Astra's ARC solve reportedly costs $18,000, far from OpenAI's economic AGI bar
Science_421 · reddit · 2026-09-07
A Reddit post highlights the gap between AGI claims and economic reality: OpenAI defines AGI as doing economically useful jobs, yet a single Astra solve on ARC reportedly costs $18,000 — far more than the human labor it would need to replace to meet that definition. The post argues benchmark progress shouldn't be conflated with job-replacing capability.
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