Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites

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  Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space

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  How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps

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  From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups

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  Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution

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  YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours

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  What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs

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  How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out

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  The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device

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  Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions

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  Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of …

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  Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto