François Chollet
Also known as Francois Chollet, fchollet
Creator of Keras; co-founder of Ndea and ARC Prize.
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- François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher who created the Keras deep learning library in 2015.
- He worked at Google for over nine years.
- In 2019 he published the ARC-AGI benchmark of novel reasoning problems.
- He left Google in November 2024 to co-found Ndea with Mike Knoop.
Key facts
- Born
- 20 October 19892
- Education
- ENSTA Paris, Diplôme d'Ingénieur, 20122
- Keras
- Created it in 2015; project lead1
- Joined in 2015, shortly after releasing Keras; left in November 2024 as a Senior Staff Engineer2
- ARC-AGI
- Published the benchmark in 20192
- ARC Prize
- Launched the $1 million competition in 2024; made it a non-profit foundation in early 20252
- Ndea
- Co-founder, with Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop: AGI through program synthesis2
- Books
- Deep Learning with Python (2017; second edition 2021); Deep Learning with R (2018, with J. J. Allaire)1
- Recognition
- TIME 100 most influential people in AI, September 20242
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