Nvidia CEO Says Human-Level AI Is Here. He Sells the Chips.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says human-level AI has arrived. His company, Nvidia, supplies the hardware behind it and has a financial stake in convincing the world to keep spending on AI.
On Sunday, he credited OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra with reaching artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Broadly, that means AI capable of handling intellectual work at human level. There is no universally accepted test.
Four days earlier, at a G20 meeting in North Carolina, Huang had sounded less certain.
"In the next couple of years, we are going to achieve essentially what people call AGI… In fact, I would argue that we're practically there today… It either means a lot or it doesn't mean anything," he said.
That ambiguity extends to the contracts funding AI.
AGI Hype is Not Showing
OpenAI's Microsoft deal once reportedly tied AGI to systems capable of generating about $100 billion in profit. An October 2025 revision required an independent expert panel to verify OpenAI's declaration.
The companies rewrote their agreement in April. OpenAI's payments to Microsoft now continue through 2030 regardless of technological progress. The financial arrangement no longer needs that verdict.
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