‘Web search plus prompting is AGI,’ the post jokes about model progress
willccbb · x · 2026-07-24
The post jokes that you supposedly don’t need continual learning at all — just web search plus good prompting on a big model, and that’s “AGI.” The attached screenshot shows a broader writeup cataloging the open-weight AI landscape by strategy, which adds context to the joke about how people talk about progress.
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