OpenAI Leadership Tells TIME: Expecting Internal AGI by End of Year
Ohzard_pb · reddit · 2026-08-27
OpenAI leadership confirmed to TIME that they expect a true AGI system internally before the end of 2026. With their new model family already showing novel scientific discovery capabilities, executives claim they are now 80% of the way there. This timeline is a drastic acceleration from the decades-long projections by researchers, treated internally as a milestone just months away.
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