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T002 · Tufa Labs

Team card · 2026

Five friendly black Tufa spider mascots and Dries Smit oversee two server racks in a vast imagined GPU citadel; distant rival strongholds appear through the arch.

The friendly black Tufa spider mascot from the published rabbit-and-spider cartoon.

ARC-AGI-2 · Tufa Labs

rank 1, score 88.06 · Public provisional · October 29, 2026

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ARC-AGI-3 · Tufa Labs

rank 2, score 70.02 · Public provisional · October 29, 2026

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Team highlights

  • ARC Prize named Tufa Labs and its Duck agent the first-place open-source solution for the June 2026 ARC-AGI-3 Milestone 1 prize. ARC Prize — ARC-AGI-3 Milestone 1 results
  • Tufa Labs says its public Duck harness lets an LLM inspect game grids as image and text, write Python in a REPL, and keep context short by evicting older messages. This describes the published Milestone 1 system, not an unverified current submission. Tufa Labs — Duck Harness technical overview
  • Tufa Labs lists Dries Smit, Isaiah Pressman and Jeroen Cottaar among its AI researchers, with research interests spanning reinforcement learning, self-play and Bayesian methods. Tufa Labs — team profiles
  • On October 9, 2026, Tufa Labs described a temporary setback in a public X post and said it remained dedicated to crushing competitors with overwhelming resources and compute. Tufa Labs — October 9 public competition post

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