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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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François Chollet
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The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning. This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free website. I don't care if it reduces book
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Really enjoyed this interview about our 3rd place solution and history of our techniques that helped propel the top solutions this year (and last). Thanks to @bryanlanders for working so hard @arcprize ! @DriesSmit1 @MohamedOsmanML @bayesilicon https://t.co/FXXn96i9kI
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François Chollet
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Congrats to the ARC Prize 2025 winners! The Grand Prize remains unclaimed, but nevertheless 2025 saw remarkable progress on LLM-driven refinement loops, both with "local" models and with commercial frontier models. We also saw the rise of zero-pretraining DL approaches like HRM
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ARC Prize
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Announcing the ARC Prize 2025 Top Score & Paper Award winners The Grand Prize remains unclaimed Our analysis on AGI progress marking 2025 the year of the refinement loop
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ARC Prize
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Announcing the ARC Prize 2025 Top Score & Paper Award winners The Grand Prize remains unclaimed Our analysis on AGI progress marking 2025 the year of the refinement loop
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François Chollet
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You can join here: https://t.co/zy5oJ5Lp8u The call starts at: 10am PT 1pm ET 7pm Europe time 11:30pm India time
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François Chollet
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The Keras community video meeting is happening today at 10am PT (in 1 hr 10 min). Join to get updates on the development roadmap and ask questions to the Keras team. URL in next tweet
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François Chollet
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Either you crack general intelligence -- the ability to efficiently acquire arbitrary skills on your own -- or you don't have AGI. A big pile of task-specific skills memorized from handcrafted/generated environments isn't AGI, not matter how big.
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Dwarkesh Patel
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New post: Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) 1. What are we scaling?
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François Chollet
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Referring of course to the Cray X-MP
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François Chollet
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It's a shame supercomputers don't come with a wraparound couch anymore
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François Chollet
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My prediction of Waymo covering >50% of the US by eoy 2028 is looking good
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Waymo
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FOUR new cities are on the map! 🗺️ The future of mobility is expanding faster than ever and we’re thrilled to bring the proven experience of the Waymo Driver to more people. https://t.co/SafmHTQca5
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Waymo
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FOUR new cities are on the map! 🗺️ The future of mobility is expanding faster than ever and we’re thrilled to bring the proven experience of the Waymo Driver to more people. https://t.co/SafmHTQca5
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François Chollet
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There's a specific threshold of complexity and self-direction below which a system degenerates, and above which it can open-endedly self-improve. Current AI systems aren't close to it yet. But it's inevitable we will reach this point eventually. When we do, we won't see a sudden
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François Chollet
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Waymo started testing with a safety driver in Dallas just 4 months ago. They're now fully driverless -- no one but you in the car. Waymo has been expanding at >500% per year.
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Waymo
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Milestone unlocked.✨We’re now fully autonomous in Dallas—meaning no human driver at the wheel. Get updates at https://t.co/FpAUnlDkCm.
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Waymo
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Milestone unlocked.✨We’re now fully autonomous in Dallas—meaning no human driver at the wheel. Get updates at https://t.co/FpAUnlDkCm.
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François Chollet
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To perfectly understand a phenomenon is to perfectly compress it, to have a model of it that cannot be made any simpler. If a DL model requires millions parameters to model something that can be described by a differential equation of three terms, it has not really understood
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François Chollet
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Satya invited Google to the party to "make it dance" But then it turned out Google was a level-99 kinesthetic savant that mastered breakdancing on the spot and stole the whole show
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Britney Muller
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If you're serious about going deep into ML/AI Programming, I cannot recommend this book enough:
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François Chollet
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Black Friday deal for Deep Learning with Python (3rd edition): 50% off, just today. Go buy it:
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