Kevin Roose's new book unpacks the Altman-Amodei-Hassabis AGI rivalry
kevinroose · x · 2026-10-06
NYT reporter Kevin Roose discusses his new book The AGI Chronicles on the Ezra Klein podcast, covering the three-way AGI race between Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis: their differing motivations, how two 2017 papers (Attention Is All You Need and Amodei's obscure Big Blob of Compute memo) shaped the boom, and gossip on why OpenAI fired Sam, why Dario quit, and why Google fell behind.
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