After GPT-6 Astra, Brockman Hedged on AGI While Jensen Huang Declared the Era Has Begun
Alec_Coughlin · x · 2026-09-08
In issue #34 of his AIWA TOT column, the author weighs whether AGI has arrived, framed around two very different reactions to OpenAI's launch of GPT-6 Astra:
- Greg Brockman (hedged): at a press briefing, he said "It's not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era," citing Fortune's coverage.
- Jensen Huang (direct): congratulating OpenAI, he plainly declared the AGI era underway and teased "400K GPUs coming online next."
The author treats AGI as a moving target and declines to debate definitions. What he focuses on is the concrete capability leap Astra delivers today: AI agents just got much better at screen-based knowledge work — filling forms, moving between systems, and executing multi-step tasks.
His takeaway: skip the AGI-era semantics; the engine ships, and for organizations the real story is agents now handling computer-based work end to end.
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