$INDIUM · Chollet launches Indium to build symbolic program synthesis as alternative to deep learning

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Chollet launches Indium to build symbolic program synthesis as alternative to deep learning

2026-03-27 · 1 company · 4 thematic

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francois chollet

François Chollet is the creator of the Keras deep learning library, founder of the ARC AGI benchmark and ARC Prize, and founder of Indium, a new AGI research lab pursuing program synthesis and symbolic learning as an alternative to deep learning. He previously worked at Google Brain on deep learning research.

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“So Indium is this new AGI research lab and we are trying some very different ideas. And so our goal is basically to build this new branch of machine learning that will be much closer to optimal. Unlike unlike deep learning... We are buildi…”

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Chollet launches Indium to build symbolic program synthesis as alternative to deep learning

Indium is pursuing program synthesis with symbolic descent to replace parametric deep learning, aiming for optimal AI that requires far less data and compute; Chollet estimates 10…