Tufa Labs
Team · ARC-AGI-3 · Earned this card: 2nd in ARC-AGI-3
The friendly black Tufa spider mascot from the published rabbit-and-spider cartoon.
On the record
- 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. Source · as of 8 October 2026
- 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. Source · as of 8 October 2026
- 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. Source · as of 8 October 2026
- 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. Source · as of 9 October 2026
ARC-AGI-3 · Tufa Labs
Rank 2, score 70.24 · Public snapshot · 13 Nov 2026 UTC ↗
In the Digest
- The bell has rung. Now comes the reckoning · 3 November 2026
- Lightning strikes! infinity blasts out of the pack · 2 November 2026
- Full speed ahead! NVIDIA presses the siege · 2 November 2026
- NVARC3 vaults into fourth, 0.13 ahead of Turducken · 2 November 2026
- Chen holds the ARC-3 lead; NVARC3 sits just ahead of Turducken · 1 November 2026
- The Last Dance takes the floor as ARC3’s top five hold · 30 October 2026
- Faster machine takes third, pushing Turducken off the podium · 29 October 2026
- Eleven entries, fourth place: the cat on Turducken’s tail · 29 October 2026