Incoming links: Tufa Labs
ARC-AGI is a black hole for early retired tech and finance bros Created 2025-10-27 Updated 2025-12-13
People who do cool open tech stuff when don't need money anymore are awesome:
- François Chollet, project founder: www.linkedin.com/in/fchollet/ 9 years at Google from 2015 to 2024. He founded ARC while he was still at Google though, so maybe doesn't count
- Cristiano Calgano from cristianoc/arc-agi-2-abstraction-dataset. Imperial College London researcher who founded a formal verification company and sold it to Facebook where he staid for 7 years
- Benjamin Crouzier from Tufa Labs
Benjamin has a masters in Computer Science and applied ML to quant finance previously, tufalabs.ai/team.html mentions:
Benjamin Crouzier 2025-10-18
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.