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The NVIDIA seven: a former world No. 1, a 2025 champion and three fresh faces behind NVARC3

CPMP points from a massive GPU juggernaut toward Chen’s two rabbits and a Tufa spider flag on a distant mountain; Gal, Darragh’s starry avatar and Ivan work below.
The NVARC3 juggernaut, with Chen’s rabbits and Tufa’s flag on the distant peak.

The machine

NVARC3 is eighth on the ARC-3 board at 49.89, behind Yi-Chia Chen, Tufa Labs, faster machine is all you need, Team Turducken, the last dance, yktori and mtg. On today’s public board that is inside the gold line, which runs to twentieth place. It is not nvbanana with extra bodies: it is a different team in a different contest, seven accounts strong: cpmpml, darraghdog, eladsarafian, galkaplun, sorokin, titericz and yeyinzhu.

In our picture CPMP points from the GPU juggernaut toward Chen’s rabbits and Tufa’s spider flag on the distant peak.

Giba, a former world No. 1

The biggest name on the roster is Giba, account titericz. Kaggle lists Giba as a Competitions Grandmaster ranked 29th in the world today and first at the peak, with 66 gold medals, 58 silver and 34 bronze. The profile puts Giba at NVIDIA RAPIDS in Curitiba, Brazil, and a member for fourteen years. The wins on the list include the Santander Value Prediction Challenge, Otto Group Product Classification, the PetFinder Pawpularity Contest and the 2026 NeuroGolf Championship, where Chan Kha Vu’s five-person team finished second among 2,963. Giba plays ARC-3 with NVARC3 and runs a separate solo entry in ARC-2.

Ivan Sorokin, the quiet champion

Ivan Sorokin, account sorokin and shown on the forums as ivan, is a Competitions Grandmaster ranked 104th with six golds, four silvers and a bronze, a best-ever rank of 25th, on Kaggle since January 2016 and listing NVIDIA as the organization. With CPMP, Sorokin took ARC Prize 2025 as NVARC, first of 1,455 teams. The list also holds a first in the AI Mathematical Olympiad Progress Prize 2, a team result, and second of 2,664 in the Kaggle LLM Science Exam under the account alone.

This weekend Sorokin’s public line to Kaggle was a question: if the platform is broken, why not freeze it and disable submissions instead of fixing it quietly?

CPMP and Darragh, twice over

Two of the seven wear a second jersey. CPMP and Darragh Hanley are also nvbanana, the two-person ARC-2 team that is third on that board. Same two people, different team, different contest: that is how Kaggle works. CPMP’s Kaggle profile lists 29 competition golds and a best rank of sixth; Hanley’s lists 28 golds and a best of fourth, and our art gives Hanley the starry avatar from the Kaggle profile.

The fresh faces

The other three are the new names on the machine. Elad Sarafian’s Kaggle account dates to October 2025, Gal Kaplun’s to November 2025 and Yeyin Zhu’s to September 2026. Each lists ARC-3 as the only contest on the profile, and Gal Kaplun’s profile shows one model and no biography. A bench built for one fight, standing next to a former world No. 1.

ARC-3 public board and roster · Giba (titericz) — Kaggle profile and competitions · Ivan Sorokin (sorokin) — Kaggle profile · ARC-3 forum: “Scoring 0 possibly due to dataset loading issues” · ARC Prize 2025 results · CPMP on Kaggle · Darragh — Kaggle competition results · Elad Sarafian (eladsarafian) — Kaggle profile · Gal Kaplun (galkaplun) — Kaggle profile · Yeyin Zhu (yeyinzhu) — Kaggle profile · NVARC3 — ARC Prize team card