# Greg Kamradt

> Greg Kamradt is the president and a board member of ARC Prize Foundation. An AI educator, builder and founder of Leverage, he created the Needle in a Haystack long-context test before helping organize ARC Prize and its open competitions in AI reasoning. His work now centers on testing whether AI can learn unfamiliar tasks efficiently.

- **Role:** President and board member, ARC Prize Foundation
- **Organizations:** ARC Prize Foundation, Leverage, Data Independent, Digits, Salesforce, NetApp
- **Education:** Loyola Marymount University
- **Known for:** Created Needle in a Haystack, an open-source test of long-context retrieval., Co-led ARC Prize 2024; its Kaggle contest drew more than 1,400 teams and 17,000 entries., Co-authored ARC Prize technical reports for 2024 and 2025.

## Career timeline

- **Earlier career** — Worked in finance at NetApp, then strategy, growth and predictive analytics at Salesforce, and later operations and product at Digits.
- **2023** — Published AI application tutorials through Data Independent and introduced the open-source Needle in a Haystack long-context evaluation.
- **2024** — Joined Mike Knoop, François Chollet and Bryan Landers to co-lead the inaugural ARC Prize competition.
- **2025** — Became president and a board member of ARC Prize Foundation.
- **2026** — Helped launch ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark for agent learning, alongside the 2026 competition.

## Achievements

- Created Needle in a Haystack, an open-source test of long-context retrieval.
- Co-led ARC Prize 2024; its Kaggle contest drew more than 1,400 teams and 17,000 entries.
- Co-authored ARC Prize technical reports for 2024 and 2025.
- Led ARC Prize Foundation as it released ARC-AGI-3 in March 2026.
- Built practical AI tools including ChunkViz, Agent Traffic Control, agnts.sh, ReadSide and RunReq.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Listed RunReq, a frontier-AI hiring monitor, among his projects.
- **2026-06** — Listed ReadSide and InterAuth as new projects.
- **2026-05** — Listed agnts.sh, a link service for AI agents, as a new project.
- **2026-04** — Published an ARC-AGI-3 human-performance study based on 458 participants.
- **2026-03** — Announced ARC-AGI-3 and ARC Prize 2026 with more than $2 million in prizes.

## Links

- Website: https://gregkamradt.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkamradt
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/GregKamradt
- GitHub: https://github.com/gkamradt
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DataIndependent

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Last updated: 2026-09-29