Ndea

Ndea is an AI research lab founded by Francois Chollet, creator of the Keras deep-learning library and architect of the ARC-AGI benchmark, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. Its bet is on deep learning-guided program synthesis, combining intuitive pattern recognition from deep learning with formal reasoning to build systems that can generalize from very few examples and adapt to novel tasks, aiming toward artificial general intelligence. The lab operates as a fully remote, globally distributed organization and was part of Y Combinator's W2026 batch. Knoop has stepped back from day-to-day work at Zapier to focus on Ndea while remaining on Zapier's board.