Y Combinator and Arc Prize Host Rooftop Event at NeurIPS 2025 to Foster AGI Research

San Francisco, CA – Y Combinator, the renowned startup accelerator, is co-hosting a rooftop party with the Arc Prize Foundation during the NeurIPS 2025 conference, inviting researchers from both academia and industry. The event, announced by Ankit Gupta, a Group Partner at Y Combinator, aims to bring together leading minds in artificial intelligence to foster collaboration and accelerate progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

"At NeurIPS this year, @ycombinator is hosting a rooftop party with our friends at @arcprize. If you’re a researcher in academia or industry please join us! It’s going to be awesome," Ankit Gupta stated in a recent tweet, highlighting the collaborative spirit of the gathering.

The Arc Prize Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AGI through rigorous benchmarks, most notably the ARC-AGI (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence) benchmark. The organization believes that achieving true AGI requires systems capable of genuine fluid intelligence, adapting to novel challenges that current AI models find difficult. The Arc Prize 2025 competition offers over $1 million in prizes, including a $700,000 Grand Prize for the first team to achieve 85% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark.

Y Combinator, a prominent force in the startup ecosystem, has a long history of supporting innovative technology companies, including many in the AI sector. Their involvement in this event underscores a growing interest in foundational AI research and the pursuit of AGI. This collaboration provides a platform for researchers to connect, share insights, and potentially form new ventures or partnerships.

NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) is one of the most prestigious and highly anticipated annual conferences in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It serves as a critical forum for presenting cutting-edge research, discussing future directions, and networking among top scientists and engineers. The joint event by Y Combinator and Arc Prize is expected to be a significant social and networking highlight during the conference.