Factory CEO: 'For AGI, we've already crossed the event horizon'
matanSF · x · 2026-09-30
Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory AI — the $5B AI coding startup behind Droid agents — leans on his physics background: crossing a black hole's event horizon, you'd notice nothing at first; your watch keeps ticking. 'For AGI, we have already crossed the event horizon. So far so good, but lots of work left to be done.'
The line comes from a Big Technology interview where he also covers: how AI is changing the software engineer's job, why Factory bets on many competing models rather than one provider, balancing model performance against token costs, hiring its own engineers with AI, the open-vs-closed debate, competing with Cognition, and when companies should outsource to AI instead of building in-house.
More from AGI Musings
- Argentina's Milei says it won't regulate AI, unveils tax incentives to attract AI companies — Polymarket · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI's Codex engineer keeps a doc of wrong AI predictions — so she only plans 2-3 months ahead — victor_explore · 2026-09-30
- After losing his mom to breast cancer, he argues healthcare has no institutional memory — AI could fix that — SucceededMind · 2026-09-30
- Why Mythology, Not Sci-Fi, May Be the Better Lens for Understanding AI — begusgasper · 2026-09-30
- Nature comment: AI boosts individual productivity but narrows scientific exploration — begusgasper · 2026-09-30
- Study: 'fit' interviews elicit social-position signals via family and upbringing topics — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-09-30