Sam Altman: OpenAI may reach AGI this year
btibor91 · x · 2026-08-30
Alex Heath published a report based on two weeks inside OpenAI. The article quotes Sam Altman stating that OpenAI may reach AGI this year. It also reveals that the company has slowed frontier training to preview its next major model, Astra.
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