artificial general intelligence

DeepMind’s Hassabis now says AGI is two to three years away

Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning co-founder of Google DeepMind, now expects artificial general intelligence to arrive within two to three years. He told The Wall Street Journal News Corp that his timeline keeps getting "nearer and nearer," The Verge reported.…

DeepMind co-founder launches AGI institute with safety warning

Shane Legg, one of the three co-founders of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, warned on Wednesday that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence must not outpace the safety controls designed to govern it, as he announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a…

AI leaders quietly abandon shared definition of AGI

The two most prominent figures in the race to build advanced artificial intelligence are pulling in opposite directions — not just on what that technology should be called, but on how to persuade a skeptical public to accept it.

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra aces Korean exam, sparks AGI debate

Days after OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, the model's rapid accumulation of headline-grabbing achievements — from acing South Korea's college entrance exam to autonomously completing a 3D puzzle game — has reignited debate over whether artificial general intelligence…

Nvidia’s Huang declares ‘AGI has arrived’ after OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra launch

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on Sunday that artificial general intelligence has arrived, posting on X that OpenAI's newest model, GPT-6 Astra, was "trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72" before adding: "AGI has arrived". The post, which also promised…

Nvidia CEO Huang says AGI has arrived but calls milestone ‘senseless’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on Wednesday's earnings call that artificial general intelligence has, for practical purposes, already arrived — and that debating the milestone no longer matters.

Altman says OpenAI expects to reach AGI by end of 2026

Sam Altman told TIME Magazine that OpenAI is "not quite yet" at artificial general intelligence but expects to have an internal system he would call AGI by the end of 2026. The prediction, published Wednesday in a cover story based…

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Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO to focus on AGI

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced a major leadership shakeup at Google DeepMind on Wednesday, with co-founder Demis Hassabis transitioning from CEO to chairman of the AI lab while taking on a new role as chief scientist of Alphabet, focused on…

DeepSeek founder says Nvidia’s CUDA moat is ‘rapidly disintegrating’

In a leaked transcript from a nearly four-hour investor meeting, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng declared that Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem monopoly is "rapidly disintegrating" and that China's AI chip industry faces a "historic opportunity" to replace foreign hardware, according to the…

Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence division

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. on Wednesday cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence division, the latest in a string of targeted workforce reductions as the company reshapes its AI operations.