Today we’re releasing our first public preview of ARC-AGI-3: the first three games. Version 3 is a big upgrade over v1 and v2 which are designed to challenge pure deep learning and static reasoning. In contrast, v3 challenges interactive reasoning (eg. agents). The full version of v3 will ship early 2026. ARC v3 games are a bit different than games you’ve played before. Every game is unique and there are no instructions, intentionally. Both humans and AI must play to discover the controls, rules, and goals. Like v1 and v2, only core knowledge is needed to win the games (no language, trivia, etc.) The core design philosophy of ARC is that it should be relatively easy for humans and hard for AI. V3 takes this even further — it’s the widest gap between humans and AI we’ve shipped thus far. V3 is our first attempt at creating an interactive benchmark and we’re choosing a different release strategy (today’s preview launch) to get early game design feedback. In additional to first games, we’re releasing an API that AI researchers can use to test their agents. This is the first piece of real infrastructure that ARC has shipped. As I’ve previewed the preview with AI researchers over the past few weeks, I’ve felt a higher degree of “pull” for ARC-AGI-3 than I ever felt for v1 and v2. We hope to steward this attention to continue building useful and interesting benchmarks that guide humanity towards AGI. Go play the games! And if you’re an AI researcher, check out our API. We’re excited to hear your feedback.