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François Chollet

François Chollet

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Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

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Use AI to Amplify Thinking, Not Replace It
Social•Feb 21, 2026

Use AI to Amplify Thinking, Not Replace It

The best way to use AI is an interface to information that lets you deepen and improve your own knowledge and mental models. The worst way to use AI is as a crutch to outsource and forsake your own cognition

By François Chollet
Agentic Coding Mirrors ML, Inheriting Its Pitfalls
Social•Feb 19, 2026

Agentic Coding Mirrors ML, Inheriting Its Pitfalls

Sufficiently advanced agentic coding is essentially machine learning: the engineer sets up the optimization goal as well as some constraints on the search space (the spec and its tests), then an optimization process (coding agents) iterates until the goal is...

By François Chollet
Google Grants TPU Compute Awards for Keras 3 Researchers
Social•Feb 18, 2026

Google Grants TPU Compute Awards for Keras 3 Researchers

If you're a researcher in academia using Keras 3 (PhD student, postdoc, professor...) and you want to train on TPUs, you could receive compute awards from Google for your research. Google is running a new academic grant program, separate from...

By François Chollet
6th‑Gen AV Platform Costs Halve
Social•Feb 16, 2026

6th‑Gen AV Platform Costs Halve

The 6th gen platform reportedly costs ~$70k per vehicle ($50k base + $20k custom fit & sensors). The cost has room to fall by 50% in the next 2 years (>$30k vehicle + $10k sensors). Waymo currently does over 500,000 driverless...

By François Chollet
Two Types: Bias‑aware Users and Self‑proclaimed Polymaths
Social•Feb 16, 2026

Two Types: Bias‑aware Users and Self‑proclaimed Polymaths

There are two categories of people: those who quickly figure out that chatbots give you the answer you expect when you ask questions in a biased way, and the ascended polymaths currently out-thinking every expert on Earth

By François Chollet
Impossible Returns Signal Superhuman AGI's Arrival
Social•Feb 16, 2026

Impossible Returns Signal Superhuman AGI's Arrival

One of the first signs of the emergence of superhuman AGI will be the emergence of a quantitative trading firm with impossible returns

By François Chollet
Short-Term References Matter; Long-Term Lose Relevance
Social•Feb 15, 2026

Short-Term References Matter; Long-Term Lose Relevance

Short term, this is still the best reference point. Long term, past references might become much less useful.

By François Chollet
Frontier Models Overfit ARC Format, Limiting Generalization
Social•Feb 14, 2026

Frontier Models Overfit ARC Format, Limiting Generalization

Interesting finding on frontier model performance on ARC -- due to extensive direct targeting of the benchmark, models are overfitting to the original ARC encoding format. Frontier model performance remains largely tied to a familiar input distribution.

By François Chollet
AI Diagram Tool Still Slower than Manual Slides
Social•Feb 13, 2026

AI Diagram Tool Still Slower than Manual Slides

Right now it's still taking me more time to generate medium-complexity diagrams by describing them to Nano Banana than by drawing them manually in Google Slides...

By François Chollet
AGI Growth Limited by Fundamental Bottlenecks, Not Scaling
Social•Feb 13, 2026

AGI Growth Limited by Fundamental Bottlenecks, Not Scaling

I don't think the rise of AGI will lead to a sudden exponential explosion in AI capabilities. There are bottlenecks on the sources of new capability improvements, and horizontally scaling intelligence in silicon (even by a massive factor) doesn't lift...

By François Chollet
AGI Arrives When No Test Shows Human‑AI Gap
Social•Feb 12, 2026

AGI Arrives When No Test Shows Human‑AI Gap

Reaching AGI won't be beating a benchmark. It will be the end of the human-AI gap. Benchmarks are simply a way to estimate the current gap, which is why we need to continually release new benchmarks (focused on the remaining...

By François Chollet
Call Centers Signal AI‑Driven Job Crisis Ahead
Social•Feb 12, 2026

Call Centers Signal AI‑Driven Job Crisis Ahead

A good canary in the coal mine for AI-caused job loss will be call centers. We're currently projecting ~2.75M call center jobs in the US in 2026. In 2016 it was ~2.63M. The global call center market size has grown...

By François Chollet
ARC Advances Driven by Test-Time Adaptation, Not LLM Scaling
Social•Feb 12, 2026

ARC Advances Driven by Test-Time Adaptation, Not LLM Scaling

Lots of folks spread false narratives about how ARC-1 was created in response to LLMs, or how ARC-2 was only created because ARC-1 was saturated. Setting the record straight: 1. ARC-1 was designed 2017-2019 and released in 2019 (pre LLMs). 2. The...

By François Chollet

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