4 September 2026
AI model solves visual puzzle benchmark faster than expected
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- Astra, a new AI system from Anthropic, scored 63 percent on ARC-AGI-3, a test measuring how well AI systems solve novel visual puzzles that humans find moderately difficult.
- The benchmark's creator, François Chollet, observed that AI performance jumped from nearly zero to complete mastery in six months, roughly twice as fast as he predicted when designing the test.
