Ndea is an AI research lab co-founded by François Chollet and Mike Knoop that pursues artificial general intelligence through deep learning-guided program synthesis. Ndea's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #38,756 (top 10%) among 486,037 tracked accounts.
Ndea was publicly launched in January 2025, with a founding year of 2024. The lab's core technical approach merges deep learning with program synthesis, using deep learning to guide the search through program space. Ndea calls this method Symbolic Learning, which it describes as efficiently searching for minimal symbolic models within program space. The broader architectural goal is to unify intuitive pattern recognition with formal reasoning into a single system, with the stated mission of developing and operationalizing AGI to accelerate scientific progress.
Ndea is listed by Y Combinator as an active Winter 2026 company with a team of 15. At the time of its public launch, the lab had not disclosed whether it had raised outside capital. Ndea has 11,225 followers as of September 2026 and has published 118 posts. Ndea has been mentioned by 6 accounts a total of 7 times.
Ndea's portfolio includes ARC Prize.
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The accounts that follow Ndea include 99 founders, 32 angel investors, 29 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, Murad, Tarun Chitra, Mario Nawfal and Sriram Krishnan.