François Chollet is the creator of Keras — a Python deep learning library used by thousands of companies, including YouTube, Waymo, Spotify, and ByteDance — and ARC-AGI, the most important benchmark measuring AGI progress. Chollet has been awarded the Global Swiss AI award, named to Times "100 Most Influential People in AI", and is the author of the notable book "Deep Learning with Python" and the paper "On the Measure of Intelligence".
Mike Knoop co-founded Zapier, the industry leader in software automation, used by millions of businesses worldwide. A pioneer in running globally distributed teams, he led all engineering and product as President and led Zapier's early adoption of AI. Zapier is now the largest AI automation company in the world. Knoop is a builder with a background in engineering, math, and optimization research.
Chollet & Knoop are also Co-founders & Board Members of the ARC Prize Foundation, a non-profit for public advancement and education of open AGI.