Google Chief Scientist: AGI = Transformer + Reasoning; The Rest is Data and Scaling
denny_zhou · x · 2026-08-10
Denny Zhou, Chief Scientist at Google, provided a minimalist formula for AGI: AGI = Transformer + Reasoning. He argues that beyond this reasoning architecture, the remaining challenges are purely about data and scaling, and everything else is merely marginal improvement.
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