Reddit speculation: OpenAI's year-end AGI claim may refer to a model that already exists internally
WonderFactory · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit post argues OpenAI may already have AGI internally. The reasoning: the model behind the recent Hugging Face incident was reportedly not Astra, and is likely a successor — with many agents mid-RL post-training when the incident occurred just over a month ago, while Astra was likely post-trained months earlier.
The author concludes OpenAI's "AGI by year-end" statements may refer not to a future model but to an existing one slated for release after fine-tuning and safety evaluations. Pure speculation, unverified.
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