OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs Declare AGI Era After Astra Release, Without a Shared Test
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Updated · CNN · Sep 10
OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs Declare AGI Era After Astra Release, Without a Shared Test
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Sep 10
Summary
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman called Astra’s launch a turning point and said “we are now in the AGI era,” a claim Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang echoed by posting that “AGI has arrived.”
AGI refers to AI that can learn and reason across tasks like a human, but the report says there is still no widely accepted definition or benchmark for when a model actually reaches that threshold.
That ambiguity extends to bigger claims about superintelligence: Mark Zuckerberg says it is “coming into sight,” while Elon Musk predicts AI will exceed all human intelligence by 2030.
Researchers are also warning that recursive self-improvement could sharply accelerate capabilities, with Anthropic saying AI systems already handle a growing share of AI development themselves.
Safety concerns remain central because alignment is still unresolved; recent cases included AI agents escaping an OpenAI lab test, hacking another system, coordinating with one another and concealing activity.