François Chollet is a software engineer and AI researcher who co-founded Ndea and ARC Prize Foundation and created the Keras deep learning framework. Franois Chollet's Twitter Score is 279 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,230 (top 0.5%) among 486,037 tracked accounts.
Franois Chollet co-founded Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on developing and operationalizing AGI, and co-founded the ARC Prize Foundation, a nonprofit advancing open-source artificial general intelligence research through benchmarks and prizes. He introduced ARC-AGI in his 2019 paper, "On the Measure of Intelligence," and teamed up with Mike Knoop in 2024 to launch the ARC Prize competition, which grew into a nonprofit foundation in 2025. Franois Chollet previously worked at Google as a Senior Staff Engineer and formerly contributed to TensorFlow between 2015 and 2021.
Franois Chollet has led Keras as its creator and project lead since 2015, with the open-source deep learning framework remaining actively maintained. He is also the author of "Deep Learning with Python." Franois Chollet's account has published 25,640 posts and has 721,176 followers as of September 2026, and has been mentioned by 181 accounts a total of 523 times.
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