AI research entity

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- Independent AI research lab AI research entity
  - Poetiq Independent AI research lab
  - Tufa Labs Independent AI research lab
    - Benjamin Crouzier Tufa Labs
- AI researcher AI research entity
  - Yann LeCun AI researcher
  - Yohei Nakajima AI researcher

Independent AI research lab

Cool rich dudes tended to create these a lot during the great AI boom.

Poetiq

In 2025 they announced huge improvements on ARC-AGI-2, but they only tested on the public dataset, so the potential for contamination is overwhelming.

Tufa Labs

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tufalabs.ai/team.html

Benjamin Crouzier

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The rich guy behind Tufa Labs:

github.com/pinouchon
pinouchon.github.io
www.youtube.com/benjamincrouzier He's also a wooden block fanatic. Funnily Ciro Santilli had seen his channel before knowing he was rich. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HyYyXHSW74 shows probable home and could likely be geolocated.
tufalabs.ai/team.html describes how he made his money:
Benjamin has a masters in Computer Science and applied ML to quant finance previously.

AI researcher

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Yann LeCun

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The most classic thing he did perhaps was creating the LeNet neural network and using it on the MNIST dataset to recognize hand-written digits circ 1998.