ARC Prize 2025 - Recap and Winners

// ARC Prize 2025 - Recap and Winners

ARC Prize 2025 is official wrapped.

While grand prize is still open, we awarded over $125K in prizes to open-source solutions pushing on ARC-AGI-2. Thank you to the 1,455 teams that submitted 15,154 entries and 90 papers.

Congratulations to our 1st place teams:

• Paper Prize: Tiny Recursive Reasoning (Jolicoeur-Martineau)​
• Top Score Prize: NVARC​

In our full analysis:

• 6 new winner interviews - conversations with top score and paper winners about how they attempted to solved ARC-AGI.
• Year of the refinement loop - evolutionary search, test-time training, tiny networks, and commercial refinement harnesses all pushing performance up.
• Competition highlights - 1,455 teams, 15,154 submissions, 90 papers, and over $125K in awards across scores and paper prizes.
• Refinements on frontier models - Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, and others showing big gains with smarter application-layer loops.
• Sneak peek at ARC-AGI-3 - hundreds of interactive games to measure action-efficient learning vs. human baselines, coming with ARC Prize 2026.

Read the full 2025 results & analysis and watch the interviews at ARCPrize.org.