







Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Letter to Arc members 2025
On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.

Letter to Arc members 2025
On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.

The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc
Arc browser is now in a holding pattern.

How the Protocol Institute is Adopting AI
What building a research institute at 100% adoption actually looks like

Stanford AO — Building the autonomous organization
Stanford AO is building the autonomous organization — an incubator at Stanford OpenLab for agent swarms, DAOs, AI villages, and related experiments.

Arcee AI | March is Merge Madness
To celebrate Arcee’s recent merger with mergekit, we’re bringing you a month of resources and knowledge on model merging.
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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?

Foundation Interface Lab
Orca Behavior Institute
The Orca Behavior Institute is a non-profit whale research organization on San Juan Island, Washington. Inspiring conservation of wild killer whales.
Alex MacCaw on Twitter / X
I suspect generalized reasoning was solved just a few weeks ago and it flew completely under the radar.HRM, a new arch, reportedly has SOTA results on ARC-AGI 1 & 2 benchmarks with only 27 million parameters and ~1k training examples.— Alex MacCaw (@maccaw) July 25, 2025
DAIR Institute
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a globally distributed organization of academics, activists, and engineers conducting community-rooted research.

This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.

Shayan on Twitter / X
I just tried the Dia browser for a few minutes.I'm sorry, but this is most likely ngmi.It's basically Chrome, with an AI chat built in that could've been a Chrome extension.I don't see much of a value prop here, and don't understand why this couldn't have been added to Arc.— Shayan (@ImSh4yy) April 8, 2025
ARC Prize on Twitter / X
OpenAI’s internal testing shows that provider-managed conversation state preserves greater continuity across turns and improves performance on long-horizon tasks like ARC-AGI-3. This is a real and useful result. We’re encouraged to see ARC used to identify useful harness design.… https://t.co/6Xk2Op0Sls— ARC Prize (@arcprize) July 30, 2026
The Room Where AI Happens
A weekend at the Curve conference—an AI insider gathering in Berkeley revealed how people think about AGI timelines, China, creativity, and writing

AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]
